Bikeshedding, or the law of triviality, is the tendency to dedicate disproportionate time and energy to minor, simple issues while neglecting complex, important ones
chains used to compete on speed, cost, and distribution but now its just assets.
speed / cost have become a commodity and everyone wants distro with crypto abstracted (to pull in next gen of retail) so all that matters is assets being offered. i.e. neobanks want equities (?), majors (base), currencies (base), and comoddities (ethereum) while trading apps want perps (hyperliquid), predictions (polymarket), and memecoins (solana).
If you cut staff aggressively because of AI, you're probably not ambitious enough imho.
You can decide to cost cut OR you can just decide to multiply your output even more.
Polymarket will be this cycle's OpenSea. Permanently delayed token launch. Huge raises at 11 figure valuations. Product category name definer. Perpetually buggy and often broken user interface. No real technological moat. No sustainable revenue model. When bubble pops so will it.
Nobody is coming to fix your life for you.
Took me years to understand it, I kept waiting for the right moment and that moment never came.
I used to spend ages consuming content about self improvement, yet the only thing that actually changed anything for me was accepting that every single outcome in my life, good or bad, was on me.
It sounds obvious when you read it, but most people don't live by it.
It'll take you getting punched in the face by life enough times to stop blaming everyone else.
You are in control of your own destiny.
As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
how crypto guys explain their job:
> to parents: “i work in tech”
> to friends: “i do finance stuff”
> to girl: “i’m an investor”
> to CT: “i’m a degen”
> to mirror at 3am: “what am i doing”