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Be kind and raise people's ambitions. The world will end up with more abundance by having more builders/doers brimming with optimism ✨
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you won't want to believe it, but infidelity is very common in India
when the entire Indian society's idea of marriage is getting it "arranged", the probability of finding similar value systems between life partners is non-zero.
and so when there is no love within marriage, there is love outside marriage.
hence choosing your life partner is by far the most important decision you are going to make in your life.
it literally determines your baseline happiness for the next 50 years. countless scientific pieces of evidence prove that.
it's more important than getting the right job and how much money you make.
when you "settle down" on a life partner you’re choosing a lot of things, including your parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 100 vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, your career therapist, and someone whose day you’ll hear about 18,000 times.
so given that this is by far the most important thing in life to get right, we as a society should collectively think about upskilling ourselves in order to choose a partner that's right for us.
and NOT what the society "arranges" for us.
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spoke to a 15-year-old hustler kid on Discord
earning his keep managing NFT communities
based out of small town in 🇮🇳
both of us speaking on 5G network.
both of us building on @solana
hard to not be optimistic about crypto when you witness firsthand its capacity to level the playing field for a young kid with starry ambitions.
brings to mind a video where, 3 years ago, Anatoly walks us through his vision of the potential of Solana to serve as foundational infrastructure in a world transitioning to 5G.
now it's all falling into place with —
5G networks getting mass adoption
Solana Saga launch,
DePin companies scaling on Solana
while the chain purrs smoothly.
thank you @toly
if i have seen further,
it is because i stand on the shoulder of giants 🫡
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cried watching this talk by @ErikVoorhees
if you are fighting for your freedom, then spare just 20 mins of your life and listen to this epic articulate speech on why crypto is an essential component for society to flourish in the next decades.
Why are we here?
Permissionless II opener from @ErikVoorhees that got an entire crypto conference on their feet
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fight for your freedom
like really fight
disappoint your parents
give them a chance to grow
be rude with them if they don’t respect your choice for freedom
your relationship with them will improve thousandfold once you are at inner peace with your self
as an indian adult, it’s absolutely important to start making money & most importantly, stop relying on your parents money asap. why? bec it takes time to hone your assertiveness, independence & judgment. goes parallel with how much you save. parents fund should be a last resort.
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world has an infinite amount of
$10k MRR free cashflow problems
to buy your freedom
find a builder, if you are seller
find a seller, if you are builder
most people on this app are both today
change perspective
you need to invert passion
fall in unconditional love
with your customer’s problem,
unconditional is important,
drop all ego around your solution
reduce personal burn
as much as you can
living in 🇮🇳 solves half of it,
solve other half
to get 18 months of risk appetite
set destination goal
like achieving a salary of 2 lakhs/month each
and taking out 6 - 10 lakhs as annual dividend.
go to platforms/marketplaces
get a pulse of the users problem
dump them in a spreadsheet
simulate yield on time
experiment levelsio style with high yield ones
charge early, charge more
maintain agility
beware of sunk cost
build muscle to throw everything in dustbin
and go back to the whiteboard
keep the team as small
design a team that ships
onboard apprentices
delegate low leverage tasks to va
convert most processes into SOPs,
add automation to most parts of these SOPs
apply maximum leverage to own your distribution channel
18 months of scar building no bs risk taking
where you take feedback from reality will set you up.
build money printer machine using those scars
buy back time every quarter to be free in four
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sid is one of the rare friends who is a ball of intellectual curiosity and has the rare ability to update his priors as soon as he sees truth.
cheering him from the sidelines as he inspires indian CT to have the courage to be disliked
it has been brought to my attention that i am "being salty and spreading hate" and "attacking" people.
i don't think you folks understand the meaning of hate - or the weight of the accusations you've thrown at me.
hating and attacking people are aggressive actions that come from a place of malice - i have neither, i am just a cute silly unemployed boy with a santa hat.
