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@GeorgeJeffersn In!

Who is trying to run up a hacker house in the cotswolds, this place is only $5k/m !!

Genius

make sure you get some protein gelato

you literally just have to get really good at continuing

A hand-painted tennis court by MRKA, Spain

agent for this and an agent for that

@SimkinStepan 😎

Pulling up to etn in a few hours (12pm GMT)

This tomato is so Loewe I can’t explain it

Earlier today, a user attempted to buy AAVE using $50M USDT through the Aave interface. Given the unusually large size of the single order, the Aave interface, like most trading interfaces, warned the user about extraordinary slippage and required confirmation via a checkbox. The user confirmed the warning on their mobile device and proceeded with the swap, accepting the high slippage, which ultimately resulted in receiving only 324 AAVE in return. The transaction could not be moved forward without the user explicitly accepting the risk through the confirmation checkbox. The CoW Swap routers functioned as intended, and the integration followed standard industry practices. However, while the user was able to proceed with the swap, the final outcome was clearly far from optimal. Events like this do occur in DeFi, but the scale of this transaction was significantly larger than what is typically seen in the space. We sympathize with the user and will try to make a contact with the user and we will return $600K in fees collected from the transaction. The key takeaway is that while DeFi should remain open and permissionless, allowing users to perform transactions freely, there are additional guardrails the industry can build to better protect users. Our team will be investigating ways to improve these safeguards going forward.

IRL is going to crush AI over the next 5 years. In the last 3 months, $750M+ in capital was deployed on "anti-AI" bets. Big players are doubling down on their investments in events, experiences and in-person connection. Here's what I'm seeing: @cornerapp, a social map app for Gen Z, has grown to 60K+ users helping people curate and share places to meet IRL—"Google Maps but social." Everyone ik in NYC loves them. @partiful, @poshvip_, and @LumaHQ have raised a combined $60M and are exploding. Partiful hit 500K+ MAU, Posh hit 6 million registered users, and Luma has over 2 million users signing up for events. Harvard alum @aidaxbaradari just launched @be_inaudible, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings and keep IRL conversations private. @mcuban made a massive bet, investing in Burwoodland, a NYC-based live-events company behind IRL experiences in the US, Canada, and Europe. Former COO and CPO of Hinge officially launched Rodeo to help people spend more time IRL with friends. @a16z keeps doubling down on IRL via investments and a16z Build — a dinner series and community for founders / operators figuring out their next move. @nazzari, @katiekirsch, @eriktorenberg. Billion-dollar companies are paying $$$ for community and events leads: - @AnthropicAI: Events Lead - $320k - @Substack: Events Lead - $190k - @VaynerMedia: Head of Experiential - $250k - @Spotify: Global Experiential & Content - $175k - @BiltRewards: Director of Events & Experiences - $150k Investors are pouring billions of dollars into AI. But smart money is quietly deploying millions into IRL at the same time. a16z backs both OpenAI and Partiful. ElevenLabs and Substack. The nuance is - it's not AI vs. IRL. It's that the more we live online, the more premium real-life connection becomes. They're not competing investments. They're a hedge on each other.

Most people under-appreciate how large the addressable market is for crypto. Crypto is updating the entire financial system, from trading to payments to lending and more. Multiple trillions of dollars of revenue up for grabs.

it's therapeutic

Loneliness is skyrocketing. Run clubs and supper clubs are exploding. People crave in real life connection. After a decade in startups, working for @moonpay and @dapperlabs I'm now back and building in this space 🚀 Wrote about it here [link below]

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The solution to anxiety is action.

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@TommiPedruzzi system

following your passion is keeping you broke. instead, create a 90-page ebook and sell it on amazon for $9. it's boring, but it made me $39,000 in the last 29 days doing exactly that. here's why people buy my ebooks (and how you can do the same to create passive income): 1. i solve painful, unsexy problems. people don't pay for your dreams... they pay for solutions to their urgent problems. my books target specific pain points like: "how to start an LLC" or "ADHD parenting tips." boring? yes. profitable? absolutely. 2. i don't compete on quality, i compete on clarity. most authors write like academics. i write like i'm texting a friend. readers don't want fancy language; they want fast answers they can apply today. 3. i treat my books like products, not art. every ebook has a clear promise, a simple structure, and a price that feels like a no-brainer. if it doesn't solve a problem in under 100 pages, it doesn't ship. 4. i let amazon do the heavy lifting. i don't waste time building an audience. amazon already has millions of buyers searching daily, i just place the right book in front of them. 5. i stack reviews early and fast. the first 10–20 reviews determine whether amazon pushes your book or buries it. i use facebook groups and reddit communities to collect early feedback and social proof. i double down on winners. not every book will hit. that's fine. i publish 3–5, see which ones sell, then reinvest in creating similar titles around the winners. that's the system. if you want the full breakdown, including the exact ai prompts i use to create these books in under a week... comment "System" and i'll dm you my free guide. (must follow to receive.)