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Recently I have read some great 🧵s on raising a seed round.

Instead of gathering dusts in my bookmarks I have compiled them into one guide:

With: @gaganbiyani @RomeenSheth @josephflaherty @yoheinakajima @daytonmills @micahjay1 @paigefinnn @dunkhippo33 @amanda_robs @pinverrr

1/10. Adjusting your mental mode to the process of


2/10. Fundamentals for building the slide


3/10. How to craft the most important slide in the


4/10. One way of raising a seed round:
A vitally important thread. Much isnt new, but is so in the air we breathe we forget how RECENT it is & therefore how unaccustomed we r to coping w/it. At the risk of hijacking her great observatns, theyre pivotal to points others have made re: Institutional Evangelicalism...1/12


1. The increased burden of sifting fact from fiction is one that only the economically privileged have the bandwidth to keep up with day-to-day, especially w/the SPEED of news generation we've seen in the last 6-10 years. This contributes to polarization & significantly... 2/12

... disadvantages blue collar America (on the left and the right) in an info economy, and is a massive catalyst for populist sentiments that make it exponentially harder for already-weak institutions to lead or swim against the tide (see Yuval Levin's "A Time to Build"). 3/12

2. I cannot agree more effusively with @sometimesalight's point re: social media & narrative. Social media platforms function as counterfeit institutions (social spaces that form identity via narrative, connection via shared purpose, & virtue via participation). 4/12

Prior to SocMed's ubiquity(approx. 2010), sifting/weighing primarily happened in traditional institutions (esp. churches) where perspectives tempered by wisdom, virtue, & relationship both evaluated & prioritized info. They served as both refuge & filter, solvent & catalyst. 5/12
Hungover & bored, might do a thread of my favourite little known stories about The KLF/The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu


When they won at the Brits, their award later turned up buried near Stonehenge. They have a long standing interest in the place & K2 Plant Hire at one stage expressed interest in 'fixing it up', which would entail grinding all the stones down & making them into nice oblong blocks

which would then be replaced just as they were. K2 Plant Hire's feeling was that the place had been allowed to fall into disrepair & it was a great shame. Sadly the plan never materialised.

When they released their first record, 1987: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?, its bizarre use of sampling technology was met with surprise & disbelief, not least by a London DJ named Tony Thorpe.
He said "I had to meet these guys because I couldn't believe how shit they were."

"I was sampling James Brown, they were sampling the fucking Beatles & Dave Brubeck."
Tony Thorpe became a key part of their arsenal, crafting the machine-tooled Stadium House that made them the best-selling singles band of 1992.
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Just finished my morning ride and yoga and I’m going to use Mikes tweet to elaborate on not only his quote and topic but something I have found very dear to me. It’s something I do real time without even realizing it anymore. It’s second nature and it brings me happiness


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For every person in trading happiness and greatness are two completely different things or could even be the same thing

One traders happiness could be executing with precision even if a red day and still walk away happy while others could be happy with “just being green.”

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On this, greatness is different to every trader

To some it could be executing with precision or, like me, it could be that you find greatness and happiness in being able to look into your coach’s eyes or accountability parents eyes and say....

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I did what was required of, when it was required, where and how it was required
I have no regrets. I executed my edge as seamlessly and flawlessly as I could

This is stress free trading. This is something I thank @FuturesTrader71 for. “We have no outcome on the market.”

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If you’ve made it this far. Good. Now the “good parts”.

Something I have found myself doing over the ages as time goes on is “auto adjusting” my entry sizes, stops, and profits

Nobody ever taught me this. There are no oblivious statistical calculations or ratios for me...
I'm in therapy, which I've already overshared, and it's great. I recommend it highly. Today I want to share an insight that has helped me so much, and maybe it can help you too?


I used to feel apart from things, alienated. I couldn't enjoy beauty or family. I live in a staggeringly beautiful place, but I couldn't enjoy the view or lake or mountains, because I know climate change is destroying glaciers & ecosystems. 2/
https://t.co/rvq2eRiXgC


Every day I had a hard time with my kid, putting on a brave face to get him to school and back, knowing every moment that I am somehow not doing enough to preserve his future. That he & his friends are being harmed, every day more, by our industrial and economic systems. 3/

What my therapist helped me understand is that I am right to have those feelings - it would be insane not to, given what I know about the state & direction of the world. But she also helped me understand that I was harming myself by putting myself apart from & above my world. 4/

In my previous worldview, I was apart from, in opposition to, my environment and my society. I saw myself as a lonely witness of devastation, howling helplessly and with little effect to try to change a disastrous trajectory, resentful of the ignorance & inaction of others. 5/
1/ I really enjoyed interviewing @xuenay about his writing strategy for bridging different perspectives. My writing has improved a ton from integrating this strategy!

So how does @xuenay do


2/ Like with all of these models, this is inspired by interview @xuenay but not necessarily endorsed by him. There's a necessary translation process that goes from his head to my head to paper!

3/Let's first talk about beliefs and motivations. What's his primary motivation to start this process?

For him, it's a process of seeing people disagree, and feeling a visceral sense of frustration at people talking post each other.

5/ For him, it's almost a proprioceptive sense of two different shapes. One person is saying circle, and the other is hearing square. It's really important to make these shapes match up!

6/ There are two underlying values here. The less salient one is wanting a sense of admiration from others. It's really nice to get praise for creating good explanations that unify two viewpoints.