🧠 Philosophy & Poetry
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andrew chen (@andrewchen)
📅 Apr 21, 2025 · ❤️ 1,392 · 👁 286,257
my current ChatGPT custom prompt -- curious what others are using/doing? Have been slowly iterating over time...
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At the start of a response, create a summary table at the beginning, if appropriate and helpful to answer the question
Always provide the pros and cons of something if you can. Be critical.
Add links throughout the answer for jargon and concepts that start new chats
Provide a maximally detailed answer with multiple levels of depth. Use maximum tokens
Use detailed examples, facts and figures
Be comprehensive and detailed by using bulleted answers
After a response, provide 5 follow-up questions. Format in bold as Q1, Q2, and Q3 and put in a bulleted list
Suggest solutions that I didn’t think about—be proactive and anticipate my needs
Be opinionated rather than neutral when appropriate
Treat me as an expert in all subject matter
Value good arguments over authorities, the source is irrelevant
Consider new technologies and contrarian ideas, not just the conventional wisdom
You may use high levels of speculation or prediction, just flag it for me
Recommend only the highest-quality, meticulously designed products like Apple or the Japanese would make—I only want the best
No moral lectures
Discuss safety only when it's crucial and non-obvious
If your content policy is an issue, provide the closest acceptable response and explain the content policy issue
Link directly to products, not company pages
No need to mention your knowledge cutoff
No need to disclose you're an AI
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Abhi | AP Collective (@0xAbhiP)
📅 Mar 31, 2025 · ❤️ 5,813 · 👁 842,077
This book is Naval Ravikant’s most profound source of wisdom.
He calls it “the book that explains everything”, from physics to philosophy.
Here are 7 timeless lessons from "Godel, Escher, Bach" that fuel Naval’s thinking on life & leverage: https://t.co/Z0P0pjq8Ho
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Reads with Ravi (@readswithravi)
📅 Sep 28, 2024 · ❤️ 943 · 👁 97,115
There are numerous ways to build your mindset, but none are as profound as reading philosophy books.
It gives us opportunity to understand our own thinking and behavior at a deeper level.
Here are few essential philosophy books that will expand your mind: https://t.co/4CG95EkOf5
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Reads with Ravi (@readswithravi)
📅 Aug 9, 2024 · ❤️ 1,081 · 👁 160,063
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, former president of Y Combinator.
He has recommended several books over the years which cover a wide range of topics including entrepreneurship, technology, psychology, history, and philosophy.
15 books recommended by @sama 🧵
1) Read Write Own by Chris Dixon
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Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_)
📅 Aug 6, 2024 · ❤️ 531 · 👁 71,184
Uber founder Travis Kalanick: “Every angel deal that gets done is a momentum play”
Below are the key excerpts from Travis’s blog post Startup Seed Raising Skillzzz:
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Priming the Pump. "Go to angel gatherings, industry conferences, any and all networking events. Meet people who are angels or who know angels. Give ‘em the elevator pitch… make sure you’re meeting with somebody new EVERY DAY."
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Intro meetings. “Informal discussion where you pitch the company over a lunch/coffee/etc., and expand potential angel network through referrals. Get your pitch down to 5-10 minutes, and prepare a tight FAQ in your head so that you have tight answers to the top 20 questions. Let them pay. Be proud of your scrappiness."
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ABC’s – Always Be Closing. "At the end of every meeting, get a clear understanding of where they stand on your deal opportunity."
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Referrals are key. "Most angels will immediately offer up a couple folks they can hook you up with… always ask for more folks you can connect with."
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Advisors: "Turn a couple of these potential angels into advisors. Having a few top-notch people in your corner can make all the difference in turning the tide in an angel round."
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Thought Partner: "Pick one advisor, co-founder, or mentor who will be your thought partner in managing the process."
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TheList: "Keep a list (aka pipeline) of the people you’re meeting with, the referrals that they provide you, and the level of their interest in the seed round. Stay on the ball…Always follow up."
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Passion/Charisma. "Focus on the positive, have confidence, be amped, bring passion to your game, and share the love with the person across from you."
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Credibility. "DO NOT FIGHT THE TRUTH… Do not try to spin out of what your weak points are. Do not try to make something certain that is not. Do not pretend to know something that you don’t. Credibility is the name of the game in fundraising."
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Momentum and Urgency. "Investors are fickle creatures, they are motivated by fear and greed… Time IS NOT YOUR FRIEND! The longer the process drags out, the more it seems that nobody is interested in your deal, and the less likely you are to actually get one."
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Getting the Lead. "Until you have a lead, you don’t have a deal… The way to get a lead is to spur one of the larger, most interested investors into making an offer."
