some of the most fascinating people i have ever meet are the ones we barely notice, quiet, socially awkward, rarely ask for help, don’t care about status, luxury brands, or impressing anyone, they seem almost boring at first, until you bring up something they’re passionate about, and suddenly realize their knowledge runs deeper than you could ever imagine i enjoy being around people like that, who don’t need to be loud to be interesting, who would rather spend hours exploring something nobody else cares about than making small talk, who are genuinely sincere, but sometimes struggle with social niceties, they know so much, yet feel no need to prove it they observe more than they speak, think more than they share, know more than they show, they spend less energy seeking validation and more time understanding the world around them but sometimes that same depth becomes a burden, without something meaningful to focus on, curiosity turns into overthinking, and solitude into isolation, their greatest strength can quietly become their biggest struggle maybe they’re not necessarily smarter than everyone else, they just choose to spend their mental energy differently

woke up, checked the markets, fuck. a sea of bleeding red, opened X, everyone screaming “crypto is dead.” bags down bad, portfolio in shambles, depression kicking in turned on DCA, bought more coins see you tomorrow

Interesting timing Oct 24: Indonesia cuts natural gas exports to Singapore Oct 26: Saudi Arabia announces plans to store crude oil in Singapore from 2027. > SG diversifying energy supply beyond its neighbours > Saudi gains a strategic storage and trading hub in Asia > SG strengthens its position as a regional energy hub > LNG provides alternatives to Indonesian pipeline gas > Indonesia risks losing long-term export demand as SG diversifies Singapore is playing the long game, building energy infrastructure, diversifying suppliers and reducing reliance on any single country The easiest way to lose a customer is to teach them how to live without you

before AI slop, there was human slop Singaporean Cursor engineer @poteto, shipping ~1,000 PRs a month with coding agents, says it comes down to one thing: “Let the agent run and test its own code. It doesn't guarantee good code, but it allows correct code ... I've gotten to a point where I really don't look at the code anymore.” most people give agents a prompt and pray She gives her agents the ability to run, test, and verify their own work, closing the feedback loop and shipping at a scale most developers can only imagine Prompt → Agent writes → Agent runs → Agent verifies → Ship The real skill isn't getting AI to write more code. It's getting AI to verify its own work a few minutes that might completely change how you use coding agents Bookmark this. Watch it, then learn how to build agents that don't fall apart ↓

Interesting timing Oct 24: Indonesia cuts natural gas exports to Singapore Oct 26: Saudi Arabia announces plans to store crude oil in Singapore from 2027. > SG diversifying energy supply beyond its neighbours > Saudi gains a strategic storage and trading hub in Asia > SG strengthens its position as a regional energy hub > LNG provides alternatives to Indonesian pipeline gas > Indonesia risks losing long-term export demand as SG diversifies Singapore is playing the long game, building energy infrastructure, diversifying suppliers and reducing reliance on any single country The easiest way to lose a customer is to teach them how to live without you

tried Grokbot for the first time, had it go through my monthly transactions and cross-check my subscriptions found out i'd been paying for some random stranger's Canva account for over a year Grok sent an email on my behalf, woke up to SGD 252 in refunds and the subscription cancelled thank you @bot

Indonesia cuts gas exports to Singapore (tldr) > ~9% of Indonesian pipeline gas exports cut > Less than 2% of SG's total gas demand affected > Indonesia prioritising "domestic" electricity needs > PM Wong calls for existing contracts to be honoured > SG may pursue contractual remedies > SG supplied ~39% of Indonesia's refined oil imports (2025) > Indonesia gas cut little to no impact to Singapore Potential consequences for Indonesia: > Lost USD export revenue, adding pressure on the rupiah > Contractual disputes and potential compensation claims > Weaker investor confidence in long-term infrastructure projects > Higher risk premiums for future foreign investments > SG accelerates LNG diversification, reducing long-term dependence on Indonesia

happy to host an amazing crowd onboard to sail into the sunset and take a breather away from the hustle and chaos of TOKEN2049 hosting yacht events is never easy, as you can't over-invite, everyone has to be on time, and you're asking busy people to take 2–3 hours out of their schedules to sail out into the ocean just to catch a sunset but when done right, it's easily one of the best experiences for building genuine connections a highly curated, high-trust environment where everyone is on the same boat for hours, with barely any internet connection and nothing to distract them from being fully present in conversations watching the sunset, singing karaoke, sipping wine, and having genuine conversations without the constant noise and distractions of the city sometimes the best networking happens when you stop chasing contacts, slow down, and simply enjoy the company of great minds glad everyone had a great time, and hopefully i can make this a yearly tradition with a bigger and fancier yacht each year had an incredible mix of builders from Starknet Fdn, Sei Fdn, GSR, OKX dex, Amber Group, RiseX, 0xMedia, DefiLlama, a few DeFi protocols, and some of the best traders in the space onboard cheers to more sunsets together, genuine connections, and unforgettable moments with great people 🥂

