Sam O.T.

memento vivere. small time investor || my size is not size, yet. || advocate: @alloranetwork ✳️

[Sam O.T. @samcrypt_]

Why I'm Excited About @AlloraNetwork and Why You Should Be Too!
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[Sam O.T. @samcrypt_]

@ventuals Seen it coming a marathon away

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Me hearing that a football player at my age is “past his prime” while i still don't know what to do when i grow up

[Sam O.T. @samcrypt_]

@CesarAzpi @Osasuna @OM_Officiel @ChelseaFC @Atleti @SevillaFC @SEFutbol @ChampionsLeague @EuropaLeague @fifaworldcup_es Happy retirement, Mr. Consistency.

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

Chelsea Football Club is delighted to announce the appointment of Xabi Alonso as Manager of the Men’s Team.

The Spaniard will begin his role on July 1, 2026, having agreed a four-year contract at Stamford Bridge.

Welcome to Chelsea, Xabi!

[BowTiedPhys @BowTiedPhys]

Remind myself of the role reversal often.

[Coventry City @Coventry_City]

WRAPPING THE TITLE UP IN STYLE. 🏁

[Ollie | 🗡️ @ollieblocmates]

I strongly believe that the distaste for AI and onchain tech is the lack of adequate technical communication that has the potential to influence adoption and understanding.

A lot of people could be doing more onchain if they simply just get it in plain language

[Sam O.T. @samcrypt_]

Neuer man

You either retire a hero, or play long enough to become a villain.

[Sam O.T. @samcrypt_]

music to my ears

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Full-time at Emirates Stadium.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

Luck is fishing. And you control how many lines you have in the water. the person with 47 lines in the water isn’t “luckier” than the person with 2. They just have 23,5x more surface area for something to bite.

[Sam O.T. @samcrypt_]

@o_gonna_ This is not a "black man" issue. It's a "Naija man" one. The institution is still majorly managed by Africans but from other countries: Zambia, SA and the likes

[Sam O.T. @samcrypt_]

@o_gonna_ Exactly what I said when I went there two weeks ago

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: An experimental gene therapy ear injection has cured deafness for 10 out of 10 patients in clinical trial.

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

I put together 1000 Reasons Why You should not Vote for Tinubu in the next election.

https://t.co/52SZEDFhrY

Good morning Nigerians.

[moneyfetishist @moneyfetishist]

I am not going to motivate you because if you need motivation from a stranger on a plane the answer is stay

but I will give you the game theory

your corporate M&A gig is a repeated game with diminishing marginal returns. year 1 you learn everything. year 2 you refine it. year 3 you are executing pattern recognition. year 4+ you are being paid more to do the same thing with slightly larger numbers. the learning curve flattens but the golden handcuffs tighten because every year the comp goes up and the opportunity cost of leaving gets more painful on paper

this is a classic status quo bias trap. the payoff of staying is known and comfortable. the payoff of leaving is uncertain and scary. so you stay not because staying is optimal but because the asymmetry of regret is lopsided. you can imagine regretting the leap. you cannot as easily imagine regretting the years you stayed too long because that regret builds slowly and never hits you in one moment

here is where game theory actually helps:

in your M&A seat you are playing someone else's game. the firm sets the rules, the deal flow, the comp structure, the promotion timeline. you optimize within their framework. you are a very well-compensated player in a game you did not design. your upside is capped by whatever the partnership or MD economics look like. your downside is protected by a salary. that is the trade

owning a local business flips the entire payoff matrix. you design the game. you set the rules. the downside is real and unprotected but the upside is uncapped and compounds in ways a salary never does because you own the equity. a $2M EBITDA business bought at 4x and grown to $3M EBITDA over 3 years is worth $12-15M on exit. no M&A salary trajectory produces that kind of wealth creation in that timeframe unless you are a founding partner

the Nash equilibrium of your current situation: you and every other M&A professional are competing for the same promotions, same deal credit, same bonus pool. the competition is fierce because the players are identical. same schools, same skills, same hours. you are in a crowded equilibrium where everyone works 80 hours to stay in the same relative position

local business ownership is a different game with different players. the competition is a 62-year-old owner who stopped innovating in 2014 and a 35-year-old who inherited the business and does not want to be there. you walk in with financial sophistication, deal structuring experience, and the ability to read a balance sheet faster than anyone in the room. you are overqualified for the game which is exactly where you want to be. the best strategy in game theory is to play games where your existing skill set gives you an asymmetric advantage over the other players

the timing question is about optionality. every year you stay in M&A your financial optionality goes up slightly because you save more. but your operational optionality goes down because you get further from the reality of running anything. the M&A guy who leaves at 28 adapts to operations in 6 months. the one who leaves at 38 has a decade of habits built around delegating to analysts and reviewing decks, and managing a P&L feels foreign in a way it would not have 10 years earlier

but again. if you need me to motivate you, stay. the people who actually do this do not need motivation. they need a spreadsheet that shows the math works and then they cannot NOT do it. if you have the spreadsheet and you are still asking strangers for motivation the spreadsheet is not the problem

[Binance @binance]

⚠️ iOS Security Alert | Immediate System Update Required for iOS Users

Apple is urging iPhone/iPad users to update iOS immediately.

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) recently disclosed a critical iOS exploit chain known as “DarkSword,” affecting iOS 18.4 to 18.7.

This issue is not related to any exchange or wallet application, but is a system-level vulnerability in iOS.

Attackers may exploit this vulnerability when users visit compromised (but seemingly legitimate) websites. The exploit may be triggered automatically without any user interaction, allowing attackers to extract sensitive data, including crypto wallet information. The malware may also erase its traces after execution, making detection extremely difficult.

If your device is running iOS 18.4–18.7, you may be at risk.

Immediate Actions Recommended:
1️⃣ Update your iPhone/iPad to the latest iOS version immediately
2️⃣ Avoid clicking on unknown links or visiting untrusted websites
3️⃣ Review app permissions and disable any unnecessary access
4️⃣ Enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) on all crypto-related accounts and ensure withdrawal whitelist is activated

We believe it’s important to share this security alert with all users and not just Binance users.

Security is the foundation of the entire ecosystem, and protecting user assets must come first.

[trade.xyz @tradexyz]

S&P Dow Jones Indices and trade[XYZ] have joined forces to launch the first official S&P 500 perpetual contract, available exclusively on Hyperliquid.

For 69 years, the S&P 500 has been a defining reference point for global finance. Until now, access to that benchmark has been shaped by market hours, intermediaries, and geography. Today, that changes.

The S&P 500 perp is now available 24/7/365, anchored by the official index data required for deep liquidity and institutional confidence at scale. 

SPDJI helped define modern indexing. They are stewards of an iconic benchmark, the standard against which portfolios across the globe are measured. We are honored to bring that legacy on-chain.

Trade[XYZ] is bringing the world's most iconic assets towards a future of global, continuous markets — a future powered by Hyperliquid.

[Sam O.T. @samcrypt_]

Can't wait

[Insider Wire @InsiderWire]

#BREAKING: 𝕏 will soon let users restrict both posts and replies by region or country.

[Sam O.T. @samcrypt_]

Randomly finding a vote of confidence online after splurging 2k+ on same chair is one good feeling

[moon @MoonOverlord]

@karbonbased I got this instead, night and day difference https://t.co/H23CIFFOmG