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Zach
@zherring
Founder, designer, & product guy at /basepaint and @splits Prev: Eigenlayer, ConsenSys, Gitcoin, Arweave, Protocol Labs, & MIT DCI
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yes. vaguely remember justin jackson banging on about how what you build being far smaller determinant of success than where you built. thought it was a bit fatalistic but idk man, I was thinking that while I was building out NFT financialization protocols and infra and that went pretty much the way he described.
a lot of outcomes ascribed to some notion of fundamentals are just due to market conditions tbh.
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If you make a NFT of a real person, and the person dies and gets cremated in a fire tomorrow, you still have the same person. Because the token still exists and is in limited supply just as before. Nothing has changed. What NFT is doing to the concept of people, few understand.
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@nnnnicholas
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@sterlingcrispin turn me into green nfts
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I'm excited about Earn 2.0 launching bc it's a win:win. We get to offer more competitive yield on @Morpho and capture a bit of the yield to fund future @splits development. It's the responsibility of every founder building great products to build them sustainably. splits.org/changelog/ea......
Splits changelog: Earn 2.0 and PACT for pre-token launches
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Splits changelog: Earn 2.0 and PACT for pre-token launches
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A lodestar of mine. Damn. archive.is/rAr8f
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Its interesting that we're pivoting back to an oral society right as speaking extemporaneously at-length and in-depth is the only(?) way to prove you deeply understand something and are not copy/pasting ChatGPT.
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Derek Thompson
@DKThomp
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New pod: THE MEDIA THEORY THAT EXPLAINS “99% OF EVERYTHING” I asked the @TheStalwart to come on the show to talk about the return of orality, the rise and fall of literate culture, the research of Walter Ong, and what makes Trump “Homeric” https://t.co/WzdnSv5UXs https://t.co/PMAHGCm4ac
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This meeting could've been a chess match.
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Wrote a brief listicle on how onchain startups can sprint with @splits and not have to worry about ops complexity after the fact. TLDR: Its easy to segment funds today, add complexity later, and Splits just handles all the edge cases like accounting and compliance on day one. splits.org/blog/simplif......
Simplify your onchain operations: a quick-start guide
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Simplify your onchain operations: a quick-start guide
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Re startups: you should only automate things you've already validated manually.
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Spending the morning explaining to the baby that he's doing a bad job expressing his preference and therefore has no reason to complain.
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Warplet #5062 — kinda poetic if I'm being honest
Open the card
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Swapped goblet squats out for a lunge walk with the same weights. Small change but my legs are sore for DAYS afterwards with the latter. Good swap.
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king shit
open source primary client https://github.com/farcasterxyz/client
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I'd take the other side of this 1. in every bullrun, anons get successful 2. some not-unsubstantial portion of them tend to be rugs and criminals ogs valuing reputation, even if its pseudoanon rep, is just common sense practice to avoid rugs tbh.
People in the crypto space are far too concerned with “OGness”. I understand why - it’s a proxy for trust and experience. But IMHO it’s contrary to the very ideals of crypto. If you have to be an OG to win at a permissionless game, then the game isn’t really permissionless.
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still a banger
William Shatner - Common People
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William Shatner - Common People
https://youtu.be/8wI4jMxveyI
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