Kenneth Robin van den Berk

Gratitude before ambition. Stability is built long before success is visible. What you protect shapes what you become

@Xfinancebull @JoelKatz Conviction evolves when structure becomes bigger than emotion.

@KennethRobin80 @JoelKatz This is the grown view, conviction can look different when the mission gets bigger.

This is why I respect @JoelKatz He could pretend to be the ultimate diamond hands guy Instead, he told the truth. Sold ETH at $1.05 Values sleep over billions. Said he’s not the max-risk guy and he’s at peace with it. Genuine $XRP community is lucky to have someone this real

You’re not overthinking. You’re reacting to something that doesn’t feel right underneath. Most people ignore it. Until it becomes a real problem. This helps you see it clearly: kggrowthsolutions.com/b2c

Performance problems are rarely operational. They start earlier. In structure. In alignment. In decisions that don’t land. By the time KPIs move, you’re already reacting.

Working in high-pressure environments taught me one thing: Performance doesn’t break first. Structure does. By the time it shows in results, you’re already late. That’s exactly why we built K&G Growth Solutions.

Good thread really solid breakdown. I agree we’re still in the infrastructure phase and that velocity plays a role. But I think one piece is missing. Velocity only keeps price suppressed early on. As adoption grows, behavior changes: •Institutions hold liquidity buffers •Custody solutions lock supply •Collateral use increases •Long-term positions start forming At that point, XRP isn’t just “used and discarded” anymore it becomes used, held, and required. Ethereum creates scarcity through lockups. XRP creates it through liquidity demand + reduced float. Different path, but same destination. Efficiency → dependency → demand → scarcity. That’s when price catches up.

. $XRP hit $3.65, then crashed 60% despite everything going RIGHT. SEC lawsuit over ETFs launched with $1.3B inflows Record 2.7M daily transactions RLUSD stablecoin exploding Everyone blames the same lies. The real reason is hidden in plain sight. 🧵

@MarioNawfal AI video and deepfake generation is evolving at an incredible pace. Sometimes the only clues are subtle details: mouth movement, teeth, hand structure or even finger count. The challenge ahead may not be information but verification.

🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Netanyahu calls Israel a "regional superpower and in many respects a global superpower" amid the Iran strikes. No more self defense talk, this is a declaration of hegemony over the entire Middle East, and he's using American firepower to get there.

@Sajwani Most problems today are not a lack of information. They’re a lack of clear thinking.

Sometimes I question my self, have I grown and becomes wiser or the world has become dumber

@FedericaSanto7 @Codie_Sanchez True. Once you see the limits were designed, you also realize they can be redesigned.

@KennethRobin80 @Codie_Sanchez But the key idea in what you said is awareness: When someone realizes the limits around them were designed by others, they can decide whether to accept them or redefine them.

@RayDalio The most dangerous decisions are made when certainty replaces curiosity.

Most people make bad decisions because they are so certain that they're right that they don't allow themselves to see the better alternatives that exist. Radically open-minded people know that coming up with the right questions and asking other smart people what they think is as important as having all the answers. They understand that you can't make a great decision without swimming for a while in a state of "not knowing." That is because what exists within the area of "not knowing" is so much greater and more exciting than anything any one of us knows. And there are strategies that you can take to make you more successful given the reality of not knowing--such as triangulation and diversification that can make you more successful. Most people make the mistake of thinking that the best path is to get to higher levels of knowing than are possible to achieve rather than realizing that the better path is to know how to deal well with their not knowing. #principleoftheday

Most people think performance collapses under pressure because of stress. In reality it collapses because the structure behind decisions is weak.

@ASMLcompany Advanced packaging will likely become one of the key bottlenecks in scaling AI compute.

Last week our CTO Marco Pieters spoke with Reuters about our plans to expand our portfolio to support 3D integration and advanced packaging. The tools will complement our existing products to enable faster, more powerful and more energy-efficient AI chips. ms.spr.ly/6015Q51gJ

@SahilBloom Talking about plans releases the same dopamine as executing them. The brain feels progress before the work even starts.

Nobody tells you this: There's an inverse relationship between talk and execution. The people who constantly talk about their plans rarely execute them. Learn to work without validation. Stop telling people what you're going to do. Just go do it. Let the results make the noise.

@naval Constant exposure to global emergencies creates a permanent sense of urgency the brain was never meant to handle.

The human brain isn’t designed to process all of the world’s breaking emergencies in realtime.

@shaneparrish Most entrepreneurs don’t fail from lack of effort. They fail when their decision structure breaks under pressure.

The 6 characteristics of an entrepreneur: 1. The entrepreneur keeps himself operating on the threshold of excellence because he fears mediocrity. 2. The entrepreneur has learned to dig for facts. The first explanation given does not include all the facts. Once the facts are found, the necessary action is clear. 3. The entrepreneur has a sixth sense of what will work and what will not work – by adjusting experience and knowledge. 4. The entrepreneur tenaciously grasps every opportunity to meet goals using the art of human relations (some say it is a science), the laws of the marketplace, and excellent management of manpower, money, and machines or resources. 5. The entrepreneur knows that he must delegate responsibility, but he never sacrifices his knowledge of the details. 6. The main difference between the entrepreneur and the manager is attitude! Source: Harrison McCain, a note to himself.

Sustainable performance is rarely a function of speed. It is the result of disciplined alignment across people, processes and priorities. Under pressure, systems drift. Strong organisations recalibrate before friction turns into failure.

Most people chase speed. I calibrate direction. Stability compounds quietly.

@karpathy Legacy tools become powerful when systems are designed for agent coordination.

CLIs are super exciting precisely because they are a "legacy" technology, which means AI agents can natively and easily use them, combine them, interact with them via the entire terminal toolkit. E.g ask your Claude/Codex agent to install this new Polymarket CLI and ask for any arbitrary dashboards or interfaces or logic. The agents will build it for you. Install the Github CLI too and you can ask them to navigate the repo, see issues, PRs, discussions, even the code itself. Example: Claude built this terminal dashboard in ~3 minutes, of the highest volume polymarkets and the 24hr change. Or you can make it a web app or whatever you want. Even more powerful when you use it as a module of bigger pipelines. If you have any kind of product or service think: can agents access and use them? - are your legacy docs (for humans) at least exportable in markdown? - have you written Skills for your product? - can your product/service be usable via CLI? Or MCP? - ... It's 2026. Build. For. Agents.

@sama @narendramodi Rapid adoption tests infrastructure before it proves capability.

Great meeting with PM @narendramodi today to talk about the incredible energy around AI in India. India is our fastest growing market for codex globally, up 4x in weekly users in the past 2 weeks alone. 🇮🇳!