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5 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Nonfungible tokens bring scarcity to the digital world— the "bad version" of this is new status symbols. The good version of this I'm excited about is creating new games

That's why we funded @manifoldxyz to let people create your own game dynamics on your own smart contracts
Manifold lets creators and artists get creative sovereignty— use your own contract, not someone else's

I might be sharecropping here on YouTube/Twitter but the promise of NFTs is to let creators build their own platforms for ownership and distribution
What did @ediep wish he knew when he was 20 starting out in tech today? He would drop everything and learn about web3— in 2010 if you didn't learn about mobile, you would pay a big penalty.

Pick up smart contracts and hack away — the distribution advantages are just ramping now
Get started now with Manifold Studio

manifoldxyz.substack.com/p/manifold-stu…

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garrytan.eth 陈嘉兴 🔺🌐 Profile picture
26 Sep
You will hear constantly repeated talking points by the far left—the Republican recall, voter suppression

Make no mistake, they are lying. The organizers are moderate Democrats and women and people of color

Asian Americans still have a voice in San Francisco and we want justice
Why did the far left block this resolution? It was a simple one by one of our Asian American Democratic leaders and the DCCC failed to pass it

Simple ideology justifying sociopathic political power
Read this simple resolution and tell me why the incumbent far left blocked it

Tell me who is suppressing whose vote
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3 Sep
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
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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
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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
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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

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