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Emmanuel Awosika
@eawosika #467256
Creative undirector: @2077Collective. Ethernaut. Learning machine. Crazy genius.
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Frank Herbert's Dune should be treated as a philosophical text, not a mere work of fiction.
A stated vs. revealed preferences problem plagues some brands of modern-day feminism. An example: criticizing traditional gender roles while showing admiration for men who display certain qualities associated with traditional gender roles (e.g., women love "strong men" trope) and dismissing those w/o said qualities.
So something people will say is "Lots of people are self-diagnosing with ADHD even if they don't have it" (which makes them skeptical in general). Even I got told "Well, I also struggle with distraction and I don't need meds" by many friends when I received my diagnosis.
It's easy to misdiagnose people with ADHD because the condition is really a combination of issues that even neurotypical people deal with. For example, the regular human deals with procrastination, distraction, depression, and so on. So it's easy to dismiss ADHD as fake.
The difference (speaking from personal experience):
- ADHD predisposes you to experiencing these issues in elevated form. Procrastinating on your emails is fairly normal. Procrastinating to the point where you actively self-sabotage (akrasia) is NOT normal.
- ADHD predisposes you to a larger combination of these issues. It's not normal to simultaneously deal with procrastination, depression, anxiety, executive dysfunction, and a dozen other comorbid conditions.
It's easy to misdiagnose people with ADHD because the condition is really a combination of issues that even neurotypical people deal with. For example, the regular human deals with procrastination, distraction, depression, and so on. So it's easy to dismiss ADHD as fake.
The difference (speaking from personal experience):
- ADHD predisposes you to experiencing these issues in elevated form. Procrastinating on your emails is fairly normal. Procrastinating to the point where you actively self-sabotage (akrasia) is NOT normal.
- ADHD predisposes you to a larger combination of these issues. It's not normal to simultaneously deal with procrastination, depression, anxiety, executive dysfunction, and a dozen other comorbid conditions.
This post from @sdv.eth hit harder than I expected. You won't understand the pain behind "Where did I go wrong?" unless you've lived with the experience of trying and failing to manage ADHD.
ADHDers are some of the most determined and resourceful people you'll meet, which means you can bet we'll try everything to get better. But what you learn quickly is that ADHD almost always means fighting a difficult war with nature and losing 90% of the time.
I avoid talking about ADHD publicly because it often sounds like complaining. However, acknowledging the difficulty of working and living as a neurodivergent individual means I can cut myself some slack and recognize the small wins.
Sometimes you wish you never knew about this weird four-letter condition. I'll always choose knowledge over ignorance, though. Knowing how my brain functions and understanding my limits has made life easier/tolerable in certain cases.
Maybe it does get better.
ADHDers are some of the most determined and resourceful people you'll meet, which means you can bet we'll try everything to get better. But what you learn quickly is that ADHD almost always means fighting a difficult war with nature and losing 90% of the time.
I avoid talking about ADHD publicly because it often sounds like complaining. However, acknowledging the difficulty of working and living as a neurodivergent individual means I can cut myself some slack and recognize the small wins.
Sometimes you wish you never knew about this weird four-letter condition. I'll always choose knowledge over ignorance, though. Knowing how my brain functions and understanding my limits has made life easier/tolerable in certain cases.
Maybe it does get better.
Every time I see someone make fun of ADHD and suggest it's fake, or a conspiracy by Big Pharma to sell medication, I get mad all over again. This thing is very real and the people who suffer from it wouldn't wish on their worst enemies.
The more insidious effect of RSD is *anticipating* rejection so much that you end up not doing really simple things--like asking for a favor (or just asking for things more generally). If you're a founder--meaning you need to ask for things frequently--you can imagine how RSD complicates things.
Markets are down. It's the time to dust of philosophy books and start tweeting about convinction and philosophical ideas. Gotta love this industry.
My Farcaster conspiracy theory is that the small pause in between clicking "cast now" and your post going live serves a different purpose. On Twitter, you can send 150 tweets per minute and get lost in the adrenaline rush. But FC forces you to think about your life in between casts.
You can take those 15 seconds while your cast is booting up to ask yourself really solid questions:
- Should you continue to live in SF?
- Should you have aped into memecoins and ditched bad research tokens?
- Should you still launch a project with plans to dump on users?
