DegenSing

Every generation invents the same hustle. just different platforms.
Boomers:
→ Real estate seminars
→ Golf course deals
→ "I know a guy" consulting
→ Timeshare presentations
Gen X:
→ MLM (the OG grind)
→ Forex trading courses
→ Domain flipping
→ AdSense blogging
Millennials:
→ Crypto raises (ideate → raise → TGE → repeat)
→ Dropshipping empires
→ Amazon FBA
→ Selling courses on how to sell courses
→ "I help founders scale" Twitter bios
Gen Z:
→ Memecoins
→ Clip farming
→ UGC content mills
→ Notion templates as a personality
→ Prompt packs and custom GPT workflows
Gen Alpha (early signs):
→ iPa

i've been in crypto long enough to know one thing with absolute certainty. The people who got rich didn't predict the cycle. They just refused to let the bear market convince them the story was over. 2022 felt like a funeral. Everyone had a reason to leave. The narratives were

Switched to Claude three months ago. Opened ChatGPT yesterday for the first time since. It felt like texting on a Nokia after using an iPhone.

The barrier to building a startup used to be money. Now it's knowing which free tools to stack. Full startup infrastructure for ~$20/month: Claude → writes your code ($20) Supabase → backend (free) Vercel → deploy (free) GitHub → version control (free) Stripe → get paid

i've been in crypto long enough to know one thing with absolute certainty.
The people who got rich didn't predict the cycle.
They just refused to let the bear market convince them the story was over.
2022 felt like a funeral. Everyone had a reason to leave. The narratives were dead, the prices were embarrassing, the CT was a ghost town.
The people who stayed didn't stay because they knew what was coming.
They stayed because they understood what they owned.
That's the only edge that actually compounds.
Not your entry. Not your timing. Not your TA.
Your conviction during the silence.. that's wha

Software companies are getting repriced in real time. Not a correction. A reclassification. Figma down 81% from its 52w high. HubSpot 68%. Atlassian 63%. Salesforce 39%. These aren't small caps. These are the companies that defined the last decade of software. The market is

Switched to Claude three months ago.
Opened ChatGPT yesterday for the first time since.
It felt like texting on a Nokia after using an iPhone.

The barrier to building a startup used to be money.
Now it's knowing which free tools to stack.
Full startup infrastructure for ~$20/month:
Claude → writes your code ($20)
Supabase → backend (free)
Vercel → deploy (free)
GitHub → version control (free)
Stripe → get paid (2.9% per transaction)
Clerk → auth (free)
Resend → emails (free)
Cloudflare → DNS (free)
PostHog → analytics (free)
Sentry → bug tracking (free)
Upstash → Redis (free)
Pinecone → AI database (free)
Namecheap → domain ($1/mo)
The only thing you're actually paying for is the AI doing the work.
Everything else is free until you'r

Google might be the most talented team in AI. And somehow they keep losing to people doing less. OpenAI ships one thing and defends it. Anthropic picks a lane and goes deep. Google? NotebookLM, Gemini, AI Studio, Stitch, Search AI, Workspace AI, DeepMind.. All of it is

i use 5 AI models. Here's exactly why each one earns its slot. Qwen 3.5 (local): simple crons, log parsing, routine checks. Costs $0. Runs on my Mac mini. No API call, no bill, no drama. Kimi K2: automation pipelines and scheduled jobs. Cheap, fast, punches above its weight.

everyone in CT is checked out right now. And i think that's the most bullish signal i've seen in years. AI is about to become the biggest user of blockchain in history.. autonomous agents need wallets, need payments, need on-chain identity, need verifiable compute. None of that

Google might be the most talented team in AI.
And somehow they keep losing to people doing less.
OpenAI ships one thing and defends it.
Anthropic picks a lane and goes deep.
Google? NotebookLM, Gemini, AI Studio, Stitch, Search AI, Workspace AI, DeepMind..
All of it is impressive. None of it feels inevitable.
There's a difference between a company that's building and a company that's exploring.
OpenAI feels like they're building.
Google feels like they're still figuring out what they want to be when they grow up.
Smartest kid in class. Worst at finishing the exam.

Zuckerberg is building an AI Chief of Staff to handle his decisions, communication, and workflow. The CEO of a $1.5T company is automating the CEO role. Let that sit for a second. This is the same guy who laid off 21,000 people saying AI could do their jobs. Now he's pointing

Your college roommate took a Facebook quiz in 2014. 5 minutes. $3. Done. You never took it. Never even saw it. Didn't matter. Facebook gave that app access to his entire friend list. Your profile included. 87 million people who never clicked anything, never agreed to

everyone in CT is checked out right now.
And i think that's the most bullish signal i've seen in years.
AI is about to become the biggest user of blockchain in history.. autonomous agents need wallets, need payments, need on-chain identity, need verifiable compute. None of that works off-chain at scale.
We're literally standing at the door of the largest wave of on-chain activity this industry has ever seen.
And the majority of CT is doom scrolling and reading shitposts.
This is how every major move starts. Not with euphoria. With exhaustion.
There's misery at every bottom and euphoria at ever