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[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

There is nothing more important than understanding how reality works and how to deal with it. The state of mind you bring to this process makes all the difference. I have found it helpful to think of my life as if it were a game in which each problem I face is a puzzle I need to solve. By solving the puzzle, I get a gem in the form of a principle that helps me avoid the same sort of problem in the future. Collecting these gems continually improves my decision making, so I am able to ascend to higher and higher levels of play in which the game gets harder and the stakes become ever greater.

All sorts of emotions come to me while I am playing and those emotions can either help me or hurt me. If I can reconcile my emotions with my logic and only act when they are aligned, I make better decisions.

Learning how reality works, visualizing the things I want to create, and then building them out is incredibly exciting to me. Stretching for big goals puts me in the position of failing and needing to learn and come up with new inventions in order to move forward. I find it exhilarating being caught up in the feedback loop of rapid learning--just as a surfer loves riding a wave, even though it sometimes leads to crashes. Don't get me wrong, I'm still scared of the crashes and I still find them painful. But I keep that pain in perspective, knowing that I will get through these setbacks and that most of my learning will come from reflecting on them. Just as long-distance runners push through pain to experience the pleasure of "runner's high," I have largely gotten past the pain of my mistake making and instead enjoy the pleasure that comes with learning from it. I believe that with practice you can change your habits and experience the same "mistake learner's high.”

#principleoftheday

[Solana @solana]

Just in from Stripe Sessions: @Stripe will accept $USDC payments on Solana! 🔥

Live on stage, Stripe cofounder @collision demos a new payments solution coming 🔜 using SPL $USDC on @Phantom!

[Georgios Konstantopoulos @gakonst]

We have made great strides in the world of blockchain scaling in the last 10 years.

It’s time to go further.

Reth’s path to 1 gigagas per second, and beyond…where we present our roadmap for scaling Ethereum.

[zmanian @zmanian]

Chain abstraction is a piece of infrastructure technology created by teams like @NEARProtocol , @agoric , @SocketProtocol , @frontierdev that enables applications that seamlessly use the best possible execution environment for their users

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Beware of warmongers and the military-industrial complex. A full-on regional war will lead to immeasurable suffering for everyone. It must be avoided at all costs.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Elon Musk - “We’ve got to be excited about the future”

[toly 🇺🇸 @toly]

@haydenzadams Solana has had years and years of centralization fud because the hardware is expensive, when the alternative is literally honest majority multisigs. The former has always been communicated front and center, while the latter is obfuscated through layers of marketing.

[Superteam @superteam]

Go claim your W

[Monad @monad]

Monad Devnet is live.

10,000 real TPS achieved on the EVM.

[Hyperlane ⏩ @hyperlane]

Cross chain UX is getting easier.

1-click swaps + bridging right in your wallet with any existing and future Hyperlane routes.

Modular Expansion ↔️

[Jakey @SolJakey]

You either BUY, SELL or HOLD,

But regardless if your decision for either, do it with conviction.

[Richard Wu @0xrwu]

More often than not, great startups are built on problems the founders faced themselves.

- Airbnb: needed money so they rented out air mats
- Dropbox: forgetful USB drives
- Tensor: couldn’t sweep Okay Bears after mint

Your best first customer is yourself.

Don’t fade your gut.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla will never make a concept car that doesn’t become reality

[Christian Movick @ChristianM_74]

BREAKING: Robert Kennedy Jr. has been granted a massive victory in his lawsuit against the Biden administration for colluding with social media companies to censor him and others.

RFK Jr. was able to win a preliminary injunction against the White House and several federal agencies as a federal judge ruled that the government was "insinuating themselves into the social-media companies’ private affairs and blurring the line between public and private action."

Judge Doughty said Kennedy provided substantial evidence that the Biden administration had coerced the companies into suppressing free speech related to Covid, elections, gas prices, climate change, gender, and abortion.

"It is certainly likely that Defendants could use their power over millions of people to suppress alternative views or moderate content that they do not agree with in the upcoming 2024 national election," the judge added.

The injunction is stayed until 10 days after the Supreme Court rules on Missouri v Biden, though it prevents the White House and other agencies from coercing social media companies to "remove, delete, suppress, or reduce... content containing protected free speech."

This is a major triumph for free speech in the country that RFK Jr. has won.

[Justin @justinzard]

Observations from my first week working @tensor_hq:

-The entire team is cracked. @_ilmoi & @0xrwu were obvious, but literally everyone on the team is a killer

-Solana is home, and the people here have our full and undivided support

-There's never a "us vs. them" moment. It's always about building the best product and engineering the best experience for the user

-The internal culture is elite. Work hard, enjoy your job, help each other solve problems. ship the best products, stay hungry. There is zero complacency

[Stride @stride_zone]

1/9 We’re excited to announce that @Hyperlane_xyz will power Stride’s modular expansion ⏩

Hyperlane builds bridging tech, with a focus on the modular ecosystem.

The plan? Hyperlane deploys to Stride chain, and Stride functions as the bridging hub for TIA + stTIA.

Details 🧵

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Tucker interviewing Putin is important for opening more channels of communication. We need more conversations, not less. I'll speak to Tucker on podcast after.

I also hope to interview both Putin and Zelenskyy individually. I'll work hard to do this well.

This war has to end. Leaders need to find a path to peace. Conversations are a part of that.

For people criticizing me, I appreciate it. I will do better.

[Richard Wu @0xrwu]

Proud to be powering GameShift's marketplace support 🎉

The vision of GameShift is to onboard web2 & web3 game devs to build on Solana.

We're 100% aligned with this vision of growing the pie.

Tensor will become the base liquidity layer for NFTs on Solana, and it starts now 🫡

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Elon Musk's Unbelievably Simple Killer Break Down on Climate Change.

Thank you @DavidCarbutt_ and team for producing this video!

[Richard Wu @0xrwu]

I don’t think people yet understand the massive transformation for Tensor in 2024.

Tensor will go from a single dapp to a platform for 100s of dapps.

@saydialect was the 1st to build on top of Tensor’s protocol.

Now we will make it 10x easier for anyone to build on top of Tensor.

Tensor will become the fundamental liquidity layer for NFTs on Solana by becoming the people’s liquidity layer.

It’s time to grow the pie 🥧