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You are improvising.
You don't fully know what you're doing.
No one does.
The confidence a startup founder role demands is, in a strict sense, a performance.
So the "impostor syndrome" feeling isn't lying to you.
The people who don't feel it are not better than you.
They've just mistaken the role..... for the self.... that gap does not compute. I would now consider that a personality disorder.
Why does "Imposter Syndrome" hit founders harder than almost anyone?
The founder occupies a uniquely fraudulent feeling position by design.
A founder is, definitionally, (and almost always) claiming a future that does not yet exist.
You stand in front of investors, employees, customers, your own mother, and you assert, with a straight face, that a thing which currently does not work, has no revenue, and may be physically impossible..... is inevitable.
You are there to narrate a fiction, with total conviction, until the fiction recruits enough belief and capital and labor, to drag itself into being real.
So of course you feel like a fraud.
The feeling of "fraudulence" is not a sign you're doing it wrong.
I would say that It's a sign you correctly understand what you're doing.
The founders who feel zero impostor syndrome are lying to your face, or worse, have lost contact with the epistemic situation.
Fuck it, let's go deeper.....
The whole impostor anxiety rests on the assumption that there's a "real you".
There is no fixed "real you".
The self is not a noun, it's a verb, it's a process, a continuous improvisation.
You were always improvising a self. You've been doing it since you were 4.
"Being a new founder" feels like impostorhood.... because it's a new improvisation.
Being "a normal adult," "being a friend," "being you".....those are improvisations too.
You just got frighteningly good at them that, you have completely forgotten they were also performances.
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The grrrrrreat thing about Elon becoming a trillionaire (assuming he can really sell, no taxes, etc.), is that he makes a few farts whose identity is entirely linked to being rich feel truly inferior.
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The winning strategy has always been the same:
1. Develop deep mastery of your craft.
2. Build tools to scale your output.
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People choose to build where they want but get quickly discouraged when all the retards call the developer a “scammer” because BOTS BUNDLED AND SNIPED ON TOP OF YOU. The dev has no chance again that nor any choice. Come to @waifudotfun where that’s not possible.
Jun 13
an ai token going up on your chain doesn’t mean your chain is where ai projects should be built
the larping from chain leaders and foundations needs to be stopped
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Jun 13
brother is comparing a rocket company to crypto hyped company this is total wrong
Jun 13
Crypto PTSD tells me $SPCX will end up as crypto hyped low-float/high-FDV token launches.
Tradfi is at the 'High-FDV is a meme' stage crypto was 2 years ago.
But $SPCS can't do 10x at current valuations, especially as unlocks start. Meaning all upside to IPO was taken by insiders. Retail is exit liquidity.
Exactly, the set up that Cobie criticized within crypto high-FDV launches.
Crypto's mission is to fix this by giving access to retail at lower valuations.
But pre-IPOs aren't it. Anyone who bought the pre-ipo perps at 1x-like leverage are underwater. At least we can easily short it.
Worse, PreStocks trades at 41% DISCOUNT and 'early' retail crypto degens got rekt.
So, crypto x Tradfi merge means that crypto investors are exit liquidity to hyped IPOs.
To fix this we still need native crypto assets to do well, those like are born onchain with broad distribution like mining, fair launches or airdrops.
When we return to this key crypto value proposition and we start winning, retail will come back to crypto.
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an ai token going up on your chain doesn’t mean your chain is where ai projects should be built
the larping from chain leaders and foundations needs to be stopped
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Jun 13
agreed
base has the opportunity to run with ai onchain but have failed severally to stay till after a week of tokens pumping
solana ai season lasted for almost a year before liquidity getting dried up when big caps started dropping
solana is where stocks are having a surge in spot market and its where ai onchain tokens are meant to lead
Jun 13
looking like we might get some of the fabled 50M onchain runners on sol soon
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ai agents that will come out from new open source after seeing fable 5 will win
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when ai labs says the truth but the world wants them to lie and make everyone ignorant
people wants engineers to lie to them like governments do endlessly
Anthropic made a generational mistake.
Framing AI as a technology that’s going to take everyone’s jobs, create cyber weapons, enable autonomous warfare, etc. instead of curing disease and helping humans do more is one of the most unforced errors I’ve ever seen.
How difficult would it have been to frame AI as technology so powerful it’s going to discover cures for disease, allow humans to be more productive, expand what small teams can build, accelerate GDP, and give people leverage they’ve never had before?
Such an unforced error.
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crypto ai open source frameworks have an opportunity now to gain mindshare
people will start seeing it through their brains that closed source ai isn’t the future
the open source and optimist will win
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the real permanent underclass
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Jun 12
the inspiring thing about elon is that his building for the world and not for a country
that’s why he keeps saying nothing will stop this train to what is going to become
those that build to make the world a better place are the optimist the world need
the optimist wins
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