Today might have seen the biggest physics discovery of my lifetime. I don't think people fully grasp the implications of an ambient temperature / pressure superconductor. Here's how it could totally change our lives.

when you spent the last few months learning linear algebra to get up to speed w AI & now you have to learn condensed matter physics

Take a lot of pictures & videos of friends and family. Don’t worry about composition or whether they’re “perfect”. Just get the shots. Browsing them is a journey to a different time. They are the key to memories.

In no particular order, these books have given me insight into crypto -- markets, money, risk, psychology, sociology, emotions, and more -- over the last few cycles. Books with ** were particularly riveting for me, the greats are underlined for emphasis.

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.

Best VC funds get away with <3x DPI. That places you in the bottom quartile of crypto VCs… You then understand why allocators will enter crypto right? Crypto is a 1.5 trillion asset class- a spec of dust relative to other asset classes (alternatives - real estate, PE, VC,

I survived the bear market and claimed my $FRAME tokens! Frame is the Layer 2 for creators and collectors. If you've traded NFTs on Ethereum and paid royalties in the past two years you're eligible! 🖼️🎄 You can check here 👇 frame.xyz/governance

Ironically now applicable to ethereum conversely

happy new year!

Joe Weisenthal Eric Balchunas I'm sure you've seen this, but here's Clifford Stoll's classic 1995 piece lamenting all the internet hype & how the internet sucks & will always be useless: newsweek.com/clifford-stoll… He'd been hearing hype for years. Arguably it took *another* 20yrs for the hype to be proven right

1/n: There are some academic papers that are so brilliantly and so accessibly written and so universal in scope that they transcend disciplines and stand as timeless testaments to both great thinking and great writing. Here's a short personal selection:

the significance of tokens allowing ordinary investors access to Venture technologies cannot be overstated. where else can you get in so early without being gate kept by accredited investor standards

IMX core thesis — web 2 App Store UX, web 3 take rates and mutual alignment

great advice

Bull market regrets take 2 main forms: 1. Not betting enough 2. Not keeping enough To fix (1), you size up and bet more (including more overall portfolio leverage, less liquid bets, and holding through ‘unreasonable’ price moves + valuations). The cost is higher portfolio

tyler durden How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough Alchemy of Finance by George Soros The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks Any podcast with Howard Marks, Seth Klarman, Stan Druckenmiller, or Peter Theil That in summary has taught me core principles of thinking in

You have a one in a few generations movement and you’re shaking because price isn’t moving as fast as you’d like Last time an asset class this big got created was private equity in the 1980s and you can argue that’s pure financial engineering (sounds familiar?) Crypto is far

1/ If your friends associate you with Bitcoin, Ethereum, or any part of crypto, you’re probably getting Qs about what to do. It’s tricky to guide someone from where we are currently ($BTC ~$100K), especially if they’re an inexperienced investor. Some learnings from 10+ years of

Of ~200 books I've read, the few that stayed with me over time and I find myself often thinking back to or referring to, in ~random order: All short stories by Ted Chiang, especially Exhalation, Division By Zero, Understand, The Story of Your Life, Liking What You See, The

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are