@Saxenasaheb and @RahulDesignWeb3
- in your 30s (a decade older than me) with kids
- leading @base, @DacoitDesign, @callusfbi
- have thousands of very impressionable kids looking up to you wanting to replicate your success
and this is the example you want to set for the community?
you're using your platform, reputation and power to talk ill about someone who didn't agree with you and you are instigating your very impressionable followers against them.
there are literally people in crypto who use derogatory language on the daily, are outed as sexual predators, scammers - and you decided that hating on me was the highest impact thing you could do.
this is what it means to NOT be positive sum people, btw.
𝟏. 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠
the polygon tweet was a popular meme format, and let's face it - polygon was the largest recruiter in indian web3 - hence it is statistically true that the worst person (and the best person) you'd know is probably from polygon. regardless, a meme.
@Saxenasaheb, i have never said i dislike chain abstraction - i have only asked questions, and raised critical points about what kind of infra we are prioritising versus who the end users are, and if they need it.
i have never mentioned or called out or talked ill about any CA project or individual - my questions are aimed at the fundamentals of CA as a concept.
in web2, this is called first principles thinking and questioning to open a dialogue. which is crucial for product building - especially when the contributions are permissionless and distributed.
i didn't know it was called attacking in web3.
𝟐. 𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐲 "𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫" 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 "𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞"
this is lowkey funny because:
- i am a first generation college goer.
- i was born in a small village in kerala, india, and i (mostly) live in jayanagara, bengaluru, which is also in india.
- i attended a very small college on the outskirts of pune, and started working when i was 17 writing billboard ads for bajaj finserv - paid for my college through that.
(if you were in pune in 2020 and saw any billboard ads for bajaj, that was me hehe)
- as of today, i am the only working member of my family. my dad had to take a break from work after a cancer diagnosis in 2024.
(he's recovering and enjoying not being a workaholic after 40 years of working - he too, joined the workforce at 17)
@RahulDesignWeb3 i have a lot of respect for you as someone who climbed up the socioeconomic ladder on their own merit - so seeing you diminish my efforts is saddening.
once again, this is what it means to NOT be a positive sum person btw. just because i don't talk about all this, does not mean i am "privileged".
as i say in my bio, don't assume.
𝟑. 𝐨𝐧 "𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠" 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐡𝐚𝐢 𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐥
listen, i have never hated on the bhai cabal. i spoke up about the bhai cabal, and not any specific individuals who are a part of the bhai cabal.
my exact words were:
"good communities (and by extension, their tokens) only work when positive sum people rally around a positive sum mission - and the bhai cabal has neither"
and as i have clearly demonstrated with the behaviour of folks who call themselves members of the bhai cabal - i was right.
x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
final thoughts:
listen - i do not want to give you advice, in fact, i shouldn't need to.
every single one of you is at least a decade older than me. but the behaviour you have exhibited today was wildly juvenile, immature, and at its worst, an attempt at baseless character assassination.
please do better.
you have so many looking up to you.
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Games Indians Play.
Fantastic book that talks about why Indians are the way they are using the basics of game theory.
Also the last chapter about how Krishna is the OG game theorist is beautiful.
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credits to @waitbutwhy on writing the following 2 part series on how to find a life partner
waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-…
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New launch by @findsignalHQ in partnership with @SuperteamDAO
security.superteam.fun/
Reverse-engineered half a billy worth of hacks on Solana.
Dumbed them down for insecure devs like me to never build insecure DApps.
Everyone is talking about Solana as a security.
We need to be talking about a more secure Solana.
Announcing: Superteam Security 🔒
The one-stop resource for everything you need to know to build secure programs on Solana
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Indian Startup Village + Bangalore Hacker House was a blast
into margin trading? 💹
@prastutkumar gave a talk on how @asgardfi is making it easier for degen defi users to take leverage and trade smoothly!
