jes

i dev, design, and degen 👩‍💻

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

Most people quit because they forget that you have to be bad at something before you can be good at it. It's so obvious. You suck. Of course you're not going to win in 2 weeks. But if you can learn to enjoy extended periods of failure, you will make it very, very far in life.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

The ultimate goal is getting paid to be yourself. To solve problems you can't help but solve. To study what you can't pull yourself away from. To eliminate any work that does not challenge you creatively.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/7l7Jef99QZ

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

It’s that day when I make you all look at this

[Naval @naval]

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

[Mubbu @wizofecom]

Had a wealthy friend tell me "Your goal in life should be to reduce the amount of time it takes you to get out of a bad state."

The bad states you go through are normal. What matters is being able to consciously catch yourself before you react to them.

When something bad happens, you're going to feel it. The difference is whether you let it control you for hours, days, or weeks, or if you can process it, acknowledge it, and move forward in minutes.

Becoming less reactive doesn't mean nothing bothers you. It means you've trained yourself to recognize when you're in a bad state and pull yourself out of it faster. That's the real growth. Not eliminating the bad moments, but shrinking the time they have power over you.

[jes @0xJes]

thought i won't get any, but i did!!

thank you @megaeth

[jes @0xJes]

gmonad

[jes @0xJes]

@legiondotcc i think i did ok

[jes @0xJes]

@FoxyPenguinApe @pudgymalaysia @justthur_ @pudgypenguins @IglooAPAC Happy Birthday Foxy!

[Cobie @cobie]

When ppl claim this I always wonder how they think it happens, or have unrealistic expectations on how much $1bn actually is.

I joined crypto with $200. If I held my initial bitcoin since then and never traded, I would have ~$300k.

If, instead, from that moment I sold the top and bought the bottom of every crypto cycle on Bitcoin, and never paid any taxes, I would have ~$6m USD.

If I put my entire net worth into the Ethereum ICO and never touched it, today I would have ~$150m pre-tax.

While it was definitely possible to have made >$1bn with the opportunities in the market, these versions of reality would also require me to make no mistakes, and have no need to spend $ in real life, or take excessive risk via leverage.

In reality, I grew up in a working class family. I didn’t have a trust fund and I had to pay off my student loan myself. I had a job at Tescos while at high school. After university, I needed to pay rent and fund cost of living and eventually buy a place to live.

I worked at startups for relatively little $ salary, and while a couple have done okay, they still are illiquid and worth nothing until some exit.

Perhaps if I erase a couple of dumb mistakes and drawdowns, or if I had a lil more grind, then my answer would be different today. But it is easy to say this with perfect hindsight vision. It’s easy to see where you could have optimised better, and decisions you made look dumb when the past makes things so obvious.

The truth is I have always optimised for enjoying my life and not going to 0. I never felt like I had a safety net, so it was never possible for me to do anything in any other way. I would probably have less money if I had tried to add more risk or chased $ harder, because being all-in with your entire livelihood is a mental battle and I feel I only win that battle when the stakes are lower.

In writing this, maybe I do understand why CT folks believe this, because modern CT sees crypto as a late-stage lottery ticket farm, where the optimal strategy is to 5x leverage up your portfolio in a hope of catching a good 20% move and then leaving. Or, literally going all-in on the next coin they heard Ansem is buying. So perhaps to them, looking back at the charts, of course that’s what successful folks did.

In reality, I use leverage close to never (and typically to reduce risk rather than add risk — have used it to add risk maybe 3 times in the last 5 years, and maybe 15 times ever). I never go all-in on anything, have only ever done that on BTC and ETH before in the last decade. When I buy other things, I limit risk to tiny amounts, because I treat it as a 0 until proven otherwise (so, always <1% liquid portfolio). Liquid portfolio is also a smaller % of overall portfolio to future-proof against my own fuckups.

Obviously I made a lot of money, I have been here 12 years! CT doesn’t want to hear about “getting rich in a decade” though. I am happy with where I am and have never really cared or optimised for maximising $ earnings, but instead having a nice life that lets me enjoy the game we play together.

[jes @0xJes]

@echodotxyz gmonad. ty echo!

[~ @xbt2027]

when you're an optimist

everything goes according to the plan

even when it doesn't

[jes @0xJes]

today’s pudgy party 🐧

[jes @0xJes]

@vvvchannn soon vchan! in a stationery store near you (hopefully) 🐧

[jes @0xJes]

one day I want to step into my favorite stationery or book store and see pudgy penguins memo pads, journals, and planners on the shelves

[Steve Starobinsky @PudgyPartners]

After last week's inner igloo, we have created this form to intake community partnership ideas. It's amazing to build this with you!

Pudgy Partners x Community concept form:
https://t.co/v7vOUd6fC2

[jes @0xJes]

submitted the idea, pls make it happen @PudgyPartners 🙏

[jes @0xJes]

@Bkess75 @0n1Force @JR_OnChain @trueIMCMPLX @CryptoSpaces1 @LinkedEm @Strawberrywtf @emilyrosemcg @t_mattty @ernestwu_ time flies! met so many friends in 0n1.

happy 0n1-versary ❤️

[jes @0xJes]

@vvvchannn @JinsNFTs @Nelnut @0xDaza @t_mattty @0xObelisk vchan the man!! you are amazing