Parents anxious about AI are micromanaging their kids into the one skill AI replaces first: following instructions. The future belongs to people who can make autonomous decisions in uncharted territory.

so let me get this straight all of ai twitter was telling people to buy a mac mini to run openclaw, which is literally just a framework, an orchestration layer that sends api requests to actual ai models. something you can run on a $5/month vps. which is exactly what i do btw

ok we seriously have a big problem in defi rn The risk for the yield you get does not fucking make sense. You have the risk of loose everything. And for what? An extra 40 bps or something. Does not make any sense. No circuit breakers, no protections, nothing. Which would be

I've received a lot of DMs recently asking me how I managed to achieve top positions in Solidity, Solana, and other ecosystem contests, even though I have only been full-time auditing for less than a year. Here are a few guidelines: 1. Don't spend too much time becoming an

One thing I learned over the past year: zkEVMs don’t just scale computation. If you pair them with blobs + DAS and you start scaling data too. With EIP-8142 (block in blobs), execution payloads move into blobs, and validators no longer need to download everything, they can sample

In 2013, Nassim Taleb gave a 53-min Stanford masterclass on why chaos makes some businesses stronger. His ideas: - The coffee cup that survives 4 million hits - Why helicopter engineers ride their own machines - The country where nobody knows the president 12 lessons on risk:

The moment you realize "Second Brain as a Service" is a real business: 1. Charge $1,500-3,000 to build a client's knowledge base (3 folders, 1 schema file, their existing data loaded) 2. Monthly retainer $300-500/mo for ongoing ingestion, health checks, and new source processing

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Brian Armstrong explains how he built Coinbase on nights and weekends while working at Airbnb Brian first advises those who are currently employed to not build your project on company hours or on your company laptop: “If you build it on company time or on the company hardware,

This 1 hour MIT lecture on "Probabilistic Analysis" using Markov Chains will teach you more about prediction markets than a 2-month Wall Street Quant firm internship. Bookmark this & give it 1 hour today, no matter what. It’s the most productive start you can give your week.

This 1-hour MIT lecture on Markov Chains will teach you more about the real math you can actually use on Polymarket than most quant content you’ve seen this year. Professor John Tsitsiklis breaks down the core foundations: Markov processes, n-step transition probabilities,

Jack Dorsey’s #1 rule for pitching your startup: “Show them something that works” Jack Dorsey, Jim McKelvey, and another engineer built the initial prototype for Square in a month. As Jack recalls: “I could actually swipe a card, generate an electronic receipt via email, and

places to find trading strategy ideas: books: 1. Machine Trading 2. Building Winning Algo Trading Systems 3. Advanced Futures Trading Strategies 4. Algorithmic Trading and Quantitative Strategies 5. Quantitative Momentum podcasts: 7. Top Traders Unplugged 8. Chat With Traders

"85% accuracy on Wall Street will get you 100% fired." Brett Caughran (Brett Caughran) has managed analysts at Citadel, D.E. Shaw & tiger cub funds. His take on AI and the future of junior analysts: "There's almost no better time to be starting a career as a fundamental

6 Narratives that will lead 2026 and beyond. 1. RWAs (BUIDL, ONDO, Circle's USYC outperforming) 2. Onchain Vaults (Spark/Morpho/Kamino/Concrete vault meta) 3. Liquid Staking Renaissance (LSTs growing at 32% while lending bleeds) 4. AgentFi (x402/ERC-8004) 5. Prediction

Clawdbot creator Peter Steinberger offers a sobering reframe: Programming isn't dying, it's just becoming a hobby. He's being honest about where it's headed. He recently came across an article making the case that it's okay to mourn programming as a craft, and it struck a

There's a mantra that echoes through Nvidia's halls, repeated so often it's become doctrine. Jensen says it monthly. He said it in 1997 when Intel was 860 times larger by revenue. He says it now, three decades later, as Nvidia dominates AI. "When we were younger, we sucked at

content, code, design, advice, analysis.. all approaching zero marginal cost. this is a remarkable step change in society. & few grasp the enormous implications on every facet of life.

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