@robinsoncodes

2x founder | Systems Design Engineer | Core Eng @fiatrails| 6x winner 🥇Blockchain hackathons | prev @UniswapFND | Founder @blocksride_xyz

Singapore
Joined September 2021
Kicked off @shanhaiwoo Residency 🇸🇬 with the opening ceremony 🎉. A month of building Ethereum, AI & frontier tech begins Day 1 at Innovis, met brilliant minds, shared big ideas, and introduced Synapse, turning idle devices into a global supercomputer for AI ⚡. – at Pulai, Johor
Replying to @shanhaiwoo
✨🪐Let's take a loooook what they are building, their goals for the month, and what resources or teammates they are looking for. Feel free to connect our Talent Wooer!
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allanrobinson.onchain 📍ShanhaiWoo 🇸🇬 retweeted
If you want to change your life, you may need to go quiet for a while. A season of fewer distractions can give you room to think, build, learn, get healthier, manage your money, and figure out what you actually want. You don’t need to isolate yourself from everyone. You just need enough silence to hear yourself again. Protect your season of growth. Come back with something to show for it. – at Nairobi, Kenya
If you want to make the most progress you've ever made in your life, you need to be alone. You need an extended period of isolation, not influenced by friends or media, spent building your future. You need space to learn, think, experiment, and fail. Give yourself 6 months. Focus solely on the development of your mind, body, spirit, and finances. This is how you get ahead of most people.
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If you want to change your life, you may need to go quiet for a while. A season of fewer distractions can give you room to think, build, learn, get healthier, manage your money, and figure out what you actually want. You don’t need to isolate yourself from everyone. You just need enough silence to hear yourself again. Protect your season of growth. Come back with something to show for it. – at Nairobi, Kenya
If you want to make the most progress you've ever made in your life, you need to be alone. You need an extended period of isolation, not influenced by friends or media, spent building your future. You need space to learn, think, experiment, and fail. Give yourself 6 months. Focus solely on the development of your mind, body, spirit, and finances. This is how you get ahead of most people.
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allanrobinson.onchain 📍ShanhaiWoo 🇸🇬 retweeted
Your life doesn’t get smaller when someone else wins. Celebrate the friend who got the opportunity, the builder who finally shipped, the person who kept going when nobody was watching. There’s enough room for all of us to win. Learn to clap for others while you’re still building your own story.
Celebrate wins that aren't your own.
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Your life doesn’t get smaller when someone else wins. Celebrate the friend who got the opportunity, the builder who finally shipped, the person who kept going when nobody was watching. There’s enough room for all of us to win. Learn to clap for others while you’re still building your own story.
Celebrate wins that aren't your own.
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Lol that's crazy 😂
don't give up stripe had 50 users in the first 2 years
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allanrobinson.onchain 📍ShanhaiWoo 🇸🇬 retweeted
Software engineering really was a cheat code for a while 😅 Great pay, remote work, endless demand and a lot of freedom. But every comfortable era eventually gets disrupted. AI isn’t necessarily killing engineering. It’s raising the bar for what being an engineer means. The title may change. The builders who keep adapting won’t.
Fellow software engineers, we had a good run but I think it's fine to admit that it was the cushiest job of all time. High paying, you got to sit on your ass in front of a computer, and everyone else had to treat you as a delicate genius priest class.
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Exactly on point 😎
Your brain can learn anything if you practice it daily.
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Software engineering really was a cheat code for a while 😅 Great pay, remote work, endless demand and a lot of freedom. But every comfortable era eventually gets disrupted. AI isn’t necessarily killing engineering. It’s raising the bar for what being an engineer means. The title may change. The builders who keep adapting won’t.
Fellow software engineers, we had a good run but I think it's fine to admit that it was the cushiest job of all time. High paying, you got to sit on your ass in front of a computer, and everyone else had to treat you as a delicate genius priest class.
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When you’re young, stay close to people who challenge you, push you, and expect more from you than you expect from yourself. Not people who make you feel small, people who make you want to level up. Find people who raise your standards, then become that person for someone else.
If you're young, surround yourself with people who expect way too much.
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The damage is not uncertainty. It is waiting for life to stop being uncertain before you act. You ship the ugly first version. You hire before the plan is pretty. You kill a loved feature because the customer already voted. No clean map. Just a next move you can stand behind. Certainty is a luxury. Forward is a skill.
Nothing destroys your life more than not being able to deal with uncertainty.
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Yes, the machine will beat you at the test. No, that does not make you obsolete. What dies is the fantasy that cleverness was a hiding place. Taste, hustle, “unique insight” were never guaranteed moats. What remains is the person who will own the outcome when it goes wrong. It is not over. It is just no longer about being impressive.
i don't think nearly anyone, myself included, has truly internalized there'll soon be a machine better than us in every single intellectual & physical capacity deep down we all share a feeling that our 'entrepreneurship' or 'taste' or... is special & safe. it isn't. it's over
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allanrobinson.onchain 📍ShanhaiWoo 🇸🇬 retweeted
Don’t build a career in the hallway. Go all the way into the model, or all the way into the customer. The mushy middle looks smart and ships almost nothing. Stretch to both if you can. If you can’t, pick an edge and own it.The work that matters happens at the extremes. Everything else is just hovering.
