Noticed lots of smart new blood in crypto missing out on the good ol’ wisdom. Below you can find a weekend reading of what I think are the “post-2016 crypto classics”:

I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of startup pitch meetings and then asked it to re-create a startup pitch meeting of its own. Here is the first page.

Sober take on web3's promise and some of the pitfalls - worth the read.

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Conclusion: FOR HEAVENS SAKE PEOPLE DONT BE STUPID. DO NOT CONTRIBUTE IN PERPETUATING THIS FIELD AS A BREEDING GROUND FOR SCAMS AND PONZIS. USE YOUR BRAIN. DO NOT SUPPORT SCAMMERS. HEED THE WARNINGS OF OGs IN THE SPACE. SUPPORT PROJECTS THAT BRING VALUE TO THE SPACE. FIN🔚

Web3 and NFT Twitter can be confusing. Let's change that. 40 terms that will make you SMARTER—starting today:

1/ There are no other constitutional rights in substance without freedom to transact Being meaning to write this for 6 months, but the Canadian response to the trucker protests is illustrating this so vividly, that today is the day.

The future of NFTs for brands and their communities. 🧵

Today, two 20 year olds who rug pulled for at least $1.1 million with "Frosties" were charged for wire fraud and related crimes. A 🧵 First, disclosures: I am not a criminal lawyer and I have never practiced criminal law. Nothing here should be construed as legal advice.

'Life and Death'

This morning I discovered something *extremely* alarming happening in the car market, specifically in auto lending. I'm now convinced that there is a massive wave of car repossessions coming in 2023. Here's what I discovered (and what no one knows):

The reason to deliberately do hard things is so that when non-self-elected challenges arrive (& they will), you can tell yourself: “I don’t know how this is all going to turn out, but I am certain I can do hard things.” Don’t self injure. But doing hard things is always

This would be a good one

Pretty useful overview for a simple (not a bad word) Notion setup. theadminbar.com/unlock-ultimat…

one of the world's most important technologists will be speaking tomorrow about his Ethereum-based L2 and how it ties into the future of AI and personal identity meanwhile, regulations and enforcement actions are falling like dominoes as the world's largest banks and payment

That's a "thanks, but no thanks" from me, Mike.

i'm mass-releasing everything. the complete automation playbook i use to run a $600K/month agency: → 47 n8n workflows agencies charge $5K-$15K each for → the one-sentence prompts that build any of them in under 3 minutes → my "consultant pricing" spreadsheet (what they

US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate" my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with