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[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

There is a process that I have used, and still use, to reignite life...

Create two timelines—6 months and 12 months—and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great cook, be fluent in Chinese, etc.), and doing (visiting Thailand, tracing your roots overseas, racing ostriches, etc.) in that order.

If you have difficulty identifying what you want in some categories, as most will, consider what you hate or fear in each and write down the opposite.

Do not limit yourself, and do not concern yourself with how these things will be accomplished. For now, it’s unimportant. This is an exercise in reversing repression.

Be sure not to judge or fool yourself. If you really want a Ferrari, don’t put down solving world hunger out of guilt. For some, the dream will be fame, for others fortune or prestige. All people have their vices and insecurities. If something will improve your feeling of self-worth, put it down.

Drawing a blank? In that case, consider these questions:

1) What would you do, day to day, if you had $100 million in the bank?
2) What would make you most excited to wake up in the morning to another day?

Don’t rush—think about it for a few minutes.

If still blocked, fill in the five “doing” spots with the following:

— one place to visit
— one thing to do before you die (a memory of a lifetime)
— one thing to do daily
— one thing to do weekly
— one thing you’ve always wanted to learn

What does “being” entail doing?

Convert each “being” into a “doing” to make it actionable. Identify an action that would characterize this state of being or a task that would mean you had achieved it. People find it easier to brainstorm “being” first, but this column is just a temporary holding spot for “doing” actions.

Here are a few examples:

1) Great cook —> make Christmas dinner without help

2) Fluent in Chinese —> have a five-minute conversation with a Chinese co-worker

Determine three steps for each of the dreams in just the 6-month timeline and take the first step now.

Define three steps for each dream that will get you closer to its actualization.

Set actions—simple, well-defined actions—for now, tomorrow (complete before 11 A.M.) and the day after (again completed before 11 A.M.). Once you have three steps for each of the four goals, complete the three actions in the “now” column.

Do it now. Each should be simple enough to do in five minutes or less. If not, rachet it down. If it’s the middle of the night and you can’t call someone, do something else now, such as send an e-mail, and set the call for first thing tomorrow.

If the next stage is some form of research, get in touch with someone who knows the answer instead of spending too much time in books or online, which can turn into paralysis by analysis.

The best first step, the one I recommend, is finding someone who’s done it and ask for advice on how to do the same.

[Roan @RohOnChain]

My friend applied to 200 tech jobs in two years. No PhD. No Stanford.

Last month Anthropic offered him $750,000.

I asked him how he broke in from zero.

He sent me a course that was never supposed to get out. A 3-hour video to build a full LLM from scratch.

A developer teaches you exactly how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are actually built.

I watched it last night.

Halfway through, I realized it's embarrassingly simple to break into an AI lab.

Bookmark this and read the article below.

• 00:00 - intro to LLMs
• 05:43 - LLM transformer architecture
• 40:24 - training the LLM
• 1:30:27 - modernizing the LLM
• 2:33:53 - scaling the LLM

[AskLivermore @asklivermore]

This is the reason why we are outperforming the markets together. Save this, and you'll be rich during bull markets, and you'll survive during bear markets.

- At market bottoms, financials and tech lead.
- At the top, energy and staples take over.
- In bear markets, healthcare and utilities outperform.

My cycle repeats every time.
Knowing where you are in my cycle tells you exactly where to be overweight.

Save this. Study it. Use it.

[septiembre.eth @septiembre_eth]

🧵 The official Ethereum account published a thread based on this report.
Its author: William Mougayar — one of Ethereum’s earliest investors.
His argument: we are valuing ETH wrong.
It’s not a company. It’s a public good. Like the internet.
A thread:
(1/7)

[Joseph Chalom @joechalom]

Ethereum is entering a new phase: Organizations focused on infrastructure, go-to-market, and more are launching to accelerate the growth of the coming institutional supercycle.

Here is what just happened in this new Ethereum era, and how @Sharplink is helping to drive it forward. 🧵

[AskLivermore @asklivermore]

This is all you need to do to make millions in the stock market. Save this. Screenshot it. You will need it.

1. VIX above 35: buy aggressively
- High-beta tech, growth, small caps
- Every single time the VIX spiked above 35 since 2018 was a generational buying opportunity. COVID bottom. Oct 2022 bottom. Tariff crash. If you bought when everyone else was panicking, you made a fortune.

2. VIX 25 to 35: start scaling in
- Quality tech, financials, industrials, cyclicals
- This is where smart money starts building positions. Not all at once. Gradually. The fear is real but the opportunity is bigger.

