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Life is like a restaurant with infinite ingredients. It has a menu longer than any you’ve ever seen, but the menu represents a negligible percentage of what’s possible. Still, most people just pick something from the menu. It’s easier and there are a bunch of popular options from which most people can find something they think they’ll like. But once in a while someone sits down and goes off menu to try to create a great meal for themselves. It probably would not be a popular menu item, but it’s perfect for them.

The default settings for life are useful as a reference but not to be followed

fascinating

You know you never really regret doing something nice as long as it doesn’t lead to you getting screwed so if you can do something nice where there’s really no way to get screwed you might as well just do the nice thing.

My 80/20 thesis on why people are so tired https://x.com/0fjake/status/2032465765773857097?s=46

I don’t recall ever seeing this many crypto companies shutting down before all around the same time.

This is more than I ordered. Thank you @nodemerch, @queue, & @genuinejack!

A new token launcher has emerged.

non-fungibility is valuable. what’s holding back NFTs is: 1. variable value = harder to trade 2. lower supply = smaller community 3. high unit price = barrier to entry basecolors.com solves 2 & 3 with a supply ~16M and mint price / floor ~$2 and I think I have a solution for 1.

There comes a critical moment in many conversations where you are asked a question you do not know the answer to, and you can either pretend to know or say that you don’t know, and whichever you do you probably do that almost every time this happens, and it happens all the time.

Came up with a new verb here for the first time. “mindsetting” I like it. Means getting your mind right. Setting your mind. Mindset is so powerful it’s easy to forget / take for granted. I worked with Peter Diamandis for a few months. He attributes everything he’s done to mindset as the most important thing

I have a different view on apologies than a lot of people. I think you should mostly only say sorry or apologize if you mean it. It’s similar to curse words. You should not use them often. They lose all their potency if you use them a lot. I like to reserve the ability to curse strongly and apologize sincerely, both rarely.

Ask me anything

The Solana page in the most popular Solana wallet has 345 people on it and 4 in chat but an app on Base that I never heard of anyone using has 18M+ revenue? Is that right? Maybe it is… idk. I often have trouble understanding how real numbers are in crypto. $QR revenue you can audit trivially on our winners page.

Calling the top on screen time. Not necessarily today or even this year but overall the last decade. Next decade will be less is my guess.

bought too little and sold too early

I am thrilled to announced $QR has been listed by @toadyhawk.eth.

last bear market i was a crypto holder, podcaster, and crypto-ish employee, but i was not an independent builder the double whammy of seeing your portfolio get killed and your project struggle is a tough one, but I am doing the best I can to navigate this experience does feel quite valuable, and I enjoy a challenge