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I got hacked at 3:59 AM without clicking anything. My voicemail handed the attacker my Telegram login code.
Here is exactly how it worked, so it doesn't happen to you.
3:54 AM. My phone rings about ten times in a row, No Caller ID. That was not harassment. It was the attack: keep my line busy.
Meanwhile, the attacker asks Telegram to log in with my number and picks "send the code by phone call". My line is busy, so Telegram's robot call lands on my voicemail and reads the code out loud to it.
Carrier voicemail can often be reached remotely, with a default PIN or a spoofed caller ID. He listens to the message. At 3:59 he is in.
Fortunately, the attack was noisy. The calls woke me up. At 4 AM I only wanted to go back to sleep, but I had the presence of mind to check my notifications. Telegram was showing a new login from a device I didn't know. That check is what saved me: I ended his session within minutes. If I had rolled over, the next day would have been a mess.
In those few minutes he had already typed /balance, then /start on every old wallet bot he could find in my chats. He was hunting for funds tied to my Telegram. The bots were long dead and nothing was lost. He still had time to set his own 2FA password on my account.
What would have stopped it:
Telegram two-step verification, with a recovery email. With a password on the account, the code alone is useless.
Your voicemail. Change the PIN, block remote access, or turn it off (##002# cancels call forwarding on most carriers).
Same for WhatsApp and any service that can send a code by voice call.
No seeds, keys or passwords in Saved Messages. Ever.
A burst of masked calls at night is a signal, not a nuisance. Check your notifications and your active sessions.
I have been building in crypto for more than ten years and I had never thought about my voicemail. Check yours today.
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interesting perspective but there’s nothing high-agency about choosing hard mode for its own sake
you move to nyc/london cuz you understand your environment is leverage
you don’t prove agency by refusing leverage
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to build a cool product now, you really only need two ppl:
one dude with exceptional vision & taste who knows what should exist & can provide the right feedback loops for iteration.
& one dude who is absolutely relentless about making it real no matter what.
that’s it. & sometimes these two are the same.
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We believe your time is the most valuable asset you have.
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It’s inefficient, and frankly, it’s a failure of UX.
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Bro to bro- do not try entrepreneurship if you don't have a high tolerance for uncertainty. For long periods of time, you genuinely won’t know if you’re early, wrong, unlucky, or just stupid. You need to be cheap before you can afford not to be. Because raising money and burning it is easy. Building something people are willing to pay for is hard. You need high self esteem and a low ego and you've to be comfortable being wrong, looking stupid and changing your mind. Most importantly, learn how to lose without becoming a loser. Because you’re going to lose a lot- money, people, deals & time. Just don’t lose your ability to think clearly. And btw, don’t go looking for motivation. It is useless after a while. What you really need is stamina. Both physical & mental.
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Major green flags in a founder:
1/ crazy grit, won’t give up
2/ started building before pitching investors
3/ constantly moving, constantly generating new information
4/ deeply technical
5/ not addicted to founder cosplay
6/ obsessively talks to users / can’t stop talking to customers
7/ finds creative, experimental marketing channels
8/ genuinely cares about what they’re building
9/ never blames others or external factors
10/ tinkered with projects obsessively
11/ constantly comes up with interesting ideas
12/ knows their metrics cold
13/ doesn’t chase hype, chases truth
14/ excellent storyteller, can sell the vision to hires, investors, and customers
15/ can clearly explain what they are building in one sentence
If you hit a good chunk of these, tell me what you are building.
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i have no desire to be rich so i can buy a lambo or birkins.
I want to be rich so I can control my time and go to the gym at 2 pm on a wednesday.
sit at a cafe and relax for an hour on a rainy afternoon.
so I can cook meals at home with fresh ingredients.
spend on my family and friends without worrying about a budget.
that's my idea of a rich life, not the fake consumerist idea shoved down my throat.
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Being a founder sounds romantic until you’re 2 years in with no traction, no money, and a family that thinks you need a “real job.”
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I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day.
A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on.
The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine.
And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday.
It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.
We should all stop with this modern obsession of having a perfectly balanced, optimised life (8 hours sleep, daily cardio + gym, eat well, deep work, etc.)
Most exceptional lives are heavily overallocated somewhere and any pursuit of greatness (in business, art, sport, research) requires big sacrifices.
Online gurus love selling this perfect recipe of life but reality is you only have a 24h day. No way you can sleep 8h, do 10k steps, gym, morning sunlight, read, eat perfectly, do 9h of deep work, see friends, maintain a relationship and somehow be happy through all of it.
I think a better thing for ambitious people is to think of life in seasons: a year obsessed with work, then a period focused on health, family, travel, etc. You can be massively overallocated to one thing for a while without deciding that’s what your entire life should look like. Balance probably makes more sense measured over years than every single day.
