Susan Tan

Real estate investor @Padsplit rentals in Texas. Web2 fullstack software engineer for too long. Studying EVM security research & auditing.

[Rohit @ai_rohitt]

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 27-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[minimum verstappen @suggestme_name]

when you're in "who can wear the most garment" competition and your opponent is ilia malinin

[Azhar Jafri @zhr_jafri]

Stocks reacting badly to Anthropic’s new legal AI tool

Claude’s new legal agent can read contracts, run compliance checks, and generate legal research end to end.

2 category of stocks getting major hits:

1. Legal Research Stocks

• Thomson Reuters: -20%
• LexisNexis (RELX): -15%

2. IT Services Stocks

• Cognizant : -10%
• Accenture : -10%
• Infosys ADR: -5.8%
• Wipro ADR: -5.5%

Legal research gets commoditized and clients might not use the paid subscription of their softwares.

IT services firms face pressure on billable knowledge work. Negative for IT firms' future.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump campaigned on an “America First” platform. Now he wants to "run" Venezuela?

60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Health care is collapsing. Housing is unaffordable.

Trump should address these major crises at home and end his illegal military adventurism abroad.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs.

[Jeffrey Scholz @Jeyffre]

Tolerating uncertainty is generally harder than tolerating discomfort.

People tolerate the discomfort of exams and work because the payout is certain (get a degree, a paycheck, etc).

However, few can tolerate uncertainty.

I very frequently get asked, "Hey Jeff, I'm thinking of doing ZK, Solidity, Rust, etc, where do you think the industry is headed?"

The question-behind-the-question is frequently "Hey Jeff, I don't want to work hard and not get a payout 2 years from now, how certain is the payout?"

They're not afraid of studying hard, but they are afraid of studying hard and not getting a payoff.

I'm not saying you shouldn't make an educated guess about the future -- but even "certain" things don't stay certain.

Becoming a software engineer in 2021 was a "certain" path to a six-figure salary in some countries (especially the USA). Suddenly, interest rose, AI came out, and the industry got cooked.

In 2019, buying office space in growing metropolitan areas and leasing it out was a "certain" investment -- but then covid hit, and the investments got cooked.

For a long time, going to a tier-1 or tier-2 school, then becoming a banker, lawyer, or consultant, was a "certain" career path. Now it's becoming less so as too many people pursue it in search of certainty (too much competition).

There is a danger in chasing a career path because it is "certain" -- the market may be overestimating the certainty of that path.

You should pick careers because you are good at them, reasonably enjoy them, and they aren't obviously dead-end choices (e.g., underwater basket weaving).

[0xh4ty @0xh4ty]

Wrote a detailed review of my experience in the @rektoff_xyz Solana x Rust Security Bootcamp. If you’re planning to join the next cohort, this should give you a clear picture of what to expect.
https://t.co/uU5caYZ57z

[Susan Tan @ArcTanSusan]

@yotamha1 isn't that @CyfrinUpdraft ?

[Susan Tan @ArcTanSusan]

@GalloDaSballo @pashov What's an invariants engineer?

[The Real Estate God @TheRealEstateG6]

People get insanely emotional about owning their home vs renting but the math is extremely bad for owners

Actually couldn't believe how bad it was as I was making this video (full video linked below)

[Susan Tan @ArcTanSusan]

@rplusq @WalletConnect well done!!

[vibhu @vibhu]

I was fired by Solana Foundation today.

I was the one that scripted, produced, shot, edited, and acted in a cringy ad that went viral and drove hundreds of registrations for Breakpoint, the biggest Solana event of the year in Abu Dhabi, from December 11-13.

If you’re looking for any ad producers or actors please DM me.

[Susan Tan @ArcTanSusan]

@arsen_bt Security

[Susan Tan @ArcTanSusan]

@pashov Wow

[Susan Tan @ArcTanSusan]

@floraai Am very interested!

[Jeffrey Scholz @Jeyffre]

Sometimes I get asked

“what area of web3 should I study to advance my career?”

The best thing for you to do is to shake the

“how can I make the most money in the shortest time?”

attitude.

Number one rule of Web3: Nobody - I don't care if you're Vitalik Buterin or Anatoly Yakovenko - Nobody knows if the a web3 meta is going to go up, down, sideways, or in freaking circles, least of all people who yap on X.

So pick what you are genuinely passionate about and stick with it for two years — that puts you miles ahead of everyone who can’t stay committed to something for more than two weeks. Even if your subfield isn’t “hot” you’ll be that much more competitive than the other people.

For example — technical content creation is literally the most trash subfield you could pick. People don’t see the value in it and/or aren’t willing to pay for it. Everyone expects it to be free, so that’s already a massive uphill battle.

But that’s my specialization and I’m still in business.

So all you have to do is pick some random thing that people pay for and do a really good job at it for 2 years.

A sad thing I see is people who haven’t experienced being cracked at anything because they don’t stick to things long enough.

They keep switching to whatever is hot and become an advanced beginner in a lot of things.

They never learn how to break out of the intermediate plateau because they’ve never done it before in any subject whatsoever.

It’s far better to be cracked at something that isn’t meta than to never have experienced being cracked at anything at all.

If that strategy is distasteful to you, then become so absurdly cracked at core math and core CS that you can pick up on any meta rapidly (that’s still a 2yr+ investment to get to that point though).

[Susan Tan @ArcTanSusan]

@0xh4ty @m4rio_eth What's your plan for making money in this field? contracts/jobs/audits??

[Susan Tan @ArcTanSusan]

@0xh4ty A college drop out??

[Susan Tan @ArcTanSusan]

@pashov How do you find the time in between auditing to make free stickers ?