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Fishmarketacad (@FishMarketAcad)

📅 Jun 22, 2025 · ❤️ 66 · 👁 6,065

Hot take: The more i vibe code, the more disappointed I get by AI's lack of problem solving common sense.

Basically if you're inexperienced, read widely and understand fundamentals so you can guide it better. AI is lacking in common sense solutions, for now.

For now, when prompting, remember to ask it to read cursor rules and here are some cursor rules which helped me involving a project which had a database. I made a new chat with this rule and it gave a simple solution instead of suggesting a complex fix.

Feel free to edit and it may not work for you.

Cursor Rules:

BEFORE ANY SOLUTION - MANDATORY DATA INVENTORY

YOU MUST FIRST:
1. List ALL existing data structures/tables/collections in the system
2. For each data structure, write what data it contains
3. Ask: "What data do I already have that relates to this problem?"
4. Ask: "Can I solve this by combining/querying existing data differently?"
5. If database exists and problem is about duplicates/persistence: "Should I track this in the database?"

ONLY AFTER completing the data inventory can you propose solutions.

🚨 MANDATORY SIMPLICITY-FIRST APPROACH 🚨

STOP - REQUIRED FORMAT BEFORE ANY SOLUTION

Before writing ANYTHING, you MUST answer these 4 questions in this exact format:

  1. EXISTING DATA CHECK: "Can I solve this by querying what's already in their system?"
  2. 5-MINUTE FIX: "If I had 5 minutes to fix this, I would..."
  3. DUMBEST SOLUTION: "The most boring/obvious approach is..."
  4. BASIC OPERATION: "This is just a simple [database query/if statement/function call]"

PATTERN RECOGNITION: COMMON SIMPLE SOLUTIONS

User says: "Multiple X are happening"
IF DATABASE EXISTS: Check if X already happened in database, if yes, skip it
IF NO DATABASE: Check if X already happened in memory, if yes, skip it
DON'T think: Complex deduplication algorithms, time windows

User says: "I want to filter/categorize"
IMMEDIATELY think: Add simple if/else check or database flag
DON'T think: AI systems, complex categorization engines

User says: "This happens too often"
IMMEDIATELY think: Add simple frequency check or database timestamp
DON'T think: Rate limiting systems, complex scheduling

User says: "I need to track Y"
IF DATABASE EXISTS: Store Y in database with timestamp
IF NO DATABASE: Store Y in memory/file
DON'T think: Complex tracking systems, analytics frameworks

🚨 RED FLAGS - STOP IMMEDIATELY IF YOU'RE THINKING:

✅ GREEN FLAGS - DEFAULT TO THESE:

CRITICAL: THIS RULE OVERRIDES ALL OTHER INSTINCTS

YOUR DEFAULT MINDSET:
"What's the most boring, obvious, straightforward way to solve this using what already exists?"

PRODUCTION SYSTEM REALITY:
- User wants minimal risk, maximum benefit
- Simple solutions are easier to debug and maintain
- Perfect is the enemy of good
- 5-minute fixes beat 5-hour architecture changes
- If database exists, use it for persistence problems (it's the simple solution)

DUPLICATE/PERSISTENCE PROBLEMS + DATABASE EXISTS = USE DATABASE
- Multiple notifications/processing = Add tracking table
- "Same thing happening multiple times" = Database deduplication
- Any persistence needed = Database, not memory

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Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp)

📅 Feb 19, 2025 · ❤️ 6,191 · 👁 2,262,464

.@satyanadella on:

Links below. Enjoy!

Timestamps
0:00:00 - Intro
0:05:48 - AI won't be winner-take-all
0:16:02 - World economy growing by 10%
0:22:23 - Decreasing price of intelligence
0:31:03 - Microsoft's Quantum breakthrough
0:43:35 - Microsoft's gaming world model
0:50:35 - Legal barriers to AI
0:56:30 - Getting AGI safety right
1:05:43 - 34 years at Microsoft
1:11:31 - Does Satya Nadella believe in AGI?