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Cypherpunk hackathon submissions are TOMMOROW
my advice (as a serial @colosseum hackathon's participant which changed my life trajectory in birthing and scaling @asgardfi):
JUST SUBMIT IT
----
other than my eternal gratitude to @SuperteamIN members for pushing me to submit application first time around participating, here are some tips for the last 24 hours:
1. don't take yourself so seriously - relax, sleep for a bit and do a 10 minutes 4-7-8 breathing exercise to shake off your imposter syndrome
remember you miss 100% of the shots you don't take
shoot your shot and kill the part inside you that self rejects your application
2. work very hard on the hook of your submission because judges have 1000+ submission to review
you just have 30 seconds to impress them, think of judges as scrolling through submissions as you scroll instagram reels
your headline, your brief bio are 100x more important than fixing CSS or writing test cases
use dead simple obvious english so that they can quickly get who is your target customer, what outcome will you help them achieve with some brief description of your secret sauce
leverage GPT for soundboarding but write the final submission yourself, judges are smart people they are well attuned to AI slop by now
3. once the application is done, you can keep working on your product and making it better
it takes a while for the judge to reach your application in 1000+submissions
play to win
It’s the final countdown to the @Solana Cypherpunk Hackathon!
2 days left for founders to submit their crypto products to compete for prizes, pre-seed funding, accelerator acceptance, and Solana glory.
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had taken out a USDC loan against my SOL bags to buy a PS5 through @marginfi
collateral swapped in 1 click using @asgardfi to jupSOL to beat network inflation
(without needing to find the USDC to repay the debt, then withdraw SOL, swap it to jupSOL and then lend it back again)
tracking the position on @asgardfi TG bot everyday
feeling really good to build products that i had been wanting to use in my day to day routine
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post breakpoint, will be heading to 🇦🇪 for founders villa s2 to get feedback on @asgardfi protocol specs.
thank you @afscott and @SuperteamAE for being the ever gracious hosts + h/t to @pradologue for the golden ticket 🫡
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Beautiful. Not only the decision taken but the thought process behind taking it.
I am constantly blown away by how good the upcoming Indian talent is.
Plus makes me question wtf was I doing at 17.
I am 17 years old, and I am building a startup (@HeyBasch) with a bunch of my friends
We recently got a funding offer that valued us at
>$1 million
here's the reason why we rejected that 👇🏻
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happy birthday @manangouhari!
it's a privilege to have played a small role in your exponential journey from a shy cutie intern to now a cofounder + sometimes whooping my ass at FIFA :D
the world feels a better place with your kind infectious energy 🚀
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thank you!
converted this data to Airtable here:
airtable.com/app8H3SQ9jywWJC…
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rooting for @kru_tweets and Umbra team for their raise on @MetaDAOProject at 4PM CET today
privacy is a fundamental human right and building an incognito mode for internet capital markets is one of the most critical missions as state surveillance ramps up across the world
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currently borrow rates for USDS are nearly half compared to other major stables on solana
recap on USDS:
–– minted by @SkyEcosystem previously known as MakerDAO the first and the OGiest protocol in all of DeFi
–– currently #5 stablecoin by market cap at $4B in circulation
–– $90M+ TVL in DEX liquidity on solana
If you're taking a credit line against your SOL, this is a no-brainer move to slash your borrow rate in half using @asgardfi
recorded a quick demo here:
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request to all: please just say yes to anything that remotely piques your curiosity.
go even if you don't feel like last minute.
you need to be trying shit, engaging with life. jumping in lakes at sunset, meeting new people, picking up niche hobbies. it's not about acquiring novelty or checking off boxes. it's about keeping up your lust for life. just say yes. the attempt makes all the difference.
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The best prompt to learn anything:
"Teach me how <concept> works by asking questions about my level of understanding of necessary concepts.
With each response, fill in gaps in my understanding, then recursively ask me more questions to check my understanding."
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notes to myself:
ship like levelsio
distribute like theisaacmed
charge $ like patio11
most importantly,
be as intense and optimistic as thesamparr
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On recent investigation on why Solana is down:
Spammers clogged the chain to prevent borrowers on lending protocols to add collateral to save their loan position.
Resulting in mass liquidations without giving users a chance to recover.