3. VIX 15 to 25: hold
- Balanced: tech + defensives, dividend growers
- This is normal. Stay positioned. Don't chase, don't panic. Let your winners run.

4. VIX below 15: reduce exposure
- Rotate to: utilities, healthcare, staples, bonds
- This is when everyone is comfortable. Nobody is hedging. Nobody is worried. That's exactly when you should be.
- Every major crash in market history was preceded by the VIX sitting below 15 for weeks.

Right now the VIX is at 16. We're in the hold zone. Stay positioned but stay alert.
Bookmark this. The next time the VIX spikes above 35, don't freeze. Buy.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre.

The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.

Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel.

If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.

The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits.

There is just less competition for bigger goals.

[Vive con Propósito. @PropositoyVida]

¿Por qué nadie me enseñó esto antes? Ahora todas las letras se ven mucho más limpias

[Ted @TedPillows]

In 2022, $BTC spent 4 months below 200W EMA before the cycle bottom.

Everything is now pointing out towards a Bitcoin bottom in 3-4 months.

[BuyTheDiplo @BuyTheDiplo]

The uncomfortable truth about $ETH:

The market is not stupid for refusing to price it like “ultrasound money.”

ETH staking yields roughly 3%.

You can get similar or better yield in cash/T-bills with way less volatility.

So if the entire ETH bull case is “stake it and earn yield,” that’s not enough.

The real question is:

Where does ETH capture value?

There are 6 answers:

Staking yield
This is the bond-like component. Useful, but not enough by itself.
Burn yield
EIP-1559 is supposed to act like a buyback.

But the burn only matters when Ethereum blockspace is expensive.

Low gas = low burn.

Low burn = weak ultrasound money narrative.

Settlement demand
Ethereum is still the settlement layer for DeFi, stablecoins, RWAs, L2s, and tokenized finance.

That is real.

But the market wants to know how much of that activity actually flows back to ETH.

Collateral demand
ETH is one of the deepest collateral assets in crypto.

DeFi, lending, restaking, liquidity, structured products — all of it uses ETH.

But collateral value only matters when demand is growing.

Scarcity
A lot of ETH is staked.

But locked supply alone does not make price go up.

You still need demand.

Appreciation
This is the biggest one.

ETH is a call option on Ethereum becoming the global settlement layer for crypto finance.

But right now, the market is saying:

“Cool story. Show me the fees. Show me the burn. Show me the flows.”

And this is why ETH has been punished.

Ethereum scaled with L2s.

That was the correct technical move.

But cheaper L2s also crushed the old fee-burn model.

Great for users.
Great for adoption.
Bad for short-term ETH value capture.

That’s the entire debate.

Ethereum is not dead.

But ETH holders need proof that the ecosystem’s value accrues back to the asset.

My framework:

If ETH is just a 3% staking asset, it is not cheap.

If ETH becomes the reserve collateral + settlement asset for onchain finance, it is massively mispriced.

That is why I am not all-in chasing.

But I do think this is a long-term accumulation zone.

Not because the yield is amazing.

Because the market is pricing ETH like value capture is permanently broken.

If that turns out wrong, the repricing will be violent.

The signal I’m watching:

ETH/BTC bottoming
ETF flows improving
L1 + blob fees recovering
Burn > issuance again
Stablecoins/RWAs growing on Ethereum
L2 activity feeding back into ETH demand

Until then, ETH is not a yield trade.

It is a value-capture trade.

And the market is making Ethereum prove it.

[fabiano.sol @FabianoSolana]

https://t.co/SMUveJnSnt

[Ridark @ridark_eth]

HE TURNED A $599 MAC MINI INTO A CLAUDE SECOND BRAIN USING OBSIDIAN, PYTHON AND A FEW ALWAYS-ON LOOPS

not a fancy SaaS dashboard. not another chat tab. a tiny box on a desk that can pull lectures, transcribe audio, read articles, clean notes and write everything into a local vault while he sleeps

Steve Jobs wanted the Mac mini to be the small affordable Mac anyone could put on a desk. now that same tiny Apple box can run Claude loops 24/7, process 100+ saved links, turn 2-hour lectures into structured notes, and send a morning brief for a few dollars in API calls

the real trick is the loop. trigger, do, verify, retry, stop. Claude does the thinking, Obsidian stores the memory, and the Mac mini keeps running even when nobody is touching the keyboard

bookmark this before you think a second brain needs another $29/month app

[Movez @0xMovez]

Andrew Ng:

"100% of my tasks are now done by AI agents - hype has exceeded my expectations. Loops is next step.

in 3-6 months, everyone will be using self-improving loops. No more prompting."

