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@zallarak

2 years

Can we all admit @solana has been down now for about ~48 hours? Tried over 100 times to repay a Solend loan, failed. Couldn't even send a friend some USDC for dinner with @phantom . It's times like these that make you appreciate Bitcoin's fee markets.

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I quite coffee for 2 months earlier this year. After getting back on it I’m confident that it’s one of the best influences in my life. Coffee is the best.

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10s of my friends have gone on to build cool projects, companies, funds, etc. All in totally different ways w/no "playbook". Most startup advice is BS. Better than advice is instilling confidence, work ethic and trust in their intuition. The ground shifts too much for playbooks.

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A fascinating pattern I've seen angel investing casually over the last 2 years: Will get introduced to or will find a cool company and invest. Founder tells me they're having trouble closing a round from VCs. Only response is: keep closing angels who get your product and forget

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3 years

Goodbye California! This is our family's last weekend here before we move to Michigan. Embracing that Pipe is globally distributed, and excited for my daughter to grow up with 4 grandparents💕.

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3 years

Pipe is hiring one product/frontend engineer. Email zain at pipe dot com or DM to apply. Here's why you should consider it.

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@zallarak

3 years

Most likable crypto leader Twitter account goes to @aeyakovenko - dude is understated but low key built an awesome platform without the technobabble

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@zallarak

3 years

The Bitcoin top will be higher than anyone predicts. The price movement will be more drastic than most think. And the repercussions will be scarier (in the short run) and more amazing (in the long run) than anyone could imagine. This is why Satoshi disappeared.

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@zallarak

3 years

At @pipe we’re now building things from a technical perspective that we couldn’t even fathom when we first started. The best part is that the beneficiaries will be people working hard at building their business.

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@zallarak

3 years

My list of coolest startups around today: @Replit - no more dev environments @highlightrun - understand how people use your app @DoNotPayLaw - saves ⏳+💰 @Superhuman - first pleasant email app @Railway_App - what Heroku should have been @pipe - recurring revenue = assets

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3 years

The fact that @river sticks to Bitcoin shows in their product quality. Not an easy decision to make, lots of money to be made selling people dog coins. Massive respect to them, @Leishman and all 👏. Will be a lifelong customer.

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@zallarak

3 years

After starting back up on coffee I have realized that quitting was very overrated. Coffee is great, no reason to quit.

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@zallarak

2 years

Will still hold bags, and use apps, but the denial on the @SolanaStatus page is ???.

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@zallarak

2 years

It’s alive! Feels pretty magical to have your initial hash rate from @compass_mining go live. What a sick product.

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@zallarak

2 years

My dad: Born and raised Tanzania, "coca-cola was luxury". Ranks top of class, goes to Nigeria for medical school. Is air traffic controller + pilot briefly. Comes to USA and cuts signs for subway, works in Harlem as a phlebotomist. Today: #1 rated pediatric neurologist in MI.

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@zallarak

3 years

Bitcoin commerce will unlock the golden age of software. Please, before someone comments that VISA has higher TPS, educate yourself. by @nic__carter

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@zallarak

1 year

@intangiblecoins It is becoming harder and harder to look rational in criticizing bitcoin

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@zallarak

8 months

@RobertKennedyJr Not a single pullup was done in this video😂

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@zallarak

2 years

Pipe is continuing to thoughtfully grow our tight-knit engineering team (and entire team). Here’s why you should take a look 🧵(1/10)

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@zallarak

3 years

Just got an @urbit star. Excited.

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@zallarak

2 years

In 2011 I hit #1 on Hacker News for offering to trade my finance knowledge for a programming tutor. Reading this today, I literally remember nothing I offered to teach and now love programming. Swap achieved.

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@zallarak

4 years

The best thinkers and builders are often (not always) understated, quiet, and you really have to listen to soak in their ideas. A reminder to myself to always listen carefully and patiently.

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@zallarak

2 years

Never have felt more optimistic about Pipe.

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@zallarak

3 years

I think @Saber_HQ will be massive. It blows every other crypto product I've used out of the water.

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@zallarak

4 years

Software engineers are more or less addicted to problem solving. The days you get it, it feels invigorating. The days that you don't, you feel terrible. It keeps you working and thinking hard.

