OntoTheNextOne |🥷

Crypto/ NFT enthusiast

[Martel Metellus @MartelMetellus]

most people won't escape this simulation because they're anchored to everything that keeps them here

material possessions. career identity. relationship status. external validation. your self-worth measured by what you accumulate

All chains disguised as meaning

the simulation traps you with attachment. every time you say "I need this to be happy" you're signing another contract to return

detachment means operating without expectation. loving without needing reciprocation. building without your identity collapsing if it fails

most people think detachment means caring about nothing. you care about everything while being enslaved by nothing

you give everything to free will to exist without projecting your own ideals onto it.

you can love someone deeply while being unattached to whether they stay. you can pursue wealth without your worth depending on the number. you can build a business without needing it to validate your existence

attachment says "I am this" detachment says "I experience this"

watch people defend their suffering. they need their pain to mean something. they need their struggles to validate their identity. that need keeps them here recycling the same patterns convinced this time will be different

the simulation's greatest trick is making you identify with the character instead of recognizing you're the awareness experiencing the character

you're not the body. you're not the thoughts. you're not the emotions. you're the space in which all of this appears

tell someone their career isn't who they are and watch them fight you. without these anchors they don't know who they are

you can't transcend what you're identified with. you can't leave a simulation you think is your only reality. you can't become light while carrying the weight of attachments

enlightenment is losing everything you thought you needed to be complete

most people build entire lives as monuments to their attachments. generational wealth. legacies to be remembered. impact to justify existence

none of it comes with you

you'll know you're close when losing everything doesn't scare you anymore. when success and failure feel the same. when the whole game becomes transparent

but most never get there. too busy defending attachments. protecting identities. justifying suffering. finding meaning in the prison

the simulation doesn't need walls when everyone's convinced their chains are jewelry

if you wanna get out, stop needing anything to be different. stop requiring outcomes to validate your choices. stop measuring worth by what you accumulate

become light by dropping everything you think defines you

every attachment is weight. every expectation is an anchor. every need is a return ticket

most people are building heavier chains and calling it success. collecting more attachments and calling it growth

going the wrong direction while convinced they're ascending

you're already free. just too attached to the story of seeking freedom to notice

you're not in the simulation. you are the awareness watching it unfold

you can't know this while defending everything you think you are

so you'll come back. again and again. until the weight becomes unbearable and you finally let go

or drop it now

heaven and hell.

[OntoTheNextOne |🥷 @intoadmj]

@ptolichus Love your content bro - Wonder what’s your take on listen to oneself and going on your own personal myth journey vs program yourself to where you wanna be?

[Starter Story @starter_story]

$4.5M per year with PLUGINS.

90% profit margin, $0 marketing spend.

Growth: just ASO and a reviews flywheel.

I chatted with the legendary @malisauskasLT for 2 hours, and here's the top 2% of our chat:

– A breakdown of his 5 apps (1:33)
– How to filter out bad business ideas (4:40)
– Why competitors are a good thing (8:37)
– The review flyweel that creates 90% margins (11:11)
– Why you should launch with no paid plan (13:32)

[Starter Story @starter_story]

How to replace your 9 to 5 income (without quitting your job):

1. identify a problem space that you're passionate about. productivity, sleep, design, media. it doesn't matter as long as (a) there are successful businesses operating in that problem space and (b) you actually give a sh*t about it.

2. block 2 hrs/day. you gotta find the time. whether it's morning before work, or evening once the kids are in bed. if you're telling me you don't have the time, then you gotta just give up now. no business can be built without daily focused effort over a long period of time. THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS

3. build solutions around that problem space. try lots of things. avoid the shiny object syndrome of switching to different problem spaces every 3 days. go deep & understand your potential customers and what makes them tick. study successful businesses in that space on websites like starter story.

4. get over your fear of putting yourself out there. you need to be posting on your linkedin about your silly new idea in hopes that maybe it reaches that 1 person who actually needs it. who gives a sh*t about what Kathy in HR thinks about what you're doing. she doesn't care anyways.

5. do this 5-7x/week and start playing the long game. 2 hours/day x 365 is almost 800 hours diving deeper into that problem space, building stuff, and compounding. it's only the beginning tho. you'll need 10k hours to become financially free, but it will all be worth it

if you do this for a year, and nothing good happens, i'll eat my shoe.

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

if you’re a young person interested going deep on weird things, basically the only good advice is you should be 1000x more commercial.

someone will get very rich by monetizing the things you figure out, there’s no reason that person shouldn’t be you.