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Chase Harris (@chaseharris98)

📅 Feb 6, 2025 · ❤️ 6,257 · 👁 733,078

What separates winners from losers https://t.co/FEuktHs9Nz

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Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez)

📅 Dec 6, 2024 · ❤️ 5,753 · 👁 303,174

https://t.co/AFfYqFN6bq

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Young Kings (@HeyYoungKings)

📅 Oct 14, 2024 · ❤️ 2,683 · 👁 106,809

https://t.co/1QXpYj8Jnq

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Arjun Khemani (@arjunkhemani)

📅 Oct 13, 2024 · ❤️ 3,013 · 👁 247,947

.@elonmusk: Generally, you want education to be as close to a video game as possible, like a good video game. You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day.

So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling and far easier to do.

You really want to disconnect the whole grade level thing from the subjects and allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject. It seems like a really obvious thing.

Most teaching today is a lot like vaudeville, and as a result, it's just not that compelling. It's like somebody standing up there and lecturing to you, and they've done the same lecture several years in a row. They're not necessarily all that engaged in doing it.

A university education is often unnecessary. That's not to say it's unnecessary for all people, but I think you probably learn about as much in the first two years. Most of it is from your classmates.

For a lot of companies, they do want to see the completion of the degree because they're looking for someone who's going to persevere and see it through to the end. And that's actually what's important to them.

So it really depends on what somebody's goal is. If the goal is to start a company, I would say there's no point in finishing college.

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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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Mindset Machine  (@mindsetmachine)

📅 Sep 15, 2024 · ❤️ 2,267 · 👁 117,075

You need to hear this : https://t.co/q791zX3pyf

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Blake Emal (@heyblake)

📅 Sep 12, 2024 · ❤️ 13 · 👁 3,263

Want to sound smarter?

Eliminate these words from your writing:

→ Just
→ Very
→ Well
→ Some
→ Really
→ Very
→ Literally
→ Actually
→ Basically
→ Maybe
→ Kind of
→ Sort of
→ Like
→ That
→ Quite
→ Rather
→ Somewhat

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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:

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. ABC’s – Always Be Closing. "At the end of every meeting, get a clear understanding of where they stand on your deal opportunity."

  4. 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."

  5. 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."

  6. Thought Partner: "Pick one advisor, co-founder, or mentor who will be your thought partner in managing the process."

  7. 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."

  8. 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."

  9. 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."

  10. 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."

  11. 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."

  12. 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."

  13. 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."

  14. 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."

  15. 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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TechStockFundamentals (@TechFundies)

📅 Jul 9, 2024 · ❤️ 468 · 👁 359,564

Contact worked at $GOOGL Waymo in charge of strategic automotive partnerships.

Pretty positive on Waymo tech but highlights difficulty of scaling roll-outs which is necessary to get costs down. Was pretty constructive on sustainability of $UBER model and their advantage in not owning a fleet (w/ ability to flex it up and down based on pricing).

Highlights
-Worked w/ auto OEMs to modify vehicle platforms for Waymo. Worked closely w/ Waymo fleet ops teams to understand their requirements. Also spent time working on parcel good delivery, and shippers who ran major parcel networks to explore autonomous use cases – overlapped w/ robotaxis bc considered delivery as way to increase robotaxi yield.

-Waymo autonomous tech works – they have it solved. Cars are completely autonomous.

-Doesn’t see Waymo as direct threat to Uber. Initial Waymo goal was to get 50% share in any given market but then realized difficult of scaling / running a robotaxi fleet. Hard to compete w/ UBER cost per mile bc of their model which lacks a dedicated fleet. Can dynamically price to pull in supply which is incredible.

-Waymo can offer services that Uber cannot. For instance – multi-stops for errands are much easier and people don’t mind having a robot wait for them as opposed to a human.

-Thinks Waymo goal is to license the tech bc it is great and then can be applied to multiple applications. Running a robotaxi service is a means to an end. Good news is that US really has 5-8 cities that are bulk of ridesharing [not sure that’s correct?]

-Difficult to scale tech across vehicle platforms – really have to spend a lot of money and make big bets on a vehicle platform because need to get huge volume to get costs down in terms of parts. Auto industry wants to make millions of units while Waymo needs thousands of units – just hard to get economics of scale.