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@zallarak

1 year

@nic__carter My perspective, and curious to hear the other side: To elaborate, miners are doing useful work; not just proof of work abstractly but significant capex and operational work. And we’d rather reward passive holders? This type of financial engineering never seems to end well.

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@zallarak

3 years

“Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0 confirms that using Hasura as a foundational part of our infrastructure was the right choice" - @simplyianm @pipe ❤️ @HasuraHQ @pipe 🤝 @HasuraHQ TypeScript+next.js+Hasura is a wonderful stack.

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@zallarak

2 years

Out of the 90ish people or so at Pipe, I'd estimate 30-50% have known one another in different capacities for >5 years. Never worked at a company where the team taps into their social circle the way they do here. Maybe we are sharing the best work experience we've ever had.

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@zallarak

2 years

. @pipe is all about being a true growth partner to recurring revenue businesses, and making it easier for them to access capital when they need it. 1/

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@zallarak

1 year

Around 2017-2018 I spent a year freelancing to write software for early stage startups (most pre product-market fit). The biggest takeaway: Repeat founders were the most willing to hack together proof-of-concepts not caring much about engineering quality. Most startups that

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@zallarak

3 years

Landed in Europe and Googled something. Got instantly barraged with accept cookie buttons and long multi-part disclaimers. How do you guys live like this?

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@zallarak

4 years

@arram WhatsApp - most of the world uses them to communicate Stripe - drastically lowered barrier to start doing commerce on the Internet Reddit - a place for the internet to talk Hacker News / YCombinator - brought together so many people to create dozens more valuable firms

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@zallarak

1 year

@ID_AA_Carmack This would ruin books “AAA” games today are missing the magic of earlier games

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@zallarak

3 years

Never seen a cryptocurrency company ship as fast as @Saber_HQ ...

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@zallarak

2 years

Why do programmers love working in fintech? I think the answer is you're moving around "powerful" bits, compounding value. Other apps are largely logistical conveniences. I think the exception to this is working on developer infrastructure, which is even more meta.

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@zallarak

3 years

Blown away by @river every since I signed up. Fantastic app.

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@zallarak

3 years

Life changing indeed - @microacquire is a game changer.

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3 years

Founder got @microacquire 'd for $3m cash upfront, received equity in acquiring startup, great terms, and found new business partner. Life changing stuff.

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@zallarak

3 years

The older I get, the more I realize my privileges. The biggest one being having parents who care(d).

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@zallarak

10 months

SpaceX estimate for a starship mission: $2m How much a friend got quoted for a pool and landscaping: $800,000 What

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@zallarak

2 years

My mom will sleep 4 hours, fast, watch a baby, cook for 5, take online classes, work out, and still be energetic & happy at the end of the day. Refuses to chill, she wants to make the best of her time. Immigrants are built different. Either that or it's a generational thing.

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@zallarak

3 years

I write tweets about Bitcoin from the depths of my soul: lose 2 followers. @harryhurst tweets that I told him to buy dogcoin: gain 36 followers.

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@zallarak

9 months

Employees are undercompensated at the vast majority of early stage technology startups. Employees risk nearly as much risk as founders (with much less upside), and more than investors (concentration and time). The work they do is extremely schleppy; annotating training data for

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@zallarak

3 years

I'd keep an eye on ( @Saber_HQ ) Best product/eng team in crypto right now. @DylanMacalinao @simplyianm and co.

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@zallarak

3 years

1/7: Software career tracks / "engineering management" are broken at most companies. How they are, and how they should be (hypothesis):

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@zallarak

10 months

@Codie_Sanchez Not a single doctor I know uses Doximity

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@zallarak

3 years

The best linux distro I've ever used is pop_os by @system76

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@zallarak

4 years

Thought about it and wrote about why Bitcoin is interesting to me:

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@zallarak

8 months

@DC_Draino @VernBuchanan how is there a whitehouse bowling alley in commission when we're operating a massive deficit?

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@zallarak

3 years

Both of my brothers are physicians in LA. While training, they had: - multiple 24-hour shifts a month - 13-hour days for years On July 4th, both of them covered the ER where they saw gunshot, firework accident, and violent crime victims. Working in technology is privilege.

