Stu, Content & GTM Marketer

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@oriettamusic No Teenage Fanclub? What is wrong with you people?

🔥🎶🎸 Best Scottish Bands of the 70s, and your favorite is...

@TheExtremeMusi1 Back in Black is a masterpiece so while Appetite is very good, it's not in the same league

Settle a bet for me Appetite For Destruction or Back In Black ???

@20th_Centurygal The GoGos and Jane Wiedlin in particular. the Donnas too

Name an all female band you feel is seriously underrated.

I'm surprised a crypto data platform with API calls and MCP access has not yet marketed itself as the Bloomberg Terminal without the Bloomberg. Esp since Openclaw or Claude Code or all of them are working in the terminal anyway. It's just a natural tagline

A common mistake when explaining L2s is starting with architecture. Rollups, sequencing, data availability. Technically accurate, but most users don’t arrive with those questions.

@miquelgirones1 Banks

Best crypto-friendly banks for Kraken, Binance, Coinbase transfers: 🇺🇸 Mercury (US) → Multiple data points from clients → Kraken to Mercury specifically → Multiple six figures. No problem. 🇵🇦 Tower Bank (Panama) → Crypto-friendly jurisdiction → Remote opening available → With us guaranteed approval If you want the full list of offshore banks available right now. Comment 'BANKS' and I'll send it over.

Why don’t they just tokenize the oil in the Middle East and transport it across permissionless financial rails, thereby avoiding the Strait of Hormuz altogether

@JaySahnan It also used to be siloed under some combo of product mkting, demand gen and other stuff. Now it's being recognized for the multidisciplinary skill it is

Hot take: the barrier to becoming a GTM engineer isn't technical skill. It's agency. The technical stuff can be learned with AI The willingness to just figure shit out and ship? Now that can't be taught.

After a few weeks of experimenting with Claude, I finalized have my first complaint.... Today I finished my first n8n automation making a daily news brief for myself and our content team. And if it wasn't for Claude rate limiting me, I'd have finished my 2nd automation too. From none to 2 in one day. And the crypto, fintech, and GTM possibilities are many....

@TechSalesGuy Do you have those TPS reports?

It’s a shame that many zoomers will never know the feeling of cold calling from this battle station I’ll cherish the memories of taking control of a cold call then having your cube parters hush around for the big finish Unfortunately you get told to kick rocks for the 8th time that Wednesday - then go to lunch to inhale 3 martinis Those were the days

Fintech & crypto need to be aware of the AI vaporware out there. While I am loving using these tools to help w/research and such, AI Twitter is feeding people a bunch of lies. There's great accurate info too, to be clear. The idea that "I created an agent that created a month's worth of content for me and I never have to look at it again" is nothing but nonsense. Here's what they don't say. Autonomous agents are great. I'm experimenting too. But YOU MUST TREAT AI LIKE A LOW LEVEL EMPLOYEE if you think AI can roam unsupervised out of the box and everything will be fine, you have a rude awakening coming. They are either lying to you, or (in the case with most content) they don't know what good content outputs look like. It's great at some tasks and needs a lot of instruction and feedback from you on other tasks, just like a low level employee does. And this is good. It means human expertise still has value. A lot of it, in fact. Automations, workflows and repeatable tasks are where AI is absolutely crushing it. But it can never understand a retention strategy related to the frustration on both user and project end when a KYC process fails. OR understand why having to connect a wallet to look at anything on a platform is bad UX. Only a power user understands these and can explain it to the audience. Experiment. Definitely try things. Just don't trust them too much.

@clairekart @zengjiajun_eth Running a LLM model locally on it provides privacy 2 ways. 1. Anthropic doesn't get access to your data to train it or sell it & 2. You can safely use it for very sensitive data like in legal, health or other heavy compliance fields because all the info stays on local device

@zengjiajun_eth How is a Mac mini providing any privacy?

Few people care about crypto privacy. But everyone I talk to care about their ai agent privacy and safety. That’s a huge reason why Mac mini are sold out everywhere.

@allicovington @BowTiedHRT Try padel there

@BowTiedHRT I just can’t. Doesn’t seem intense enough for me.

I’m embarrassed to admit it, but Lifetime Fitness is going to succeed in getting me on a Pickleball court. The peer pressure is astounding. And I’m ngl, a lot of the Pickleball girls do have tennis player legs. Classical tennis player legs. Not quite the Track & Field look, but close.

@clairekart I can't say on all positions but I firmly believe all marketing ppl need to be at least active crypto users. You can't explain the problems and solutions if you haven't experienced something like bridging and forgetting to have the 2nd gas token to see why abstraction is needed

I’ve been thinking a lot about why you should or should not hire crypto native ppl. I think you absolutely should. It’s not about domain knowledge, it’s about the tough-as-nails determination it takes to ride out cycles. Startups are volatile, but it doesn’t compare to crypto. It’s not even close.

US colleges & unis are cooked. I've used Claude Cowork for exactly 3 weeks now stumbling my way through but one thing I've learned is that I could very easily create a customized, effective curriculum for one student in almost any field. Not just that, but I can also easily create 2 for 2 students of different abilities so they both learn the subject well. If colleges don't catch on soon and lower prices and create customized student learning plans, ppl will just stop sending their kids there. It's no longer a good deal at these tuition costs of you aren't studying law, medicine, pharmacy or something sense highly specialized

I did some research on MCPs in crypto and here are some of the top ones including some surprises. @coingecko no surprise there @CoinMarketCap @Dune Congrats @arno39 and team Token Metrics @Helius Congrats @mert and Bitcoin, Base, and Lightning Network all have MCPs too.

@coreyganim I agree. Throw a couple of skills and context docs in it and it practically needs no instructions

Aside from Cowork, Projects is the most underrated Claude feature. Here's the quick setup checklist: 1) Define purpose → Pick ONE workflow, name it by function 2) Gather files → 5-10 docs + 5-8 examples of your past work 3) Write custom instructions → Role, tone, output format, constraints (under 800 words) 4) Build it → Create project → paste instructions → upload files 5) Test & refine → Ask for a sample output, tighten instructions until 70%+ usable 6) Maintain → Add new examples monthly 20 minutes of setup. Every conversation after that starts with full context.

@nomadgeist 10 years ago it was great, truly great, before being accosted to buy something 5x for every 10 get you walk. That s#$t is annoying and I live here

I’m in a cafe in Cartagena, all around me are European women, Norwegian, French, German & was same yesterday. Women tend to love this city because it’s so picturesque & instagramable, it’s also the number #1 tourist destination for Colombians. A bit underrated on this site imo

@BentoBoiNFT Very cool. Does this work in LM Studio too?

Just upgraded to one of cleanest OpenClaw Dashboards! Was super easy to get running and makes using OpenClaw easier. Lmk if you want it! 🫶

Big fintech funding round @arq_finance fka DolarApp raised $70M in new funding from @sequoia & @foundersfund (think it's a Series A bc only see a $5M seed before this round) ARQ is a financial platform in LatAm built on stablecoin infra that lets users open multi-currency accounts in USD, EUR, + local currencies. Also offer intl transfers at real market rates, global payment cards, + access to US stocks & ETFs. Available in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, + Brazil Some stats on the biz: - 2M+ users across LatAm - $10B+ annualized transaction volume Cofounders all came from @Revolut where they led remittances, premium products, + crypto bloomberg.com/news/articles/…