Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own

Episode 105 with @mteamisloading CEO of @Spire_Labs and @baibai_cx Social trading is the word of the cycle Every creator wants to become a trader Not every trader wants to become a creator Finding the best platform to trade and preserving capital matters Finance continues to come onchain with larger positions Building products for those traders and future builders is where the puck is going 02:01 How @mteamisloading went from MEV to @baibai_cx 06:26 Crypto at 12 and founder at 18 10:12 Cofounder from a Justin Drake call 13:22 What are based rollups 21:13 Right thesis but way too late 27:05 Is infra dead this cycle 32:01 Walmart price guarantee for onchain swaps 37:15 How much traders lose to slippage 42:18 Points now and a token soon 47:08 Painting candles on tier 3 exchanges 51:36 Calling the top on stock LP leverage 56:26 Create more than you consume 1:04:03 Only person to convince is the algorithm

New feature gets added to X > Everyone starts using it > Algorithm is heavily boosted > Handful of people have good things to say > Trying too hard is unauthentic and a trope > Most will over abuse it to a fault A feature is only worth what you can do with it

Crypto has given us everything we wanted Only because we gave something to it first Today the new people think they’re owed something because they’re here When we joined the industry we didn’t feel that level of entitlement and still don’t Sad state of affairs with the take only attitude Funny enough the biggest takers are the least credible and have done nothing important or memorable At some point this has to change and the swamp gets drained Likely to be from cannibalism like we are seeing now from the leeches leech from each other There are a lot of great people here that i have gotten to know and become part of their journey Many more of them have also left because of the late stage capitalism we are seeing here Its admiring to still see people striving for impact and fighting for progress multiple cycles later We have also reached a point of adoption where everyone knows what crypto is and have heard everything about it But have not a great experience onchain It’s now a game of delivery and overall experience They are aware of the traditional problems and are seeking active solutions 50%

Episode 81 with Burnt Toast and Evan from Doodles Doodles AI just went viral. Millions of impressions tens of thousands of generations We talked about a lot about the future of IP expansion and how AI plays a part in it Taking a huge bet on a new expansion moat that traditional models and industries have not seen before including Hollywood Timestamps: 0:12 Intro 1:03 How @doodles all started 4:00 Having taste is a skill @evankeast 7:27 What is Doodles most well known for now? 10:10 Most viral IP moments @burnttoast 12:45 Mission with Doodles AI 18:07 PRISM 1.0 21:35 A huge unlock 24:14 How Doodles AI works 31:27 Where did the branding come from? 35:37 AI generating media 42:21 Whats next