I’m a retired brain surgeon and I wanna tell you why you feel like life is passing by. I just need one minute to explain this to you so hang in there.
Repetitive daily routines stop the brain from recording clear detailed memories. When every day looks the same, your brain does not track time the same as a clock does. It tracks change. If nothing new happens then days, months, and years start to blur together.
This is know as Time compression. When life lacks variety, your brain compresses past days together, making it feel like time is sped up.
To stop feeling like life is passing you by, add new experiences to your life. Break routine habits, like changing your daily home routine, taking a different route to work, or trying a new hobby.
Schedule small trips or plan new adventures so your days do not blend together.
Practice mindfulness by staying fully focused on what you are doing right now and not trying to race off to the next task.
Keep a journal and write down happy memories or memorable parts of the day before you go to sleep.
Take deep, calm breaths when you feel anxious or rushed to return your focus to the moment.
You can and you will retrain your brain to not feel like life is passing you by by following these few simple measures.
have been watching the marketplace transactions on @Collector_Crypt and @Beezie grow every day.
once enough cards are on chain these platforms can legitimately start to eat ebays marketshare.
paying a whopping 12% fee to sell a card on ebay or even 20% on goldin and heritage are a thing of the past.
disruption is coming to the tcg market.
Onchain gachas are going parabolic!
After setting new ATHs in spend volume in both March ($148.6M) and April ($184.0M), the sector is on pace to set another ATH in May ($211.2M projected). The top 6 TCG platforms by projected May spend:
1) @Collector_Crypt - $84.8M
2) @phygitals - $51.6M
3) @Courtyard_io - $50.6M
4) @Beezie - $15.8M
5) @mnstr - $4.5M
6) @renaissxyz - $3.8M
Crypto's next breakout application is here.
April saw a record amount of ONE PIECE cards through the grading room, captained by the collectability of Monkey D. Luffy.
It was enough to power ONE PIECE ahead of all sports categories for the month.
this is a good article, covers a lot of the details on @Collector_Crypt, feels like it's mostly flew under the radar but one of the few crypto consumer apps that has been doing well w/ essentially all user & revenue metrics trending up & to the right
apps with highest ceilings are the ones that also draw interest from crowds external to crypto, what was interesting about this specifically to me is that it's actually +EV for users to draw trading cards from the packs which is unlike 99% of the gacha models, emphasis on giving back to the users is apparent
@solana needs more of these to continue doing well
In crypto terms:
We have three hyped pre-sales coming up and people will sell their altcoins for them.
The past 10 years we’ve had Hyperliquid buybacks without any VC unlocks.
Soon we’ll have a massive amount of VC coins going to TGE, with VCs and employees dumping their supply on the market for some time.
PTJ is 71 years old.
Running a +$100B portfolio.
Been actively managing his fund for 4 decades.
And today he is working 100x harder simply due to the information overload, mostly from email.
The fire hose of information is only accelerating when you add in twitter, telegram, slack...plus Ai now generating as much new content as humans.
Human brains simply were not designed to intake this level of nonstop inbound.
Never been more clear that everyone will need their own personal team of Ai agents to sift through the slop.
This is the wildest story...
"I introduced Dario to 22 friends up and down Sand Hill Road and we got 21 no's.... it was such a brutal time getting this company going." @AnjneyMidha
This company today is trading at $860BN on secondary markets... ouch.
Top 5% of seed rounds now routinely topping $175M in valuation.
Up 3x effectively over the last 12 months.
Just a whiff of 2021-era ridiculousness about (even as an AI believer).
You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…
Just keep going ✌️
There is a specific kind of intelligence that is almost never celebrated but is consistently effective: the intelligence that recognizes when the game being played is not the game worth playing.