[Ben Smith @bensmithlive]

Eczema, dermatitis, and acne aren't skin conditions.

They're gut disorders manifesting on your skin.

Steroids and creams always fail long-term because the root cause is in your GUT.

Here are 16 evidence-based tips to fix it: 🧵

1) Stop eating sugar

[Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) @Outdoctrination]

The best thing you can do for your health that no one is talking about.

You’ll be sleeping like a baby, reducing your stress, and crushing inflammation.

Literally touch grass.

Why GROUNDING is the missing link to your optimal health:

[Honey @honey_xbt]

market thoughts:

january seasonality is in full swing and BTC chopping while maintaining above $90k is a good sign imo

im expecting at least one more week of sideways before we start trending higher towards the end of the month with a full blown alt szn in february where ETH and alts outperform (as we've seen in the last years) for a couple of weeks and then we get a local top sometime by the end of march - early april

you might think this is consensus but trust me it's not ~ looking at the timeline these days, most have become bearish and some are even saying we might be over for the cycle

while there's nothing guaranteed, i am of the view that we see higher prices and potentially a new high in BTC, ETH and alts in the next couple of months

sell in may and go away something something

[Miles Deutscher @milesdeutscher]

If you've been paying less attention to crypto over the holiday period, you MUST read this thread.

AI agents are exploding, "alt season" indicators are beginning to flash, and the market is waking up.

I compiled the top 10 alpha tweets I read this week, so you don't have to.👇

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

I'm 38.

When I was 32 I worked in banking, went woke (then broke) & suffered anxiety

Then I discovered Balaji Srinivasan
on X & made several million dollars by 38

14 of his insights that transformed my life (and will do the same for you):

[Min Choi @minchoi]

It's only been a day since Anthropic dropped Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Claude, like universal plug for AI.

Now AI connects to tools and data insanely easier.

And people can't stop getting creative with it to do your work.

10 wild examples:

[OntoTheNextOne |🥷 @intoadmj]

@starter_story Does it work for people do not have coding experience?

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

.@naval Life Rules:

[〽️ᄃ��t 🐾 @mztacat]

🃏 Swell Claim to go LIVE

• Claim Start: 9:00AM UTC, Nov 7, 2024.
• SWELL Supply: 10B total; 850M (8.5%) for the Voyage.

📍Visit:
https://t.co/bLApv78r66
✨ Connect Wallet
✨ Check allocation

• Distribution: 13% circulating supply initially.

Community (35%), Team (25%), Fundraising (25%), Foundation (15%).
• Voyage: 7% distributed by Pearls, 1.5% Loyalty Bonus. Claims open for 6 months.

🗞️Source:
https://t.co/ekrHwWSDvd

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

You can just make things.

This is my massive white-pill about the revolution in small scale manufacturing that's going on right now.

The immediate trigger is a story I read about a guy who was annoyed that his wife needed a wheelchair, and the designs were all crappy and hideously expensive and made in China. So he booted up a small factory that now builds custom wheelchairs, delivering them for about $1,000 a pop, undercutting the Chinese by a factor of five.

The context, though is something that's been going on since the first mass market 3D printers in 2009. We've had more than a decade now in which many of the people who would have become part of the hacker culture I came up in back when software was the cutting edge have been learning how to use FDM printers, desktop CNC mills, laser cutters, EDM machines, and all kinds of physical fabrication techniques that you can set up in a garage or a basement.

The lesson has had time to sink in. If you're clever about it, you can hack matter the way we learned how to hack code - high speed, low drag, flexibly and playfully.

You can just make things. Without bimpty-bump millions of dollars of startup capital. With the new tech you can start small, turn a profit on boutique items, and scale up organically.

SpaceX is part of this story, using rapid iterations of custom designs made with 3D printing in sintered metal to continuously improve and simplify their rocket engines. So are Defense Distributed and the other semi-underground firearms-fabrication anarchists. So were the people who figured out how to garage-build respirators during the COVID panic. And now so is JerryRigEverything, the YouTuber who built a wheelchair factory.

The software revolution of a quarter century ago was fueled by Dennard scaling driving down the cost of compute power and wide area networking. Suddenly you could do things on a desktop that had taken raised floors and dedicated computer rooms just a few years before. Hackers grabbed these new possibilities and ran with them. I helped the movement understand itself.

I see something very like that happening again now. But instead of the demassification of software, we're seeing the demassification of manufacturing. The new hackers are being playful with atoms rather than bits. But the same spirit is there; I can feel it every time I wander into a makerspace.

