> can't read book for more than 20-minutes > program for 17 hours straight, forget to eat, drink, bathe, return phone calls, and what year it is

> friend of a friend > didn’t get a MIT exchange via his German Uni > booked 1 way ticket to Boston > knocked on doors til he got a random prof to sign off > stayed there > was literally a visiting researcher in undergrad You can literally just do things

> Never had a job or internship > Not even a second-round interview > Graduating from college… > “I’m gonna make $50k in next 12 months on my own” > Learns how to build apps with chatgpt > “Woah wtf” > 7 figures liquid x.com/n0w00j/status/…

Don't fret, brother. Crypto is, and has always been, 99% nonsense grifty garbage/scams/jokes, and 1% fundamental global financial system revolution. But this 99/1 is based just on quantity of projects. Considered by market cap, it's more like 75% quality, 25% nonsense.

I'm not in the trenches, but my bot is

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building, motivation, and crypto [ₐ ₗₒₙ₉ բₒᵣₘ ᵤₙₕᵢₙ₉ₑₔ ₜᵥᵥᵢₜₜₑᵣ ᵣₐₙₜ] One of my best friends is hopelessness. That's a joke, but it's also not. I remember Osaka devcon vividly. 2019. The magnificent chaos and proud order of a place like Osaka. But,

Never apologize for being obsessed. Read all day. Work all night. Run for hours. Forget time exists. Be everywhere, but be a ghost. Turn off the world and create your own. Let craft become compulsion. Positive obsession is a gift, disguised as a curse.

“You’re assuming stationarity, what if one of those ETH killers actually killed ethereum?” Scott Phillips on flirting with models is a must listen for systematic traders. Especially if coming from retail background. Must listen.

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Crypto is a global phenomenon, much bigger than any single country, and desperately needed in the places you've never heard of or only visit for vacation.

Sign this petition in defense of Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ and software developers everywhere

I know it’s in vogue to hate on crypto. But this industry is amazing. You get to spend time with degenerate retail anons AND the most savvy institutional investors. You jump from meetings with US to Singapore to Turkey to Dubai… all in one day. Everyone is winging it.

Coinbase not disclosing this (much much much...) earlier notwithstanding, this is the dark side of the idiotic and nonsensical kyc/aml regime we live in making life marginally convenient for law enforcement and geopolitical games, while sacrificing our privacy, imposing a

To the class of '24/'25: There's a famous line from Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 when he moved to Silicon Valley in 1994. The Internet boom was already under way. He came from a small town in Iowa, and seeing these growing giants like AOL and Cisco, he was worried that he was already too late. That

Do your job with passion. Find what you love and what you're willing to sacrifice most of your free time for. Do it in a broad space - learn, teach, act. "Joy makes the longest journey too short"

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Happy 10th birthday to Ethereum 10 years, 100% uptime, world computer

the 9-9-6 local maxima trap you can optimize for looking busy, hitting metrics, being “productive” – but you might be climbing the wrong hill entirely. real breakthroughs happen in the spaces between. when you’re walking and your mind wanders. when you sit with a problem long

really well written