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Play long term games, canton pilled @send @coinbase eng, @aws, @nodies_infra
Love this hiring strategy ♥️ @tryramp 's CEO @eglyman hired people who played 80 to 100 hrs of Minecraft a week at age 15. He says there's a whole community people at Ramp they found exactly that way. His two hiring signals: 1. Evidence of a spike 2. Exceptional drive "I'm less interested in what is on the resume. I'm far more interested in proof of work." What I love about the Minecraft example is what it proves. Nobody assigns a 15 year old 100 hours a week of anything. There's no grade, salary, or certificate at the end. That's pure intrinsic drive, sustained for years, entirely by choice. You can polish a CV in an afternoon. You can't fake 5,000 hours of anything. Meanwhile we still treat gaming as the hermit hobby. The thing careers advisors tell you to leave off the application. The timing makes this bigger than a hiring quirk. Recent US grads now have higher unemployment than the workforce overall (5.6% vs 4.2%, New York Fed, Q4 2025). That basically never happened between 1990 and 2018. Credentials are inflating right as AI writes everyone's cover letter. A few thousand hours of visible work is much harder to counterfeit. I have my own version of Glyman's test: anyone who chooses to read about fintech on a Sunday morning is probably a great hire. Which should have you looking at Fintech @FintechNerdCon again. It's a room full of people who spend a weekend reading about payments infrastructure for fun. That's evidence of a spike. I'm half tempted to run an intern wall there and see what happens. It's the event where you'll meet your next great hire. And we have several folks from Ramp coming like @chapello and @0xDaedalus Maybe the smartest recruiting move in fintech right now is skipping the milkround and hiring the Discord mods, the GitHub gremlins, and whoever turns up to a conference on a Saturday because they wanted to be there. PS. we have the rockstar games co founder as a keynote, will have a giant arcade, smash and MK8 tournaments and more...
Again you responded with AI. I go back to it because you’re a broken record. I don’t deflect. I work. Yesterday we spent a few hours going over the details of the CIP. Writing prompts to AI is easy. Executing is hard and requires work and thinking. I’m sorry we don’t move fast enough for you. I guess when the CIP is out we’ll see if it shows enough desire the drive value as you like to write. I have no problem engaging honestly and transparently but you keep writing the same theoretical questions with no real added value comments and hence you get these replies from me. It’s like every time you post I’d write “it seems Akyra is a good actor looking for positive engagement but at the end of the day is he really trying to help the community or he’s actually trying to hurt it. That is the real question” and no matter what you responded my answer to you would be the same.
Every "subnet" on Canton will soon burn CC and earn rewards. I kind of regret using the term subnet though - they're all part of one @CantonNetwork, with one economy and one coin. Just like we have one Internet. CIP draft coming for comment in September. I believe we can roll this out in phases across H1 2027.
Every "subnet" on Canton will soon burn CC and earn rewards. I kind of regret using the term subnet though - they're all part of one @CantonNetwork, with one economy and one coin. Just like we have one Internet. CIP draft coming for comment in September. I believe we can roll this out in phases across H1 2027.
You played. You picked. You won. Congratulations to @OnTheHouz for winning Matchday 🎉 You and a friend are going to the final, all expenses paid!
