If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.

bonk guy is wrong until he is right you'd be surprised how much difference conviction and time can make few

The more certain you feel, the more you should be concentrated. Fortune is build by concentration and preserved by diversification.

My posts are mainly directed at me. I want to be able to look back in a few years (hopefully grown to be a better investor/thinker) and see my progress. It essentially is a diary of trying to improve yourself. BUT its one of those things that has a flywheel effect. Writing your thoughts also means crystallising them, which in turn by itself moves you closer to the end goal. You can think of it as a closed loop. Writing -> investment -> writing etc

i've come to an important realization after being through multiple cycles in the trenches almost every major runner that has emerged follows a three-step process: 1. a small, introductory pump fueled by hype around its launch. many get too excited here and declare it the future of finance, but the next step is almost always inevitable 2. a massive, aggressive pullback with long periods of consolidation at its lows this step is pretty much a rite of passage for runners that end up going mainstream—but it's also where many give up, as they consider a runner or narrative dead when this phase kicks in - it happened to SHIB, which suffered a 90% correction shortly after launch and consolidated for months before pulling an explosive move that pumped thousands of Xs - it happened to BONK, which also saw a 90% correction shortly after launch and consolidated for almost a year before rallying hundreds of Xs - it happened with SPX, which went through a 90% correction after launch and consolidated for a year before pumping hundreds of Xs after Murad picked it up i could go on and on, but almost every major runner we have today went through this phase it is extremely hard to see strong, ORGANIC runners go mainstream without passing through step 2 3. an explosive rally after a very long period of consolidation (usually months!), where the runner starts pumping 'out of nowhere'. the pump may be triggered by a catalyst (SHIB's was the memestock moment, SPX's was Murad, etc) or for seemingly no reason (BONK's was spontaneous, without any obvious external driver) while many tend to focus on what the catalyst is at this stage, the reality is the project would likely have pumped regardless of the catalyst. of course, how high it pumps without the catalyst is another matter entirely the problem we have today is that many are attracted to memecoins because they see projects in their Step 3 rally phase. they see their favorite KOLs attributing the pump to some random narrative—and then assume that narrative alone is the reason for the pump so they expect every good coin with a good narrative to pump immediately and aggressively—and to keep pumping without pause—because 'that’s how it’s supposed to be' they expect an instant 100 or 1,000x on new runners with 'a good narrative.' and when that doesn't happen, they immediately conclude that the narrative is 'forced' or the coin isn't good enough then they declare the trenches dead sorry to break it to you, but you're playing this game wrong if you assume that a runner needs to immediately pump to crazy levels—or else it's dead or forced you're not going to make it in the trenches if you don’t have strong conviction and aren’t willing to HODL it’s always been this way, and it’ll likely always be this way

no one cares what you can do everyone cares what you can do for them

Bitcoin hits ATH ↓ Retail wakes up ↓ @coinbase sign-ups go vertical ↓ Base becomes the default onramp ↓ Users flood in ↓ They discover apps, tokens, creators ↓ Capital flows ↓ TVL spikes, onchain activity rips ↓ Builders eat ↓ More builders show up ↓ Base tools make shipping faster ↓ More apps → more users → more capital ↓ The flywheel turns @base didn’t get lucky. It got built.