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@zallarak

2 years

This is false.

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@zallarak

4 years

The best part about working on @pipe (aside from the people) is that we're helping SaaS companies survive and expand without them having to have pedigreed networks; purely on the merits of their business. ✅With the added bonus of not having to give up equity or taking on debt.

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@zallarak

1 year

@mwseibel @drusenko I think the math changes when people have children. Being in a tight-nit community with relatives unlocks a lot of time if you have kids.

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@zallarak

10 months

Investors have talked about the magic of compounding for decades. Healthcare professionals are just starting to pick it up. Both @bryan_johnson and @PeterAttiaMD mention the word “compounding” excessively in their respective manifestos. A new era. But both were outsiders.

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@zallarak

2 years

Seeing a small but growing cohort of great founders who use Pipe to fuel their businesses from ~$100K ARR up to acquisition. Working hard to get them better terms, better onboarding, faster decisions. A worthy marathon.

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@zallarak

1 year

@plehoux @missiveapp @ycombinator YC has extremely kind rejection letters

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@zallarak

3 years

Some of my favorite friends are the ones that try to persuade me to do something; whether it’s a workout routine, investment, etc. I deeply appreciate when someone stumbles upon something great and shares it. That’s a keeper of a friend.

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@zallarak

2 years

@johnjohnson @solana @phantom The irony is that for the decentralized sci fi world we all dream of, Rent for smart contract space makes more sense than Fees to do stuff, intuitively to me. The problem is, if its not truly limitless scaling then you get the worst of both worlds.

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@zallarak

3 years

Learning how to program computers

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@zallarak

3 years

I met @ChristopherA years ago at a Bitcoin dinner in SF. He spoke about board games and how to teach children. Only at the end of the night it hit me who he was (TLS legend). I asked him about web security and his biggest concerns. He said “BGP routing”.

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1 year

. @Replit used to feel like a toy and now it feels like a place I’d be willing to run a small/medium serious SaaS off of. Still feels fun to use too.

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@zallarak

3 years

Rest assured, your alma mater is not a factor in accessing capital on

Yuliya Bel

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hello darkness my old friend

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@zallarak

2 years

A recurring theme I've seen in successful startups is they always start with a simple technology stack. Product quality and purpose is drastically more important than the underlying implementation.

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@zallarak

4 years

Subconsciously a lot of people refuse to buy into Bitcoin because they hate the idea of buying into something late. Yet people will buy into IPOs thinking they are the first money in because it just became publicly tradeable. Be kind to yourself.

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@zallarak

3 years

The worldview that the future of decentralized computing involves pay to play tokens, like Chuck E Cheese, just doesn’t smell right. @urbit / something akin to it + #bitcoin feels a good combination compared to that. Inevitable that people move past coin prices & “tokenomics”.

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@zallarak

3 years

Having a supportive life partner is one of the ultimate gifts of life.

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@zallarak

2 years

I've known @usmanm for years and he's been 3-4 years ahead of the curve on every technical trend. Intrigued that he and @faaez started @kinnowcapital - guessing it will moon 🔥.

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@zallarak

7 months

In 2023, there is no excuse for anti-semitism in America. The world has been down this path before of scapegoating Jews. There are many things I could say or talk about, but as a Muslim this feels worth saying. Shalom, Salam, we are more similar than the media would tell you.

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@zallarak

3 years

If there’s one thing I’ve seen it’s that @harryhurst and @yas_moaven have the X factor when it comes to many things, including the Twitter game. Can’t describe it but you recognize it when you see it.

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@zallarak

4 years

Good software saves time. That’s it.

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@zallarak

11 months

Being 35, I finally get why people say to work extremely hard in your 20s. - in your 20s you can sit in a chair all day and sneak in a 1 hour workout and still be in excellent shape - once you have kids and you see your parents aging, you’ll want to maximize time with them

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@zallarak

8 months

Wife just broke 100 YouTube subscribers, here’s her setup.

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@zallarak

3 years

Really miss writing code in cafes. Was my favorite work environment. Would purchase rounds of snacks so that I’m not deadweight occupying space.

