Whatsoever is beautiful
Whatsoever is eternal
Is so delicate that
If you reach for it directly
To try to obtain it,
It is destroyed.
- Osho
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A take away from StarCraft I think about often:
Time and resources are zero-sum. If a competitor spends a lot on marketing, they have made that decision at the expense of something else (product, for example). Big headcount eats into profit margin and execution speed, etc.
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StarCraft is such a great analogy for business.
It’s time to build a “Noah’s Ark” where we permanently hide authentic human things from AI:
- A painting
- An album of music
- A novel
- A list of public keys belonging to verified humans
What else?
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Few things heighten my energy level like committing code that significantly improves the product.
Authentication is broken.
From passwords, to password management, to 2-factor, to "remember me", to needing to re-log-in to Google every couple weeks regardless, it's all terrible.
It's irretrievably broken.
I am me, and this is my iMac. It shouldn't be this hard.
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Read no business books. Read Sun Tzu and Thucydides. They were contemporaries a world apart from one another and 25 centuries apart from us, yet no modern quarrel nor accomplishment escapes their analysis.
classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html
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Who would have thought that adding a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes would actually sound good!😅
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I hate the new Twitter "related tweets" feature. Is there a way to turn it off?
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Verifiable credentials will revolutionize how we do business.
Blockchain is still the key to unlocking our digital future in a way that balances privacy and attribution.
I predict the non-crypto value proposition of blockchain will become widely known and demonstrated in 2023.
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I strongly disagree. Forcing your pronouns upon others when they didn’t ask, and implicitly ostracizing those who don’t, is neither good nor kind to anyone.
As for Fauci, he lied to Congress and funded gain-of-function research that killed millions of people. Not awesome imo.
THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO.
TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.
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Apple store's 30% rent is toast. JFC
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You might have noticed you can't send NFTs on Coinbase Wallet iOS anymore. This is because Apple blocked our last app release until we disabled the feature. 
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A great thread on how the nature of your value proposition determines your GTM strat
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Most founders would love to have a crystal ball. I've found they ignore the one in front of them.
The nature of your value proposition can tell you a TON about what to expect - and is actually pretty knowable before you really get going. Here is how we approach it.
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Thank you, Jake, for saying this.
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I can't believe mainstream media is still running stories about Sam Bankman-Fried without a single mention of his criminality.
This is a con man who perpetrated a historic fraud. He stole billions of dollars from unsuspecting victims. How is that not the lead of every story?? 
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Occam's Razor:
Magic mushrooms
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I agree Bitcoin is digital power.
if you look at our website news page, you'll find examples of non financial applications (data security, access control) implemented on a layer2 on bitcoin. Several Japanese cos are adopting this vision.
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This idea that #Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic payment system will go down as the greatest slight-of-hand the world has ever seen. Global agrarian society impeached their oppressors before the oppressors even realized that #BTC isn't money; it's digital power.
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Fellow founders: excellent thread giving perspective on what has happened in VC over the last decade
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Many founders and VCs have DM’d me about @FTX_Official. To put it simply:
2023 should TERRIFY fund managers
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I wrote An Introduction to Digital Trust last year so that I could send it as a resource to people. It’s been pretty useful. /1
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We should be able maintain a digital persona (multiple) independent of any social platform.
The global cybersecurity market is expected to reach $403 billion by 2027.
IDC estimates over 750M new cloud-native apps will be created by 2025, all of which will require security.
Here is a brief overview of some of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies to watch:
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A worthwhile thread to read.
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After calling bullsh*t on Luna, Celsius, and FTX well before any of them collapsed, I have a bit of credibility with the mainstream media. I want to use that credibility to call attention to the worst and largest of all the scam perpetrators in the "crypto" space, @a16z 
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Founders, here's an important read about the role VC should play in building the future.
Strategic tech (blockchain, AI, energy, transportation, space) requires opportunity windows of years if not decades, not months.
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"VC has ceased to be the funder of the future, and instead has become a funder of features, widgets, irrelevances."
Peter Thiel / Founders Fund
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Elon is offering to put social media back into our hands. If simply for that, I support the account verification fees.
✍️ Diverse founders often ask me who are the funds that we co-invest with or that lead our follow-ons so they can know funds actually backing diverse founders
Well here are the ones that I would vouch for diverse founders based solely on who I’ve worked with
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The most sought-after exec coach in Silicon Valley coached
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Then went on to coach the CEOs of Reddit, OpenAI, Coinbase....even Sequoia Capital.
Here’s the tool he uses to help Naval & CEOs unlock success AND happiness:
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Amnesty my ass. We will not forgive nor forget.
While Twitter may have prerogative to block Trump/Tate/et all, end users need to be able to verify themselves whether profiles that show up elsewhere are the same person.
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If Twitter wants to play the same web2 game, charging verification fees will suffice.
But, Twitter's deeper problem is that it's centralized identity on the platform in the first place.
We need a framework/platform for managing our identities ourselves that is supported by SM
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A must read thread on the history and issues that need to be openly discussed about CBDC
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THREAD I see CBDCs are trending again, so I thought I would offer some insight and context to the whole story. How did this idea even come about? What are they good for? Are you getting the full picture? (I will probably keep adding to this thread as things evolve.)
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A Web3 everything app for cross-platform identity is THE use case
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All the SV billionaire talk of the "everything app" is a decade too late after Big China tech dominated Asia with them seems to defeat recognizing both the altered western anxiety towards big tech & the value add of marketplaces as a growth business.
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These number are agreeable
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The goalposts for raising a Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A round have changed since the Spring. Here are benchmarks that I would aim for as a founder of a SaaS or b2b fintech company in this current market
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At , Digital Trust Services VP Engineering Dmitry Barinov makes the case that #FIDO #authentication and #DID authentication should not compete, but rather converge on how #publickeys can be used for authentication everywhere. Hooray!
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Pay attention!
Its happening quietly. Soon crypto/block chain will be embedded everywhere.
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BlackRock, Google, BNY Mellon
Probably nothing
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There’s always 2 or 3 things in the back of your head you know for a fact if you did would catapult to absurd heights
You never address them. They loom large
Cause if you acted on them you could never go back to the old life u cherish so much that keeps u comfy
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I don't know who needs to hear this but
Nontransferable NFTs = verifiable credentials