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My mum told me that if I dropped out of university to start a business she wouldn't talk to me again... she wasn't joking. we didn't speak properly for 2 years until she realised this business stuff was paying me enough to cover my bills I've never held a grudge about this because back then I knew she was standing in my way BECAUSE she loved me. She'd struggled in business after we moved here from Africa, so she was scared I would struggle like she did. I think at some level i work hard to avoid the struggle I saw her endure The truth for all of us (especially for 1st generation immigrant families): The people who love you the most will sometimes give you some of the worst life advice… and not because they don't care…. but maybe because they care a little too much… They'll optimise for your comfort - the thing they probably didn’t have - and not for the growth the comes from risk and struggle. So you have to ask people who've been where you're going, not people who are where you're from. And ultimately it's your life, you have to face the consequences, so it has to be your decision…

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Before you learn Kubernetes, understand why to learn Kubernetes. Or should you? 25 years back, if you wanted to run an application, you bought a $50,000 physical server. You did the cabling. Installed an OS. Configured everything. Then run your app. Need another app? Buy another $50,000 machine. Only banks and big companies could afford this. It was expensive and painful. Then came virtualization. You could take 10 physical servers and split them into 50 or 100 virtual machines. Better, but you still had to buy and maintain all that hardware. Around 2005, Amazon had a brilliant idea. They had data centers worldwide but weren't using full capacity. So they decided to rent it out. For startups, this changed everything. Launch without buying a single server. Pay only for what you use. Scale when you grow. Netflix was one of the first to jump on this. But this solved only the server problem. But "How do people build applications?" was still broken. In the early days, companies built one big application that did everything. Netflix had user accounts, video player, recommendations, and payments all in one codebase. Simple to build. Easy to deploy. But it didn't scale well. In 2008, Netflix had a major outage. They realized if they were getting downtime with just US users, how would they scale worldwide? So they broke their monolith into hundreds of smaller services. User accounts, separate. Video player, separate. Recommendations, separate. They called it microservices. Other companies started copying this approach. Even when they didn't really need it. But microservices created a massive headache. Every service needed different dependencies. Python version 2.7 for one service. Python 3.6 for another. Different libraries. Different configs. Setting up a new developer's machine took days. Install this database version. That Python version. These specific libraries. Configure environment variables. And then came the most frustrating phrase in software development: "But it works on my machine." A developer would test their code locally. Everything worked perfectly. They'd deploy to staging. Boom. Application crashed. Why? Different OS version. Missing dependency. Wrong configuration. Teams spent hours debugging environment issues instead of building features. Then Docker came along in 2012. Google had been using containers for years with their Borg system. But only top Google engineers could use it, too complex for normal developers. Docker made containers accessible to everyone. Package your app with all dependencies in one container. The exact Python version. The exact libraries. The exact configuration. Run it on your laptop. Works. Run it on staging. Works. Run it in production. Still works. No more "works on my machine" problems. No more spending days setting up environments. By 2014, millions of developers were running Docker containers. But running one container is easy. Running 10,000 containers? That's a nightmare. Microservices meant managing 50+ services manually. Services kept crashing with no auto-restart. Scaling was difficult. Services couldn't find each other when IPs changed. People used custom shell scripts. It was error-prone and painful. Everyone struggled with the same problems. Auto-restart, auto-scaling, service discovery, load balancing. AWS launched ECS to help. But managing 100+ microservices at scale was still a pain. This is exactly what Kubernetes solved. Google saw an opportunity. They were already running millions of containers using Borg. In 2014, they rebuilt it as Kubernetes and open-sourced it. But here's the smart move. They also launched GKE, a managed service that made running Kubernetes so easy that companies started choosing Google Cloud just for it. AWS and Azure panicked. They quickly built EKS and AKS. People jumped ship, moving from running k8s clusters on-prem to managed kubernetes on the cloud. 12 years later, Kubernetes runs 90% of production infrastructure. Netflix, Uber, OpenAI, Medium, they all run on it. Now advanced Kubernetes skills pay big bucks. Why did Kubernetes win? Perfect timing. Docker has made containers popular. Netflix made microservices popular. Millions of people needed a solution to manage these complex microservices at scale. Kubernetes solved that exact problem. It handles everything. Deploying services, auto-healing when things crash, auto-scaling based on traffic, service discovery, health monitoring, and load balancing. Then AI happened. And Kubernetes became even more critical. AI startups need to run thousands of ML training jobs simultaneously. They need GPU scheduling. They need to scale inference workloads based on demand. Companies like OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Anthropic run their AI infrastructure on Kubernetes. Training models, running inference APIs, orchestrating AI agents, all on K8s. The AI boom made Kubernetes essential. Not just for traditional web apps, but for all AI/ML workloads. Understanding this story is more important than memorizing kubectl commands. Now go learn Kubernetes already. Don't take people who write "Kubernetes is dead" articles are just doing it for views/clicks. They might have never used k8s.

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Vitalik Buterin says @ethereum has sacrificed way too many core values—like decentralization, privacy, and financial self-sovereignty—just to chase mass adoption. He stresses that this has to end now. According to Vitalik, starting in 2026, Ethereum needs to zero in on reclaiming those lost values by: - Boosting private payments. - Making it easier to run nodes. - Building truly decentralized apps that don't rely on centralized servers. - Giving users better control over their data and assets. Ethereum also needs to be tough enough to last for decades, even centuries, without depending on the dev team, while pushing decentralized stablecoins so users aren't tied to the traditional financial system.

It’s exhausting jumping from one app to another just to solve one problem But what if the problem isn’t the tools… What if it’s you? The truth is you can completely change your workflow, productivity & confidence with a few key skills. We’ve broken them down. Take a look 👀

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If you come across a woman who looks much younger than her age then..

I had a young man stop me in the street when I was walking who said he followed my advice made $80,000 in sales but stopped because it wasn’t his passion. He asked me “what should I do with my life?” I didn’t have time to answer him then so I’ll say this: Most people think following your passion means doing something you love, but that’s not true. It means loving the outcome enough that you were willing to endure suffering in order to achieve it. And it’s usually because people don’t understand what the word passion means. Passion comes from the Latin root of passio, which means suffering and endurance. Ex: the Passion of Christ (his crucifixion story). So of course the young man who stopped me didn’t love taking sales calls all day. Almost no one does. But no matter what your “passion “is you’re going to have to do way more stuff that you hate in order to pursue it. So thinking about the percentage of your day you dedicate to doing things you love is a very poor measure of whether or not you are pursuing your passion. And I think simply clarifying that for people who are on their search for what they want to do with their life might make all the difference between picking a goal worth suffering for vs jumping from fleeting interest to fleeting interest until the work becomes hard and never really making progress. If you aren’t willing to suffer for it, your love is weak.

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You get through the lonely chapter of life where you’re more ambitious than your old friend group but don’t have enough proof for your desired friend group by focusing on the work, not the scoreboard. The scoreboard matters, but you can’t score without first being good. And you can’t get good without first being bad.

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As a parent, I think this video has taught me something useful. I recommend that you should try it on your kids, too. I have also shared it with my wife. Credit: joe_drummer_boy on IG.

@trustlessconf @erc4337 @VitalikButerin @ThewizardofPOS @yoavw @tomteman You can never build trustless on top of trust…

Right after @VitalikButerin's day 1 talk on trustlessness, he sat down with @ThewizardofPOS and @yoavw for a panel moderated by @tomteman on the Trustless Manifesto to further explore how it ties into the core values of Ethereum, its goals and its vision youtu.be/EN89rbPbiYo