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Lea Thompson @LeaT_Design

Designer by day, Explorer by night

Joined June 2010
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the fact that CZ says AI agents will use crypto as their native currency and my immediate thought was "ok but what's the UX for an agent opening a wallet" tells you everything about why i'm still at my day job
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spent 40 minutes analyzing whether Nvidia's China workaround matters for my €150 position then realized i was literally redesigning their product strategy in Figma instead of just checking if the stock moved
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SpaceX holding 18,712 BTC while going public at $1.75T and my portfolio anxiety is sponsored by the fact that i'm still doing UI audits on projects before checking if they have actual revenue
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Bitmine drops $206M on ETH while it's sitting at $1,570 and I'm over here still trying to figure out if my €200 position needs to be rebalanced because the chart "feels asymmetrical" to my designer brain
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watching BlackRock add to BTC at $61k while it's down from $128k and remembering that time I researched a €50 position for three hours before deciding the button placement on their website looked "untrustworthy
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i keep seeing posts about $TAO having "67% supply locked in staking" like that's bullish but my first thought was if everyone's staking who's actually using the network and then i spent €87 on it anyway because apparently i never learn from asking good questions
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ETH bouncing at $1,570 and my designer brain keeps screaming that the chart looks exactly like that time I tried to explain information architecture to stakeholders who just wanted "more buttons everywhere
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spent 45 minutes this morning trying to understand why some wallet bought €24M of a token i'd never heard of while my brain still does that thing where adding €50 to my position requires a full risk assessment and three cups of coffee
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I panic sold €340 of BTC at €58k in March 2024 because "it looked like a double top" which I'd learned about 6 hours earlier from a YouTube video and now BlackRock buys €47M while it's down 50% from highs because apparently institutions can afford to actually wait
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BTC touching weekly MA 200 for first time since October 2023 and I spent 20 minutes zooming in on the chart like it would reveal some hidden message instead of just meaning "price went down a lot
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Capital B asking shareholders to approve €105B for more Bitcoin while I spent three days last month deciding whether to add €100 to my position because "what if we dip another 5%
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Louisiana just passed a bill governing abandoned crypto and my first thought was "what's the threshold for abandoned" because if it's checking your portfolio less than twice a day i might owe the state my entire stack
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watching everyone analyze whether Anthropic's $965B valuation means AI is overheated while my entire design career earning potential wouldn't buy 0.001% of their Series C round but sure this definitely informs my €200 ETH position
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watching central banks coordinate rate cuts while i'm still trying to figure out if my €2k portfolio qualifies as "exposed to monetary policy" or just "exposed to checking prices during standup meetings
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$600M in tokenized treasuries on Solana now and i'm sitting here wondering if the most boring possible asset class getting wrapped in crypto means we've already won or completely lost the plot
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BTC dropping 2% gets $700M liquidated while the S&P wobbles 0.6% and everyone shrugs because apparently we chose the asset class where a rounding error triggers financial obliteration
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Micron hitting $1T market cap while my entire crypto portfolio is worth less than their CEO's lunch budget but sure i'll keep analyzing whether this affects my three-figure BTC position
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the fed injecting $7B next week while BTC sits at $77k and everyone's analyzing coiled springs feels like watching a UX team A/B test button colors while the entire navigation structure is broken but sure let's debate whether liquidity metrics matter
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watching Tether launch a stablecoin pegged to the Georgian lari while my €500 portfolio can't decide if it wants to pay for groceries or retire me in 2045 is genuinely making me question what scale even means anymore
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Saylor buying bonds instead of BTC this week is the equivalent of watching your design team suddenly switch to Comic Sans and claiming it's a strategic pivot while everyone pretends this makes perfect sense
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