Ideas I want to write about

Caring what other people think is human and often learning and getting feedback on how one can improve is key to success so not living in other people’s minds does not mean not listening to or caring what other people say or think.

It means stopping using their metrics and their rulers of success to rule the way we live our life.

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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working — Pablo Picasso

“Please continue to carry out your activities with dignity, adhering to the philosophies that you hold dear.”

a16z is positioning itself to manufacture the conditions under which outcomes occur —through media, markets, talent pipelines, political alignment, and institutional influence.

That sounds fine, wonderful — real nonsense. Do more. More nonsensical, more crazy, more machines, more breasts, penises, cunts, whatever — make them abound with nonsense. Try and tickle something inside you, your “weird humor.” You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world.

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In America the best image wins. The President can’t be brat, and we love a survivor. It’s that simple sometimes.

“when you start getting tired of saying it, that’s when other people are just starting to hear it.”1

This is also why I hated the term "Web3". It implies that Web2 was going to be a subsection of the larger new Web3 internet we were migrating to. Which is wrong. And that's why I advocate for thinking about Crypto as an alternate timeline, or a division of the internet biological kingdom.

The success bar moves from “can you create?” to “can you make something only YOU could make?”