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a while ago I tweeted "you know what's going to truly get us from web2 to web3? therapy."
nitter.gq/Sim_Pop/status/1678362…
20K impressions - people felt that
I've been sitting with that idea ever since - it's finally becoming a thing (after a bit of procrastination because I was touching grass...) 🧵
Onchain finance matters because of 3 core things via @LoryKehoe @aave
- Collateral
- Capital efficiency - tokenisation is the easy part…making assets useful is crux
- Automation - smart contracts just make things work 24/7
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It’s funny how we were chatting about these very things years ago and so many products and orgs were just too early…
The balance for institutions is wanting onchain finance and realistically not being able to use it within permissionless environments due to regulation.
From a euro perspective imho it means the type of education and lobbying in Europe that we maybe see in the US to ensure the right choices are made.
And it has to be a coordinated effort.
@drakefjustin in London laying out the bimodal risk to cryptography including a few Drake takes on timeline and the bunker eth argument…
Considering almost 72% of all ETH supply is at risk, post Glamsterdam core devs will be heads down on quantum.
More drake takes below 👇
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I've been writing a song a day for 12 years and 296 days. That's 4676 songs.
It's All Happening At #LisCon!
cc // @Sim_Pop
(songaday.world)
ok off cuff pulse check: mini @0xliscon reunion vibe Saturday pre @EFDevcon Lisbon 2027…gud?
LisCon prompted my move here and it was a joy to co-found one of my favourite gatherings as we were all so starved of being together end of 2021.
We talked about LisCon 2 a few times times throughout the past five years but it never materialised.
tbd if good idea/format/size etc etc etc
Also found the LisCon song @songadaymann 🫶
nitter.gq/songadaymann/status/14…
It’s fear that makes everything feel scarce. We fear not having enough, not being enough, losing relevance, influence or opportunity…
Scarcity isn’t *always* about what we lack but what we’re afraid to lose.
Serving others means recognising that someone else’s gain doesn’t come at our expense + enough self-awareness to notice when fear is convincing us otherwise (which it will do - often)
Serve others first
This is a shibboleth that many talk about but actually living it can be a super power in the internet age where much of what we see is clout demons who care more about perception than reality and project themselves with no concern for others or truth
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People don’t fear change, they fear loss. Of what they know, of what is comfortable. Being comfortable with being uncomfortable is the sweet spot
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Started reading Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow” and I think this is interesting particularly re chapter on The Lazy Controller I just got to (spoiler: we’re inclined to conserve cognitive effort and our willingness to think depends on motivation/incentives)
Thinking requires effort and our minds are always negotiating how much of it we’re willing to spend from the mental energy bank.
Maybe AI’s strongest retention dynamic won’t be entertainment or indispensability but our growing preference not to expend the effort ourselves.
Not only because agents do said tasks reliably (will increasingly do so) but because they remove the cognitive and emotional burden of having to think, make a minutiae of decisions and manage uncertainty ourselves.
Also, dependency doesn't instantly come from indispensability, it can slowly start with the incremental loss of our willingness to do something ourselves.
Which then ofc brings up the question: are we outsourcing cognition to free up capacity for deeper/creative thinking or just outsourcing the need to think at all🙃
i've been talking to a lot of normal ppl outside of tech about personal agents & the convos have been incredibly fascinating, particularly w.r.t. to retention.
most consumer products typically have one of two types of retention, one is desire driven which is just pure dopamine (like insta, tiktok, games). they often don't even need notifications because you know there is a reward for your desire always waiting. the second is dependency driven, like emails, calendars, even credit cards & banking. most ppl have to do this, it's not something they necessarily desire (unless they are a sociopath).
the challenge with personal ai agents right now is that they occupy a weird third space where they aren't emotionally rewarding most of the time to become entertainment like the first category, & they're not reliable / indispensable enough to become pure infra. i.e. they fail, & there is a lot of friction. outside of pure research driven tasks, even one failure is often enough to not come back for the utility value prop.
which is why i think vertical agents that focus on making your life more interesting & entertaining are worth deep exploration still. & even very focused vertically integrated utility agents that work reliably will still be in demand. tons of ppl still think in jobs to be done when reaching for anything & with general purpose agents that's just not as crisp yet on what those critical jobs are.
