📢 Launch of the Next Social Leaderboard & Rewards Distribution!
Dear Community,
The next round has arrived. Alongside the distribution of rewards for our last leaderboard round, the current round is now live and ready for your participation.
In this past round, social contributions from those who invited friends into their network were significantly reflected. We hope to see even more friends joining our journey to expand the MemeX circle together.
We continue to filter out social abuse and bot activities to ensure rewards reach our genuine community. While we have implemented these measures in the previous round, we recognize that filtering alone is not the ultimate solution.
For this new round, the most important focus is proving your humanity while staying active. We want to ensure that the rewards you earn belong to real people who contribute to our vibrant space. Be an authentic human, stay active on MemeX, and claim the rewards you deserve.
Thank you for being the heart of MemeX.
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If you’re in your 20s (and ambitious) do everything to move to those 4 cities
Yes people will mog you for paying extortionate rents for such little comfort but who cares, you’re not everyone, you’re on a mission, you’re here for greatness
London/NYC/Paris/SF are basically the golden 4. They’re not just big cities, they’re global sorting machines. People move there from all over the world because they want sth badly enough to accept all the downsides. The guy born in London can be lazy. But the 26yo Frenchman, Indian, American, Italian, Nigerian, Lebanese etc who voluntarily accepts the tiny flat, shit commute and absurd rent to be there has already self-selected pretty hard
And that selection compounds. I felt it instantly moving from my hometown in France to London. Growing up I was always “the ambitious one” in my friend group. Then you arrive in London and suddenly you feel extremely average. Everyone is trying to do sth. Completely changes your reference point for what a normal person can achieve
The other thing is just how many serious games are happening at once. If you know at 22 that you’re going to be a semiconductor engineer forever, maybe there are better specialised places. But most ambitious 24yos have absolutely no clue what game they’ll eventually want to play. In London/NYC/Paris you can accidentally become friends with people in PE, startups, politics, law, media, fashion, pharma, academia etc. Your finance friend dates someone in fashion, their roommate is building a startup, you meet someone in politics at dinner. Suddenly 5 completely different lives feel plausible
That’s insanely valuable when you’re young precisely because you don’t yet know which people / industries / opportunities will matter to your 34yo self
SF is the weird exception because it’s basically one giant concentrated bet on tech/AI. Much narrower than the other 3, but that game is so asymmetric rn that it deserves its spot. If you want to build at the frontier there’s probably no other place where your reference class changes that aggressively
And yh everyone keeps saying the internet made geography irrelevant. Maybe for information. Definitely not for trust/friendship. Anyone can learn from the same people online now, send the same cold DM, follow the same accounts. Much harder to replicate being the guy someone has had 20 dinners with, worked with, travelled with, introduced to friends and randomly bumped into for 5 years
When you’re 24 and nobody knows who tf you are, geography can do a lot of the work for you. You get invited because your colleague knows someone. You end up at a dinner because your friend needs a +1. Someone you met 3 years ago leaves and starts a company. Another moves to NYC. Another becomes a partner somewhere. Most of the ROI is completely impossible to predict upfront
Basically before you have your own gravity, borrow the city’s
At 45, if you’ve built the company / reputation / money / audience / network, you can go live in Tuscany, Mallorca, South of France or wherever and people will come to you. At 24 no one is coming lol. You should probably be where everything is happening
And tbh if you have the ability to move I wouldn’t spend 3 years waiting for the perfect job / apartment / timing. Get the shitty room, accept being poorer for a while, figure it out once you’re there. Your 20s are probably the cheapest years of your life to tolerate inconvenience anyway
You can optimise sqm, weather and comfort later
At 24 I’d rather maximise how many possible lives are available to me
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Here's the strategy that gets you on the biggest podcasts with life-changing results.
It's called climbing the podcast pyramid. You start on little podcasts and get a great result.
There are already hundreds of thousands of podcasts out there, and millions of small YouTube channels - your first job is to identify the ones who'd be thrilled to have you as a guest and reach out to them.
Once they agree, you deliver your best performance. Your job is to be the biggest guest they've ever had - if they normally get 500 views, you get them 1,000.
Then you promote it to your database: emails, DMs, your social channels. Do that a number of times and you get invited onto the next level up.
Climb to the top of the pyramid, onto a podcast or YouTube channel getting 100,000+ views, and it's a life-changing experience. That's Wembley Stadium levels of an audience.
And when people watch that episode, they get to know you, like you, trust you, and want to buy from you.
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