⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ

I post about crypto, AI, food, bureaucracy, and freedom.

More about me: me at your own risk.

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

Dynamic Virgin.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Based on their current trajectories…

The Milei/Bukele model will bring sweeping prosperity to South America, while Europe declines into the third world.

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

When I was a kid.

[Andrew Ziperski @andrewziperski]

The Silicon Valley I came to in 2016 -- once a low-status refuge for weirdos, naive tinkerers, and missionaries -- has been overrun by input-maxxing Kumon striver types.

Company-building for this class of “entrepreneurs” is an exercise in performative escalations between startups touting their inputs: who can burn the most tokens, who can work the most hours, who can get the most views on an over-produced launch video.

This is why even “ARR,” which should be (and once was) an output of an excellent product and sales engine, has become a noisy, somewhat fake input -- into a machine designed to capture the zeitgeist for 15 minutes, dupe VCs, and maximize fundamentals-agnostic capital flows into a business. Actual company-building is a sideshow for the “cracked” YC-backed founder-striver.

When you talk to many of these people, they have no idea why they’re building what they’re building in the same way that a 16 year old doesn’t really know why he joined 12 clubs or took 15 AP classes -- only that they desperately want to maximize their visible, measurable inputs, tell you about it, and collect their gold star.

It’s easy to place the blame on YC, and they surely deserve plenty of it, but YC’s turn towards performative, low-stakes, incrementalist entrepreneurship is really just another symptom of the broader problems plaguing Silicon Valley: the inevitability of industry maturation and the playbook-ization of startups, demographic change, financial nihilism downstream of bad policy and psychopathic rhetoric coming from some leaders, etc.

The real progress being made amidst all of this is astounding, but the increasingly absurd shenanigans won’t stop until the culture punishes bad behavior and we prosecute, literally, some of the criminals running these companies.

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

@EndWokeness @elonmusk America??

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

Sigh. The anti-AI lobby is killing it.

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

NOW - Pope Leo XIV: "Artificial Intelligence needs to be disarmed."

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

@Jakeronthia_ Ciao Jake. In crypto dal inizio. Non sono italiano ma ho vissuto in Italia on and off da piccolo. Adesso vivo a Spoleto, lontano da qualunque comunità crypto. L’anno prossimo mi trasferisco a Roma. Forse meglio.

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

The next shift in crypto data isn't faster indexing or better APIs, it's intent-aware infrastructure, i.e., systems that understand what agents need and adapt to those needs.

Read more: https://t.co/pg6kbIm8MW

[Lucas @0x_Lucas]

Guess I’ll say the quiet part out loud

Bankless apparently laid off a majority of the team yesterday

No thank you or public announcement to help team find new homes

Just David tweeting about how he’s selling ETH and Ryan talking about himself

Come on guys

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

@chamath I’ve stopped trying till I hear they’ve solved this. Used to be my go to.

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

The fight over the Clarity Act makes me wonder who the real conservatives are in America.

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

Yes

[Yegor Bugayenko @yegor256]

RESTful APIs may be dead soon. Instead, web services may expose a single POST entry point for a prompt. Internally, an AI agent may decide how to interpret it and what to do with the data and the database.

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

@sairahul1 So you need to build a Twitter clone to get a job now?

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

@mecee @jevidon No option to hand the AI our private keys. Seems half baked.

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

References to The Thucydides Trap are premature. The US is still rising and has a long way to go. Since the 60s it’s been psyoped into slowing down. But now that Americans have a more global perspective (thank you Internet) they’re recognizing the psyop in big enough numbers to matter.

It’s amusing that China is piling on with this reference. Almost embarrassing. The Chinese understands the arc of empires better than anyone. They know it’s not over.

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

@mecee Congrats to all of you!

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

The fewer lesses I see, the better.

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

@kaledora When I worked on Wall Street I was able to recruit the best engineers because I got the head of the desk to agree that they didn’t have to wear ties. 😭

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

Our SDR is vibe coding his way into the Hall of Fame.

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

Composability won once when we applied it to tools. Small pieces, combining in ways their designers never planned for. It is about to win again with data, and matters most in fragmented domains like blockchain.

https://t.co/3UjQZN73Un

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

@zanehengsperger Build your own.

[⍴⍙u𝝀 m𝔘𝓇⍴𝔥ຯ @prmurphy]

@MagellanQuest And the lingua franca is English. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