Nat Emodi

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“built different” doesn’t begin to describe it

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Just read The River of Doubt, a historical fever dream. Teddy Roosevelt post-presidency, lost in the Amazon with malaria, murderers, hostile tribes, and the legendary Candido Rondon. Imagine nearly dying in the jungle with your son to prove something no one asked you to. Unreal story.

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Shoutout to Base, Farcaster, and XMTP for pushing the envelope with TBA launch tomorrow. Onchain social is entering its next era.

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h/t @andreasrau for the banner, from Inventory Numbers

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Wrote some thoughts on focus, shipping, and the long game in consumer crypto. natemodi.com/blog/focus

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Best time to be building in crypto right now 1/ Still very non-consensus 2/ Hundreds of attempted projects, research ideas, and data sources to study 3/ Infra finally exists to connect it all

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anti looksmaxxing

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We've been building in the NFT space for 3+ years now. Highlight has hosted every kind of project imaginable. It's open and permissionless -- that's the strength of digital. We have standard T&Cs, but our goal has always been to make it straightforward for anyone to create on-chain. The main constraint is demand. For various reasons, it has declined rather than grown over the past few years. Currently, the viable business models are operating a large-scale marketplace or charging fees (20-40%) for artist collaborations. In an expanding market, both can work well. In a contracting one, they're more challenging, but markets cycle. There's a fair amount of unfocused optimism--hope without strategy--about what might turn things around. I'm confident NFTs will advance, conditions will improve, and the market will return stronger than expected. Over the next 12-24 months, though, it's unclear how that happens without significant catalysts. Let's create them.

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The em dash—my old favorite for adding emphasis—now reeks of AI slop. Switched to double hyphens--to signal real human writing. We'll see more of this: ditching polish for authenticity, like actors keeping crooked teeth or devs hiding easter eggs in code.

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testing with both

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Immediate impression of Grok 4 is that it’s better than o3 Pro. More information dense and stronger insight, and feels more human. Comparing them on research and reasoning feels like work product from a junior analyst vs someone director level.

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it’s funny how most ppl still find ai either terrifying or irrelevant, but some get it instantly regardless of age or background. this week grabbed lunch with an ivy league finance friend who scoffs at it. then got a haircut and my barber is conversant on the latest models.

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recent convos with high-functioning founders and friends keep circling the same theme: reality has suddenly become impossible to keep up with. even the most hardcore admit to being overwhelmed. the singularity is here, just unevenly distributed.

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MechaHitler aside, human-to-human interaction might actually improve with LLMs. using them makes so many positive human traits more legible: affirmation, empathy, brevity etc. computers that model those behaviors should increase our collective EQ.

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thanks to everyone reaching out about new ideas for building things onchain, including with LLMs. we're heads down so apologies if I'm slow in responding in all cases!

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lol likely both

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everything imagine 47 pages of triple-nested bullets like "VERY IMPORTANT: do not under any circumstances..."

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