Pete (aka BFG)
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Pete (aka BFG)
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focus on humans-first · founder @lab2094 · /buildbetter newsletter&podcast · systems&frameworks for founders to grow businesses · also see /artistspotlight
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Check out Casts Vault v2.2 😇 (change log: shorter summaries) - save casts, tag them, summarize your bookmarks, get them out of vault - maybe into your second-brain 😉
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Any resilient system (builder) knows that all parts of the system should never be totally 💯 efficient! You need spare capacity and non-linear exploration if your system is supposed to survive any shock and be long-term functional across changing environments. This simple fact seems to be lost quite often in today’s ...
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View upgrades for Friday — that’s where I’m thinking about you 😉
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Upgraded from yesterday … this is where I cast from today 😉
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If you haven’t checked the awesome list for Round 1 CEF grants go see it now! 🥳 congrats to everyone 🥳 It’s a great reminder about some long standing projects you may not have checked in a while 🫶
We are so excited to announce round 1 of the Clanker Ecosystem Fund grants! 🧵 Thank you to @dish for first coming to us with this idea and to @rish and team for entrusting us as stewards. We've created 4 categories of grant awards: BUILDER GRANTS: For projects that have demonstrated sustained contribution, executi
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Upgraded from yesterday … this is where I cast from today 😉
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That’s where I’m casting from today 🏠 who likes? 😄
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Good life is simple 🍻 “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” — Washington Burnap
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…some positions have to be abandoned so the decisive position can be held… Do you know which one is it for you? 🥸
We prefer a crowded plan because it lets us postpone grief, and pretend that all futures remain available. But you don’t own the territory you nominally claim. You only own what you can reinforce under pressure. Everything else is bluster. Choose the ground you can hold. Strip away the rest before the world strips it
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Hopefully we can get at least part of crypto battle for sovereignty and privacy ideas again! WE NEED TO MAKE GOOD IDEAS HAPPEN 💪 Don’t forget — the most important battles of our time are — battles of ideas, not people or nations!
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That’s where I’m casting from today 🏠 who likes? 😄
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Public service work at its best 💪 that’s Flex 🫶
I found 110 ETH ($239,000) abandoned in dead Ethereum contracts and sent all of it back to the owners. Stuck for years, recoverable through public functions nobody ever called. Total gas to return a quarter million dollars: $0.87
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Designing a brand is always fun 😀 Unlike choosing a name ❌ But it really is a distraction from the main thing = building a distribution for the thing you’re building. So I’ll keep the revival of one of my old brands for later 😉
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All I see around is infinite noise ...
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Landscapes and touching grass today ☀️🚶
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They say vibecoding is great! Just built a simple web app. You know, a weekend project. Naturally, use the minimal tech stack required to make user sign up, collect emails, and orchestrate a button click without collapsing into a black hole includes: - GitHub - Vercel - Sanity io - Cloudinary - Supabase - Google Cl...
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SpaceX students’ Hyperloop Competition 🥸 Do you remember that? It’s been 11 years ago 😱 but still cool af idea!
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