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past: 🏖️ @ticklebeach , 🧙‍♂️ @0xAdventures , @Square founding team

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Guys are bad at expressing their emotions unless they’re on a podcast.
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Sometimes I think about this guy starting a project in 1996
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a college degree is just an NFT that is a proof of work.
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"I have an app idea, know any programmers?" "I have an idea for a song, know any musicians?" "I have an book idea, know any writers?"
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Apple applets are really nice payment flow. Credit cards are doomed.
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Programming is like Get 68 people to write a book Simultaneously End is sort of vague Change the topic twice Pedantic people Lots of Coffee
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Bitcoin solved double spend, NFT reinvented it.
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the past was hard.
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Eth is a currency at sotheby's and Btc hasn’t been mentioned.
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Just discovered every no-code app is actually just a code app underneath.
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people are talking trash about "web3" as a term, but having all my data on multiple websites is cool and having websites compete on interfaces for the same data is rad
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10y ago, when @stripe and @square were started "creating a bank" was really ambitious now, "creating a space startup" seems ambitious. anyone have a hot take what is ambitious in 10 years?
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Substack is onlyfans for thinkbois.
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this thing is bonkers. ()
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I just got my first pitch deck formatted to be the ratio of an iPhone screen. and my mind is blown. 2009, vertical video. 2019, vertical pitch decks. /cc @lucy_guo
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Whenever I find people that work in technology that hold no crypto, it makes me realize it hasn’t really hit yet. Like VCs will message me asking how to buy crypto. It’s going to squoze
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the mac pro is the most well organized set of atoms you can buy for $52,599.
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Gm is just a Ponzi scheme to make sure everyone has a good morning.
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Programmers take vacations to program.
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it feels like SF is in an abusive relationship with tech. it blames tech for causing all the problems, but when tech tries to leave, gets angry and demands that it stay.
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Met a cranky angel investor who hated NFTs. Met a young programmer who realized they wanted to make art and was enabled by NFTs for the first time. Going to continue to hang with the artist.
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I had a dream I sent Bitcoin to my Tesla to buy groceries for me, but Bitcoin went up, and I had to take apart my car to get it back.
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I find it fascinating Netflix can spend 13 billion on content and I can see it for 8 dollars. So cool how that works.
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It’s weird that autocomplete can be absolute trash, and machine learning is about to obsolete a lot of people’s jobs, at the same time.
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If you’re ever bored in sf just ask someone “what’s a startup?” at a party and see how weird it gets.
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Programmers get paid to do two things: to find bugs and to write more bugs.
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Elon is mocking short traders. Imagine having a culture where they suggest the price and nobody says no.
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It’s honestly stupid anyone can email you.
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every time i finally read some classic literature, i find half a dozen ideas stolen by "thought leaders" of today
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if you aren't @drewhouston level of cringe demoing a magic folder called @Dropbox at parties, on the floor. you're ngmi
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The best way to invest in Bitcoin: own some and wait a long time.
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I spent the last year of my life working with 2 friends on a compression method for on chain 3d. today is the public mint
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HODL feels like a marshmallow test to me.
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casually speaking, i think it was a big mistake to tie american's savings/wealth to their home. incentives are to make housing as expensive as possible. puts older/incumbents people at a huge advantage.
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Rap genius but for crypto white papers. With real programmers and economists.
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Be so good they can’t unfollow you.
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is spaceX the largest market oppt of all time and space?
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I want to have more old friends who give me life advice
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IRL, single company owns most of the dating apps. imagine that in a sci-fi book? a company that can direct who you breed with.
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i'm talking to eth miners and their response is "what you're describing is 100% possible but nobody has done it before" found it, found the edge.
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“Some pay to see me win, some pay to see me lose, but they all pay.” — Floyd Mayweather This quote is amazing. Also, this literally explains how polarizing a group of people works to your advantage.
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just for fun NFT incoming NFTs are rare and that’s cool, but can we do the opposite? An NFT that’s cool because everyone has it.
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Technology fail http://t.co/ZNtYCz7N2N
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“You either die a programmer or you live long enough to see yourself become the idea person.”
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My friend is the most popular person at every party and I always thought they were just gifted amount of charming. Took me seven years to realize they approach a party like a show. They are performing. And so they never want to go to parties because it’s a lot of work.
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when square ipo'd at $9, the press was pretty pessimistic about square going up. meanwhile it hit $204 today.
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Bragging about how much sleep you get is the new hustle porn.
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ok so from the founders group chats. - payroll is being missed (right now, in real time) - it looks first 250k is guaranteed, then you have a cert - founders are being locked out of their bank account (unknown reasons)
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What're the pieces of software that may last forever? My best answer is wikipedia and bitcoin.
