This past weekend we shipped our first novelty game on PICKEM. To make it real, we built new backend tooling from scratch and pushed it live in time for the Super Bowl. The team delivered under pressure and ran a true live test in production. We learned fast, surfaced a few edge cases, and confirmed the core system works. More importantly, we proved we can spin up entirely new game formats around cultural moments, not just sports. This opens the door to a broader roadmap. Think PICKEM during the Oscars. The Grammys. Moments where culture peaks and everyone’s already watching. We’re just getting started.

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every Monday @0xpuneet and I share an update on building @theclankline At @theclankline we are building something that lets you turn your alpha calls into prediction markets Feb 2 - Feb 8, 2026: Top 3 Highlights of the Week - @epicdylan , @donpabloeskeetit , and @dummie.eth launched a market each. Welcome @epicdylan to growing Clankline community of prediction market creators. 15 creators have launched over 100 markets on @theclankline - #3 ATH in a single market. $bracky market did $662 in volumes in 24 hours - App consistently ranked in top 25 mini apps on farcaster over last week Shipping was bit slow as we are working on some major changes. Stay tuned.

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gm. it can be hard but there is just no way to finally converge with your true self without facing the inner demons. i have been to both sides of the table yet i am choosing the hard path. i feel like a loser on some days, but that is a fleeting melancholy. i sometimes wish i never realized that our true selves do indeed exist. in fact, we are already them if we choose to believe so and back that faith with relentless actions. but if all else fails at least i am in love with who i am becoming in the process of this pursuit. i am a happy man with a loving family, beautiful wife, with a dream to pursue. rambling don’t listen to me but this is my half conscious diary within minutes of waking up. onwards. == it is easy to settle and lie to myself saying that i am ok with an ordinary life. it is hard to set sail and prove to myself that i am indeed sailing towards an extraordinary one. it is easy to make excuses and not give something a shot it deserves. it is hard to persevere while eating shit to squeeze everything you’ve got into that shot that may not even lands. it is easy to belittle the blood and sweat of those who try and fail. it is hard to give kudos to those who try whether they rise or fall because you know how hard it can be.

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I have much to say about this after working with multiple startups. Founders: if you're raising more than $3M please allocate some funding to therapy for yourself and your C-level executives. I can pretty much spot exactly the trauma of a founder by how they build their company culture and organization structures. It's almost a science and I might even consider some kind of startup to stop this. Your behaviors from your trauma is only magnified when you have capital, and investing in therapy is 100% more worth it than wasting money building a company that fights your internal wars.

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Have people completely stopped preparing for meetings — just showing up to wing it? 🤯

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This week: - Onboarded 8 people - created eval system for prompt/model changes - did free form writing seeking clarity on how to talk about what I’m doing

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Real.

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It is February 2026, and we are once again in a moment of reckoning about how the world gets built. This time, the catalyst is artificial intelligence. Tools once gated by capital and engineering degrees are now open to anyone willing to learn in public and tolerate the inevitable growing pains. This moment feels different because the gates are finally open for anyone to build. But participating requires a deeper understanding of how ideas move from whiteboards to boardrooms. I’ve spent the last fifteen years poking at this question from different vantage points in my career and wanted to share a few reflections... It started in 2009, on the back of a golf cart. https://hardmodefirst.xyz/how-the-sausage-gets-made

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“If you want to work in a more mature industry, that’s fine. If you want to build a new one from scratch, it can be messy and frustrating, but it’s important work. The messy years are what make the obvious years possible.” - @cdixon.eth https://x.com/cdixon/status/2019837259575607401?s=46

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I picked this line, because it’s soooo true — especially in Web3 — but you should read the whole thing and support Jonathan 👇 “… Distribution gets mislabeled as marketing, as if it were decoration applied after the real work is done. That is backward…”

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Better ask the /founders 👇🫡

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I think it's even more obvious now, in let's call it the age of AI, that ideas don't matter. You actually have to execute the ideas. Obviously, if you have no ideas then you can still steal some and you can execute ... ... but if you have just ideas and you don't execute, nothing is going to help you, not even AI. I think it's making it very obvious that everybody who said ideas don't matter, execution does, was right. 😉

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