Tamer Hassanein

[Mal @UtdMaI]

Iran played three matches.
They drew all three.
And in every single one, they fought with heart, pride, and dignity.

But after their final match, the host nation reportedly demanded they leave immediately.
No time to recover. No time to rest. Just pack up and go.

That is not how you treat athletes.
That is not how you treat human beings.

Despite the pressure, the restrictions, and everything stacked against them, Iran kept showing resilience.

This team deserves respect, not mistreatment.

That’s the spirit of the World Cup.

[Tamer Hassanein @tamer4]

@honey_xbt Like most all things crypto, this was both spot on and aged very poorly

[Sam Altman @sama]

i can't think of a non-cliche way to say this, but everyone who says having a kid is the best thing in the world is both correct and still somehow understating it.

[Tamer Hassanein @tamer4]

@pastorlocke You’re pathetic, and hiding behind the Bible as a shield to hate others doesn’t save you, it exposes how little you understand about Christianity. You should be more worried about literally going to hell than about hating 2 billion Muslims

[Tamer Hassanein @tamer4]

@EYakoby You’ve got a lot to learn kid. First, be crazy not stupid.

[Tamer Hassanein @tamer4]

@gghamari It’s way further back than that honey

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

War does not solve problems; on the contrary, it amplifies them and inflicts deep wounds on the history of peoples, which take generations to heal. No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, or stolen futures. May diplomacy silence the weapons! May nations chart their futures with works of peace, not with violence and bloodstained conflicts!

[Tamer Hassanein @tamer4]

@dumimo @saylor @BloombergTV @Strategy “Never go full retard”

[Tamer Hassanein @tamer4]

Huge development coming from @flow_blockchain. Way to keep redrawing the boundaries of what’s possible in Web 3 @roham @dete73 @dapperlabs team!!

[roham @roham]

Less than 6 months from now, @flow_blockchain will deliver its most significant technical upgrade since launch in 2020:

Crescendo 🌊

Here’s my understanding of what is happening and why it matters to Web 3 developers in all ecosystems

I believe Crescendo addresses the two biggest opportunities to improve developer experience on Flow:

⚡ Liquidity and DeFi – Crescendo enables a massive improvement in liquidity infrastructure on Flow including on- and off-ramps as well as a native DeFi ecosystem that serves as a liquidity backbone for the entire network.

⚡ Developer Experience – Flow will become as easy to deploy on as any Layer 2 chain, while maintaining 100% of the capabilities and benefits of its Layer 1 architecture as well as the ability to seamlessly compose with Cadence on top of EVM.

These technical upgrades are happening at the same time as a rich roadmap of content releases, application launches, and platform improvements driven by the Flow community. This includes on-chain games, social networks, and new collectibles platforms as well as the aforementioned DeFi core ecosystem.

Flow already has among the most authentic and vibrant communities – addressing the core liquidity and tooling issues will create massive momentum behind the entire ecosystem, allowing Flow to take its rightful place as the leading network for consumer applications and smart contracts with the most powerful on-chain logic. 💖

Included in Crescendo
– Cadence 1.0: A major upgrade of the Cadence programming language which enables fully immutable smart contracts on Flow. If you're a developer #onFlow, make sure you're ready for this breaking change.

– Full EVM equivalence: Allowing Flow to host EVM-based smart contracts, platforms, tooling, and utilities natively and fully composable with the Cadence environments.

– Performance improvement: Core protocol is getting significant upgrades, e.g. Atree register inlining increases state storage efficiency by nearly 2x.

– Performance improvement: Additionally, execution state data (accounts, events, etc.) is now propagated to the edge nodes allowing them to locally serve execution data. Crescendo also enables script execution on the edge nodes, removing rate limits on script execution on private edge nodes and improving network availability by alleviating the resource usage on execution nodes.

Timeline
🐣 Initial developer release on dedicated Crescendo test network by end-Feb / early March;
🦚 Flow testnet within 90-120 days of above;
🦅 Flow mainnet within 2-4 weeks of testnet.

Flow Town Hall
I joined the Flow Town Hall today to talk in-depth about all of this – and much more including Fast Break, the latest NBA experience from Dapper Labs – stay tuned to @flow_blockchain for the recording if you missed it !

[Tamer Hassanein @tamer4]

@_cartermp @paulbiggar I tried this in mid October on Chat GPT and the answer was nil. Wouldn’t respond to the query

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

One week ago, the world lost a legend.

Charlie Munger was a treasure trove of wisdom—and most of it had nothing to do with investing.

10 of his most powerful insights for a life well lived:

(Note: Long post, bookmark for future)

1. The Most Valuable Riches Take Time

"The desire to get rich fast is pretty dangerous."

