Drugs can kill you or save your life
Use accordingly.
My guide to startups:
I've lost millions, hired hundreds, raised millions and sold companies before the age of 30
Read this to become better:
The best startup revenge is overwhelming product/market fit
The secret: almost everybody gardens
Entrepreneurship is a marathon not a sprint. Be sustainable
Find your gardening.
A bad online course is a teacher stealing from you
Tip: scout out for wonderful online courses
A few dollar investment will completely change a life
With the internet, you are more powerful than you think you are
1) Learn anything you want
2) Connect with anyone you want
3) Be anyone you want
What a time to be alive
Recruiting is actively seeking the best people to create the best possible team
Hiring is pulling the trigger
Founders should always be recruiting
I bet your sales go up
Lesson: try and try some more
A “not to-do” list is more effective than a to-do list. Keeps you from being exceptional
Focus is the holy grail
He understood the power of making people feel heard
Personalization is the secret weapon to build loyalty for your customers & team
A single viral tweet can change your life forever (h/t @sweatystartup)
Going viral can transform your business
Point: It's worth experimenting
Follow me @gregisenberg for more thread about startups, internet communities and niches
I'll make it worth the follow
Tip: use a password manager like @1Password
Saves time and gives you peace of mind
Have they slept, eaten, or been bothered by someone?
Sensitivity to people is a superpower
- Don’t dismiss people
- Don’t be a jerk
- Don’t rush
- Don’t interrupt
Be positive & kind
Stressed is the word that high achievers use for fear
Never be fearful, OK to be stressed sometimes
Tip: Master micro-bravery. conquer fear by breaking it down into smaller steps
Band-aids never work. Address main issues
You can’t fix something that starts with a poor foundation
- What have you done today to help someone
- What is something nice that someone has done for you
- What did you learn
- What can I do to be better tomorrow?
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So the cryptocurrency industry has basically two products, one which is relatively benign and doesn't have product market fit, and one which is malignant and does. The industry has a weird superposition of understanding this fact and (strategically?) not understanding it.
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
If everyone was holding bitcoin on the old x86 in their parents basement, we would be finding a price bottom. The problem is the risk is all pooled at a few brokerages and a network of rotten exchanges with counter party risk that makes AIG circa 2008 look like a good credit.
— Greg Wester (@gwestr) November 25, 2018
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
Assalam Alaiki dear Sister in Islam. I hope this meets you well. Hope you are keeping safe in this pandemic. May Allah preserve you and your beloved family. I would like to address the misconception and misinterpretation in your thread. Please peruse the THREAD below.
1. First off, a disclaimer. Should you feel hurt by my words in the course of the thread, then forgive me. It’s from me and not from Islam. And I probably have to improve on my delivery. And I may not quote you verbatim, but the intended meaning would be there. Thank You!
2. Standing on Imam Shafii’s quote: “And I never debated anyone but that I did not mind whether Allah clarified the truth on my tongue or his tongue” or “I never once debated anyone hoping to win the debate; rather I always wished that the truth would come from his side.”
3. Okay, into the meat (my love for meat is showing. Lol) of the thread. Even though you didn’t mention the verse that permitted polygamy, everyone knows the verse you were talking about (Q4:3).
4. Your reasons for the revelation of the verse are strange. The first time I came across such. I had to quickly consult the books on the exegeses or tafsir of the Quran written by renowned specialists!
A lot of things Muslims do now and claim as Islamic rule is actually a culture that Islam curtailed or tried to perfect.
— Sule Nana (@izesule) January 2, 2021
Let's talk polygamy.
Islam didn't come and say, "oh men, marry four wives"
No.
Polygamy was in existence, long before the coming of Islam.
1. First off, a disclaimer. Should you feel hurt by my words in the course of the thread, then forgive me. It’s from me and not from Islam. And I probably have to improve on my delivery. And I may not quote you verbatim, but the intended meaning would be there. Thank You!
2. Standing on Imam Shafii’s quote: “And I never debated anyone but that I did not mind whether Allah clarified the truth on my tongue or his tongue” or “I never once debated anyone hoping to win the debate; rather I always wished that the truth would come from his side.”
3. Okay, into the meat (my love for meat is showing. Lol) of the thread. Even though you didn’t mention the verse that permitted polygamy, everyone knows the verse you were talking about (Q4:3).
4. Your reasons for the revelation of the verse are strange. The first time I came across such. I had to quickly consult the books on the exegeses or tafsir of the Quran written by renowned specialists!
