How early stage crypto founders feel vs how they actually look in public:

Claude suggested me to hire someone for $200 to fix an Edge Function issue. Ran Clawdbot on a Mac Mini and the assistant had it done in 30 minutes, for free. This is the future.

Epic of The Olympic Games to include the absolute pinnacle of Italian megastars, the legendary Mariah Carey, in the opening ceremony.

Can’t wait for all the hot takes on the Halftime Show

Donald bout to trade Greenland for Puerto Rico

The best meme by far (also fantastic movie reference).

VCs racing to pre-empt the next round of an AI agents for __ company

Same vibes:

Brett’s been an awesome leader at Ripple since before I got into fintech, and it’s been fun sharing A+ Slack and IRL banter whilst learning from him. I’m excited to see him take on the role of Exec Director at the XRPL Foundation, and know he’ll continue to deliver.

Asking my wife to name that Olympic sport: Cross country = “Uphill skiing” Curling = “Team Swiffering” Moguls = “The bump and jump” Men’s long jump = “Air sailing”

Bernie Madoff’s portfolio would be worth somewhere between $90-160b today had he not committed fraud.

If you haven’t read Sir William Browder KCMG’s books on the corruption, espionage and murder that goes on at the highest levels of Russian society, now is a great time to start.

Starting our 7 month old in daycare when my paternity leave ends, and this is strangely one of the things weighing most heavily on my wife and I. “What if we get stuck in the city?” It’s absolutely unacceptable, but been status quo for decades. Fix NJ TRANSIT, Governor Mikie Sherrill

A second medical opinion presumes a patient-physician relationship - this is definitely not what he is suggesting, right Grok?

I’m old enough to remember when Robinhood restricted trading in $DXYZ

Gen-z marketing coordinator finding out he has to stay at the office past 5pm today

This is super sad - and totally preventable. RIP to a top 25 villain of the 1990s and Montclair, New Jersey native Peter Greene. “Zed’s dead baby. Zed’s dead.”

Ngl almost dropped the baby when this happened

10 minutes in, I have never seen such fast hockey. #USAHockey #Olympics2026 #USAvsCAN