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@zallarak

3 years

I've never heard my mom complain about discomfort. She routinely sleeps a few hours a night but always looks refreshed. I can wake her up at any hour and within moments she's perfectly alert. I think there's a hardness in immigrants from certain countries. Makes me feel soft.

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@zallarak

3 years

I literally go to bed anticipating morning coffee.

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@zallarak

11 months

The sum of all of my startup knowledge from a decade+ of observing, contracting, and working on/for startups: Chase product-market fit (All the other stuff is valid, but most companies never pass this great filter)

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@zallarak

3 years

At heart, I'm not an outspoken person but really wanted to get to 1k twitter followers this year. Twitter has made me a few fantastic friendships, introduced me to amazing ideas, and in general been a fantastic way to have some downtime while I work. I failed you @simplyianm .

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@zallarak

2 years

Pipe is at ~2B. We're just getting started, long way up to go.

Alex Cohen 🤠

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2 years

What companies are valued between $100m and $1b today that you’re bullish could be a $10b-$30b outcome?

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@zallarak

3 years

At a hotel where I looked like the hotel workers, a kid asked me for silverware. I obliged and brought it. I then sat down at a table and saw the embarrassment on their face. For the rest of the trip, they opened doors for me. Not racism. An honest, and funny mistake.

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@zallarak

4 years

Yield farming on defi is surprisingly addictive

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@zallarak

1 year

Morning reflection: starting a startup, willing a product into existence, finding your initial team, selling it to your first customers. So hard yet so rewarding. The best value you can provide to those people is genuine encouragement and optimism.

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@zallarak

3 years

Consumer Price Index is up 6.1% YoY. Usually, real dollar devaluation is > than the official number. That means many companies accessed capital almost for free on @pipe - in this macroeconomic environment, you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't (responsibly) ponder it.

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@zallarak

2 years

The entire world runs on deal-making. Just as there are 100x programmers, there are definitely 100x deal-makers.

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@zallarak

3 years

Stopped following everyone who hates on SF or Miami. Both are wonderful places, and I live in neither.

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@zallarak

2 years

True gratitude for all of my colleagues & friends at Pipe ❤️

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1 year

@zackkanter doesn't sound unreasonable that someone at Amazon's scale can't use that abstraction and that the abstraction has a cost.

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@zallarak

1 year

EquipmentShare was the most compelling pitch in my YC batch. I offered to invest $10K into the seed (my entire bank account at the time). It never materialized, I didn’t follow up because I was too busy on my own startup; who knows if they would have taken my check but here.

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@zallarak

3 years

How it started / how it's going. @simplyianm and @DylanMacalinao are 🔥, hoping for the continued success of @Saber_HQ (even though I'm a "Bitcoin Maximalist")

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@zallarak

2 years

Niclas and the team at POLYGON will significantly elevate Pipe’s product design game. Excited for the future of shipping more product together.

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@niclasernst

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Some personal news. I’m starting a new job today. A (short) thread 👇

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@zallarak

3 years

What if you could trade the target’s recurring revenue on @pipe to finance your purchase? 🤯

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@zallarak

1 year

@nic__carter Why give fee revenue to holders and not miners? Genuinely curious.

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@zallarak

1 year

I was a bit of a @nextjs skeptic, but spent a few days reading documentation and writing tracer code. It's actually an exceptional piece of software that solves a lot of pain points in web development.

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@zallarak

2 years

What Rust did to C, we need for SQL.

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@zallarak

2 years

It is probable that we will look upon this time as one of the best times ever to have worked on a meaningful company, bought into Bitcoin, and invest in quality technology companies.

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@zallarak

3 years

The ultimate life hack is having a good partner.

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@zallarak

3 years

Almost every time a friend has given me advice that I don’t take, I have regretted it. Having friends who care and listening to them is a special thing. Outsiders are often better at solving your own problems than your own self. Ego plays a huge role in our rationality.

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@zallarak

3 years

Well, we had a good run fellas

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@zallarak

1 year

One of the most impactful ideas I’ve ever heard: “Act in a way where your future self would thank you”

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@zallarak

7 months

@amasad Government spending as a % of GDP has grown significantly, and government spending is significantly financed by printed fiat. All this means is number goes up but people still feel poorer. Can’t print wealth.

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3 years

The feeling when some of your favorite services and apps use @pipe 💙

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