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"I don't answer any question that is more than 20 words." - Don Valentine what a great way to avoid "questions" that are really speeches.
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if you don't like figuring out your taxes, don't ever become an angel investor or crypto nerd.
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i'm.. starting to think of "programmer" as like a temporarily historical job. like ... elevator operator.
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almost ALL sci-fi talks about blue collars being automated by machines almost NO sci-fi talks about creatives being automated or supplemented
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If you have an abundance mindset to opportunities, the world seems fun. If you scarcity mindset, every upset feels horrible.
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picture of @paulg hyping up people in YC. this was pretty common. That is garrett camp ( @gc ) next to him. founder of Uber.
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Watching how someone uses a computer is like watching how someone thinks.
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socially distant protests are so interesting (israel)
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Now that we've convince people that code is actually currency. Feels like a door has been opened which can't be closed.
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funding the wallets of artists to mint their first nft.
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Can someone make a virtual bookshelf of my kindle books for my zoom calls?
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Man the East coast is going to wake up to this. They have no idea.
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my light bulb just emailed me. what a time to be alive.
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I’m so excited to share this link, my arms are trembling a bit: We set out to make the most adorable NFT ever, and I watched as the artist (Andrew) and shape rotator (Chris) pushed each other way further than I expected.
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People will love you if you love what you do. Passion is fucking contagious.
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There are too many thing to invest in.
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So are we going to be worried that every cough is corona for the next three years?
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people DM me all the time because they mistake my username ( @pm ) for "prime minister" of India. little snapshot of my life
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Covid entertainment prep list: Outbreak. 12 monkeys. Contagion. Resident evil. 28 days later. Zombie land. Shaun of the dead. World war z. I am legend.
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Reid Hoffman, a billionaire (?), has ads on his podcast. I feel like I’m missing something.
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@awilkinson reminds me of
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Refound a classic. Benjamin Franklins guide for social distancing (and daily routines)
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founders don't believe this, but investors really want to be excited by your company. they really hope to go in the meeting and leave so excited to invest.
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If someone gives constructive criticism, cherish it. If they tease you for putting yourself out there. Burn their house. Salt their lands.
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spent all night thinking about how attention is the limited resource of the future. and how memes are the breeding ground of attention.
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Hanging with someone who thinks the moon is fake. Not moon landing, the moon itself.
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every time a company bans something, the blockchain becomes more obvious.
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work with people who care about the details
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China: we quarantined the largest number of people ever and made new hospitals and factories specifically for this, but succeed. Italy, Iran, America: yeah but what should we do?
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going to launch my first NFT tomorrow at 10am pst. it'll be free (you need eth for gas fees.)
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tried to finish my taxes this morning, so now my kitchen is very clean.
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Can gpt3 summarize legal docs for me? Does that startup exist? Should I build this?
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The next Silicon Valley may be Oakland. Or really any place where people can afford to live.
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My airpods just fell out of my ears. Hit the ground and scattered away. On a plane. But everyone saw it and so literally everyone got up and looked for a full 10minutes. under every bag for me. It was amazing. People giggled awkwardly. I love people.
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A lot of people in SF want to have a meeting, but if you suggest 7 or 8am. Or really anywhere further than a mile, they give up. Hustle.
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the trust network inside SV is deep. people making investments based on a couple text messages.
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man, the NFT people are 50% getting this, and 50% angry about it. i've been tweeting about crypto for almost 10 years and this if the first tweet that has made people angry i like NFTs. but also, NFTs are just getting started "this isn't even my final form"
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Walking around a book store. Every book was someone's dream.
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If there was an Amazon, but I could only see reviews form people I knew personally. I'd shop there once a week.
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Working long hours is extracting value from your body to your bank account.
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Remember buying a cd for 14 dollars and it was all the money you had and then it only had 1 good song, but it was worth it, sorta?
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@mmay3r The reasons the Roman Empire fell change every 25 years.
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I was very prepared for quarantine, I’m way less prepared for “quarenpods” and this weird navigation of figuring out how risky your friends are.
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Some personal news: I’m happy right now.
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Apple is a credit card company now. Apple is a bank tomorrow?
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Adventure Cards just sold 888 NFTs in seconds.
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@awilkinson Franklin' age
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There was actually a person who invented accounting. TIL: before that people thought being 'good at money' was just luck or an act of god. Which leads me to invert: what do we still think is luck?
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Harvard20s1.EnglishHistoryCalc(720i)(web.HVEC).torrent
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The two types of programmer: string concatenator and matrix multipliers if you don't know which one you are, you're a string concatenator
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Almost losing a drone is the most excitement you can have with a drone
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