While this quote has traditionally been applied to investing (given it was his primary arena of public success), I believe its true meaning extends well beyond dollars and cents.

Whatever "rich" you're going after...

• Strong, durable relationships
• Physical strength or endurance
• Mental health and mindfulness
• Financial success

...know that it won't happen overnight.

It will take a long time—probably longer than you've ever imagined—but the most valuable "riches" of life are always worth waiting for.

Keep your compass pointed in the right direction, stay the course, and get "rich" slow.

2. Avoid the Second Arrow

"Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought...Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, it doesn’t matter. Some people recover and others don’t. There I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and that your duty was not to be immersed in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. That is a very good idea."

In 1953, a 29-year-old Charlie Munger faced a series of crushing blows, losing his 9-year-old son to leukemia, his wife to a divorce, and his money to the medical bills.

Very few people could have recovered from that series of events.

But recall the Parable of the Two Arrows:

The Buddha once asked his student, "If a person is struck by an arrow, is it painful?" The student nodded, yes.

The Buddha then asked, "If a person is struck by a second arrow, is that even more painful?" The student again nodded, yes.

The Buddha then explained, "In life, we cannot always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. The second arrow is optional."

Charlie Munger was struck by the first arrow (harder than most of us can imagine), but he stared into the darkness and realized that the second arrow was optional.

When we encounter the inevitable challenges of life, we can all do the same.

3. Develop Real Knowledge

"The first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form...You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your head."

There are two types of people:

• People who know how to talk about the thing.
• People who know the thing.

You encounter plenty of Type 1s: You hear them talking at every cocktail party and networking event. They wax poetic on a variety of topics, but when pressed for detail, they crumble. The knowledge is all on the surface. They know how to talk about the thing, but they don't know the thing.

You encounter few Type 2s: Those with real, deep knowledge are rarely the loudest in the room. They are generally too busy developing their depth or acting on it to be found talking about it.

The goal is to be Type 2 in a few domains—and to spend time with more Type 2s in the domains where you aren't one.

4. Live What You Want to Receive

"How to find a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse...To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want."

The most important relationship advice I've ever received:

Make a list of the values you want to find in a partner, then go out and actually embody those values yourself.

You can't hope to attract a set of values that you yourself aren't embracing.

Similarly, as a parent, you can't hope to teach a child a set of values that you aren't walking with.

Live what you want to receive.

5. Invert, Always Invert

"All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there."

Two thousand years ago, Stoic philosophers engaged in a seemingly peculiar daily exercise: they would sit quietly and imagine—in excruciating detail—all that could go horribly wrong in the days, weeks, and months ahead.

They referred to it as premeditatio malorum—the pre-meditation of evils.

The premise: Through the preparation of the mind for the potential worst-case scenarios, we can more aptly avoid such outcomes.

Complex problems are sometimes better solved backwards.

When you encounter a challenging life problem, rather than attempting to solve it forwards, invert and solve it backwards:

• What do you NOT want to happen?
• What actions, behaviors, or conditions would create that undesirable outcome?
• How can those traps be avoided?

Proceed accordingly.

6. Avoid the Ostrich Effect

"I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn’t like it; indeed, especially when one doesn’t like it."

An ostrich will bury its head in the sand to avoid danger.

How many of us are metaphorically burying our heads in the sand in the face of new information that challenges our worldview?

If you want to be right more than you want to uncover the truth, you're in for a long, hard life. Avoiding knowledge because it doesn't confirm your existing beliefs is a dangerous game that will ultimately lead to your downfall.

Always question your strongly held beliefs. Learn the other side of the argument just as well as your own.

7. Never Mimic the Herd

"Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean."

As Jeff Bezos said, "Being yourself is worth it, but don’t expect it to be easy or free. You’ll have to put energy into it continuously."

The fight against normalcy is the most important fight of your life.

No one can compete with you, at being you.

8. Create a "Too Hard" Pile

"I just try to avoid being stupid. I have a way of handling a lot of problems—I put them in what I call my ‘too hard pile,’ and just leave them there. I’m not trying to succeed in my too hard pile."

There are no style points in life.

The "too hard pile" is a useful tool for avoiding the stupidity that comes from attempting to tackle the big, complex, scary problem when there's a small, simple, obvious one right in front of you.

A few applications from my own life:

You don't need the fancy equipment and complicated workouts, you just need to show up and move your body in simple ways, every single day.

You don't need the latest, greatest new alternative investments and cutting edge tax strategies, you just need to invest in simple, low-cost index funds and hold them forever.

You don't need the 100 supplements and latest fad diets, you just need to eat 90%+ whole, unprocessed foods.

Avoid things that seem too hard and handle the easy, consistently, instead.

