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Looking at the 6h stacked bar chart, we can see the more detailed, more immediate picture. It's looking ok but not super exciting. The attention has mostly moved away from the top nine.
Here's the 90 day and 45 day views of the top nine, so you can see the trends more easily for yourself. Based on these graphs, it seems like we're definitely not in a bear, but also not really in a bull. Somewhere in between.
My guess as to why, is that some of the profits from the euphoric bull-market-end get cycled back into bluechips. We'll see if that theory is true. If bluechips trend down more sharply once the euphoria is over, that would support this thesis.
For today I thought it might be worth spicing things up by also looking at some other datasets than just the top 9. The 2 other datasets I look at are what I called the Zeneca "old" and "new" sets, both taken from @Zeneca_33's daily floor stats docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
The Zeneca Old dataset, which reflects the performance of projects that were mostly started in August and early September, is... not looking particularly hopeful. It seems to have followed the bluechips in trending down recently.
The Zeneca New data set includes newer projects but not the latest alien poodles that are pumping randomly as influencers shill them. It also looks fairly meh, with a correction happening.
This feels like conclusive evidence, to me, that what's pumping is mostly very recent garbage projects. There is the odd exception that is doing reasonably well in these data sets, but on the whole they're not seeing much increased activity.
So, the TL;DR:
- We're not in a deep bear
- We're also not in a mega bull
- We're probably somewhere in between, at the end of a bull run
My experience is that bull runs are usually followed by corrections. I could be wrong about this. Draw your own conclusions.
gm&gl
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1/18 He started 130 negotiations at once. That makes it impossible to conduct any of them well.
2/18 He rushed the tariffs in. That gave US companies no time to prepare/soften the impact.
3/18 These rushed tariffs hurt the US more than anyone else. They're a tax on US consumers and have taken US GDP growth predictions from from 2.7% to 1.8% (so far).
4/18 He then imposed a 90-day collective deadline on everyone. That means no one has an incentive to be the first to make a deal since as the deadline nears, Trump is most likely to fold as the consequences mount up.
5/18 At the end of the 90-day deadline, if there's no deal, ...
(5/18 cont.)...the US is cut off from the world but the world carries on, so it's like pointing a shotgun at your own foot then threatening to pull the trigger if you don't get a deal.
6/18. He and his team frequently lie about the state of negotiations. E.g. they claim to have deals ready to go, but then they don't. They have destroyed the US's credibility. Credibility is essential for negotiations.
7/18. They don't know what they want (hence even Japan walking out). It's impossible to get what you want if you don't know what you want.
8/18. He threw away his negotiation leverage (network of alliances) before starting negotiations. If you want a good deal, more leverage is good. Doing this guarantees a worse deal.
9/18. Trump and his team frequently...
(9/18 cont.)...contradict each other, so it's impossible to know who's really in charge. This further undermines US credibility.
10/18. Trump frequently contradicts himself multiple times in a day, so even he is an unreliable negotiation partner, which means you might as well just wait and see what happens rather than spend effort to work hard at negotiating with him.
11/18. He keeps flip-flopping on important consequences (e.g. exemptions, China tariffs), sometimes twice in a day. So you can't trust anything he says anyway. Again, just wait. He'll eventually realise if he pulls the trigger its his own foot getting shot.
12/18. Some of the deals Trump ripped up, calling them "worst deal ever", were deals he signed himself in his first term, thus making him look even more unreliable. Why work hard to sign a deal with someone who'll attack you as unreliable 2 years later?
13/18. Constant attacks on allies (threatening to...
I've been very bearish on "metaverse" in general as a concept.
But there is one factor that could change it, and give all those metaverse startups a chance.
If all UIs disappear in favour of just having conversations with AIs, then it *MIGHT* make sense... Maybe.
A brief 🧵.
See, one of my counter-arguments against Metaverse has been that people's activities happen in a competitive context. So being more efficient, faster, processing more information at once, anything that gives you an edge, is valuable.
Right now that's a mouse and keyboard.
But as AI has improved, I've also realised that most of those user interfaces - almots all UX, UI, etc - is all just a big kludge, a dirty hack while waiting for the ultimate user interface, which will replace everything that came before.
What you NEED to know about STRATEGY to help your startup: an ESSENTIAL startup strategy primer.
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"Strategy" sounds like something that larger companies do. Actually, most large companies have awful "strategies". Most employees and even C-level execs don't understand it beyond it being a slide in the company's presentation deck next to the SWOT analysis.
Startups can't afford this. Goliath can get away with just bashing at things until they die. David needs a clever strategy to have a chance of making it out in one piece.
Startups are all David, not Goliath. They need EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD strategy.
Often, even those that claim to be about charity are really just leveraging the get-rich-quick meta of the last 2y.
I'm helping launch a project that's different. About making a difference. And getting something valuable from it!
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A good friend approached me recently during a road trip to Spain. He shared that the Amazonian jungle where he did his Ayahuasca journey, in Peru, was about to be bought up by construction companies and turned to sand pits.
They needed $180k to buy the land first.
Now, this place is a retreat centre in a village in the middle of the Amazonian jungle, pristine, beautiful. My wife also did her Ayahuasca journey there.
This place is led by a Shaman, Heberto, who has done this work all his life, with 30y of experience.
Let's take down another sacred monster in the NFT space.
Community.
It's the best of things, and it's the worst of things.
Mostly, the word is waved around as a trap for fools. Sometimes those waving it genuinely believe it means something. Often they are wrong.
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There's a whole raft of misunderstandings attached to this word, so let's take them down one by one, because trying to fight them all at once will get nowhere fast.
First let's address the literally biggest misconception about community in web3: the idea of "the web3 community".
It's a common human habit to try to simplify large and complicated things into more manageable concepts. That's fine so long as we don't forget about the simplification, but often in web3 that simplification is either deliberately or carelessly ignored.