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Instead of pursuing options that cap downside while also capping upside, make bets that have asymmetric pay-offs: If you win, you win big. If not, you’ve gained valuable skills, relationships, and reputational benefits that will carry you over to your next asymmetric bet.

Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the spectre of something as small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that one's sanity becomes an object of speculation among one's acquaintances. To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us ... See more

Moreover, even though many blockchains claim to be able to handle thousands of transactions per second, aka TPS, this metric does not take into account the storage properties of the application at hand. There is a big difference between 50,000 DeFi transactions, which may generate zero bytes of new state data, as opposed to 50,000 social transactio... See more

My knee-jerk reaction to most early-stage founders asking about PR/marketing is that “you are being too obsessed about marketing and not obsessed enough about your product.”

That you should never outsource your story or any component of your competitive advantage.