Trying to buy tiny amounts of Eth directly through the Metamask UI just now—

Wyre doesn't work (didn't buy any, error says "hit daily limit")

Transak doesn't work (didn't buy any, but "hit daily limit")

It's so early in crypto, it's still full of P0 first time experience bugs
This mirrors my earlier experience buying Solana with $10K wires

FTX.us - no recognition of wire for 5 weeks

Binance.us - no recognition of wire for 6 months

Multiple support pings back and forth required to even get the money to show up
When people think Coinbase is going to be killed by fee compression, I just shake my head because nobody else in crypto seems to be able to do their jobs right at all

Coinbase is far from perfect, but based on my experience with a variety of other fiat-to-crypto rails—BIG YIKES
Totally broken crypto onramps in 2021 except Coinbase

It's so early it's still mostly broken

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1 Sep
What happens when other people take credit for your work? I let it build up and build up and build up. It made me want to flip the tables, and I have to admit I might have given into that in the past.

Yeah I ragequit before and I'm not proud of it
How did I get here? I allowed my East Asian immigrant cultural upbringing to affect how I thought about self-advocacy.

It cost me 10 years of my career.

I let the bamboo ceiling smack me in the face

Did people take credit for my work? Yeah. What did I do? Nothing.
Big lesson: You've got to be aware of The Gervais Principle by @vgr

Sociopaths, losers, and clueless: there's a way where these groups in every org interact, and you can't ignore the dynamics between these groups within each organization
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26 Aug
How do we keep American manufacturing onshore? Robotics. Meet @samanfarid founder of Formic.

He is providing financing and systems integration to turn robotics into robotics as a service, helping save $450B of manufacturing (labor shortfall) by 2028

Bob Albert owns Polar Hardware, a 105-year-old metal stamping factory in Chicago. Polar used @goformic to set up a robot arm that makes door handles.

“If the robot works really well, we’ll use it a lot. They have skin in the game.”

mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id…
The hard part about robots 🤖

Tech? Yes but… these days it’s not the limiting factor

In 2021 it is Finance and system integration!

Outcomes as a service is viable and inevitable for all forms of risk in a zero percent interest rate world
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20 Aug
Kanye West— self taught, self made, and now thanks to Yeezy, a billionaire

"If I were to quit rapping and go to the NBA, I would be in the NBA. I think I can do anything. My talent is the ability to learn." @kanyewest in 2002 on Charlie Rose
His journey started with an Amiga computer, and an obsession with creating music. Constant learning & constant repetition, near-addiction

He couldn't get a pro sampler—"I had like $20 a week. How do I save up $2000?" Instead he used 8-bit sampler software that made a new sound.
Kanye was doing beats for $Free.99 - he did it for the love of the game, but he also did it to make something that other people loved

You must make quality that other people love— if you love what you do, that's just the first step to the magic that is making things for others
Read 4 tweets
19 Aug
I use frame.io every day and marvel at the giant interaction bugs and poor threading

As a craftsperson (... er, or former?) I want to believe fit and finish matters, but clearly there are 1.275 billion reasons why it's not the craftsmanship, it's the market need
The surfer matters, their skill matters, their surfboard matters

But at the end of the day, it's catching the wave

(#1 thing I wish weren't totally true about startups)
The notifications go out and the videos are not even finished transcoding. The scrubbing tool in the video is horrible in anything but perfect connectivity situations. Feels like 10% of the time I start watching a video and then it restarts at the beginning and loses my place
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8 Aug
Brazen broad daylight robbery in Oakland Chinatown yesterday 2PM

Look at the getaway driver: casual. This is organized, this is repeating, and if we say nothing we sponsor it.

Our Asian American communities are under constant attack by repeat offenders

Police are looking for information about this case.

I doubt they thought the robbers had a gun, otherwise they wouldn’t have put up that kind of fight.

google.com/amp/s/www.merc…
Turns out I am friends of friends with the victim. Small world and doesn’t make me feel very good about the SF Bay Area which is my home and where I grew up.
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25 Jul
I’m super mad about violent charges being dropped in @cyantist’s home invasion case

This DA violates victims rights and then spends massive government resources on misinformation campaigns and discrediting his political enemies instead of doing his job. It’s truly ridiculous.
How is it possible this can happen in San Francisco and the state willfully fails the victims of crimes? It’s like victims don’t matter. This is not right.

Dereliction of duty
Meanwhile if you say even a word about it, paid government officials malign you and compare you to the KKK
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