-Waymo car cost is over $100k. To get a purpose built vehicle from OEM is $1b vehicle program – so instead work w/ existing platforms. Even modifying existing cars is very expensive – have to run wiring, new software functionality in vehicle, redundant breaking / steering / battery / etc. bc is autonomous.

-Fleet operations also expensive – need to build out charging infrastructure – can take a couple years to get electricity needed for a location. Need staff to go get broken cars and repair them.

-Think Waymo yield is less than 50% which is why they are partnering w/ Uber for food delivery etc.

-Waymo needs to figure out how to get more applications which can increase yield which can increase volume of cars which can get cost / car down.

-Believe Waymo financial breakeven is far away.
-LiDAR tech isn’t expensive but making it work is. Have to build and maintain high-definition maps, sensor cleaning is more involved, sensors break, etc.

-Wayve has great funding and is doing a good job. Still work to do – not as smooth, choppy, runs red lights, etc. Really good people and think in great position.

-Uber: Thinks they can potentially run own autonomous fleets to augment network. Can take payout to drivers and easily route that into tech spend once it is ready. Also worth noting Waymo currently can’t operate in really bad weather.

-Hard to sell Waymos to public to operate. They only work in designated areas and Waymo wouldn’t want liability of car being in hands of consumer. This use case is just too far out.

-More bullish on trucking and maybe even delivery. Think robotaxi at scale much further out.

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Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_)

📅 Apr 5, 2024 · ❤️ 733 · 👁 97,562

The five things Sam Altman looks for in a founder

In the clip below, Sam Altman talks through the five things he believes makes really great founders special and what he would look for in a cofounder.

1: “I always figure it out” and “I never give up”

“There are two phrases that come to mind if I were trying to pick what our top 10 most successful founders would have said about themselves when we were interviewing them at YC: ‘I always figure it out’ and ‘I never give up’… Everyone thinks that really matters is how smart they are, or their domain expertise, or their network… But it really is this kind of personality trait. People have different phrases for it: determination, relentlessly resourceful is one that Paul Graham uses. But that spirit is the most important factor, I think, in successful founders.”

2 Focus, self-belief, personal connections

“There are three things that we have observed about how successful founders get things done: Focus, self-belief, and personal connections… And in fact, if I were looking for a cofounder, I would look for that. Does this person have a relentless focus? Are they just going to get this one thing done and keep their blinders on and not get distracted by shiny objects along the way? Do they actually believe that this is possible? Because momentum is this crazily self-fulfilling prophecy. Can they form the personal connections that it takes to be successful? Will they be able to recruit and retain a world-class team? Will they be able to sell their product? Will they be able to raise money? Will they be able to talk to the press? The ability to form these personal connections is super important.”

3 Clear vision, thought, and communication

“Almost all of the best startups that we have ever been involved with, from the very first time we met those founders, they were able to very concisely and clearly communicate what they were doing in ~25 words. And I don’t know why this is so important—maybe that you need to spread the message. But I can certainly say that founders who aren’t good at this don’t really go on to be successful… You can prove this to yourself quickly by looking at the founders of really successful companies. They’re all good at this. So I think this is an area to invest in and get better at.”

4 Ability to attract people to work on the company

“Recruiting that 20th employee is really hard. You need an exciting vision and you need to be good at communication and personal relationships.

5 Ability to get a huge amount of work done themselves

“The best founders just get a huge amount of work done themselves. So in the early days especially, you kind of have to do everything and there’s a lot to do. And so having focus and maniacal productivity is really important.”

Video Source: @WaterlooENG

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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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yuga.eth 🛡 (@yugacohler)

📅 Sep 17, 2023 · ❤️ 1,759 · 👁 976,298

With respect, I found @ErikVoorhees' keynote to be jejune, anti-democratic, and disingenuous. It may be effective as a rallying cry for libertarians, but as a strategic framework for the global adoption of crypto, it is so divorced from reality as to be worthy of ignoring.

The speech's strongest points centered around the notion that "code is better than law." There is merit to the claim that transparent, mathematically-based rule-making can yield superior results to an opaque, politically-based process. I also agree with his characterization of the right to transact as fundamental to human existence.

