Crypto Picard

A bit about me... Twitter Interests: Business, Entrepreneurship, Rock Climbing, Real Estate, Investing and Crypto Random Life Highlights: Designed, built and now run a multimillion dollar indoor snow park. Built, ran, and sold a roller coaster. Developing a 180 lot single family home subdivision. Bought and run 4 self serve car wash locations. Buying/Selling Crypto in 2013 Bouldered double digits. I will add to this thread in the future as I remember more stuff I have done.

@landlawyerbrian Bank account - no; balance sheet - yes. I'm still holding about 20% of the premium lots to figure out if I am going to build them out or sell them. They are in a high growth area. Thankfully I have flexibility with no outstanding debt on the property.

@CryptoPicard Did it fatten your bank account?

Buy it right Clean it up Subdivide Entitle Horizontal development Vertical build You can make money with any of these strategies. You can make a lot of money when you combine the strategies. The more you combine, the more you’ll make.

@LeadingReport @MediaKing Does the government just go to Godaddy and look for a discount code like the rest of us?

BREAKING: US Government registers aliens․gov domain name.

@GavMcCracken I am up 8.5% on Suncor and 10.5% on Murphy. ty

If you put $7500 into $SU.TO shares when I called it approximately 2 weeks ago you've already paid for 1 year worth of my substack. Congrats on being more schizophrenic than the schizo writing the blog. I am aware some people bought calls because of my conviction. Big congrats.

@braelyn_ai It helped me at first, too. Now it's too easy for me to start new projects and not finish them.

the greatest ADHD treatment i have ever found is OpenClaw. my agent helps me stay on top of my responsibilities better than any app, method or medication ever has

@DallasAptGP When the LLM accesses files, even if it is in Obsidian, it goes through the LLM’s servers. It does not stay local. The files aren’t living on Anthropic’s servers but they are definitely passing through them. You need a local LLM to accomplish what you are laying out.

We built a system where Claude knows our entire company before I type a word. Three operating companies. 50+ properties. Full context on every session. Three tools. Any small business can build this. Most business owners use AI the same way every time. Open Claude. Re-explain the business. Re-explain the team. Re-explain the numbers. Then ask the question. You're onboarding the same employee every morning. We fixed this. Claude now knows the full operation before I type a word. Start with your most important company knowledge. Turn each topic into its own markdown file. Markdown is simple text that AI reads clean. Think about what you re-explain over and over. How your business makes money. Your org chart and who owns what. Your pricing. Key metrics for each team member. Your sales process. Your brand voice. One topic per file. Keep them short. Put everything in Obsidian. It's free. Files stay on your computer. Nothing goes to the cloud. Think of it as a filing cabinet on your own hard drive that AI can search in milliseconds. Here's what makes it work. Every file connects to related files through tagged links called wikilinks. When you ask Claude about a specific client, it doesn't just find the client file. It pulls every project, contract, invoice, and note tied to that client. One question. Full picture. Then connect Claude Code. It works like the regular Claude desktop app with one difference. It has the keys to your filing cabinet. Claude Code reads files right off your computer. No uploads. No cloud. No file size limits. Your financials, client data, and internal strategy never leave your machine. For business owners who won't put sensitive data on someone else's server, this solves the problem. Most people I know spend $100 to $200 a month on Claude. If you're already paying that, you should be getting more out of it than a chatbot that forgets who you are every session. Some of you already use Claude Projects. Good. That puts you ahead of most people. Projects let you upload files and give Claude a custom instruction set. For small tasks, it works. If you have a handful of documents and a clear use case, Projects is the right starting point. But it has a ceiling. Upload limits cap how much context you can load. Your files live on Anthropic's servers. And every project is its own silo. Your sales project doesn't talk to your ops project. Your finance files don't connect to your team files. The Obsidian setup removes all three limits. No upload cap. Files stay on your machine. And every file links to every related file across your whole company. The last piece is one instruction file. It tells Claude how your company works, what role it plays, and how to navigate the knowledge base. Think of it as the onboarding doc you'd hand a senior executive on day one. Except this executive never forgets it. Once it's built, every session starts with full context. Claude knows your team. Your numbers. Your processes. You skip the setup. You go straight to the work. Three tools. Obsidian (free). Claude Code (you're already paying for it). One instruction file. If you run a business and you're still re-explaining yourself to AI every session, you're leaving speed on the table.

One of my favorite things to do with AI is to get consulting from my favorite authors. I just uploaded thousands of pages of notes on Alex Hormozi, his newsletters, his YouTube transcripts, his books, etc. I create these folders for everyone I want to learn from. I run my business details, marketing plans, etc through this repository and a couple minutes later I get a 10 page strategy guide specifically for my business. It feels like magic.

Logo done. Now the hard work begins.

@BullyEsq Yeah I am running the 9b version on the 16 gb mac mini. Its fine if you arent doing anything else on the machine. I also don't end up using it as often as I thought I would.

Anyone running qwen locally on Mac mini?

