
Roote
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Roote
@roote_
Fellowship for ambitious frontier people. Accelerate yourself: https://t.co/MMHXER9x1m.


day 1 YC hackathon


One of the underappreciated secrets to winning in any new sector is: just stick around. If you just stick around long enough, the losers blow up early. Then the winners retire early. So eventually you win by just doing the work when nobody else can or wants to. When people ask me how we built Dragonfly to became one of the biggest VCs in crypto, this is mostly the answer. We didn’t start with a big brand or any obvious advantages. Few people in the crypto world knew who I was before Dragonfly. But we just kept doing the work. While others got too rich and retired, or just got bored or distracted, we kept doing the work. For 7 years. It’s kind of that simple. (This insight shamelessly stolen from @naval)



my proposal is out and I'm fundraising I love this picture

built the cursor for writing, link in comments

Works in Progress is hosting Invisible College again this August – a residential seminar in Cambridge for people aged 18–22. If you fit the bill & would enjoy a week about the scientific method, the history of economic growth, & similar subjects, apply! worksinprogress.news/p/apply-for-in…

1/ Becoming highly literate changes the physical shape of our brains: "Learning to read forms specialized brain networks that influence our psychology across several different domains, including memory, visual processing, and facial recognition. Literacy changes people’s biology and psychology without altering the underlying genetic code. A society in which 95 percent of adults are highly literate would have, on average, thicker corpus callosa and worse facial recognition than a society in which only 5 percent of people are highly literate. These biological differences between populations will emerge even if the two groups were genetically indistinguishable. Literacy thus provides an example of how culture can change people biologically independent of any genetic differences. Culture can and does alter our brains, hormones, and anatomy, along with our perceptions, motivations, personalities, emotions, and many other aspects of our minds."

Imagine a world where flu is no longer a constant, unpredictable threat. My latest piece with @RyanDuncombe on the quest for developing universal flu vaccines now live @AsimovPress From the looming threat of H5N1 to the yearly burden of winter flu, why are we still stuck in a reactive cycle—hoping that the next viral mutation doesn’t trigger the pandemic? The relentless pursuit of pan-influenza vaccines must define the next frontier in human health.