Me:
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the world is a museum of passion projects
@asgardfi is my team's, excited to impress you in the coming weeks ❤️
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compare:
"what I want to build"
vs
"what 40k people want enough to pay me $25/month to create a $1M/MRR business where I have 80% gross margin so it will take 7 months from then on to reach $5M liquid which in most jurisdictions of the world can create FIRE conditions"
the latter is value creation, the former is your desire being projected onto other people that they should want what you want
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Metamask raked in ~$280M in 2021 from swap fees.
Even when it's cheaper and 10x better experience to swap on Matcha.
Lesson: people are really lazy. 😅
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time for tBTC by @thesis_co to get the limelight they deserve
maker is planning to offboard WBTC due to the change in custody from bitgo
is bitgo gonna fumble it's insane moat in WBTC?
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I have this photo on top of my notes as I attempt to build a high talent density at @findsignalHQ.
Long way to go but there are few joys than reviewing people's work and getting inspired to up your game.
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just onboarded my girlfriend's father (in his 50's, curious soul, knows his way around tradfi, active trader) and his eyes were shining when I pitched him:
what if you could open a bank account -> hold USD in it -> and earn 10% yield in....3 minutes....like right now (it was midnight)
and then we got him onboarded to Phantom -> transferred $100 worth of SOL -> he swapped $50 USDC on Jup -> then lent $50 on it on mrgn
under 3 mins
literally blew his mind.
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been struggling with coffee addiction and decided to full port to matcha, so far so good!
the following helped me rationalize:
- shot of espresso: ~63mg caffeine, very fast absorption in bloodstream, but creates jitters if you overdo followed by crash in 2 hrs, needing to take more caffeine
- shot of matcha: ~70g caffeine bounded with L-theanine, slow absorption in bloodstream, 6 hours calm focus with no crash
matcha gives you all the caffeine upsides without the downsides that led me to ingesting more caffeine which fucked with my sleep
plus it also comes with large doses of catechins (helps with fat burn and heart health), flavinoids (helps with brain focus), polyphenols (helps with gut health, blood sugar control), and extremely high dose of antioxidants (helps with cellular protection and anti aging)
if you don't like the matcha powder taste, add ice to remove bitterness, honey as natural sweetner to balance the grassy notes and lemon to lift the flavor
overtime as black coffee grew over your taste buds, matcha will also grow over you
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think about this image every week as i see asian countries playing to win across every vertical possible
(h/t @balajis)
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hyperliquid has cumulatively onboarded 56k users
that's cumulatively onboarded, we are not even talking about how many retained/how many churned.
that's about ~0.001% of candy crush total downloads
reminder that the pie is too small to even think about cutting it
Last day while studying hyperliquid’s numbers I noticed that builder codes have cumulatively onboarded ~56k users. Of these 23k are from phantom.
Each day phantom adds ~300 users to hyper liquid.
That’s the TAM for perp/futures products.
Equally scary and intriguing.
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i keep coming back to this photo @aomdotsol clicked of Balaji and @pradologue
brings goosebumps, so inspired and proud
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i think everyone in their 20s should read this book.
your brain is undergoing significant development and you are also taking important career and personal life decisions
the book's gift is to make you aware of what possible errors of omission you could possibly make in this decade and then helps you address them early before it's too late.
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Looking to talk to marketing folks who are itching to get started in web3.0
Community building is going to be one of the highest leverage skills in this decade. Learn on the job by helping a young team manage a 20k community.