9. Success Follows Interest

"Another thing that I found is an intense interest of the subject is indispensable if you are really going to excel. I could force myself to be fairly good in a lot of things, but I couldn’t be really good in anything where I didn’t have an intense interest."

Most people focus too much on being interesting and not enough on being interested.

Being interested is how you become interesting.

When you pursue your genuine interests, you are prone to deep focus, which cultivates a depth that is impossible to fake.

Success always follows interest.

10. Wisdom Compounds

"Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day, if you live long enough, like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve."

Small things become big things.

In the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

***

Goodbye to a Legend

In a ​beautiful piece​ reflecting on Charlie Munger's life, Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig shared an interaction he had with Munger last month:

I asked what he might want for an epitaph of no more than 10 words. His reply was immediate and full of epistemic humility: "I tried to be useful." Not "I was useful." That would be for other people to judge. But "I tried." That much he knew.

It struck me as perhaps his most important wisdom of all.

To be useful—as a parent, spouse, child, sibling, colleague, friend, or leader—is our highest calling.
We will fall short in various ways along the journey, but we can all strive for this goal.

Here's hoping that at the end of our days, we may all be able to proudly proclaim: "I tried."

If you're still here, I hope you found some new inspiration in these words. If you did, share it with others and follow me @SahilBloom for more in the future.

[Tamer Hassanein @tamer4]

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[DisneyPinnacle @DisneyPinnacle]

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[Tamer Hassanein @tamer4]

There is no greater priority in this world than the physical safety and mental health of innocent children. Anyone who thinks or tells you otherwise is sub-human. These babies don’t even know in their conscious mind that they exist, let alone their nationality/family background

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This is so heartbreaking. Dozens of new-born babies detached from their incubators at Al Shifa Gaza hospital due to power/oxygen running out. Israel must do more to get them to safety and medical treatment. ASAP.

[Tamer Hassanein @tamer4]

@iamtomnash Everything? lol

[Tamer Hassanein @tamer4]

Big milestone for @flow_blockchain!

[roham @roham]

It's official - Flow just passed 500 million transactions!

Over the coming days, I'll work directly with the @findonflow and @flow_blockchain teams to align on the 500 millionth transaction and who wins the 20k FLOW

Onwards & upwards from here as we continue to #GoWithTheFlow 🌊

[Tamer Hassanein @tamer4]

Amen

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

Let the arms cease. Stop, brothers and sisters: war is always a defeat — always, always!

[roham @roham]

Milestone: @flow_blockchain has now processed over 499,467,175 transactions 😤

To celebrate, I will give away 20,000 FLOW for the 500 millionth transaction*:

🌊 10,000 FLOW to the user that executes it
🌊 10,000 FLOW to the platform/dApp it happens on

Next up: Road to a Billion

* Or the next tx after the 500,000,000th that is executed by a user – automated tx don't count. Minting, burning, buying, selling, locking, other on-chain interactions, as well as listings and delistings done by a human all count.

All data HT @flowdiverIO

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

How are they supposed to hear this msg if you’ve cut off their ability to communicate?

[Tamer Hassanein @tamer4]

❤️🫡

[Yusuf / Cat Stevens @YusufCatStevens]

"Mom, I'm fine." The last words of six-year old boy, Wadea after being stabbed by an Islamophobe 26 times

A landlord in the US was so distressed by the Pro-Israel, hateful anti-Muslim news reports, he unleashed his anger upon an innocent Palestinian family who lived in his house. When the mother asked him to pray for peace, he stabbed her and then went on to stab and kill her six-year old son, Wadea. The last words the boy spoke were, “Mom, I’m fine.”

Look at what hatred and evil is being created about pure and innocent human beings who happened to belong to a land called Palestine. This is the result of people having been blinded by the darkness of propaganda, and starved of truth or compassion.

Though our hearts weep for the love of this one pure young boy, who’s life was extinguished - stabbed no less than 26 times - by one man’s vicious explosion of bitterness, let’s not forget the thousands of other innocent victims on all sides of this dark and gruesome war of propaganda in the land once called ‘Holy’.

The only solace I can gain from this, is in the words the small boy spoke as he left this blood-drenched, dying world, “Mom, I’m fine.” It tells us of the reality behind life and death in the grand scheme of things:

“Surely God's friends — no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow.” (Q 10:62)

You can almost see a cloud of angels fly the soul of the boy, away towards the heavenly light, and through the doors of God’s mercy, as he enters the eternal home of peace and happiness. This is the first stage of never ending happiness, as he is given the glad tidings of Paradise and eternal bliss, and his book is recorded in ‘Illiyyun (the highest heaven); then his soul will rejoice and be happy, and will never feel misery again.

Wadea must have seen the ‘betweenness’, which most of us are veiled from.
#Palestine #Israel