You were taught crypto very poorly.
Public blockchains are global supercomputers.
Anyone anywhere in the world can run a program on them and anyone in the world can use the program.
Bitcoin supercomputer only runs the Bitcoin ledger.
Solana supercomputer can run any Rust program.
SUI supercomputer can run any Move program.
Ethereum supercomputer can run any Solidity program.
The supercomputers are constructed as a distributed set of nodes all around the world and are connected via physical networks to act as one. To stop the supercomputer you have to stop all the nodes all around the world.
To run programs on the supercomputers requires gas tokens or "native" tokens to the particular supercomputer. To use the programs the user requires these tokens. These tokens are public and can be used as currency on the supercomputers. Examples of "native execution network" tokens are $BTC, $SOL, $SUI, $ETH.
Note: No different from running a AI LLM supercomputers which also requires tokens to run but LLM tokens are not yet tradable or public and represent one word of a AI query.
Bitcoin does not have the ability to run arbitrary programs, it only runs the Bitcoin ledger. This means it is not an "execution network". An "execution network" can run arbitrary programs that represent functionality or other token ledgers. Solana, SUI and Ethereum are examples of "execution networks" and are typically called Layer 1 execution networks because they can execute user programs.
Now understand all other "tokens" or "crypto" are just programs running on one of these "execution network" supercomputers. StableCoin like USDC or USDT are just programs running on each of the supercomputers. Defi applications and DEX's are just programs running on the supercomputers. Meme coins are just programs running on an "execution network". Anyone can run a program and anyone can use the program.
Now you can imagine how these global supercomputers that store and run programs will be used by everyone, institutions and governments will run everything on them and an entire agentic infrastructure will use them.
Start to learn what crypto really is. Understand you were PURPOSEFULLY taught it incorrectly. You were the early testers of the supercomputers. Everything we see in crypto today can be thought of as a test.
Together with AI these supercomputers will run the world.
@SMB_Attorney I did this too. Got free bacon, beef, and chicken wings for life … had to pause the wings because at one point my garage freezer was all frozen wings..
The work load that is possible with Codex gpt-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 for the moderately practiced AI + domain expert is crazy right now.
I got busy with human stuff and AI usage dropped for a week or two and then came back to it tonight and shit is on fire.
Partially, I’ve gotten better at context and tool management (prompt library, schema, reverse prompting, skills, .md files, persistent knowledge management efficiency, etc)
Damn. Dario did a deal with Elon. Claude is coming back. Unexpected!
Also, my “Trojan Horse Jiu Jitsu” radar is going off.
I’m old enough to remember when Motorola did a deal with Apple to work on iTunes-enabled phones 2 years prior to iPhone magically launching.
Way too late, Motorola management realizes that Apple had been collaborating with Motorola rank and file over those two years to solve their stickiest issues launching their own phone. And in the process recruited all the best Motorolans to Apple.
These types of partnerships between competitors are a game of thrones.
We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.
This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.
Major career mistake I see often:
Leaving a company when you have an executive *champion*
Not a sponsor or a mentor. A true advocate
Pro Tip: There isn’t any amount of money you leave this situation for. Your career growth with literally not compound faster anywhere else
An executive champion does several things:
1. They are hunting for and securing you high-visibility, high-impact opportunities
2. They are giving you the autonomy to swing big and probably (definitely) fuck up
3. They have your back when you do inevitably fuck up
4. They help you debrief and get better
Having the autonomy to take big swings and fuck up is how you learn. And how you learn is how you earn!
When you find this, you must realize this is often a once in a career situation. You hang on for dear life
Everyone who leaves almost always regrets it
New iMessage, X post, etc feature:
Summarize the guy in the group chat who uses too many words to 10x fewer words.
Allow recipients to click through to original message (if they must).
I riffed.
I am (according to grok) missing the lens that Ben and his followers were ostensibly viewing this from.
I asked why this set of books evoked this reaction.
Grok explained.
I said, I like this set of books and asked why am I not aligned with these other humans.
Grok guessed and asked why I liked the books.
I explained.
Grok asked what I hoped to get out of LKY.
I explained.
Grok explained.
I asked (given the obvious disconnect between me and these other humans) what could I say that would be positive and engaging (not for farming, I rarely post, but for positive engagement’s own sake)
Grok provided the following
“Haha fair “My god” — the list is eclectic. But running ops in a [redacted], LKY’s From Third World to First is pure execution gold: meritocracy, zero-tolerance integrity, and ruthless outcome focus turned a post-colonial mess into a global powerhouse. Perfect playbook for professionalizing legacy cultures and driving sponsor value. Rand lights the builder fire, Dalio maps the cycles we’re in. What’s your go-to for turning messy systems into high-output machines, @EpsilonTheory?”
I edited (lazily I surmise)