Appropriate weekend listening

https://youtu.be/1xqZrL4XWEs?si=RDPJKk7QQlcLkfUh

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FAT Protocol Thesis (Founders, Apps, then Tokens).

We crashed Base and now we’re moving to Solana

After building solely on Eth for the past 4 years, we’ve decided to migrate @Infecteddotfun and all of our upcoming games to Solana. There is only one reason that led us to this decision:

Base couldn't handle @Infecteddotfun's

Gotta give it to Infected team , got Retro Funding from @Optimism and few mins later put out a statement that they leaving OP eco (Base) and are moving to Solana

amazing industry https://t.co/qF6oYv0fsk

banterlytics

Infected got 16,000 op
Chonks got 300 op

https://x.com/banterlytics/status/1907951504511975724

Until they train an agent to prompt like I prompt so they can fire me.

Consumer Crypto

what are the best examples of apps which drove net new consumer behavior? 

along a related thread was Clubhouse which piggybacked off of chatrooms but in a new form. Driving net new consumer behavior is quite a hard task to undertake.

Artist rendering of me fishing crappie off a pier as a kid

Never paying attention to Mike Novagratz again.

https://pca.st/episode/7bd6106e-10f7-4ac5-9233-9f5f60dbf825

I was already on the fence but this is all I need to definitively ignore him moving forward.

Everything has trade offs and there is no perfect system.

Acknowledging this and being intentional with the compromises you make is the only sane way to live.

eigenlayer

Who are your favorite builders doing consumer & web2 tech?

Would they want help going full-time building?

Cooking up something at /eigenlayer

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On Day 600, basepaint_xyz.twitter enters its customizable Winamp Skins era

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"Money is the artery of war." - Peter the Great

$200 GPT pro subscription for unlimited voice is cheaper than a therapist.

1. I would abandon all principles and vote for Stalin if he was running for president in this platform. 

2. Jill low key found the solution to population decline.

If you have children you should be exempt from doing your taxes https://t.co/U9AMj2uf8y

jill | espresso ☕

1. I would abandon all principles and vote for Stalin if he was running for president in this platform. 

2. Jill low key found the solution to population decline.

https://x.com/jillrgunter/status/1904278786071580797

Shipping useful software that solves people’s problems requires finding the place on the tradeoff spectrum of short term vs long term value

If you sharpen your axe forever you never chop down the tree

If you start hacking without sharpening your axe you will move too slow to chop down the tree

AI is creating a barbell of extremes on this spectrum

A lot of work we previously invested in to sharpen our axe we can reliably guess will be solved by ai and thus we now should be hacking

Other work to sharpen that previously may have seemed like a waste of time will have compounding value as AI progresses

It’s a fun time where we all must be thinking from first principles to figure out what to prioritize. And we cannot judge what strategy is right based on recent results. The correct strategies and incorrect strategies can easily look flipped based on recent trends

Experienced this barbell first hand on Saturday and Sunday. Great essay on the tension to build pre and post AI.

"Hey ChatGPT, what do you remember about me?" is a wild prompt.

Founder, designer, & product guy at /basepaint and /eigenlayer

Zach

@zherring