Last week was my final one @flipsidecrypto It was a rigorous, intellectually stimulating, excitingly messy 9 months and I'm grateful to have worked at a company pushing the frontier of AI x blockchain data As for what's next, well, nothing. At least full-time in crypto for the next several months. Even though I took 6 weeks off earlier this year and it did wonders, there's still scar tissue from 7 yrs of terminal onlineism blasting my dopamine receptors that I'd like to reverse. I plan to do this spending an inordinate amount of time in my hammock with a book in hand and writing essays about ideas that matter. I've thought long and hard about what I'd do if I "hit my number" and could ride off into the sunset and its exactly that - satisfy this burning curiosity to learn and find a way to share it with the world. I realized the notion of needing enough to live off interest to do so is absurd and there's nothing stopping me if I can simply get by for a year without an income (which I realize is an incredibly fortunate position to be in and of itself) This isn't to say I'm leaving crypto for good. I care deeply about this industry and love many of the people in it. I'll still be keeping up with relevant happenings (albeit every few weeks instead of hours), I'll still be aping low cap shitters every now and then, and I'll probably find a way to get back to building GTM playbooks and scaling revenue for cutting-edge companies in the space. But for now, I'm going to get really good at doing nothing. Much love to you all🫡

I see you @pmarca

This rebrand feels like the moment in a 90s teen movie where the nerd takes off their glasses, shakes out their hair, and realizes they were hot the whole time. substack.com/home/post/p-188…

Apparently the Internet mob is shaming people for using AI because of it’s environmental impact, which if that’s the case they should also be mad about… *literally everything else. Even if you prompt 10x/day for a month, it’s still a fraction of a single washing machine cycle. That’s not to say there aren’t environmental concerns around AI but that should be pointed towards something that would make a difference like pushing hyperscalers towards renewables or accelerating grid-scale energy build out.

BREAKING NEWS: You’re allowed to comment on the current news thing without definitively asserting your opinion of the way things ought to be based on a few tweets and a substack article you read.

How I lost half a million dollars and gained a metric ton of agency. open.substack.com/pub/examin…

Long crypto's impact, short it's market cap 😬

Tell me again why AI is a bubble just like railroads because you read Sorkin and now every capex chart screams 1873 and you're worried about circular vendor financing and depreciating collateral and lackluster enterprise ROI—or were you going to keep plagiarizing every other AI thot leader and pawn off your hot take as your own?

More thoughts on what it's like from the other side xitter.cf/jpurd17/status/1942208…

What if the current crop of DATs are just a playground for what public co's can do with substantial holdings in key networks? Imagine Coinbase, Robinhood, Circle all as pseudo-DATs in their own base layer with real businesses behind them. We're moving beyond closed-end funds for tokens to legitimate cash-flow generating businesses with vested interests in top ecosystems.

Just got phished from a sophisticated attack where attackers hacked a verified twitter account @xiangrenNLP to DM me about a podcast. I jumped on and went through the motions until I realized how sketchy it all was. That wasn't until after I downloaded what I thought was a Microsoft Teams app in order to record the pod. Id heard of similar attempts on others but in the moment of a regular work flow your guard isn't up. Thank god I didn't have any crypto on my work laptop but I'm still frantically moving money around and changing passwords just in case. Stay safe out there frens.

I'm sorry but this is an absolute 0 to 1 innovation in onchain data. "plot out the top 4 stablecoins by 7day avg velocity YTD" ... 1 minute later I get this.