@bradmillscan Have you done an audit of your md instructions and config settings to look for conflicting information? I have helped several friends sort out behavior issues that go back to conflicting instructions in their md files from weeks of tweaking and changing things.

350-400 hours into OpenClaw over the last 33 days non-stop, no days off...I'm ready to quit. My openclaw is fucking lost in the weeds every day today and it's driving me nuts. Basic shit. I asked it to use GitHub. it has a GitHub skill. We have a GitHub SOP. I can see it's thinking process about using skills, then narrating how the skill doesn't exist, then going and inventing ways to retrieve the capability to use GitHub from the internet. I tell it to look in the openclaw docs for the proper skill path, it says "oops my bad, yeah it was there after all." This is ChatGPT 5.4 with extra high thinking turned on. I ask it to diagnose the problem only, so it goes and sees the system prompt is telling it to look at the wrong place, and it goes to GitHub and opens a GitHub issue about this 'bug' without even asking me. What the actual fuck. 3 hours on a Sunday of trying to rewire the brain of my openclaw to do default-behaviour. This thing such a productivity suck & mental poison. I can't do anything useful or positive with OpenClaw because I'm nonstop fighting fires in the engine room. I'm thinking about giving up.

@sweatystartup If your family wants tickets to my attraction, Pigeon Forge Snow, while you are in town, just let me know.

The Specialized Levo Kids is the best $3,000 Ive ever spent. My 8 year old did 10 miles and 2,000 feet of elevation in 90 minutes. Gatlinburg is also awesome this time of year. No crowds and cheap as hell.

@Sajeel_Purewal Is BluePrint your site? It is one of the coolest things I have seen all week.

I used blueprint.am to build the meta raybans and it gave me a whole wiring diagram, BOM, and guide

@claudeai Huge

A small thank you to everyone using Claude: We’re doubling usage outside our peak hours for the next two weeks.

@RealJakeP @mhp_guy Yeah the pricing is bad but there is a reason there are no other attractions/retail on Veteran's Blvd on the Sevierville side.

@CryptoPicard @mhp_guy It’s not the location, it’s the pricing. I’d LOVE to take my son, but for the $ it would cost to get my fam in the door, I can just rent a 4-ton mini-ex or a CTL from a local rental shop and teach him myself on full-size equipment for a whole weekend, AND get some work done 🤷🏼‍♂️

A 7 figure business teaching 7 year olds how to operate backhoes: - 45,000 customers served per year - $25 per 2 hours, whether you operate or not - On ONLY a 3.5 acre lot in a mall parking lot - 30 pieces of equipment, bought new from Caterpillar - Had to close down on opening day due to overwhelming demand & things breaking Imagine grossing 7 figures doing something as fun as this? To keep the theme of a job site (and keep costs low) their gift shop is in a literal job site trailer. Their unexpected hidden cash cow? Insurance costs? So many nuggets of learning packed into this 47 minute chat! You'll have to watch/listen to my interview with Jacob Robinson, the founder, at the links in the 1st comment below to find out. Enjoy! This was a ton of fun. You'll love it.

@TechLayoffLover They heard Chamath vibe coded Jira. They are cooked.

Atlassian just confirmed 1,600 layoffs with 900+ coming from engineering But I'm hearing the real story from inside Sources say they've been running "knowledge extraction sprints" for 6 months - recording every senior engineer's screen, logging their prompts, documenting their debugging workflows One architect told me they made him walk through his entire microservices decision tree while they filmed it. Called it "knowledge transfer for the transition team" The transition team? 47 contractors in Bangalore with access to his recorded sessions and a Claude Enterprise subscription Same architect just found out his replacement starts Monday. Guy makes $28k annually and ships code 40% faster using the exact prompt libraries they extracted They're not just cutting headcount - they're systematizing 15 years of engineering expertise into training data The "strategic AI focus" isn't about building AI products It's about replacing their entire engineering culture with agents trained on their senior engineers' knowledge Word is the CTO replacement already has the playbook: extract, document, offshore, automate If you're still there and they ask you to "document your processes for the team" - RUN The knowledge extraction is complete

I am loving being a part of this AI timeline. New, better, faster, smarter, and cheaper features and products get announced every day. Every day it gets better and better for the AI consumer.

@traderprad He probably made that, and more, being successful in previous crypto cycles.

How do you have $50M to trade with but no brain cells? Why would you ever do something like this? Sure, the system failed him, but you have to be actually brain-dead to do something like this. Buddy has to be playing with daddy's money. If you actually made the $50M yourself trading or building any business, no way in hell you'd be dumb enough to do something so stupid. Turned 50M into 35K. What. The. F*ck.

@RoundtableSpace Just keep Druck and delete the rest.

SOMEONE OPEN-SOURCED AN ENTIRE AI HEDGE FUND WITH 18 AGENTS > input stock tickers > agents analyze data from their unique philosophies > debate/argue reasoning > Portfolio Manager decides buy/sell/hold GitHub: github.com/virattt/ai-hed…)

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