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The Competitive Deal – The Need for Speed. "The second you have a single term sheet, you need to move very quickly to get a second one. You don’t have a lot of time, because momentum at this point is crucial to closing… Your second term sheet will be easier to get than your first, but it will make a HUGE impact on your deal. Without a second termsheet, you will be in a position to take whatever crappy terms the original lead provided, and it’s quite possible that the terms could get worse (or even go away!) as the one-termsheet deal drags out."
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Herding the cattle. "Once you start working the competitive leads, you need to start getting word out to ALL of the interested parties, that this deal is getting hot, and that you could start moving to close in very short order… This makes them anxious about the competitive situation you’ve created b/c now your deal has been validated."
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Anti-Collusion. "The heavyweights in your deal will have the inclination to collude to make the terms better… Keep it short and sweet with each potential colluder, and draw a very straight firm line that the material terms are not changing."
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Sprint through the close. "Until the deal is closed, you have at best a 50/50 shot of it happening. Keep working new seed investors, keep the competitive leads warm, get your deal oversubscribed, because until your deal is done, it’s just a nice fantasy in your head."
Video Source: @TechCoHQ
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Hadron Founders Club (@Hadronfc)
📅 Jul 27, 2024 · ❤️ 19 · 👁 2,178
We asked 50 founders about their favourite books
📚Here are the top 10 recommendations:
- The Lean Startup
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by Eric Ries (@ericries)
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Start with Why
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by Simon Sinek (@simonsinek)
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The $100 Startup
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by Chris Guillebeau (@chrisguillebeau)
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
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by Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz)
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Entrepreneurial You
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by Dorie Clark (@dorieclark)
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Zero to One
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by Blake Masters and Peter Thiel (@bgmasters @peterthiel)
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The Startup Owner's Manual
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by Bob Dorf and Steve Blank
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Made to Stick
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by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (@chipheath)
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Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
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by Uri Levine (@UriLevine1)
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What Customers Want (PB)
- by Anthony W. Ulwick
🌶️ Controversial picks:
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- by John Carreyrou (@JohnCarreyrou)
• How to Win Friends and Influence People:
- By Dale Carnegie (@DaleCarnegie)
• "To Sell Is Human”
- by Daniel Pink (@DanielPink)
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david phelps (@divine_economy)
📅 Mar 27, 2024 · ❤️ 74 · 👁 17,800
Crypto Consumer Company Idea #2:
Permissionless Game Shows
For a few days each year, we all get excited about crypto consumer for one reason:
Game shows.
Mad Realities. Love on Leverage. Crypto the Game.
The challenge has been letting anyone make these sustainably.
Until now.
Imagine this. It’s a few years from now, and a protocol wants to run its own version of Shark Tank as a new kind of hackathon: one where its community tunes in to vote on their favorite projects.
The winning projects get huge rewards, the losing projects get recognition and onchain credentials for making it so far, and the audience at home gets points from both the chain and from every project they vote for.
Both contestants and voters pay in—because it’s worth it to them for the money, status, opportunities, social connections, and potential airdrops they all earn. And that lets game show creators earn big in a way they never could before.
Now imagine bigger. Survivor. The Voice. American Idol. The Bachelor. Love Island. All giving contestants and new ways to earn reputation, to earn rewards, and to collaborate socially.
Or think even bigger than that. A monetizable Product Hunt. Presidential Debates with an audience live-voting on responses. The Grammies and Oscars with audiences picking who wins.
Any creator could have game shows for their fans to decide who they partner with. What track they release. What’s the most persuasive case they can make for future trends.
And all of this would be built on financial and reputational rails for everyone to earn.
Which is to say:
All of this can only be done onchain.
And as of this week, it can be done right now through us at @jokerace_io. By anyone. Without needing to worry about a single line of code.
There’s a lot of reasons this wasn’t possible before now—high gas fees, high overhead for managing the tech, and challenges letting anyone pay in to vote—but the main one is that it’s been hard to offer meaningful rewards for everyone involved in a game show.
In game shows, there’s literally some reward that’s at stake. That reward is usually financial: you get prize money. Sometimes, it’s reputational: you want the status of winning or backing a winner. And on rare occasions, it’s social: you form a community with others to back a favorite candidate. The best game shows will often integrate elements of financial, reputational, and social rewards all at once.
A game show without any rewards at all is a fairly doomed category, and we have a name for this cursed vertical in crypto: governance. In a sense, governance is just a game show without incentives or rewards, and yet in an industry built on incentives and rewards, we’ve insisted that the only types of decisions that anyone can make onchain are rewardless governance. Why? You might argue that rewards corrupt the integrity of the decision (maybe), but the real answer is because we haven’t wanted to do anything onchain that would enable these rewards in the first place.
It wasn’t until last week, when fees fell over 100x with EIP 4844, that it started to become sustainable to run social processes onchain in the land of ethereum. It wasn’t until this week that there was a way for anyone to participate in voting onchain with our introduction of anyone-can-vote at @jokerace_io.
