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Being an entrepreneur is hard You're given two opposing directives: 1) Manifest your vision, even when nobody else believes in you 2) Listen to the market and adapt to what it tells you When do you choose option 1 over 2? Nobody can tell you deterministically -- it's an art. Respect to anyone who takes this path

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To balance my token criticisms and be constructive: I think this is the growth vector Farcaster ought to lean into. Both Bluesky and X (aka Redsky) are exhausting due to politics — neither caters to the “gray tribe” FC could be an oasis for technologists — frames and unruggable distribution are clutch primitives for this

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The token notifications are my least favorite feature since X auto-crossposting I get why “onchain activity” is appealing but it dilutes the magic of this place for me (even if I opt out, it kingmakes a certain culture) Trying to balance my criticism with an appreciation for the challenge finding growth vectors

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New Teslas looking more like BYDs these days Meanwhile Rivian still looks distinct — perhaps angling for the Apple of EVs

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Substack seems like the last bastion against internet enshittification X meanwhile has the holy trinity of enshittifiers: 1. Fast thoughts — slop 2. Fast feelings — political outrage 3. Fast money — shitcoins What allows SS to grow without leaning into any of these? Or maybe they do and I’m just not aware

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Though I may be in the “Builder-Pragmatist” quadrant, I got into crypto because I cherish liberty and see decentralized architectures as a key way to preserve it That’s why seeing an anti-crypto, anti-blockchain platform win at decentralization messaging is bizarre. Feels like crypto lost the plot https://worldwithoutcaesars.com/

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Basic-Ass-Bitch mob rolls deep @jtgi 🤝 PS. @jc4p continues to create banger frames that highlight the power of open content APIs

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Protocol Berg CFP ends in ~2 days There’s already a talk about ATproto and another one on CT social layer — someone should do a talk on the FC protocol (maybe @samuellhuber.eth?) Upcoming snapchain release is also an opportunity to increase protocol mindshare https://bsky.app/profile/protocol.berlin/post/3lkbdrss2ns2a

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This was actually my mistake — there is another section below the fold for “In-app” notifications that also needs to be turned off See image below in case anyone else is confused Ty @slokh for helping out quickly! No more shitcoin notifications 😤

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The setting is also broken, I cannot turn them off

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“Everything’s a shitter! That’s beautiful… wow”

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Corollary: exponential growth or no growth Linear growth doesn’t work for vc funded startups Whether this is *good* is another question altogether but if you’re opting into the game, then you’re giving yourself a time horizon and the market better be pulling a product from you before you reach the horizon

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This take was so good I had to quote cast it twice We need a term like “schlep blindness” (https://paulgraham.com/schlep.html) for the crypto condition / the blind spot for non-speculative products — maybe “spec blindness”, but feels too on the nose In before @kia tells me speculation is good, actually

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Crypto bros 🤝 Gonzo genetics bros “lol ethics” https://x.com/jiankui_he/status/1899271973190209969?s=46

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https://warpcast.com/lght.eth/0xf9089610

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Being a founder means signing up for the inevitable dark moments in the journey You can try to avoid them, but it's part and parcel of the experience -- best bet is to experience them fully, integrate them, and come out on the other side with some well-earned wisdom Quotecasted from AMA with @wwarren 👇

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Want to see more crypto skeptics here so that we can disabuse them of the idea of a crypto as a monolith Otherwise, crypto remains synonymous with "shitcoin crypto" and not "stablecoin crypto", the latter of which is more focused on disintermediating value transfer https://warpcast.com/androidsixteen.eth/0x67aae1ad

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Twitter is down Back here for the day, what's new?

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> sex under capitalism

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Sometimes I gaslight myself into thinking I’m not using AI correctly because I reject Cursor composer frequently and can’t get the 100x productivity gains I read about online But the reality is: the “build an app in a day” approach leads to a sprawling codebase and taking the time to architect things well is still the way to go

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