Parenting

Do you ever look at your own kid and think how incredible it is that you brought a human into the world and then get overwhelmed by how much you love them?

coinbase

Here’s my approach generally when it comes to account security in case it helps folks: 

2FA and passkeys whenever possible

Simply never click a link from an email that has a >0% chance of being malicious, especially financial apps. Report spam on the emails that are spam. Too many family members get imposter Coinbase emails, I tell them don’t even open them. IMO Coinbase shouldn’t send emails at all, find something else. 

Auto-send unrecognized phone calls to voicemail. 

Report spam on any text messages claiming to be anyone and delete them.

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/protecting-our-customers-standing-up-to-extortionists

I applaud the transparency from @brian_armstrong and @Coinbase.  

I receive daily phishing attempts from bad actors pretending to be both Coinbase and Gemini - many people certainly click the links. 

https://t.co/FGDyBWygb5

The Wolf Of All Streets

https://x.com/scottmelker/status/1922974126664229262?s=46

Here’s my approach generally when it comes to account security in case it helps folks: 

2FA and passkeys whenever possible

Simply never click a link from an email that has a >0% chance of being malicious, especially financial apps. Report spam on the emails that are spam. Too many family members get imposter Coinbase emails, I tell them don’t even open them. IMO Coinbase shouldn’t send emails at all, find something else. 

Auto-send unrecognized phone calls to voicemail. 

Report spam on any text messages claiming to be anyone and delete them.

My cell phone circa 2004. Can still hear the ringtone I so joyfully set up.

I Took a Photo!

Visiting my mom today at my childhood house in Petaluma, CA. 

Happy Mother’s Day!

Shower Thoughts

EQ > IQ

As I get older (I’m 37) I think EQ matters more than IQ. 

Particularly with regard to how we are biologically hardwired to avoid fear and pain.

I think high EQ means integrating your pain. Realizing it’s part of who you are. This builds resilience. And it changes your relationship with parts of yourself that you resist. “What you resist persists” etc.

It’s also very hard and counterintuitive for one to accept their own demons. You have to walk through the fire. And it can’t be done through cognition or “growth performance” or productivity hacks. You have to actually embrace the scary, fucked up feelings so that your system learns, from the inside, that it can ride the wave. 

That physiological trust frees up choice, reveals deeper resources like self-compassion, and becomes the bedrock of real resilience.

One thing I love about engineering is having an idea, telling no one, and just trusting you’re going launch a banger (even if it sucks, which it probably will)

HIGHER

Put in the work. Aim higher ↑ 

Thanks @genuinejack

genuinely curious. working on /higher-market ↑ | 🟠 say hello 👋

crypto

Reflections on crypto, random and messy: 

➟ Farcaster makes crypto fun again 

➟ Privacy still needs to be solved onchain

➟ Seeing way more experimentation and what are the beginnings of hypertokenization because of regulatory ease in US and low cost to deploy tokens, as blockchains have scaled.

➟ Biggest winners this year are FinTech, some TradFi, and deep onchain infra cos because of their distribution and scalability to mass users.

➟ I think we may see someone big enter the chat soon. Speculation, but maybe X or Meta. First, Elon has promised X will be the everything app. Second, recall Libra and Novi Wallet from Meta/WhatsApp, and NFTs in Instagram. Meta saw the value of crypto, but it was too early when they first tried. Do they still got that dog in them? 

➟ I believe people should be able to create whatever they want onchain, and ideally it’s peaceful and good 🤍

My own takes / NFA / DYOR

BREAKING: META IN DISCUSSIONS WITH CRYPTO FIRMS TO INTRODUCE STABLECOINS AS A MEANS TO MANAGE PAYOUTS - PER FORTUNE SOURCES https://t.co/i7l6MtZK1W

DEGEN NEWS

https://x.com/DegenerateNews/status/1920557131201122806

I suspect you’ll soon be able to deploy anything (websites, articles, apps, etc.) right from chatGPT. Imagine that’s the windsurf benefit.

The more I use the grok button on X, the more I feel that Farcaster could benefit from a grok-like summarize button on any cast for some tl;dr context. Clanker? Bracky? Maybe you could try it or engage with a mini app after you know a little more about it. 

Easier said than done I’m sure and likely not priority but could be cool! 😎

Is it just me, or the faster the internet accelerates, the more I crave real-world moments?

someone-build

A polymarket bet on the Anglin brothers serving time in Alcatraz, again. 

If they survived, they still owe federal prison time.

Gm anon you are literally floating in an unfathomably vast expanse with projectiles flying everywhere, all the time.

Once in a lifetime experience!
https://t.co/Wp8Ilaa61O

All day Astronomy

Gm anon you are literally floating in an unfathomably vast expanse with projectiles flying everywhere, all the time. 

https://x.com/forallcurious/status/1919883703221702900

Jon

@jkg.eth