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if you have lived most of your life in low trust societies, you probably have no idea how the bodily experience of walking around in a truly high-trust society feels like
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the highest praise for great design is indifference
was telling my mom the reason why airpods feel magic to me is that instantly connect, like i don't need to go to bluetooth -> headphones flow again and again, and my mom was like "well that is the most obvious thing they should do, i don't know what's so great about it"
i feel for the great designers who sand the product towards obviousness, only to get a "not sure what's so great about it"
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really want need to build a bonk keyboard for men
it activates as soon as you press send and it detects the following:
- pre concieved biases around women,
- you are being creepy
- you are being mysognistic, sexist
it will educate you by challenging your assumptions with examples
if you still send the message it should prompt you every 15 days with a message saying how is your single af lonely life going 😂
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the people i get to work at @findsignalHQ are some of the craziest high-agency people
My roommate just made $40k with his leveraged trading algorithm.
he's
- 20 yo, college dropout
- worth 8 figures in INR
- never works more than 4 hours a day
- anon
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yuge last week
win #12
@prastutkumar and the team at @asgardfi is crushing it with:
- new hires joining the team
- integrations with @marginfi and @RangerFinance_
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at Token2049 last week, spoke with marketing and BD leadership from various EVM ecosystem chains.
most of my discussions revolved around understanding the pain points they face in their customer marketing funnel.
several times, I pointed them towards @kashdhanda and @akshaybd's stellar work, suggesting they could glean insights from their distribution efforts.
disappointingly, their indifferent ad-hominem surface-level handy wavy responses spoke volumes to me.
most are intellectually dishonest at this point, where you can't have an objective discussion based on real, hard, cold facts.
ego always gets in the way.
==
separately, a shoutout to Kash and Akshay 🫡
these guys have sweated the inputs for the past 2 years to perfect the playbook of creating a demographic-based, tight-knit community at scale.
good luck beating the distribution prowess of Solana at this point.
This is your sign to start building for the @solana global hackathon 👀
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Scaler, Pesto Tech, Roc8 have produced great results in this space.
But I guess the market is deep enough to have more players.
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At @findsignalHQ, I faced criticism for our early bets on Solana and Polkadot ecosystems.
Undeterred kept building products that might boost user adoption.
Finally, Solana's ecosystem energy is on 🔥
Chain performance so stable that it flies under the radar.
🔜 Polkadot.
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you just need 6 months of private space to have clarity on what you need to do
figure out a way to get 3 lakh in savings
and move out
50k INR monthly burn rate is possible in 🇮🇳
courage and imagination are the constraints, not money
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would recommend all solana devs to go through Superteam Security where we reverse engineered most hacks and explained them at a level an intermediate dev could grok
security.superteam.fun/
repeatedly see devs not learning from previous mistakes and shooting themselves in the foot.
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jo is one of the reasons i deeply love building on the internet and for the internet:
- he was amongst the first people to respond to my cold DMs to jump on a call and jam around potential defi ideas when Asgard back then was a "concept of a plan"
- has been testing out all our products in beta and given copious feedbacks
- wrote the first angle check in asgard, the belief capital at that time fueled our small team for a very long time
- has been the most active community member, instrumental in building out cultural vocabulary (/smGM, one stop yield shop)
- gracious to host me in person and break bread with his family
we come from different geographies and cultures, yet face the same reality of broken regional capital markets and financial services
and these shared frustrations pushed our life trajectory in different timelines to roll up our sleeves to help build capital markets and services that are native to the internet, built on open rails, for anyone, anywhere
finally getting the honor to play the long game of accelerating defi on @solana with him
A year ago, I met some impressively visionary founders at @asgardfi and knew I wanted in on their journey. After months of brainstorming and hanging out in the community, I’m proud to officially join the team as the new BD lead!
Excited to build with these legends and help bring the wild vision to life. Onward to Valhalla!
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for far too long i have felt the magic of defi in whitepapers and technical docs
but not from using actual products
It’s like inventing the bicycle for the mind, but being stuck with the UX of windows and linux
solana ecosystem was the first place where I felt the magic in products - where product builders work backwards from the customer experience
excited to raise the bar again
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tune in to see me presenting god mode for defi to the OG kings
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urbanclap is a beautiful product
thank you @abhirajbhal and team, the value you have added in my life is immense.
extremely grateful and happy customer 🫡
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LFG 🔥
@asgardfi has already deployed Heimdall on The Arena
1. drop into The Arena's TG
2. use /arena_yield to invoke Heimdall
3. see 🔥 yields
4. ape
more god like powers coming soon for Gladiators in The Arena.
