Sublime

when i had a venture-backed startup it was so hard to balance the desires of customers, investors, and myself. now (with no investors) i just make stuff i enjoy, people similar to me help pay for it, i ask what else they want, i do 50% that + 50% stuff i want and it all works out

There is no objective reality. The laws of physics you measure depend on the nature of the observer. Now, humans are comparable enough we agree on a set of common laws. But the edge cases, not necessarily so. There are physical phenomenon that only occur if you believe in them

How to future-proof yourself: - Act without permission - Share your work in public - Make as many mistakes as possible - Get really fucking good at what you do - Learn AI by trying to automate yourself out of work - Deeply embody that any and all prob... See more

slop is the defining cultural export of the next decade. the industrialization of writing via LLMs will turn all writing into slop in the same way the industrialization of farming turned our food supply into slop. total slop. your only hope is to find the old, the durable

Here is a longer form take. A truly based rollup, which operates without a trusted gateway, is ordered by L1 validators or builders. Those actors will try to maximize MEV extraction from the based rollup. This may be "aligned" with Ethereum (MEV goes to the L1 validator) but it is suicide for the rollups. Because the b... See more