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Hockey owns the superstition-hair combo in sports—no one does playoff beards like they do. Startups should adopt more of this energy. Raising a seed? Grow a flow. Shipping v1? Shave after GA.
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what’s your current daily driver for LLMs — the model you use the most?
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As much as stablecoin focus is on developing countries, p2p cross-border payments in alot of the developed world is still absurdly archaic. Excited to soon be able to send cash gifts to my nieces in Canada, pay back a UK friend for beers, or tip a tour guide in France — all in USDC — from a single app.
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Mini apps can now ship NFT minting with just an API call to @neynar @highlight smart contracts under the hood.
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most of the energy in crypto has shifted from tokenized culture to tokenized money infra the timing of this shift had some unique catalysts that were long-shots 12 months ago tokenized culture will re-emerge after some broader tech adoption, market rebound, collective memory lapse, and creative experimentation
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why does Claude reference (or claim) 10-20x more sources on research queries vs ChatGPT? testing side-by-side on the same q, and 4o answered after 46 sources while Opus 4 saw 716 (!)
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Great products are really, really hard to build.
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Antimemetics are more inherent to crypto than any other field. It literally runs on short memories, cycles of reinvention, and hidden dynamics that drive behavior but vanish from the narrative.
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The ‘21 NFT bull market was driven in part by the ongoing crisis of meaning in society. We projected meaning, community, identity to fill a growing void. The memecoin trend was the antithesis, a return to the void—anti-meaning, anti-community, nihilism-as-identity. Content coins attempt a synthesis of the two.
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homepage heroes
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Unless and until we recapture the transcendent dimension of crypto — the deeply political, ideological, and spiritual beliefs that offered a unified vision for a better future — we will never escape stagnation.
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There should be a term for the times when you find the solution and it’s so simple and so obvious you can’t believe it took you so long.
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Autodidacts are many of the most productive people in society. Now every high-slope dropout and late-night tinkerer has a swarm of PhD mentors to patiently teach them the high-value stuff that’s historically been locked inside brains and firms requiring massive amounts of time, money, skill, luck, and status to access.
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If you’re building something big and ambitious and can’t clearly and specifically describe who the user is that you’re building for, and the steps taken to 100% validate their needs, you should stop everything and go figure that out.
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Disruption has never been more palpable than OpenAI and Anthropic racing ahead of slow, sclerotic tech giants who seem — despite every resource imaginable — unable to compete.
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market be damned, there's a lot of amazing sh*t happening in my @highlight live feed rn
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Who is the best, most obsessive front-end engineer you know?
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People complain about the friction canceling the WSJ, but there's no more extractive, insidious product than Figma when it comes to over-charging users. If you try to remove seats from your plan, they add seats. If you try to share a file for review, they add premium seats without telling you. Am I missing something?
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Ok! All systems go. Big launch tomorrow.
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“Funds” a) Capital b) Network c) Energy d) Ingenuity Good lens to evaluate any startup. eg, some have ample (a) and are basically out of runway on (c) or (d)
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