Welcome to The Arena
Finally -- traders can immediately long/short any new token on Solana instantly, with leverage.
Open now. Here's how it works 👇
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If anyone wants to understand the why behind this phenomena, read:
cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-…
Truth is stranger than fiction.
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TCP/IP is the new H1B
it already has been for me and for all @SuperteamIN members
Most of the ~150k Indian Masters students graduating in the US will NOT find jobs.
Long post, let's deep dive.
Indian Masters in the US have 3x’d in the last 5yrs to 300,000 current students, 2x even pre-pandemic highs. They represent 81% of all Indian students and ~30% of all international students in the US. As discretional wage has expanded in India, many companies have sprung up to help lower the barrier to entry for Indians to come to the US for their masters. 10yrs ago, it was ~4x less. Masters programs last 1-2yrs meaning ~150-200k students graduate this year and most will be out looking for a job.
Why aren't their jobs?
— Most are on loans and ~70% study CS / Engg. But there are simply not enough tech jobs to meet this demand. For comparison, all of Microsoft has ~100k engineers.
— Visas are harder than ever before. The recent proposed rule for wage based H-1Bs mean fewer jobs will qualify. Add to that the 4yr F-1 cap means Day 1 CPT will no longer allow you to stay beyond the 3yrs of OPT if you don't get into the lottery.
— Credible rumors signal that visas at least in this administration will continue to get harder.
— BigTech hiring has still not recovered. Trends show that new graduates with 0-2yrs of experience are the worst affected.
Going to the US for a Masters has been a reliable upward financial mobility route for Indians but that era seems to be coming to an end.
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in hindsight, I realize that my parents made the best decision for my life by taking me on a trip to USA when i was shy of 8 years old.
my father had figured out how to hack the LTC system in a govt job to subsidize international travel plus my uncle had moved there 20 years back so all in all the cost of travelling and staying there came under 1L/person.
i tasted the American life at a very young impressionable age and sure felt the American dream.
but it also made me feel that Delhi is mostly okay.
i remember the plane flight from Boston to Delhi and the airports eerily feeling the same.
the states sure does a fantastic job in propagating it's appeal through pop culture in order to make it the place to signal that you have made it in life.
never had the dream that i saw in most Indians' eyes of moving and living in the states.
probably saved a decade of my life.
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you already have a lot of people running negative feedback loops in your life.
discard them.
get away from that kind of energy.
seek a tribe that runs positive feedback loops with you.
and provides a safe space to unlock your tamed curiosity.
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we have had enough bad examples in the web3 space
had a soft spot for the team behind Azuki.
had been in awe of the competence demonstrated in creating a global anime ip
but this move was quite honestly dumb.
feel very sad that this space is going to grift itself into oblivion.
Azuki,
It's always both challenging & exciting opening up the gate to the Garden.
This time, we missed the mark.
We hear you - the mint process was hectic, the PFPs feel similar and, even worse, dilutive to Azuki.
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It's hard to find people who value time over money in 🇮🇳
This is present in most transactions (business/personal) and you can extrapolate the compound effects at scale.
When you find such people, go long on them.
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how much can we add to 🇮🇳's GDP if our society can figure out a morally acceptable way to get college students in India
to transition
from being bored to death
to have eyes that are gleaming with excitement.
it physically hurts me that there are 40 million college students right now spending the most valuable time in their life
studying outdated boring soul-soucking curriculum
with teachers who don't even attribute the slides they have copied from
and memorising for exams to answer questions that are either useless or have already been answered before in time
in an era of Google and GPT (!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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looking to be onboard a curious person to create quality threads at the intersection of crypto and ai.
paid position in remote async culture.
DM or tag your friends :))
JD is in works, just warming up the lighthouse.
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a great benefit of meditation is the ability you acquire to see your thoughts in the third person while you chill on the sideline.