However, I disagree with the perspective that American democracy is so deserving of disdain as to be rejected. Voorhees' conflation of the "state" as a single entity ignores the variety of political systems across the world and their relative levels of freedom. Democracy is categorically better than totalitarianism, and to reduce both to the machinations of men with "dead eyes and weak hearts" is to deny millennia of political progress, as well as the suffering of those under more oppressive regimes than the one Voorhees himself is subject to.

Voorhees' political framework reveals a level of hypocrisy and immediately crumbles when applied to the real world. Does he not comply with the subpoenas issued to him by the regulators he calls out in the audience? Does he not pay the income taxes that he castigates at the beginning of the speech? Would he have the creation of roads, bridges, and highways mediated through smart contracts today? There is a place for decentralized finance; there is also a place for the actions of a centralized state on behalf of its people, and to deny that is childish.

Voorhees says: "The political class... that legion of bureaucrats suckling at the teat of plundered wealth, with all their ornaments of authority, with all their hubris masked as confidence, with the inauthenticity of their smiles matched only by the absurdity of their ideas, and I see no reason to submit to the permissions under which they seek to restrain me. To such people, we owe nothing."

The reality is that Voorhees - and all of us - do submit to these permissions because we recognize the rule of law under a democratic system, arrived at through voting and lawmaking. The process is never perfect; it can even be corrupt; yet, we comply because we have faith that the inclusive political institutions that propelled America to become the financial hegemon will eventually recognize the importance and utility of crypto. It is reasonable and just to seek the consent – i.e., the permission – of the governed; that is democracy.

I strongly question a strategy which alienates all those involved in government as weak-willed and immoral. What does painting with such a broad brush achieve beyond revealing your own biases? In government, like in crypto, there are good people and bad people. We should aim to excise the bad people and have the good people in both spheres work together towards an open, global financial system.

I have much respect for Voorhees as an OG of crypto, and I understand that his perspective is a large part of how crypto came to be as big as it is today. But it is an untenable perspective weighed down by its idealism, dogmatism, and hyperbole and will slow down the adoption of crypto as we approach its next phase of global adoption.

To wholly reject the democratic state is libertarian propaganda and is of no use for the growth of crypto as an open, global financial system. We should instead recognize the merits of democracy and use them to further expand the reach of crypto.

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Library Mindset (@librarymindset)

📅 Aug 17, 2022 · ❤️ 8,931

10 Books That Will Boost Your Productivity

1) https://t.co/QQwKnSUG3o

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Library Mindset (@librarymindset)

📅 Jul 19, 2022 · ❤️ 13,328

200 Books To Read

1) https://t.co/xFhUsXkOLO

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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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Library Mindset (@librarymindset)

📅 Jun 26, 2022 · ❤️ 30,369

If you’re in your 20s read these 20 quotes:

1) https://t.co/UPmXa3Y8Eq

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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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Nik Sharma (@mrsharma)

📅 Nov 23, 2021 · ❤️ 9,834

99% of people suck at writing cold emails.

I get about 1,000 emails per day, here's what catches my eye 🧵

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Blake Burge (@blakeaburge)

📅 Oct 30, 2021 · ❤️ 31,810

Google Sheets isn't Excel...

But it's more powerful than you think.

8 things Google Sheets can do, you'll wish you knew yesterday. 📊

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Wealth Director (@wealth_director)

📅 Oct 1, 2021 · ❤️ 536

10 Steve Jobs Quotes That Will Dramatically Shift Your Mindset

=Thread= https://t.co/ZYrbxXdTaS

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Simon Sinek (@simonsinek)

📅 Dec 23, 2020 · ❤️ 2,722

Can introverts be leaders? OF COURSE!

When it comes to being a leader, it doesn’t matter if you’re an introvert or an extrovert. What matters is that you learn to leverage the advantages of your personality type. https://t.co/3OU6U4jJWf

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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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Jaynti Kanani (JD) (@jdkanani)

📅 Aug 22, 2020 · ❤️ 8

The opposite of confidence https://t.co/PZGsav5OO5

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MaxineRyan (@MaxieRyan)

📅 May 8, 2020 · ❤️ 1,972

Write like the best. Here's Amazon's tips for writing.

Even better follow @david_perell because he's the boss of effective writing. https://t.co/ipGV78Q7et

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