Humanities adjuncts will price a random performative book at battle-tested quant trading and investment tier Wiley titles and will whine about how noone buys their work.

Not to diss on anybody but such simple puzzles were all around our most mediocre daily quizes, math exams, phil exams, and each class had a sort of an equivalent in logic. The OG video is probably engagement grift. The recursivity of the dunk meme is also tangential there to the engagement or grift. Yet, it doesn't change the fact that people like this exist, and they think we need to strip the standards off, and they are everywhere at decision making positions where our "let's welcome all" rationalists are busy in the Long Bets thinking this is just normal. Keep coping about the BRICS countries, several Near, Middle Eastern ones and the SEA. They chip on such simple stuff like Sunflower seeds.

Yes, passive income is King. But, have you ever tried to put in effort?

People expect successful founders to be satiated with a 6-figure exit. If an individual achieves such an accomplishment, it's merely a milestone. Do you really think people do it for money and money only? Do you even understand how it feels to be transforming the course of humanity, and shape overall economy especially with intensive progress rather than any extensive ones? You really want me to stop at 100M? Set for life? I am sorry you have such narrow understanding of life. Yes, you can do with much and much less and have a super happy life but you can also never think about money but focus on global challenges and Kardashev scale problems and set all of us free from the shackles of not-so-visionary averages and get a 9-figure penthouse looking over on the Central Park that also sees the curve of the Earth.

A common refrain from technologists, which I’m not linking to in the interests of avoiding stigmatization. I get frustrated that technologists do not view this as *decades of overwhelming evidence they are underestimating the competence of the banking industry.*

About 2 weeks after I joined Twitter as an employee I was asked to put together a team to create the edit button. It had been the most requested feature on the platform for a long time. The design process was simple. I think we did that in about a day. But then the hard work began. Twitter was not built to make things. At times it felt like anyone at the company could say no to an idea and it would be killed. It took 4 months to get an estimate on how long it would take to build the edit button. 4 months of basically begging people to tell us how long it would take to build this thing. The estimate finally came back. The engineers estimated it would take 18 months to build the edit button. 18 months to build a simple feature. After a lot of wheeling and dealing that was cut down to I think 8 months. And the solution was extremely flawed and limited. When the edit button finally launched, the head of design and product that had asked me to take on the project had both been fired. The new head of product announced the launch and my team got none of the credit. When I asked for the designer who had been on the project since day one to be mentioned I got an angry phone call. This was all pre-Elon. Twitter was the worst managed company I have ever experienced.

Fund managers having an existential crisis trying to explicate what a champagne bubble is to the maxis

This is my new startup.

I don't understand ETH maxi accounts that keep posting about BTC security problem. What do they expect to happen? Hashrate will decrease to 51% attacks? Bitcoin core to fork and add inflation? Which BTC doom scenario benefits Ethereum? 1/2

Wrong reaction. Companies can do what they want. It's their own money they're spending. If they can get distribution on their own L1s, great. It brings more people on-chain, and everyone (including us) will learn more about what works and what doesn't. It's not on companies to use our chains, it's on us to make chains so good that companies want to use them.