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QR codes are the cheapest API endpoints
you can print an endpoint in 5 cents and start payment flows between sender and receiver
the last cost remaining to collaspe are banking license which is going to have it's kodak moment with stablecoins
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dating apps should productize these books instead of making yet another non commital swipe frenzy
a book on improving marriage without talking keeps going viral — i mostly see it as the intersection of love language / attachment style
indeed it's powerful having even *very* simple awareness of how these two things play out
and it's useful at work as it is at home
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if you are building a TG mini app for Radar Hackathon, highly recommend trying @usecapsule for embedded wallets.
Telegram has supported bots for a long time, so why has development activity exploded this year?
I have some thoughts 😏
Virality - every dev dreams of their app going viral. TG offers a social-first environment where limitations encourage games that are easy to play. Bots can gamify group chats and discovering a new game is as simple as sending a text.
Flexibility (onchain and off) - while many of the most popular TG apps are built on TON, you can build bots and mini-apps on any chain, or even entirely offchain
Distribution - TG claims over 950 million users, nearly double that of X, 5x Discord, and at least 10x any onchain social platform
At Capsule, we've thought a lot about Telegram as a platform. DM me if you want to discuss!
nitter.app/usecapsule/status/1838…
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was building design taste and an eye for what really delights an audience by making smol vfx showreels and making a ton of posters.
learned my way around photoshop, after effects, what a GPU really is and how to build a custom pc cheaply.
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was building a love for reading by devouring sci fi, teen romance, law cases, mythology especially Greek.
remember when I woke up at 5 AM to pester dad to get Harry Potter’s 7th book and speedran it in 28 hours.
also remember literal goosebumps whilst reading the last chapter of Da Vinci code.
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was obsessing over the right strategy in playing age of empires and badminton.
think most of my second order thinking comes from playing aoe and understanding that I am good at shot placement in badminton.
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was building a muscle for jugaad by making money through making invite posters for nightclubs of Delhi.
got promoted to design the vibe of events.
probably learnt vanity pays really well in the markets and that you can program monkeys to do about anything when it comes to achieving status, just realised it very late in life.
also remember feeling pride jailbraking my psp and then torrenting a bunch of games.
remember my mom’s surprise that how come I have more games now that don’t require me putting little cds in psp.
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was learning to be trusted with responsibility -head boy in 5th and 8th standard, stem rep for students council in high school.
just didn’t know better how chomu a position of head boy is.
have actively sought influence over authority once i knew the difference.
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was learning how to play well with teams by actively seeking intra and inter school competitions that required a 3-5 member team.
remember dominating most interschool computer science competitions.
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my childhood was prolly the most privileged childhood.
got love by my parents as much they could with what they knew,
mostly didn’t get trauma, no physical abuse.
dad became a friend and never really felt a sibling was missing.
saw parents romancing each other.
dad’s a kind introverted prolly one of the best mechanical engineer that I have met and mom is a kind extroverted teacher and prolly the best math teacher that I have met.
got great baseline genetics to start with.
infinite gratitude to parents and universe.
had privilege now want to leverage it to drive my worldview in the world.
"The thing you do obsessively between age 13 and 18, that's the thing you have the most chance of being world-class at."
- Bill Gates
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spitballing (+prompt for community members)
thinking of a TikTok-viral, super-simple 2-player game that acts as an onboarding funnel into a Dark Forest–style on-chain MMO.
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for Tiktok-viral, super simple 2 player game, idea:
space Cold War tension (given the dynamics of the world right now)
for starting scope: can keep it player vs NPC bot and then increase scope to player vs player
story:
you are a commander of a spaceship and you are fighting Elon for the scarest resource in the dark universe the $dark
game play mechanic is similar to rock-paper-scissors:
moves each player can make:
- Deploy Miner Probe - sends miner probe to mine $dark
- Launch Missiles - attacks the player
- Run Recon - get's intel on enemy's last maneuver
simulation of the game till 3 units of $dark are captured:
Tiktok flow:
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