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📣 Other TBI survivors I almost died in a car accident 20 years ago. Head injury rewired my brain. I have a CS background and can read code. But can't write it anymore. My brain just doesn't work that way now. For years I felt broken. Like I lost my value. But I've realized being able to understand technical concepts and explain them simply to non-technical people is just as valuable. I'm the person who translates between devs and everyone else. My brain injury didn't break me. It just made me different. And different can be valuable if you position it right. I'm not the coder I used to be. But I'm someone else entirely now. Still figuring out the best job for me at my age. But I'm still showing up. Putting in effort. Doing the work. Though at times, I admit. It may not be the right effort. That's a skill in and of itself. 20 years later, I finally get it. It's ok to not be ok. If you need downtime take it. Then when ready, get back up and provide value again.
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Singapore is 90% safe. Whoever took my tires probably needs it more than me. God bless.
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Sneaked in for a complementary breakfast with a buddy at Fairmont Hotel. They didn't check I wasn't a guest. But he was.
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Just survived food poisoning, paid $200 to eat more seafood in a smoke-filled room for 3 hours. This is what 20-year friendships will make you do.
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Found the perfect badminton partner. Great for practicing hand-eye coordination. I only won because of the height advantage. Give my godson a few more years and my glory days are over.
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honest personal take (disclaimer: i'm not an ML expert, i just study and use a lot of social apps): i think its highly unimaginative and tired to tell new users on a social platform to "reply a lot" in order to get any engagement. social platforms, for a long time, pinned discovery as a user problem. tiktok changed that. they didn't expect users to earn attention the hard way (hustling to self-promote and get follows). instead tiktok took on discovery as a platform problem and decoupled distribution from follower count entirely: a content-first, graph-agnostic approach. on tiktok, a user's responsibility is to make good content and the algo would do the rest based micro interactions and watch behavior. YouTube took a similar approach, but favored creators who mastered their (effort intensive) rules: SEO knowledge, thumbnails, content cadence, etc. if we're hearing that discovery is a problem, the question should be: whose problem — the user's or the platform's? take long-form text platform substack: the recommender engine places more of the burden on the platform than the user, and the platform bias is towards quality via a trust graph. it recommends newsletters based on what you read, introduces editorial curation, and the "recommended by other writers" feature means that small / new writers can get regularly recommended to audiences that a specific writer's taste. each platform makes a design choice about who should work to be seen. on substack, they believe that good writers should be lifted through network effects and curation. does this scale easily? no, it scales slowly but is compounding. so why is this so hard for short-form text-based platforms like twitter, threads, bluesky, or farcaster? because short-form text is typically low-signal, high-noise. short posts on their own carry very little context or signal. it's easier to produce, but harder to evaluate. as a result, discovery for short-form text platform has relied heavily on follower graphs. twitter initially solved this with hashtags (then failed to do it at scale with lists, fleets, and circle). substack partially solved this with its writer graph (trust graph) and categories (topic / semantic clustering). and i think farcaster's open data, mini apps, and interoperability (zkTLS) can be leveraged for creative solutions here that aren't possible on other platforms. that excites me.
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I'm following Ryan's mental wealth framework. 1 thing I'm grateful for today is that I'm able to recharge just after a 15 minute power nap. 1 challenge that I have today is making sure my energy levels are well enough to do the 3 part time jobs I have. 1 win I have today is that I listened to my body for the first time and took a shower at the gym during office hours, took 2 power naps, and left work early.
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From dragon fire to actual fire. Hotpot was the real hero we needed after sitting through 2 hours of air conditioning that could've frozen Hiccup himself.
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Caught up with friends I've known for over 20 years. Started in California. And here we are at Newton Circus, Singapore still going strong. Satay's tasty, Coconuts somewhat cold, and the conversations get deeper than the chili sauce. Turns out, the real benefit of having older friends isn’t just that they know all your embarrassing stories. It’s also that you can have real, honest talks about family, life, and everything in between, with no judgement. Here’s to friendships that age well, like good wine and even better gossip.
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I don't know any crypto Journalists or content creators for that matter that have applied this framework and succeeded. I'll test it out. Are you a content creator?
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Post crypto conference rejuvenation dinner.
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Alright. I'm going to drink the kool aid.
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Just found out from an F1 insider that Singapore's street circuit is brutal. Those narrow roads don't forgive mistakes. But apparently Max has some secret sauce for climbing from bad grid positions to P1 at Marina Bay. Not sure if it's pure skill, setup wizardry, or just that Red Bull magic, but the man finds a way when others can't. Makes me wonder what we're all missing when we watch those Singapore GP battles.
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When I'm on a budget, this is what lunch usually looks like. Its called 'point point' rice or chai beng. In my late 20s, I loved it. I still do. Funny how some things don't change.
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Just started BD at a smart contract auditing firm. Went to an XRPL rooftop event last night and immediately went into "hunter mode" - walking around asking people "are you launching mainnet? need an audit?" Big mistake. The vibe was completely off. People were there to chill, not get pitched. I should have just focused on meeting everyone, learning about their projects, and being genuinely curious about what they're building. Reality check: Most projects won't need audits for 6-12 months anyway. I should have been planting seeds, not trying to harvest crops. Better approach: "What are you building? That sounds fascinating!" Then actually listen and add value to the conversation. The goal isn't to sell at parties - it's to be the security guy they remember when they're ready. Lesson learned: Network first, pitch later. 🤦‍♂️ If you do web3 sales, would love to hear your thoughts?
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Onboarded a few non-crypto native folks to @bankless and @banklessacademy at an XRP event by HER DAO. 😂
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Celebrating the arrival of XRPFi on @FlareNetworks at Singapore's most stunning rooftop venue SKAI. No affiliation. I just crashed the party.
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