not trader-focused, not quality-asset-focused, but a secret, more complex third thing
(it’s prediction markets)
💫
(just kidding)
(it’s people; the third thing is people)
(but the people are just devs)
(and investors)
(but only after devs)
(which is the only thing left to try)
(again, which is: devs)
(the an...
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healed myself from whatever this was only to catch the flu one week later
>be me
>lymph’s all swell up
>ears feel underwater; headaches begin
>sleeping w windows open (sub-20 out)
>still profusely sweating every night
>wtf
>five days in; breakout in hives
>body clearly trying to fight something
>hives start spreading aggressively
>oh fuck
>go to doctor #1
>”looks like ringworm”
>no, you
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i spent the weekend revisiting the books and ideas that actually changed how i think
then i tried to reapply them to consumer crypto and network design, distilling a philosophical framework that may challenge a few comfortable assumptions...
the throughline is emergence over prescription: complexity, sociobiology, ev...

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my favorite all-time scapegoat, beyond the day one idiom, is: “we don’t know what the users want”
i’m sorry. are we not venture-backed businesses with years of direct learnings? with nearly a decade of consumer crypto behind us, layered on top of twenty years of social and forty years of networking?
what do *you* mea...
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this is announcement of an announcement of an announcement
$OPERATINGCASTLE
$SKYSYSTEMS
$SKY
$423 6h vol
$438K
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>be me
>lymph’s all swell up
>ears feel underwater; headaches begin
>sleeping w windows open (sub-20 out)
>still profusely sweating every night
>wtf
>five days in; breakout in hives
>body clearly trying to fight something
>hives start spreading aggressively
>oh fuck
>go to doctor #1
>”looks like ringworm”
>no, you...
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the real trench strategy is to constantly change the meta such that our platform overloads are always pivoting and never truly competing
this is the only way they don’t build into you egregiously out on a whim and destroy your user base — it’s the same strategy the government uses to keep you enraged
to tokenize ev...
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