Kobe Janssens

Quant, Full-Stack Developer & Blockchain Enthusiast;

Learning from the greats

[Kobe Janssens @AlgoQQ]

"I don't have time"

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

How Americans aged 25-35 spend their free time, 1920-2026. A shift toward ever more leisure and solitude. The most underrated change is the loss of time spent “doing nothing” (i.e. introspecting).
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[Kobe Janssens @AlgoQQ]

"You aren't going to do your best work when you are not free."

[Naval Podcast @navalpodcast]

“A taste of freedom can make you unemployable.”

— @naval

[Naval Podcast @navalpodcast]

Executive Brief of our latest episode:

‘Nothing Ever Happens’ Is Over

1. As companies grow, the communication overhead gets very high, so the traditional answer is hierarchy. This creates politics, permissioning, and a world where the CEO needs ‘founder mode’ just to talk to an engineer.

2. The alternative is a fully interconnected graph: everyone can talk to anyone, with a light hub-and-spoke around one person trying to keep the whole product in his head.

3. This only works if every node is highly intelligent. You need people who can navigate their way to the person they need to talk to, cooperate directly, and survive without management theater.

4. In that kind of company, AI starts replacing the explicit intranet. It can go through the codebase and tell you who in the organization is likely to be an expert, so you don’t need everything manually documented.

5. You don’t need fixed dashboards when AI can create them on the fly. AI can constantly be doing data analysis and reporting for you—reports on demand.

6. There are two, maybe four, companies that are dominating AI. The question is whether AI becomes a commodity business, a monopoly business, or an oligopoly business.

7. The famous meme “Nothing Ever Happens” is over. Post-COVID, the world is changing a lot faster.

8. Drone warfare changes the structure of violence in society. Drones bring mutually assured destruction down to the individual level.

9. Hardware is getting unlocked through software. AI means hardware companies can make good enough software, because agents can interact with the hardware directly.

10. Optimism requires creativity. Doom is easier to imagine, so we have to nurture optimism and be irrationally optimistic, because that’s the only way out.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

High agency looks like arrogance to people who have mistaken learned helplessness for maturity.

[Naval @naval]

Journalists aren't neutral - they're the cavalry in the culture wars.

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

I love this idea from Max Levchin:

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

If You Couldn't Fail, What Would You Do?

[Kobe Janssens @AlgoQQ]

@levelsio Pode dar-me a sua receita de Francesinha, por favor?

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

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It took FIVE YEARS to make this for you.

Because it's built from hundreds and hundreds of Elon's public appearances.

I went through 3,000,000+ words to collect the most useful and timeless ideas.

The final book is ~50,000 words.

Every word is USEFUL.

(This is what I do. My first book, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, is one of the top 100 most highlighted books of all time on Kindle.)

Then, I spent $50,000+ on editing and design so it looks and feels beautiful.

Then…

> Foreword by @naval.
> Visuals by @jackbutcher.
> Blurb from @mrbeast.
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> And yes, approval on this idea from Elon himself, thanks to @samteller.

I went Maximum Effort to make this an all-timer.

We got 10/10 on reviews from early readers, then worked on it for ANOTHER YEAR.

Why so much effort?

My mission is to create One Million Musks.

For a generation to lift our gaze and build, so our grandchildren live in a world beyond our wildest dreams.

I’m an independent author.

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[Kobe Janssens @AlgoQQ]

@EricJorgenson @elonmusk AMAZING! I can't wait to be mind blown! Thanks for advancing humanity & sharing this knowledge with the world @EricJorgenson!

[Kobe Janssens @AlgoQQ]

@readswithravi The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by @EricJorgenson

[Kobe Janssens @AlgoQQ]

The best indication whether someone will be successful? Their level of agency

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[Magee Clegg @mageeclegg]

Spent 4 days in Asunción 🇵🇾

Converted my residency to permanent.

Card should arrive in 3 months.

A few takeaways:

The skyline keeps changing…

New apartment towers every time I visit.

There is a great group of expats building interesting lives and they are betting on the future of Asunción… the energy is promising.

It’s still small and rough around the edges…

But each time I return, it feels less speculative…

And more inevitable.

Now heading back to Santiago 🇨🇱

[wishful_cynic @EvgenyGaevoy]

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[Naval @naval]

A few geniuses solve problems and automate solutions for the rest of society.

Any society that can overcome envy to maximize the number and output of geniuses will thrive.

[Kobe Janssens @AlgoQQ]

Viva España

[Arjun Khemani @arjunkhemani]

Creativity is the source of all that is new and good in the world.

Privacy is a precondition for creativity.

Total surveillance is civilizational suicide.

[Balaji @balajis]

The purpose of crypto is to build a code-based order, because the rules-based order is unfortunately collapsing.

That code-based order covers some of what international law once protected. It guarantees property rights, smart contracts, rule-of-code, privacy, secure voting, and user accounts across borders. Even in the face of debanking and denaturalization, the code-based order means you retain your onchain currency and onchain identity.

It is true that the crypto networks that buttress the code-based order are supported in significant part by finance and lotteries. But all 50 states of the US are also supported by finance and lotteries. The question is whether the world gets something better, on balance, for that cost.

As nationalism and socialism rise, the code-based order ensures that international capitalism continues. Anyone from anywhere has equality of opportunity on the Internet. You can sign a smart contract across borders with someone without knowing (or needing to know) their race, religion, accent, ancestry, or other likely irrelevant attributes.

Similarly, as more companies leave failing states like Delaware and California…the code-based order will protect these corporate refugees. The entities themselves and all their contracts can now be put onchain. They can dock in country X and move to country Y at the press of a button. Redomiciliation becomes as common as incorporation.

Moreover, as the politically disfavored emigrate from communist states, the code-based order also protects their property and identity via cryptography. And, if all goes well, it also adds a layer of unbreakable privacy.

In short: the West is entering a period of failing states just as the East sees the rise of the all-powerful state. The balance to both of these is the code-based order that Satoshi laid the foundations for.

That’s what cryptocurrency was built for. If and when your state fails, or turns against you, the Internet will be there for you.

[Kobe Janssens @AlgoQQ]

Great read on the social trap we find ourselves in.

How did we get here? By gamifying the wrong metrics and hyperfocusing on short-term results, all while neglecting the long-term consequences.

https://t.co/9QkS2UwOoi