Sasha Chapin A guy came up to Picasso in a restaurant and asked him to draw his portrait Picasso drew it on a napkin, handed it over and said that’ll be $5000... And Satoshi was like, oh you get that bitcoin can be fractional? Marry me. And that’s why Satoshi’s last name is Picasso.

The world has a surplus of novelty and a dearth of reminders. Hence why fortune cookie wisdom sells.

YELLEN SAYS DOGS HAVE BEEN USED TO MURDER NICE PEOPLE, WON’T STOP YELLEN

Boredom comes from a lack of curiosity. The busier you get, the more bored you become. A beautiful paradox. I’ve failed at many things, but I’m free as a bird. And birds ain’t bored.

NFTs + DeepFakes = 🤯

Econ 101: “all markets trend towards full efficiency” Implied: Don’t bother doing new shit, you’ll get usurped ASAP Reality: You can get rich as fuck by exploiting these constant, slow-evolving inefficiencies 10 yrs later, I look at my Econ curriculum and learn what not to do

My business thesis. And still, nobody gets it

Incredible. Brian Armstrong’s HackerNews post looking for a cofounder for Coinbase. “Because Bitcoin worked out so well. Have fun with that, dude.” “I don’t think you’ve properly thought this through.” “I’m gonna call it right now: bad idea.” news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754664

We all have a choice. Guaranteed mediocrity, or uncertain greatness. And yet ... ... mediocrity reigns supreme.

Writing is not hard. Period. Hyping yourself up to write IS hard. Succeeding as a writer is harder than crusty underwear. Aka — nobody wants to talk about it, but people exist on the other side.

art = intangible markets = tangible nfts = intangibly tangible

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AI will murder mediocre writers. Great writers know how to murder the murderers with murderous mirth. “Information is surprise.” AI = Average Intelligence (on steroids). I dare you to produce anything as absurd as my brain, AI McScribeswitch.

Using AI to turn a basic prompt into a "book" is the dumbest thing I've ever heard and antithetical to your intent. That said, using AI to turn your manuscript into a book is genius and world-changing. My current stance on AI is just that: It's the dumbest and greatest thing

Naive people overuse exclamation points, and overconfident people underuse them. Yanno?!

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