zherring (@zherring) • Hey
zherring (@zherring) • Hey
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- Walked 10 miles in good conversation. Exceptionally good day.
- opening up Duolingo challenge this month
- First Presidential Debate: June 27th
Trump Sentencing: July 11th
Republican Convention: July 15th
America has the opportunity to do the funniest thing...
- ...Furiosa was rad.
- The output of the system is the purpose of the system.
The output of most DAOs is... ?
- The year is 2038
The AI does the math. The market is perfectly efficient. The Number only goes up.
You cry at your desk. Your 120 page oral history of the PBS show Wishbone won't write itself. The AI demands more training data.
https://x.com/heykahn/status/1794699008885350598
- The companies and projects that I admire most tend to be the ones that started as people following their curiosity, making something that summed up their learnings, and then sharing it with other people.
- Does anyone have a good explainer of FIT21?
I don't call Reps sight unseen and all the usual sources of policy analysis are super focused on the ETH ETF rn.
https://x.com/standwithcrypto/status/1791137316167152066
- A lot of economists and pundits have been waving off economic sentiment saying "Ok, they feel bad but they're doing great."
If this chart is accurate and without any cherry picked gotchas...I feel a little gaslit.
https://x.com/ToddZywicki/status/1792191368229708036
- Should I install this?
- God help me I'm such a contrarian I think I'm going to start spending more time on Lens.
- Mother's Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAxfh8ukosQ
- .... Why is $AR not available on any US CEX?
Genuinely bizarre looking at what you can buy.
- This seems like...good legislation?
Genuinely off-putting to see responsible governing these days.
https://coloradosun.com/2024/04/30/colorado-income-tax-cut-deal/
- Iwata, talking about learning to lead people after taking over Hal Laboratory when it was in distress...
"...Management depends on your ability to minimize your own personal agenda."
- Callaghan is one of the most entertaining and thoughtful documentary film maker working today imo. Vice at it's high points in 2006 is Channel 5 all the time.
This was a really good, sad, interesting watch.
https://youtu.be/bRGrKJofDaw?si=mrkTo0jRI2JyRD7p
- Nixonland has been one of the most compelling, clarifying recent books I've picked up.
- Just deployed my first smart contract to mainnet (on /base, ofc).
Feels good.
- Gonna force myself to figure out how to report Uniswap LPing on my taxes because that's definitely where I lost the most money in 2023.
- Just passed a billboard telling drivers to repent to God (Yaluhyahweh) for property taxes because taxes are communism.
I'm home, baby.
- Parenting young kiddo is constantly multitasking, but with one task being pretty consistent (keep child alive, sub-objective: rescue child from itself)
It's really just a really long, high-stakes escort mission.
- Gm
- The Anxious Generation is good.
- I have a friend who's a fantastic graphic and brand design + illustrator who's looking to fill some freelance hours.
Hmu if you would like an intro
- "Social media is the most efficient conformity engines ever invented."
- Jonthan Chait, The Anxious Generation
- Simple Blockchain gaming pitch: Take your loot boxes with you.
- Degen pizza, washtrading toppings to farm Jet Points before the airdrop.
- Good peak at the next hurdle YIMBYs must tackle as they win in tight shelter markets
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/austin-texas-rents-falling-housing/677819/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
- Gonna become a Thievery Corporation guy based on the strength of Saudade alone.
- Fun game: design your presidential platform in >5 bullet points.
Mine:
- YIMBY
- Sovereign Wealth Fund
- One Billion Americans, 2050
- 5 1-Trillion-Dollar Moonshots for Room Temp Super Conductors, a Cure for Cancer, and a couple of other cool sounding things from Star Trek
- ✅ Environmental impact reduced 99.9%
✅ Cost to mint dropped 99%
✅ Consumer experiences rapidly hitting parity
Idk, man, maybe artists, musicians and game developers who wrote NFTs off in 2021 should give them another look.
- Abolish regular no savings time.
- Maybe "burn your ENS" was a prescription from his therapist, in which case, honestly, good for him.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s1h9EqKFKws
- I wish Vermin Supreme would come out as Pro-Crypto. I'd listen to that Bankless episode.
- Oh shiiiii this is rad. The UX is 🤌
https://ASCII.today
- Bull market catechism
"I will not put money into anything I don't understand.
For every 10 boats I miss, 9 of them are Titanics."
- Is it just me or does EthDenver feel smaller/more subdued this year?
- Every employee of a legal firm should have their hourly billable rate in their signature next to their title.
It'd be helpful to know how much I need to freak out when I get a random email from an unknown associate.
- Chill out room is p rad this year.
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/cultural-pessimism-america-self-fulfilling-effects/677261/
"Biden's biggest challenge is that he is not just running against Trump but the entire zeitgeist."
Good essay.
- "If you have to rush to market...to chase the momentum...then you probably don't have much of a competitive advantage."
This conversation is as fascinating as it is counter intuitive to me.
https://pca.st/episode/047a4bed-9cb7-452d-aedb-1be1b2a2e1e8
- Sunday night desk shot
- Emerald City is one of my new all time favorites... but man, today's is shaping up to be a banger too.
- I think about this image at least once a week for a variety of reasons.
https://x.com/cwhowell123/status/1759221428266647672?s=20
- Biked to work today and did not get a free breakfast burrito like an absolute chump.
- Man, ChatGPT refusing to look at MoviePass's Terms and Conditions because of copyright really underlines how neutered it is.
Squish makes a strong case for self-hosted assistant LLMs.
- "Man, Zach sure is posting a lot today."
Zach:
- 8 mo old woke me up at 1am so we packed at 4am to fight icy WY highways at 5am so we could walk through the door, home, at 4pm.
I'm so tired I fell asleep holding the Switch eye-level on the couch.
Vampire Survivor says it was still a 23m run tho.
- TIL you can filter letterboxd movies based on the streaming services you have and my life has just changed for the better.
- The market may go down now but I think that maybe it'll go up later.