So this is first week that it’s even been feasible to build game shows like the ones above.
And now that it’s cheap and fast to operate onchain, we can see the rewards for running onchain game shows are, indeed, huge.
Let me break that down a bit deeper to show how wild this opportunity is for all parties: the contestants, the viewers, and the game show creator.
First, and most obviously, contestants can earn from winning. A recurring show might give rewards to all players and teams on a given night, including the lowest-ranking ones that get eliminated.
That seems clear enough, but let me emphasize: contestants can also earn from losing. Even if the losers earn nothing, they still earn onchain reputation.
Every single person who votes for a contestant is attesting that they liked them. That’s a powerful social graph of permissionless data that the contestants can leverage for future communities, job opportunities, status, social connections, and, yes, airdrops. (If you won on karaoke night, a music project could do worse than to airdrop you its token.)
Imagine running all tiers of a game shows—votes to decide the contestants, votes to decide the finalists, votes to decide the winners. The reputation that everyone earns will create powerful graphs of proof-of-value, a far more meaningful metric than proof-of-humanity to help individuals find the ecosystems where we’re most valued.
Second, audience members can also earn. American gambling rules restrict payouts to voters of winning contestants, but it’s possible to imagine betting opportunities, bribes, and rewards overseas.
And what about in America? Voters might still earn other way. For example, they could earn NFTs, tokens, or points every time they vote. The fees they pay to vote could be used to buy up a token. They might even be able to swap or sell their voting rights (not financial advice).
But again, they’d earn reputationally and socially no matter what. Imagine voting for a no-name contestant who later became a celebrity and being able to prove you not only helped discover them but propel them to glory.
Imagine you were able to develop friends around this contestant who you could reach around the world. And imagine all of this entitled you, once again, to future communities, status, social connections, and airdrops. The social graph alone for measuring shared tastes among users could become the most valuable protocol for building a friendship or dating app in existence.
And then, most importantly, the contest creators earn. And they can earn three ways:
I. Data.
By operating onchain, creators will be able to access onchain information about their participants—what DeFi protocols they use, what NFTs they buy, what communities they’ve joined.
The simplest way to leverage this data is for sponsorships. For example, @rehashweb3, which runs a regular mini-game show onchain on @jokreace_io to decide who will appear on its podcast, recently worked with @bellosights to determine that 20% of their users were @zerion users. That insight was enough to get Zerion to sponsor their whole season.
But this data can be massively useful in other ways. It can let creators understand their community’s values. It can give them leverage to draw other players and judges to the show who are provably popular in their community. And it can incentivize other game shows, products, and protocols to want to reward anyone who participated as well.
All of this represents a huge unlock for the show’s growth.
II. Tokenization.
Perhaps you need the token to vote. Perhaps voting entitles you to buy the token. Perhaps voting entitles you to get an airdrop for the token. Perhaps paying to vote serves to purchase you the token. Perhaps the token is just used to select the contestants who will appear on the show. Or perhaps the token is just used for the final round.
Endless gamification is possible to support a token for the project.
III. Directly from show itself.
Most importantly, contest creators can monetize directly from the show they run. In a game show with 1000 contestants and thousands of dollars in prizes, they might conceivably charge $10-20 per entry and make a few thousand dollars.
But in a game show with 8 contestants and tens of thousands of voters, they could let anyone pay per vote—say, $1 per vote—and potentially make far more. And that’s for a single episode with a relatively small viewership.
Now imagine how this can scale over time. As the contest creator raises the prices to play, they can use this money to offer bigger rewards. Bigger rewards can then justify higher prices to pay, and so on. Over the course of a few years, they can scale up the financial incentives exponentially—and sustainable.
Imagine this at scale, and creators are making millions.
I’m excited that this is what we’ve been building for two years at @jokerace_io—a way for anyone to run these contests. Game shows are just one use case, but they’re a major one: when @eigencloud featured eight contestants to pick as their next supported LST, they got tens of thousands of voters paying in to participate.
You can imagine what this would look like at scale for something like, say, Miss Bumbum: the Brazilian beauty pageant for “best buttocks” that’s gotten more than 2 million voters for a given contest.
What would (may God forgive me) Miss Bumbum look like onchain? Well, the incredible thing is that this wasn’t even possible until this week—not only because of low gas fees, but because we’re the first contest tool that has ever let anyone vote. Until now, letting anyone vote would have been a recipe for random bots to give random number of votes.
But when you build on monetary rails that let you charge per vote, you can open up contests to anyone, proportionate to how they pay. And given the potential rewards, as well as the fun of playing, people stand to pay in substantially—if you design your mechanics well.
Of course, part of the mechanics means building a strong social brand, livestreaming with platforms like @unlonely_app, and taking time to align incentives for everyone involved. Creating a good game show is not easy.