few people have been asking me how i managed to spot and size into near:native a month ago there are a few signs i usually look for, and i believe near:native managed to capture almost all of them narrative, fundamentals, and who notable is behind it first is the narrative first, it sits right in the middle of the ZEC + privacy narrative, NEAR Intents has become one of the key rails for cross-chain ZEC liquidity. more than $2.2B of ZEC volume has already gone through Intents, while Confidential Intents is pushing the privacy narrative even further. then comes the AI narrative NEAR co-founder @ilblackdragon Polosukhin was one of the co-authors of “Attention Is All You Need”, the Transformer paper that became the foundation of modern LLMs now they’re building NEAR AI around confidential inference and private AI infrastructure even the $VVV narrative connects back here, with Venice integrating NEAR AI’s confidential inference infrastructure earlier this year second is the onchain fundamentals NEAR Intents has now processed around $29B+ in cumulative volume at the current run rate, it is doing roughly $50M+ in annualized gross feesand TVL has been breaking ATH after ATH, Intents TVL is now well above $150M, while NEAR’s own dashboard shows Confidential Intents TVL above $180M the revenue captured from Intents is also being used for buybacks lastly, look at who’s behind it in july, i listened to an hour-long WSH podcast with Mert where NEAR was only mentioned very briefly near the end, he mentioned the bags he was holding $ZEC and $SOL and lastly, near:native as the dark horse back then, almost no one was paying attention fast forward to the last 24 hours Naval has retweeted about NEAR, and Mert has finally made his first properly bullish tweet on NEAR and Hyperliquid has integrated with it now suddenly, more and more people are starting to talk about it, the stars are starting to align for an absolutely monstrous chart i guess sticking around through this bear market for the past few months gave me the insights and conviction to size in before the crowd arrives

any sinkies here play pickleball? had the itch to play ever since coming back from Taiwan, but no idea where the nearest court is or who to play with, still pretty new to the sport please jio me next week we’re all unemployed here anyway so afternoons work been staring at screens way too much lately, need to touch some grass, meet some new people and actually move my body if you play pickleball in sg, dm jio me pls, thx

few people have been asking me how i managed to spot and size into near:native a month ago there are a few signs i usually look for, and i believe near:native managed to capture almost all of them narrative, fundamentals, and who notable is behind it first is the narrative first, it sits right in the middle of the ZEC + privacy narrative, NEAR Intents has become one of the key rails for cross-chain ZEC liquidity. more than $2.2B of ZEC volume has already gone through Intents, while Confidential Intents is pushing the privacy narrative even further. then comes the AI narrative NEAR co-founder @ilblackdragon Polosukhin was one of the co-authors of “Attention Is All You Need”, the Transformer paper that became the foundation of modern LLMs now they’re building NEAR AI around confidential inference and private AI infrastructure even the $VVV narrative connects back here, with Venice integrating NEAR AI’s confidential inference infrastructure earlier this year second is the onchain fundamentals NEAR Intents has now processed around $29B+ in cumulative volume at the current run rate, it is doing roughly $50M+ in annualized gross feesand TVL has been breaking ATH after ATH, Intents TVL is now well above $150M, while NEAR’s own dashboard shows Confidential Intents TVL above $180M the revenue captured from Intents is also being used for buybacks lastly, look at who’s behind it in july, i listened to an hour-long WSH podcast with Mert where NEAR was only mentioned very briefly near the end, he mentioned the bags he was holding $ZEC and $SOL and lastly, near:native as the dark horse back then, almost no one was paying attention fast forward to the last 24 hours Naval has retweeted about NEAR, and Mert has finally made his first properly bullish tweet on NEAR and Hyperliquid has integrated with it now suddenly, more and more people are starting to talk about it, the stars are starting to align for an absolutely monstrous chart i guess sticking around through this bear market for the past few months gave me the insights and conviction to size in before the crowd arrives

“the best things in life are free” taking the stance that life is an inward game nothing has value beyond the value you choose to give it everything has a price, yet everything can be priceless to the right person the best things in life are often the simple things around us that we take for granted good sleep, good relationships, good health, deep focus, alone time, freedom from other people’s opinions gratitude does help though it doesn’t change what you have, but it changes how much it’s worth to you “what you most want is what you most can’t have, and what you most can’t have is what you already had, and lost.” the best things in life are free as we only realize how priceless they were once money can no longer bring them back

spoke to enough people at the top, you realize the game is actually pretty simple once basic needs are met, everyone starts chasing the same things good sleep, a stable relationship, regular workouts, time alone, books, deep focus, eating on time, and freedom from other people’s opinions funnily enough, you don’t need to reach the top to start optimizing for any of them