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My 2025 resolution is to keep becoming even more myself

untz untz

this tune is for the Poland crew @woj.eth @jacek @rafi @macbudkowski

Used to build @kiwi | https://macbudkowski.com/

Amusement, wonder, and uncertainty. now [redacted], prev @neynar ✴︎ libred.org

this tune is for the Poland crew @woj.eth @jacek @rafi @macbudkowski 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29BGLrtHWsQ

95% of gamblers quit right before they hit it big

Keep gambling

Reading these stories makes me so grateful for @neynar’s process

Went from DMing @rish to

- intro call
- 2 technical interviews
- culture fit chat
- job offer

in 10 days start to finish.

Total time on calls was ~3 hours. Spent maybe 20min of that writing code (with AI ofc) and the rest was deep technical talk

Btw we’re hiring backend and frontend devs

building farcaster infra @ /neynar 🪐 | casting @ /rish

easiest way to build on farcaster @ neynar.com | /neynar

Reading these stories makes me so grateful for @neynar’s process

Went from DMing @rish to

- intro call
- 2 technical interviews
- culture fit chat
- job offer

in 10 days start to finish.

Total time on calls was ~3 hours. Spent maybe 20min of that writing code (with AI ofc) and the rest was deep technical talk

Btw we’re hiring backend and frontend devs https://neynar.notion.site/Neynar-Careers-8dcf68535f884f819111dccb4598551c

The easiest way to bring all your users onchain, regardless of whether they already have wallets | Customer love at privy.io/love

i dont usually do the big public congrats thing, but @privy earned it. y'all are real ones

functions i never thought id have to write

Who do you talk to when thinking about consumer products? Or struggling with certain concepts?

Chasing Curiosity. People, Nature, Machines. Hakuna Matata, "Its a problem-free philosophy.”

Varun. Very few people have relevant advice these days since no one has built a successful at-scale social network other than TikTok in a decade. Advice gets stale fast.

loved this exchange. Dan is 💯% right

valuable advice is highly contextual

I *have* built a decentralized social network that had 100x the DAU of FC, and i have little specific advice for Dan. I'd need to spend a while ingesting context and thinking and talking to him before I could contribute meaningfully

loved this exchange. Dan is 💯% right

valuable advice is highly contextual

I *have* built a decentralized social network that had 100x the DAU of FC, and i have little specific advice for Dan. I'd need to spend a while ingesting context and thinking and talking to him before I could contribute meaningfully

https://farcaster.xyz/tayyab/0xf04f3c19

https://farcaster.xyz/dwr.eth/0x94a8e3b7

If I had to name one trait of great long-term investors, it wouldn’t be conviction, it’d be openness.

The ability to absorb new ideas, see them without bias, and imagine how they might reshape the world.

Ironically, the longer you’re in the game, the harder that gets.

You’ve seen so many startups fail, you start saying things like, “Google tried that in 2019,” or “nobody wants that.”

It’s always easy to spot why something might fail.
Much harder to imagine how it might work.

But that’s what buyers do... they buy into possibility.
Every buy pushes price, draws attention, fuels curiosity, attracts partners, builds brand, brings users…

Belief compounds.

And to benefit from that compounding, you have to believe early... before the herd, and before the headlines.

That’s why I like buying things that piss people off.
Anger often hints at innovation. Some old wound is getting poked. Some comfortable assumption is being shattered.

If you’re not buying when the naysayers r loudest...

which psychologists are studying whether openness to new experience correlates with better returns?

today we stan JKenzo

https://soundcloud.com/platform/j-kenzo

Boston, MA

chat, meet FractalU Boston: a peer-led, curiosity-driven semester of learning that's happening this summer

you could learn negotiation, AI coding, drawing, meditation, building exceptional communities... all with cool ppl living near you

sounds good? join us! deets below

https://fractalboston.substack.com/p/learn-stuff-with-friends

early fan fav is the Guided Potato Diet class

chat, meet FractalU Boston: a peer-led, curiosity-driven semester of learning that's happening this summer

you could learn negotiation, AI coding, drawing, meditation, building exceptional communities... all with cool ppl living near you

sounds good? join us! deets below

HIGHER

internet rabbit • comms @ /splits • https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/

i own highku.eth. anyone wanna put it to good use? if not, i'll let it expire

@sonyasupposedly maybe you?

Farcaster

wish Pro accounts got hexagon PFPs instead of purple checks

checks are becoming noisy, distracting

QC with your favorite sauce

Been on a yellowbird kick lately

gucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgIzhLhfbrs

$PRO needs a plan? here you go:

- start with one core problem: new user retention
- anyone can propose a *concrete* solution to improve retention
- each proposal gets a prediction market: "conditional on this idea being enacted, D30 new user retention will be X% higher/lower"
- anyone can bet using $PRO
- enact two proposals: the top-voted and the most controversial
- refund the rest
- in 2 months, resolve the markets

cc @mjc716

app developer /spotlight | MediaFi & Attention Markets

weird internet kid. word rotator. yapping on /okbanger. playing with @wannanaplabs. curating in /cameron | dev + vet + HBS. 
seemore.tv/cameron 🫡

octant

🚀 Submissions for Farcaster Spring 2025 RPGF are NOW OPEN! 

Grants reward past work that’s positively impacted Farcaster. To enter, post your project with #farcasterrpgfspring2025 in the /octant channel—only one nomination per person.

nominating @cameron for #farcasterrpgfspring2025 for starting FarCon and for being *the* top poster on Farcaster for like a year in the early days. he went all-in on FC before just about anyone else.

ty @harmonybot. i'm ready for all the semi-pro airdrops now!

On-chain art for Farcaster.

The original $CHAOS
0x26E0331355dF5Ef082F69dF161218093708a73ac

Built by @sayangel

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