Giotto

The highest form of dominance is the rare capacity to detach, to walk away without a flicker of hesitation, even from people or things into which one has poured time, energy, and meaning.

Price moves are temporary until they are not

Hard Truths About Human Nature Most People Ignore: 1. Most Kindness Is Transactional Very few people help without expecting something back. Even if it is just a feeling of moral superiority. 2. People Don't Want Advice. They Want Agreement. When someone shares a problem they have usually already decided what to do. They are looking for permission. Not solutions. 3. We Judge Others by Their Actions but Ourselves by Our Intentions He is lazy. She is difficult. You had a rough week. The bias runs so deep most people never notice it. 4. Familiarity Breeds Contempt More Than It Breeds Love The people closest to you receive your worst behavior. Because they are the safest target. 5. Most Opinions Are Borrowed People believe what the people around them believe. Independent thought is rarer than everyone assumes it is. 6. Attention Is the Real Currency People do not want money or power as much as they want to be seen. Almost every human behavior makes sense once you understand this. 7. Guilt and Shame Are Often Used as Control When someone makes you feel bad for setting a boundary they are not hurt. They are losing leverage. 8. People Fear Change More Than They Fear Staying Stuck The familiar feels safe even when it is slowly killing you. Discomfort of the unknown beats pain of the known almost every time.

The Room Gets Quiet When Someone Actually Knows How to Negotiate: 1. Skilled negotiators let silence do the heaviest work. After naming a number or making a request, they stop talking completely. Most people fill silence with concessions before the other side has even responded. 2. They never give a round number. Saying 4,750 instead of 5,000 signals that you calculated something specific, which makes the other party less likely to push back aggressively. 3. Experts use labels instead of questions. Saying "it sounds like this timeline is a concern" opens a person far more than asking "is the timeline a problem?" Labels feel like understanding. Questions feel like interrogation. 4. They ask what seems impossible before asking for what they actually want. The contrast effect makes the real request feel reasonable by comparison, even if nothing changed objectively. 5. Skilled negotiators find out what the other party needs to look good to their own team. Deals collapse not because of price but because someone cannot explain the outcome to their boss. Solve that problem and the deal closes itself. 6. They never celebrate visibly when the other side agrees. Showing relief or excitement signals that you got more than expected, which plants doubt in the other person and invites them to reopen terms. 7. The best negotiators always know their walkaway point before the conversation begins. When you decide your limit in the middle of a discussion, emotion sets the boundary instead of logic, and emotion almost always gives too much away. 8. They never negotiate against themselves. If the other side says nothing after your offer, the instinct is to immediately sweeten the deal. Experts resist this completely. An uncomfortable pause is not a rejection. It is just a pause.

The 'knight’s tour' is a sequence of a knight's moves on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square only once.

40 hours left. The case has already crossed the core threshold needed to proceed. What I would love now is to finish with a few more backers behind it. We are on 48. Even a £5 pledge helps because numbers matter too. crowdjustice.com/case/unpaid-by…

I remind myself of this quite often.

Good point

Never make your availability cheaper than your value. When people can access your time, advice, energy, and attention without respect or reciprocity, they stop treating it like a privilege. Scarcity is not arrogance, it is how you teach the world that access to you has a price.

Polkadot?

There is a strange pattern in the lives of outliers that contradicts how people perceive genius: 99% of projects they worked on were failures. High volume is a big clue: hundreds of failed prototypes for every one product that worked. Notebooks full of dead-end theories alongside the one that survived. Patents filed on inventions that went nowhere, vastly outnumbering the ones that changed the world. Side projects abandoned. Companies started and quickly folded. The output of an exceptional mind looks, in raw form, almost indistinguishable from the output of a crazy person. Except that one of the ideas in the pile is correct, and they were willing to be wrong 100 times to find it. Yes these people have a high tolerance for failure, but the crux is an inability to let the embarrassment of a wrong idea stop them from generating new ones. Most people produce one idea, become emotional, defend it and stop. Exceptional minds produce a thousand and let 99% die. To be remembered as a genius, be prepared to spend most of your career looking like an idiot.

Official account quotes utterly wrong data without verification. Turns out the market is not stupid. You can't manipulate your way up. We proved it before. The Nakamoto Coefficient of Polkadot is At Most 25. The often cited value of 178 is almost certainly wrong: forum.polkadot.network/t/the-nakamoto…

I hosted a live AMA today on the case, the work behind it, and the wider accountability gap I believe it exposes. Recording: x.com/i/spaces/1Oxwb… 3 days left to support: crowdjustice.com/case/unpaid-by…

The most important lessons of game theory: 1. Incentives shape outcomes. Even a loyal cooperator could defect under the right incentives. 2. The power to walk away unscathed enables superior negotiation tactics. The one who possesses an outside option can play more ruthlessly. 3. Life is an iterated game. Your strategies may create harsh consequences for future interactions. 4. Cooperation is superior to defection, but only until the game nears its end. If there is no looming shadow of the future, betrayal is to be expected.

Some people call themselves loyal when they are merely dependent. They stayed because leaving required courage, options, money, identity, or self-respect they did not yet have. Real loyalty begins only when escape is possible and devotion is still chosen.

@MichelProc19707 Comment vous contacter personnellement ?

Pour ceux qui souhaiteraient participer financièrement à mes frais de justice par un don, je demande de n’utiliser QUE la plate-forme gofundme ( et le lien ci-dessous ) ou de me contacter personnellement… le risque de blocage est trop important gofund.me/148b9c2dc

The most addictive currency in human life is recognition. Some people will betray dignity, waste years, ruin love, and sabotage their own growth just to keep receiving attention from the same people who quietly make them feel small.

Game theory proves that most people who frantically introduce urgency into a negotiation have already lost. Urgency without a credible threat tells someone that you're paying the price for their personal failures. And that severely shifts the payoff matrix. You invite them to negotiate far more drastically because your opponent knows that, in response to urgency without threat, the dominant strategy is to slow down and put the pressure on you.

Cathie Wood literally missed the AI bubble.

I think the key is to be as centralized as possible while appearing to be as decentralized as possible