Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI:
Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible.
1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work
Fantastic conversation.
@toly is one of the good ones. He is mission-driven and long-term oriented, but somehow also grounded and pragmatic.
A rare combination.
"You just can't build a slow, expensive blockchain anymore."
Solana founder @toly built a $47 billion network from an idea he couldn't sleep on. Two coffees and a beer at Cafe du Soleil in 2017, and he was up until 4 a.m., figuring out how to use proof of work to measure time.
The upward spiral of AI psychosis:
> toil on my hardest ever task
> open Codex, lever for moving the world
> complete task in record time
> compulsively toil on even harder task
never sleep
"Agentic commerce" is not as interesting for crypto as people like to think.
Credit cards actually work better than stablecoins for almost all kinds of agentic payments. They are reliable and universally accepted. And contrary to what most people think, they are also
