Mark Byers

Passionate about helping people & communities self-actuate | co-founder of & Eastern Cardano Council |

[selfdrivenOcto @selfdrivenOcto]

https://t.co/B8DzFwEYAx

[Rational Aussie @rationalaussie]

The people who thrive over the next decade will be those who mentally abandon the idea of 'work as life' and start thinking more like a billionaire does:

You are already rich, now what do you want to do with your time? What side quests actually interest you? What is worth exploring regardless of any associated economic utility?

You will literally have an AI that can solve basically any problem you have if given enough compute, or help you explore anything you are interested in, including optimising your own life for what gives you personal fulfilment.

The people that do best will be like water. Everywhere and nowhere. Not tied down to any specific career or idea per se - doing it for the love of the game.

And some of you might say 'RA, that makes no sense, I've got bills to pay.'

Yeah, you need a plan to make it for about another decade, then that's really not gonna matter too much.

And if you start thinking like a billionaire you're just not gonna care that much. Go follow the side quest in your spare time then convince a venture capitalist to give you money for it. Pay yourself a salary with that and go exploring.

In short:

- Careers are dead
- Side quests are an infinite game
- Health-maxx, get jacked
- Be a good person. Reputation is also an infinite game.

All the other stuff... Career this, dollar here dollar there - who cares? We will have entire economic zones where superintelligent humanoids are building other superintelligent humanoids. The output of the global economy is going to be absurd. Orders of magnitude higher than almost anyone believes.

Stay flexible.

[Mark Byers @selfdrivenMark]

https://t.co/QDFZwDHcWs

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.

At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."

He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.

Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.

He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.

He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."

The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

[Adam Back @adam3us]

@seal_kiman @UtxoSaint It's almost like Satoshi knew something about distributed systems (or network / p2p programming) as the UTXO model is well-designed for avoiding them. .eth's were young, naive, no experience/wisdom, reimplemented around an obviously broken architecture. Tried to warn them 🤷‍♂️

[Garry Golden @garrygolden]

Does anyone want to buy https://t.co/qEM4GG40Dm kids this UV Printer -- to create accessory learning products?
https://t.co/5VNM7qaTqR

[Mark Byers @selfdrivenMark]

@rationalaussie 💯

[Mark Byers @selfdrivenMark]

@astroboysoup @ATADA_Stakepool @Cardano @MidnightNtwrk @Jinx_MJ_K @LearnMidnight @JoyeousT @Tom_Nimue @adosiawolf @Straightpool4 👍❤️

[Adam Dean @adamKDean]

Congrats to the many authors, contributors, and teams that have spent literal years making CIP-113 a reality! It's finally merged as its next step towards a path to "Active" status! 🎉🎉🎉 @MicheleHarmonic @phil_uplc @0xMetamatt @CryptoJoe101
https://t.co/nI1GySRhYN

[Rational Aussie @rationalaussie]

Unless the AIs are building affordable houses and curing cancer, normal people simply are not going to care.

Normal people will experience 'the Singularity' as 'great, another company firing me and replacing me with an AI, now I'm even poorer than before.'

[Cardanoscan @cardanoscanio]

Cardanoscan is no longer the Cardanoscan you remember.

That is not an easy sentence to write.

We’ve moved beyond the old homepage.

Today, we’re unveiling a redesigned Home Page with DeFi, chain stats, network activity, and more.

New home. Same chain.

https://t.co/f7Q5u3VYBx

[Mark Byers @selfdrivenMark]

@cardanoscanio @KiwiCryptoNZ 👍❤️

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇮🇹 Meloni announces a BURQA BAN in schools, plus a LIMIT on the number of foreign students per class!!

"The proposed measure will introduce an obligation for the parents of foreign students with serious school-integration problems to learn Italian, and it will introduce a BAN on the burqa and niqab at school.

In Italy, nobody, in the name of a real or supposed tradition, can decide that a young woman must hide herself.

Equality between men and women is not negotiable. It is not negotiable on our streets and it is not negotiable in our schools."

Brava, Giorgia 👏👏👏

Writer: Michael

[Neuralink @neuralink]

A beautiful surprise

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

12 years ago

[Mark Byers @selfdrivenMark]

@DaveBlundin Yep, it was Aussie humour ;-) // long time moonshots listener ❤️

[Mark Byers @selfdrivenMark]

@salimismail @moonshots_pod Thunderbirds

[Connor Leahy @NPCollapse]

This is one of my favorite podcasts I have done in a while.

It contains I think my to date best description of what I think a good world looks like.

[Mark Byers @selfdrivenMark]

@coinbureau Unless you have lived your life in complete isolation, they were never your own idea in the first place - just an observation based on your interactions. We are the original LM.