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@tanishq
A friend of mine said “Opening a laptop should feel like Disneyland” and it instantly teleported me to this time
Oh man, the pure joy and fascination of sitting on a computer for what felt like eternity
Things I would give up just to have that time back 😢
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@tanishq
It’s important for you to understand that you are the observer and you are different from the doer.
However, it’s equally crucial to act as if you are the doer.
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@tanishq
Bad: 3rd cheat day in a row
Good: Down 16lbs in 6mo
I hate when my 21st-century brain abandons routine at the slightest hint of future scheduling
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@tanishq
Focus is an emergent behavior
Attempting to will it into existence is a futile exercise
Imagine if your attention is a bar chart, and you have multiple bars representing things you kind of want to do—if we were to give each a value of sub-100 and plot them on the chart, you’d probably not know where to focus, which one to do first, they all look the same to your intuition
But imagine if there was a desire so strong, emergency so dire, need so intense- that it plots not a sub-100, but an outlier of somewhere 10,000s on your chart
You wouldn’t see anything else, no plotted sub 100s would be visible to your intuition, nothing else would matter -
You auto-focus on the outlier.
Focus is an emergent behavior
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@tanishq
Journey to Utopia (Artwork)
You have roughly ~7 years to escape the permanent underclass
Point of convergence is fast approaching → The emergence of AGI or Supreme Intelligence
The interim will witness rise of Hyper Agents powered by Hyperinflation powered by Hyper-tokenization we’re witnessing in crypto
We are currently at the Eye (In the middle section), experimenting with Vertical AI. The curved line represents the blunted work that AI produces right now, but it’s sharpening, and will become highly precise and accurate at the PoC.
This is a conceptual study artwork. The accuracy of timeline is debatable but it focuses depicting progress through bi-directional lens of crypto and AI.
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@tanishq
If this is the age of proof (fakes, ai, blockchain) — the only way to prove you can win is by winning
so poetic
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@tanishq
I am liking my new token trading strategy:
1. Layer’s TVL is a good starting point in an otherwise uncapped speculation market
2. TVL usually gets dominated by the fundamentals: Lending/borrowing, swaps, staking.
3. Speculative markets, memes, is where the FAFO, short-lived but high volume is. This is a non-performer because of its low hit ratio, so I stick to fundamental protocol token investing.
4. Then comes the community, a good utility usually drives sensible but non-innovative audience, but you need both diligence and creativity for a network to thrive. The differentiating factor between them is always their talent density. Higher has been pretty dense in this regards.
5. So I start thinking about it in terms of community
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@distrow
Sometimes it's not about being right.
It's about showing up choosing to struggle even when the outcome is unclear.
Tani said it best: greatness lives in the willingness to fight, not just the cause
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It’s the willingness to engage in a struggle rather than the righteousness on one’s cause that determines greatness.
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@tanishq
I am grateful to have gone through a time when we used to write code without ANY assistance
Each character typed out, programs breaking because you miss a semicolon,
type — retype — type, search maniacally through the documentation, ask questions on stackoverflow, get a mix of answers and insults, sleep on things, take a walk to debug, oof
So pure, so raw, so alive, so present
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