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Newsletter: As parts of the crypto industry scramble to court the Harris administration with events like “Crypto4Harris”, others insist it is Harris who must “bend the knee”. citationneeded.news/issue-64/

Here's my conversation with Pieter Levels (@levelsio), self-taught developer and entrepreneur who designed, programmed, shipped, and ran over 40 startups, many of which are hugely successful. In most cases, he did it all by himself, while living the digital nomad life in over 40 countries and over 150 cities. This was a fun and inspiring conversation! It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 2:03 - Startup philosophy 9:34 - Low points 13:03 - 12 startups in 12 months 19:55 - Traveling and depression 32:34 - Indie hacking 36:37 - Photo AI 1:12:53 - How to learn AI 1:21:30 - Robots 1:29:47 - Hoodmaps 1:53:52 - Learning new programming languages 2:03:24 - Monetize your website 2:09:59 - Fighting SPAM 2:13:33 - Automation 2:24:58 - When to sell startup 2:27:52 - Coding solo 2:33:54 - Ship fast 2:42:38 - Best IDE for programming 2:52:09 - Andrej Karpathy 3:01:34 - Productivity 3:15:21 - Minimalism 3:24:07 - Emails 3:31:20 - Coffee 3:39:05 - E/acc 3:41:21 - Advice for young people

This was a cool listen. I think Cloud+AI is increasingly making the @levelsio -style model of a scrappy solo serial micro-entrepreneur viable, allowing one person to spin up and run a number of companies that generate income, possibly well into billion-dollar valuations.

In this episode of the Elon, Inc. podcast, long-time Tesla fan and @ElectrekCo editor-in-chief @fredlambert joins us to discuss how Musk's right-wing views and polarizing leadership style have turned some EV buyers off the carmaker trib.al/dR8Np2R

More on what Harris might mean for digital currency, and on my Digital Greenbacks / Treasury Dollar plan in particular, from FT's marvelous Rana Foroohar. ft.com/content/3563a5…

1/8 Digital Greenbacks (again): Spoke to American Banker again on my old 'Treasury Dollar,' a.k.a. 'Digital Greenbacks' plan of 2019-20, which would digitize the TreasuryDirect accounts available to all Americans into P2P digital wallets usable with ... americanbanker.com/payments/news/…

Don't walk out of the exam room without checking for savings on the Cuverd app or Cuverd.com! Your wallet will thank you. 💰💊 #SmartHealthcare #SavingsMadeSimple

Grayscale had a meeting with the SEC at Dec 19 about their conversion of GBTC to a #bitcoin #etf sec.gov/comments/sr-ny…

✨ Today, we’re announcing @withPlenty : where couples invest and plan for their future together. ✨ It’s our first step towards becoming the home where families collaboratively manage their financial lives. 🧵 Why we built Plenty 0/8 techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/ple…

One of my favorite stories. eBike purchased for $71K. Brought to @katebuckley1 3 years later and sold for over $1 million "When our partner Reza Sardeha from DAN. com pointed us to the opportunity of acquiring ebike. com in an expired domains auction, he stated: ‘that's a domain worth $400K sitting right there.’ And it would've indeed been a $400K sale if it wasn't for Kate's persistence and vision, chasing high-quality buyers and not letting the domain go for less than what it's truly worth: one million dollars. Well done, Kate!” —Legendary Names, Inc.

One of my favorite stories is how Kate has been consistently definING the domain biz. So fittING and memorable to now be able to find her dba at definING.com.

Setter aims to address "the complexity and unfriendliness of current wallet technologies," making entry into Web3 a more seamless experience for more users: coindesk.com/business/2023/… @CoinDesk @setter_app