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contrarian take that was correct: being mit licensed is strategically advantageous incorrect: good leaders represent the will of the people in an early stage startup. (I've learned that the actual hard thing to do is to bear the responsibility of hard decisions rather than absolve responsibility through groupthink!)

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Are you still having issues with that today? All of our RPCs have improved over time, but if you're still having problems please let me know and I'll follow up in DMs.

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I was ranting about crypto at a non-crypto event many years ago, and a woman came up to me and grabbed my arm and said, "I'd like to get to know you." I was 22, kinda lost in life, and she believed in me more than I did myself. Her name is Joanna and she introduced me to her network and said, "I'll write you a $50k check for anything you want to do." By the time I raised money, there were many people who wrote checks for us, but Joanna's confidence in me fueled me when I had none for myself. She changed my life and continues to be a mentor and close friend.

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If the Superchain is successful, they should know absolutely nothing.

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You have to explicitly build a culture and represent it yourself if you want your community to be like that too. The internet can smell defensiveness and posturing from a mile away. Be prepared to do a lot of self-work to be a resilient person yourself if you want that for your community.

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nothing useful. If it's actually keeping me up at night, it's usually about drama between humans. Otherwise I can just send a few slack messages and empty my brain to go to sleep.

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Direct, genuine, stupidly optimistic and relentlessly hardworking. Our internal team values are: 1. obsess over improvement - feedback is gold 2. be a force multiplier - adding you to the team is a 1+1=3 3. be optimistic - framing shapes reality 4. ask stupid questions - the courage to show stupidity will make you smarter

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The way apps are written today are not the way that apps will be written next year. The Superchain will fundamentally change application development and design paradigms. Even as the internal team experiments with the interop devnet, we're blowing our own minds. It's wild and fun.

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We need to do for game theory what we did for cryptography. There's a whole industry and massive community of economists, game theorists, public goods theorists who I think would be absolutely crushing it in crypto, but avoid it because of the negative reputation that the industry has (at least in many parts of the US). I don't have the brainpower to think of the most creative experiments myself, but I think Ethereum could use its legitimacy as the "most above board crypto project" to recruit and attract the talent that can think of cool experiments. I think a lot of these game theorists don't realize how insanely interesting and new these mechanisms are, how it can challenge traditional game theory, and how well-funded their ideas would be!!

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It was demoralizing and exhilarating both at the same time. I naively thought we could persist as a nonprofit and people would throw money at us because of the value we were bringing to the whole ecosystem. It was exhilarating because for the first time in my life I felt like I had purpose and could see the future. I have hopes for plasma, zk, and many other solutions. All these fancy names are really mostly the same concepts with sometimes very small differences in design tradeoffs. More adoption and more usecases will elucidate which tradeoffs make the most sense, and the OP Stack is built modularly so that it can adapt quickly to changing tides.

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my friends & family photo album.

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We've faithfully implemented the original Rollup-Centric Roadmap. My defensive answer is: hey, I'm accruing value the way you guys said should happen! My more thoughtful answer is: In order to extract value, you must first provide value. So I think you are correct. We need more adoption, but for that to happen, a loooooot needs to get better/faster/cheaper and easier to use. When the pie is big, everybody can eat. Right now we're fighting over scraps, and rather than infighting we need to work together to reach the masses. https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-rollup-centric-ethereum-roadmap/4698

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As of the last year, I've done a 180 on the value of in-person work. I used to avoid it, because Optimism started right at the beginning of the pandemic and I got used to being a hermit loner on my computer, sitting like a little shrimp hunched over my bluelight machine. Now I see how much information and context gets lost over text communication, and how happy and creative everybody is when we can just be humans together.

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I am not sure how to solve the "rich get richer problem" quite yet. But right now, there is SO MUCH extremely low hanging fruit that really anybody can get funded by RPGF. This is true for now, and one day tools/teams will have enough network effects (either of usage or reputation). Right now, the traditional economy solves for this by having VCs whose job it is to identify the "small guy" and take bets. Whether or not that works perfectly is different question, and improvements on that are certainly possible. I'm excited for us to get to a level of maturity to even begin thinking about those problems.

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Sony is a technology company, and so are we. The OP Stack offers a way for Sony to continue innovating at the forefront as it has for the last 80 years. Sony knows the world will change, and they know they need to adapt to the bleeding edge of that change. Otherwise, obsoletion is the default path.

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100%, we already support both. We made our protocol modular from the get-go explicitly so that we could integrate any proof system and not just be resilient to change, but enable innovation to be parallelized at all levels of the stack.

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Much much simpler devtools and abstractions so that the average application developer can simply think about their application logic without thinking also about the interactions with the underlying protocol.

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How fucking hard it would be LOL. Actually jk, if I knew how hard it would be, I probably wouldn't have done it. There are many, many things I wish I had known earlier. One thing I am continuously realizing is what the gen-z kids call "manifesting". A simple but effective trick: say what you want out of your day, or meeting, or quarter at the beginning, and repeat it. That level of clarity and repetition will influence behaviors, and you'll end up attaining what you want most of the time.

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because ditto is the most powerful pokemon! it can be whatever it wants to be!

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