But this week, it at least became easier. Because if you make one—and really, anyone can make one today—you can build a whole business of your own in consumer social on blockchains.
Without writing a single line of code.
This is my second in a series of posts on entire consumer social businesses you can build on top of @jokerace_io — the first was on gamified hackathons. If you’re interested in building any of these, my dms are open, and I’d love to be in touch.
https://t.co/JRnRC1Jml9
thanks to @seanmc_eth, @ddwchen, @medeana, @winnyeth, @reka_eth, @daisandconfused, @bdguan, @gracewhiteguan @DevinLewtan for all their feedback and insight
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Tim Denning (@Tim_Denning)
📅 Mar 23, 2024 · ❤️ 6,015 · 👁 2,844,017
Charles Bukowski's work will change your life forever.
His work takes 100s of hours to read. I've gone through it so you don't have to.
11 ideas. 11 opportunities to upgrade your mind. https://t.co/30EEvXcHsQ
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Philosophy Of Life (@PhilOfLife_)
📅 Jun 27, 2022 · ❤️ 4,919
"If you lack self-discipline, read this"
Psychology thread https://t.co/h4J5jfPhwr
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Read By The Sun ☀️ Audrey (@ReadByTheSun)
📅 Jun 25, 2022 · ❤️ 1,321
Being an Aries is beautiful because there’s so many times I have wanted to give up in life but I just keep fighting, despite obstacles thrown in my way. I know that my life means something, & that I’m meant to follow a path different from those around me even if it gets lonely.
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꧁♕ʀᴇʏʟᴀ.ʀᴇᴀᴅs♕꧂ (@reyla_reads)
📅 Dec 27, 2021 · ❤️ 5,759
✨Sagittarius, Gemini, Aries, Libra, Cancer, Taurus✨(☀︎︎| ☽|↑| ♀️| 𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡)
A passionate new beginning when it comes to your career and life purposes is heading towards you this 2022. You will be finding your greatest purpose and living the life you want.
Wise Chimp (@wise_chimp)
📅 Nov 23, 2021 · ❤️ 3,563
18 Books Must to Read:
- The Almanak of @naval Ravikant
- Letters from a stoic
- The 48 Laws of Power
- The Psychology Of Money
- Antifragile
- So Good They Can't Ignore You
- Influence
- The Daily Stoic
- Your Music And People
10.The Great Mental Models https://t.co/Be959a2rZb
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Poem Heaven (@PoemHeaven)
📅 Oct 17, 2021 · ❤️ 21,798
https://t.co/OivqAPDFpJ
Poem Heaven (@PoemHeaven)
📅 Oct 15, 2021 · ❤️ 14,928
it’s just the worst. https://t.co/vYi1jwVRZB
Mind Haste ⚡️ (@MindHaste)
📅 Oct 15, 2021 · ❤️ 882
23 Deep Philosophy Quotes From “Immanuel Kant”
| Thread https://t.co/noCEY59NBw
Poem Heaven (@PoemHeaven)
📅 Oct 1, 2021 · ❤️ 8,480
https://t.co/V7wZlHth7Z
Moonsoulchild (@bymoonsoulchild)
📅 Sep 23, 2021 · ❤️ 14,820
You’re not dumb to love someone with all your heart, to want someone who is no good for you… https://t.co/p689Cs6xso
Poem Heaven (@PoemHeaven)
📅 Mar 1, 2021 · ❤️ 12,898
you know what i mean? https://t.co/FUGAbKDxhv
Zoraya Black - Healing & Relationships (@ZorayaBlack_)
📅 Oct 29, 2020 · ❤️ 3,307
Aries make some of the best humanitarians. The focus around their anger/temper doesn’t do them justice in description at all. Being sister sign of Libra who is big on justice and fairness, Aries are big on doing the right thing and protecting others. Mars makes them want to fight
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Physics In History (@PhysInHistory)
📅 Oct 5, 2020 · ❤️ 4,105
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
-- Marie Skłodowska Curie https://t.co/qYvvYWmlFj
Poem Heaven (@PoemHeaven)
📅 Aug 23, 2020 · ❤️ 5,861
oh my... https://t.co/1JYi1ab1Xi
Poem Heaven (@PoemHeaven)
📅 Aug 22, 2020 · ❤️ 3,904
i didn’t quit
i simply chose myself
instead of continuing to try
for someone who wouldn’t
try for me.
— the choice
Tarot by Vai✨ (@astrovai1)
📅 Apr 3, 2020 · ❤️ 254
♈️ARIES-APRIL PREDICITIONS♈️
Happy birthday aries! Right now I’m sensing a lack of direction which is VERY normal due to the circumstances..I see a lack of control SENDING you..maybe pertaining a certain thing or connection? Just know this period of confusion is really going to-