Reading the book by Li Lu, the founder of Himalaya Capital, he mentioned that throughout history there are often years in which many historical events occur, becoming a watershed moment of the era. In 1776, Adam Smith published "The Wealth of Nations", the Continental Congress passed the "Declaration of Independence", and Watt modified the first commercial steam engine. Capitalism, democratic politics, and the industrial revolution elevated human civilization to a new stage.
Many people mention that now is the garbage time of a great era, but in fact, 2021 was also a watershed moment of the er

Stablecoin headlines were BOOMING this week 🚨
- Tether CEO slams S&P downgrade as “finance propaganda,” reporting $181B in assets and no major redemptions despite scrutiny
- Paxos acquires Fordefi in a $100M+ deal to expand institutional infrastructure behind PYUSD and USDG stablecoins
- U.S. Bank pilots programmable stablecoin issuance on Stellar with built-in compliance and unwind controls
- Klarna to launch KlarnaUSD on Stripe’s Bridge to cut $120B in annual cross-border payment costs
- MegaETH’s USDm pre-deposit round hits its $250M cap in under three minutes amid expansion setbacks
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Netscape made Internet obvious to normies, iPhone made mobile obvious to normies, and ChatGPT made AI obvious to normies.
What would make crypto and blockchain obvious to normies?

Only a few products can achieve a "verb status" in the past 40 years history of the Internet:
Just Google it
Can you Venmo me?
I'll Uber there.
The latest product that became a verb is Zoom: Let's Zoom.
ChatGPT is getting there but it's still not as common to say "ChatGPT it" yet.
If a product wants to achieve the verb status like the ones above, it needs to:
1, solve a very very clear and unique problem so people always think of it when facing that problem,
2, achieve a critical mass user base so it's people know what the name means in any everyday convo,
and 3, be very memorable and simpl

Question to all my founder and workaholics friends:
Sometimes I get stressed about work so much that the only way I can de-stress myself is to overwork.
Getting the assurance when you see your extremely packed calendar is so misleading. I want to learn how to actually get myself to relax a bit. I’m already seeing therapist - any other suggestions?

The most painful thing about being on a business trip in New York for a month is why business hotels in the U.S. are so expensive and yet have such a poor experience compared to domestic ones: at the hotel next to Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan, I had to sleep with headphones on every night because the sirens outside were too loud in the middle of the night, and I could clearly hear the movements in the hallway.
The whole season is just perfect for our founders who are used to a frugal lifestyle. Apart from the downside of not having a lounge for socializing, the room hygiene, sleep quality,

Adding an AI prompt bar and changing your domain to .ai doesn't make your product LLM-ready and AI-native.

We are looking for software and growth interns at @allscaleio! Vancouver or Remote!
Feel free to leave a message below or tag your friends who might be a fit. If someone you referred joined our team you will get $300 USDT stablecoins in your AllScale wallet!
Software Intern - QA:
- Responsibilities: support testing of the company’s web and mobile applications — performing smoke, integration, and end-to-end tests; documenting results; tracking bug fixes; maintaining test cases; and assisting with environment setup.
- Requirements: Experience with tools like Jira, Postman, or Cypress, as wel

Having run my own business, worked with both domestic and international large companies and consulting firms, and gone through two rounds of financing for entrepreneurship, my deepest realization is that competing under the rules set by others has very low cost-effectiveness.
The rule makers of the game are the vested interests, whose goal is to maximize everyone's efforts while minimizing profits, as long as you can keep playing. Otherwise, if everyone makes money, how will the game continue?

I’m looking for talented web3 and AI developer freelancers in NYC.
Simply charge your clients on @allscaleio, I’ll help you find more clients!

I have always been a huge supporter for remote teams: lower cost of living and operating, broader talents pool, flexible work schedule to accommodate global markets in different time zones…
However this requires really smart and consistent asynchronous communication. Otherwise meetings will happen too frequently and take away a lot of the momentum you need to grow fast.

Boys should still engage in ball sports; running and fitness cannot fully train every part of the body.
In the morning, I was chatting with a friend waiting next to me at the airport security check. Just by looking at his build, you could tell he plays soccer. Moreover, he looks and has the demeanor of someone in their thirties or forties, but he said he is already fifty-five.
No matter what your career is like or your age, you must not be bald or overweight. Having good energy and spirit can help you do business better and live comfortably.

The more you learn, the less you know — especially as a founder.
No matter how long we have worked in corporate, every stage of building a startup humbles us: product, people, capital, market...
The deeper we go, the more we realize how much there is to unlearn, relearn, and build again from first principles.