A CS undergrad asked me where he could have most effect in the AI age. I said probably at either extreme: either close to the technology, actually making LLMs, or close to the customer, using AI to give them exactly what they want. Or maybe both if you can stretch that far.
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Don’t build a career in the hallway. Go all the way into the model, or all the way into the customer. The mushy middle looks smart and ships almost nothing. Stretch to both if you can. If you can’t, pick an edge and own it.The work that matters happens at the extremes. Everything else is just hovering.
A CS undergrad asked me where he could have most effect in the AI age. I said probably at either extreme: either close to the technology, actually making LLMs, or close to the customer, using AI to give them exactly what they want. Or maybe both if you can stretch that far.
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Kenya we have a long way to go 🥲
International Physics Olympiad 2026, Top 30 countries: 1. 🇨🇳 China — 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 1. 🇮🇳 India — 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 1. 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan — 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 1. 🇰🇷 South Korea — 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 1. 🇷🇺 Russia — 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 1. 🇹🇼 Taiwan — 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 7. 🇻🇳 Vietnam — 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈 8. 🇮🇷 Iran — 🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈 9. 🇷🇴 Romania — 🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈 10. 🇮🇱 Israel — 🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈 10. 🇸🇬 Singapore — 🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈 12. 🇯🇵 Japan — 🥇🥈🥈🥈🥉 12. 🇺🇦 Ukraine — 🥇🥈🥈🥈🥉 14. 🇮🇩 Indonesia — 🥇🥈🥈🥉🥉 15. 🇹🇭 Thailand — 🥇🥈🥈🥉🎖️ 16. 🇧🇷 Brazil — 🥇🥈🥉🥉🥉 17. 🇳🇱 Netherlands — 🥇🥉🥉🥉🎖️ 17. 🇸🇮 Slovenia — 🥇🥉🥉🥉🎖️ 19. 🇲🇾 Malaysia — 🥇🥉🎖️🎖️ 20. 🇸🇪 Sweden — 🥇🥉🥉 21. 🇱🇹 Lithuania — 🥇🥉🎖️🎖️🎖️ 22. 🇹🇷 Türkiye — 🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈 23. 🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 🥈🥈🥈🥈🥉 23. 🇲🇳 Mongolia — 🥈🥈🥈🥈🥉 25. 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan — 🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉 25. 🇧🇾 Belarus — 🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉 25. 🇩🇪 Germany — 🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉 25. 🇮🇹 Italy — 🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉 25. 🇷🇸 Serbia — 🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉 30. 🇭🇺 Hungary — 🥈🥈🥈🥉
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Busy is the most respectable form of laziness. A full calendar is not a life. It’s often just fear of choosing. Pick three things. Drop the rest for a week. 1. Think before you move. 2. Motion burns the day. 3. Priority builds the year.
Laziness can mean blurred priorities and indiscriminate action. You can be very busy running around with a cell phone to your head 24 hours a day and still be very lazy because you’re not taking the time to prioritize.
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Kill the version of him who needs to be liked to feel safe. Do this instead: 1. Say no without a 4-paragraph apology. 2. Stop over-delivering for people who never asked. 3. Keep your word. Raise your price. Walk away once. 4.Kindness with a spine is not weakness. It’s how you stay human without getting used.
Nice men are used. Shy men are ignored. Weak men are abused. Ruthless men are respected. Dear son, Kill the nice guy inside you. Life doesn’t care about your kindness. Be ruthless, or get crushed.
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I came to realize this is @elonmusk strategy! Every great thing starts looking a little crazy before it starts looking obvious. Be obsessed with the problem. Be unreasonable about the work. Believe in the vision before anyone else sees it. But stay humble enough to learn and flexible enough to change course. Dream like it’s possible. Work like it’s inevitable.
Normalize being obsessed like a psychopath to the point of complete delusion.
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We don’t have an information problem anymore. We have an attention problem. You can learn almost anything for free today. But consuming knowledge isn’t the same as applying it. Pick something. Go deep. Build. Practice. Repeat. Focus turns free information into a valuable skill.
Books are free. Google is free. YouTube is free. Podcasts are free. Information is everywhere. You don't lack knowledge. You lack focus. FOCUS!
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Some seasons will humble you. Your job is not to look defeated by them. You won’t always have the answers, the money, or the momentum. Stay calm, keep working, ask for help when needed, and remember that a difficult season is still a season. Don’t let a hard chapter convince you it’s the whole story.
Brooooooo, Neverrrrr look desperate in life. Remain calm during hard times. Understand it's just your time to suffer like every great man before you. You're a man.
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Want to build something extraordinary? Get comfortable looking foolish first. Starting something new means being wrong, looking inexperienced, hearing “that won’t work,” and sometimes having nothing to show for months. The difference is staying curious enough to learn and stubborn enough to continue. Be willing to look foolish today for a future that makes sense tomorrow.
I'm convinced successful people are just willing to look stupid for years longer than anyone else to get what they want.
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