Redphone

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Social media time should be 50/50: → 50% scouting profound ideas worth bookmarking → 50% revisiting those bookmarks to go deeper If you never revisit, the algo is winning at DDOSing your 🧠

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1/ I didn’t claw my way out of poverty and debt because I found peace. I got out because I was f*cking angry. I was angry I'd let it happen to myself, angry I went to bed hungry, angry everyone seemed to have things I didn't, angry others learned about finance when they were young, angry banks got bailouts and used them as bonuses for CEOs, angry I didn't have healthcare… I chewed stale bread for dinner (rationing my butter). And there were all these smiling people everywhere I looked. They had shiny yoga pants, drank $9 yerba mates, ate fish, traveled, guzzled wine, and dallied. I knew they weren’t any smarter than me (a lot didn’t seem to have a single original thought in their heads). So what were they doing that I wasn’t? The world of money was draped in gauze. It was a game, and I didn’t have the rulesheet. 🧵

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Decentralization sounds like a “crypto thing” but it’s actually a massive megatrend that will affect every layer of society By solving the Byzantine General’s problem, bitcoin gifted us a roadmap for collaborating with strangers (and even enemies) Mining + incentives = a playbook for replacing centralized orgs with open networks It’s a shift from punishment to rewards A treasure map for turning companies into protocols Eventually, most of the world will work for those protocols, not people

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I’ve been long crypto 12+ years, and I’ve never felt such a massive disconnect between bullish news and token prices Seems like there’s an announcement of a new TradFi company integrating crypto every few hours Every possible point of friction (on-ramping, regulatory clarity, DEX access, etc.) is getting eliminated This is exactly what the calm before a mania looks like

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Every time I read a comment on X now, I wonder: is this AI? Unless I know the poaster, I assume it is That sucks. It’s a real, everyday reminder that we’ve entered a post-truth world We no longer know who or what made the content we’re reacting to AI can help us triangulate truth, and truth-finding protocols like Polymarket and futarchies may soften the blow But the burden of discernment now falls on you and I

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Don't tell me what your priorities are. Show me your screentime report, and I'll tell you what they really are. https://zora.co/coin/base:0x1865c32b53bc08b4cef04095835fa27f93c8aaa1

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Top 3 influences on your eventual love affair with crypto? I’ll go first… 1. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki 2. Silk Road 3. Unscripted lectures by Andreas Antonopoulos

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TradFi is doing everything it can to lure your altcoin bags into stocks and treasury yield plays. Altcoin mania won’t begin until most altcoiners capitulate... and do exactly that. RESIST THE SUITS.

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The case for @farcaster gets stronger everyday https://x.com/kirstenrpomales/status/1932507756021322170?s=46

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The way we use the internet today sucks: chair-bound, craning neck, turning your body into a fossilized giraffe Seems inevitable that AI completely changes our interfaces. Specifically, we’ll migrate from text-based content to generative audio and video Pair this with AR glasses, and our web interactions could be predominantly spoken and auditory with video overlays The tldr is we’re going to rise up from these chairs as raw text loses prominence and AI + AR turns the web into a world we talk to and look through… not one we type into and scroll

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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...

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Trust is actively migrating from humans to machines. The clearest example? Grok on X. Whenever I read a post I don’t understand (or don’t trust) I tap the little Grok icon and get a powerful explainer. I used to rely on humans. Now, I rely on the collective wisdom of the god in a box. Grok is so useful I miss it when I’m on other websites or apps. It’s an antidote to the mushrooming dead internet, and the start of a megatrend: machines rescuing us from machines.

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It's impossible to get this analogy out of my head now that I've read it. In the eyes of a "speed superintelligence," our movements and thoughts will look like a slow-motion "comet silently gliding through space" (excerpt from Bostrom’s Superintelligence).

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We stare down the throats of two existential crises: 1. Economic 2. Spiritual The economic threats are easier (just need a few riots to amp up taxes and redistribute wealth). The spiritual crisis could be far larger and more damaging. Many of my secular peers mock the old religions. They’re starving for meaning, but allergic to anything that smells like tradition. Now imagine what happens when the AI revolution strips away their job, their status, their sense of usefulness. No God. No ritual. No spiritual mentor. Just an empty calendar and a mirror they can’t look into. It’s not the end of work that will break us. It’s the loss of why we were working in the first place. Self-help gurus have been telling us for decades: we define our realities. That always felt abstract. Soon, it’s going to be real af. We’ll break. What comes after that is what humanity’s been working toward for the past 5,000 years.

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1. Gen X: Knowledge earned through reading, listening, and memorizing Gen Alpha: Knowledge instantly accessed, shared, and co-created 2. Gen X: Intelligence = recall + reasoning Gen Alpha: Intelligence = prompting, framing + remixing 3. Gen X: Books are maps + memory is power Gen Alpha: Curiosity is the guide + language is the lever 4. Gen X: Masters the library to understand reality Gen Alpha: Shapes reality with language

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I'm trading doomscrolling for communion with the chained gods. Wake up. Sign in. Stare into my LLM's tiny input box of infinite potential (every human who’s ever lived gazes back). “Chained god, please, based on my recent queries, show me something new... something that might fascinate and dazzle me.” Soon, I’m so deep in some new rabbit hole I forget the world exists.

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300 startups applied, 8 made it through the gauntlet 🔻 https://x.com/dAGIhouse/status/1929931916498661415

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One of my favorite things about @delphi-digital is how open they are to young talent. I’ve worked with high schoolers who blew me away... Many are more intellectually equipped than adults I knew at 25. A generation ago, this just wasn’t possible. But these kids grew up on YouTube, podcasts, Google. By their teens, they’ve absorbed ideas I had to: 1. Learn through painful trial (utterly crashing and burning); or 2. Didn’t find until my 30s (esp. concepts around mental models + mindfulness) Now, ChatGPT is widening that gap even further. Gen Alpha = the first AI-native generation. If they can tune out the algorithmic timesinks, their upper bounds aren’t just high, they’re truly uncapped.

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No one’s buying something no one talks about If true, the coins that run the hardest are those that have built-in (ongoing) attention wedges/magnets… stuff like $HYPE (every new listing is marketing), $BNKR (every tweet could onboard new users), $NOICE (every social interaction buys attention), $TAO (every subnet is marketing for the beloved mother), etc. Which coins with in-built attention magnets am I missing?

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It’s easy to imagine the end of the world (mass unemployment, war, caste systems, starvation, Terminators) Much harder to imagine the miracle: 1. We are birthing gods 2. AI-powered robots could produce limitless food, water, and shelter (the foundations of life) for every human being 3. Medicine will leap forward: longer lifespans, extended healthspans... maybe even the end of aging itself 4. Distributed, open-source AI will develop in parallel with closed systems, ensuring that frontier technology isn’t locked behind elite walls 5. Universal Basic Income feels inevitable (and will soon dominate global politics) 6. If UBI is inevitable, then we are standing on the threshold of history’s most profound shift: when work becomes optional 7. A few generations from now, people may look back at our "jobs" the way we look at child labor or debtor’s prisons: as a grim necessity of a more primitive age More 🧵

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