In a 30-minute talk, Andrew Ng explains how to build self-improving agentic systems from scratch.

Worth more than a $500 agentic course.

[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

this is f*cking gold

How to build your first AI agent (Full guide)

if I had this a year ago, I would've shipped my first app in a day instead of 2 weeks

in the right hands, this changes everything:

[Ridark @ridark_eth]

I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet

Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, posted a simple idea that hit 16 million views: stop using AI to write code, use it to build a second brain.

You point Claude Code at a folder, drop in any source, an article, a transcript, a PDF, and Claude reads it, links it, and files it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest, the more you feed it, the smarter it gets.

Here's the whole thing:

> Install Obsidian, create a vault, open it in Claude Code

> Paste Karpathy's wiki idea file and tell Claude to build it

> Claude makes three folders: raw for sources, wiki for its pages, a CLAUDE.md that runs it

> Drop any source into raw and say "ingest this"

> Ask questions across everything, forever

Five minutes to set up, and you never start from a blank chat again.

Full step-by-step guide with Claude and Obsidian, link below.

Bookmark this

[Smaris @Smaris]

how to get web3 jobs

+ secrets to actually land them fast

step 1: I realized many people don’t know where to find web3 jobs, so I complied a list

- crypto careers - https://t.co/MPmFjsQvXs
- web3 career - https://t.co/qbWeba5CI8
- crypto currency jobs - https://t.co/MsVBAGRgG8
- crypto jobs list - https://t.co/9mjeSxdAAz
- be in crypto - https://t.co/sCfopWQ8AF
- job stash - https://t.co/WUk2KqfrTn
- remote 3 - https://t.co/4nqGeHILJm
- midnight careers - https://t.co/cIBohReQfw
- dragonfly jobs - https://t.co/tFelSw5ZGV
- block careers - https://t.co/yULnvmhMug
- solana jobs - https://t.co/PwH6NETFg1
- avax jobs - https://t.co/jd6flx6UA5
- ethereum jobs - https://t.co/5tmlpe1d4H

contests/bounty sites -
- super team - https://t.co/7ETtwTBMfk…
- scribble dao - https://t.co/H8cwysUV0i…
- wizz hq - https://t.co/aXAUUfytBp
- first dollar - https://t.co/7lH0SXSYID
- rova - https://t.co/qDwYfhTPZf…

there are other sites, you just need to search

now let’s talk about how to actually get the job fast

having the right skill set and knowing where to apply is one part of the puzzle but getting the gig is another

step 2: practical steps to get a web3 job (secret)

-> cold DMs: this is the art of sending your proposal directly to your potential employer

when you find companies that are hiring, don’t stop at applying through the job boards

this is why many people never land a job, because they get many applications each day and sometimes really on bots to filter

-> Do this: search for the project on X, identify their teams members, follow them, join their discord (if any), start pitching yourself strategically

identify their problem and propose a solution you can provide

make it short, don’t write a wall of text, writing some catchy first few lines will ensure your dm doesn’t get ignored

your cold DMs should be focused on getting their attention to respond, you can do this by letting them know you understand what they need

points out the problem > then propose a solution

always aim for brief, short and concise writing

keep it as short as 3 paragraphs, this is the magic number that has proven to work best for me

step 3: POW - proof of work

build a professional resume for yourself, this will help you stand out and showcase your skills

use Canva or Claude to generate a good looking resume

convert your resume to a portfolio website using AI and add the link on your bio to make it easy for potential employers

your X profile is also your biggest POW, share what you’re doing, your work, clients testimonials, add them to your highlight

be your biggest shiller - close mouths don’t get feed

step 4: Mindset

landing a web3 job is a numbers game, the more you apply, the higher your chances of success

do quite after applying for a short period, some people takes days before checking their DMs

if you want to get results, you must be persistent, remember you’re not the only one

if you send only 10 cold DMs a day
x7 (one week) = 70
x30 (one month) = 300

it will be close to impossible to apply to 300 just and not receive feedbacks

good luck

[Pablo Alcalde @HProductiva]

Una rutina de movilidad de 7 minutos por la mañana me cambió la vida.

[Priyanka Vergadia @pvergadia]

I took Hermes for a spin, here is all it took to set it up.

[Yuan Han Li @yuan_han_li]

https://t.co/hdTYO3HEsu

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Ep. 51 It’s becoming obvious that the US government has made contact with nonhuman beings. So why are they lying to us about it? We asked UFO whistleblower Dave Grusch.