These kids are not going to be stopped. There's too much fun to be had. Too many brains chasing every problem in sight. If my hacker culture didn't still exist it would make me all nostalgic to watch them.

But no. The old hacker culture and the new one flow together at the edges. The apprentice I'm teaching systems programming has a side-hustle printing models for mail-order customers. The kids put their part designs in public repositories; they didn't have to discover open source and distributed collaboration, they grew up absorbing both through their pores.

(Which has the accidental result that though I'm not leading things and writing manifestos this time, I'm one of their culture heroes anyway. That feels nice, I won't deny it.)

And you ain't seen nothing yet.

FDM and other small-scale fabrication technologies are attracting enough attention to improve at a torrid pace. There are obvious synergies with robotics and deep learning that haven't kicked in yet. Or, maybe they already have in somebody's garage, and we'll find out about it next week or next month.

It's a swarm attack, a disruption from below, and lots of conventional large-scale manufacturing outfits are going to suffer the fate of massified Chinese wheelchair factories - they just don't know it yet. They'll be undercut by cheaper, lighter, faster, smarter, custom, and localized.

Somewhere, Buckminster Fuller is whispering "ephemeralization" and smiling.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

new pod is live and it's a 1hr tutorial on how to set up funnels that print for your startup (read/watch below)

a founder just shared his $20M funnel playbook with me.

@jicecream shared his "ugly" funnel that looks like its from 2009 for his company AJ&Smart.

but surprisingly, that funnel made over $20M.

i sat there watching jonathan break down their entire system. felt like i was stealing:

their best performing sequence is almost too simple:

1. facebook ads drive to a landing page.
2. landing page offers an hour-long free training.
3. training leads to a call booking.

but the genius is in the patience.

while most founders rush to convert visitors, AJ&Smart does the opposite. they make you invest an hour in their training.

because someone who spends 60 minutes learning from you is worth 10x someone who bounces in 30 seconds.

then comes the marketing web: they pixel every visitor.

build retargeting campaigns across platforms. follow you until you're ready to convert.

my fav part of the tutorial is the the MIFGY secret that 10x'd conversions for him.

MIFGY stands for Most Incredible Free Gift Yet

it's a strategy to stack one-time bonuses on your offer. Create FOMO.

haters in silicon valley will say "this only works for info products."

tell that to Eight Sleep ($150M+ raised) or AG1 ($115M+ raised) or Whoop ($400M+ raised)

these aren't small businesses. these are category-defining brands. all built on "basic" marketing funnels.

jonathan even showed us the exact ads, landing pages, and email sequences!!!!!

you love to see it.

probably best to watch on youtube to see but you can also listen on audio

https://t.co/9pMcaMgNdx

https://t.co/YAKU1nhlwM

https://t.co/2McgoDD4Qb

people usually charge $5,000 for this level of detail. but you can watch the whole breakdown for free.

i refuse to charge for this stuff. enjoy for free but share with your friends.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Just a week ago, Minimax dropped.

And now anyone can create mind-blowing AI videos from simple text prompts.

13 wild examples (and how to try it for FREE):

[Fireship @fireship_dev]

Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative:

Notion -> Appflowy
Zoom -> Jitsi
Jira -> Plane
Airtable -> NocoDB
Vercel -> Coolify
Heroku -> Dokku
Firebase -> Pocketbase/Appwrite/Convex/Supabase
Shopify -> Prestashop
GitHub -> GitLab
Slack -> Mattermost
Salesforce CRM -> ERPNext
Dropbox -> NextCloud
Mailchimp -> Mautic
Trello -> Wekan
Docusign -> Docuseal
Calendly -> Cal dot com
Datadog -> Prometheus
Google Analytics -> Matomo
Microsoft Office 365 -> LibreOffice
Asana -> OpenProject

what else?

[swyx @aiDotEngineer WF @swyx]

💁‍♂️ How to Play Long Term Games:

Systems > Goals
Discipline > Motivation
Trust > Distrust
Principles > Tactics
Writing > Reading
Vulnerability > Confidence
North Stars > Low Hanging Fruit
Trends > News
Habits > Sprints
Questions > Answers
Problems > Solutions
People > Projects

[OntoTheNextOne |🥷 @intoadmj]

@CryptoWizardd Looking at this first-ever tweet from Wizz gives me chills! Look at all the calls. It's amazing to see how far Wizz has come. Salute!