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Gasless trading is here 🔋
We've allocated 100,000 sponsored transactions to cover your Spot, Margin, and Swaps until Sep 5.
The markets are tough, so this is our way of saying thank you to the users who keep trading with us.
Just open the app, check your account, and enjoy the summer time on Deeptrade! ☀️
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i know several people in their mid 30s that got one-shotted by nomading and are starting to be really depressed about it
here's the problems they are facing:
> a lot of them would actually love to start a family
> EVERYONE Is single though, often for years or even decades of situationships
> optionality both human wise (relationships etc) and location wise has made it impossible to commit to anything
> there's a constant feeling of the grass might be greener (leading to no grass at all!)
> all of them moved around multiple times a year for 10-20 years
> all of the nomad places (bali, KPG etc) are dominated by people who are there only for a couple of week/months a year
> a lot of my friends have a lot of people they "know" but almost 0 true friends (because friendships actually need a lot of time spent together)
> and because all of their friends are also nomads, everyone is always on the go so it's incredibly hard to build depth in any relationship
> most of these "friendships" feel very intense in the moment but amount to 0 over a couple of years because you simply never see most people
> if you want to start a family, when you're hitting mid 30s it suddenly gets real that you might miss that traind entirely (some of them are starting to be really depressed about this)
> this is more true for women, but let's face it most 30-35 yo woman also don't want someone in their 50s or 60s so the window is also closing rapidly for the men
> most of the nomad lifestyle is also antioptimized to be family friendly
> you could say that being a nomad longterm really is anti-optimizing to make starting a family more likely
> most nomad places are also predominantly inhabited by people in their 20 or early 30, once you outgrow these cohorts a mismatch starts to happen (people either become manchilds or start feeling totally disconnected)
> btw, it's TOTALLY fine not wanting to start a family or have roots at one place. all i'm saying is many of these peopel thought so too in their mid 20s but then missed to adjust their lifestyle to what they really wanted: deep friendships, roots and eventually a family
> let's be realistic, a lot of relationships go to waste so even if you're "only" 30, that's basically just 1-2 relationships go wrong before your become infertile (as we women). it happens fast as fuck! also you don't want to start a family with someone you just met, so you also need to include at least 1-2 years of living together before you make such a decision
> friendships & relationships are assets that compound over time and it's very very hard for most nomad to actually get to that point. i'm not saying it's impossible but it's just what i'm seeing with people I know
> I think a great solution is to take some of your nomad friends and actually start a co-living project like @levelsio does.
> it's totally anecdotal, but I just wanted to remind everyone to rethink if you're lifestyle is actually aligned with your long term goals. and no, you don't have all the time in the world. things take time. use it wisely.
btw. I also traveled a lot (and still do by most people's standards)! i totally get why people love this lifestyle. but it's so important to understand the downside too
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Your 30s are for raising a family while growing in your career and settling into a home as you save for retirement and find time and funds to travel and stay involved in your hobbies and be there for your friends' special moments and cooking your own meals while keeping a regular fitness routine and a clean house and still getting enough sleep to function.
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Several of my social media accounts have been compromised. If you’ve received a recent message from me asking to arrange a call or anything that seemed unusual, please ignore and delete it.
I’m working to secure everything and apologise for any confusion caused.
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My heuristic is that any diff an agent generates over ~1500 lines is too big and is indicative that the problem needs to be decomposed. This is my general pattern now for feature work:
1. Try to implement the whole feature, loosely guided. I call this the "draw the owl" prompt in reference to the meme. Expect garbage, you're going to get garbage.
2. If the diff is less than 1500 lines, review it and iterate normally. If the diff is more than 1500 lines, prompt the agent to decompose the problem into atomic, incremental, reviewable tasks. Simultaneously, do this yourself.
3. Agents will very often make these tasks way too specific to the shape they solved. You need to massage it into the right general shape. Do that.
4. Kick off new agents to work on those incremental things (as parallelized as possible). Apply the same rules.
5. At a certain, point, repeat the "draw the owl" prompt. At some point, you will get beneath your review-ability threshold.
This has been producing consistently high quality, maintainable, reviewable chunks of code that have a good handoff to either merge as-is or human refinement.
And with the latest frontier models at xhigh thinking, these are all slow enough that you can usually have multiple going concurrently while you are actively reviewing others or working on your own tasks.
HITL (human-in-the-loop) agents are still super important, especially for feature work. Features touch the human boundary in terms of UI, API, etc. And net new stuff can introduce pathologies in the architecture that violate desired invariants (these should be represented in specs or tests but we aren't perfect!).
I know a lot of the leading edge agentic discourse is about "loops" and agents driving agents continuously. I do some of that (will report on that later). But, in terms of raw daily get-shit-done type of work, this is my most rewarding pattern at the moment.
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