- Will AGI kill us all?
So, breathe, and look outside the window while creating casts. It's your small chance to get some sanity back into your daily routine. Farcaster is good for your mental health.
You can take those 15 seconds while your cast is booting up to ask yourself really solid questions:
- Should you continue to live in SF?
- Should you have aped into memecoins and ditched bad research tokens?
- Should you still launch a project with plans to dump on users?
- Will AGI kill us all?
So, breathe, and look outside the window while creating casts. It's your small chance to get some sanity back into your daily routine. Farcaster is good for your mental health.
@vitalik.eth wrote a really great blog post on the issue of aligning w/ pro-crypto candidates. Unsurprisingly, yours truly caught the writing bug and wrote a long response to V's post on X. The original thread is now available to read as a blog: https://hackmd.io/@emmanuel-awosika/single-issue-voting-crypto .
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
This is something everyone in Ethereum should read imo. You hear so many ideas that are indistinguishable from religious beliefs and have to come acquire some air of infallibillity. People turn around and look like you just questioned the Bible in church when you try to question them.
Might start saying some random things about writing on Farcaster so I'm not copy-pasting content from Twitter.
#1: Writing is a good way of understanding myself and the world around me. I can understand my thoughts and beliefs better when I put them into writing.
#1: Writing is a good way of understanding myself and the world around me. I can understand my thoughts and beliefs better when I put them into writing.
Moderating my first panel at EthCC was great, but meeting Vitalik IRL was even better.
Hip-hop diss tracks ranked according to personal preference:
- Hit 'Em Up (2Pac)
- Ether (Nas)
- Shit Hits The Fan (Obie Trice ft. Eminem and Dr. Dre)
- Killshot (Eminem)
- No Frauds (Nicki Minaj ft. Lil Wayne and Drake)
- Not Like Us (Kendrick Lamar)
- Exposed (Russ)
- Hit 'Em Up (2Pac)
- Ether (Nas)
- Shit Hits The Fan (Obie Trice ft. Eminem and Dr. Dre)
- Killshot (Eminem)
- No Frauds (Nicki Minaj ft. Lil Wayne and Drake)
- Not Like Us (Kendrick Lamar)
- Exposed (Russ)
We're not pricing the value of Farcaster taking off. Farcaster is asking people to do normal stuff (use social media), but provides extra benefits bc it's crypto-native. Powerful onboarding tool.
Question: How do you frame the benefits of Farcaster relative to traditional SM apps in normie-friendly language?
Question: How do you frame the benefits of Farcaster relative to traditional SM apps in normie-friendly language?
"Wake up, babe. New EIP just dropped."
Many in the Ethereum community--including yours truly--fudded Farcaster a few months back. Now, Farcaster is about to save our bags by extending Frames to work anywhere and offer competition to Solana Blinks (I hear @df is working on Ethereum Frames). This is what peak irony looks like.
I'm hearing Van Eck filed for a Solana ETF. Grabbing my popcorn now. This should be fun.
We should focus on building cypherpunk *and* user-friendly applications in Ethereum.
Many of us can learn from Seneca. This was one of the Stoic school's major figures, but somehow, he never thought it strange to speak favorably about philosophers from rival schools--notably, Epictetus from the Epicurean school of thought.
Seneca's approach was to "take what works from wherever you find it". A relevant quote from one of his letters to his friend Lucillius: "The thought for today is one which I discovered in Epicurus; for I am wont to cross over even into the enemy's camp—not as a deserter, but as a scout."
If you know how much Stoics and Epicureans disagreed on many things, then you know it would have been weird for a leader of the Stoic school to borrow Epicurean ideas. But ideas aren't people; you may not like the person, but that shouldn't influence your decision to accept the idea (esp. if it's valuable).
It's a call to be open-minded and more tolerant of opposing viewpoints: we never know what we might learn. Don't take the limits of your vision for the limits of the world.
Seneca's approach was to "take what works from wherever you find it". A relevant quote from one of his letters to his friend Lucillius: "The thought for today is one which I discovered in Epicurus; for I am wont to cross over even into the enemy's camp—not as a deserter, but as a scout."
If you know how much Stoics and Epicureans disagreed on many things, then you know it would have been weird for a leader of the Stoic school to borrow Epicurean ideas. But ideas aren't people; you may not like the person, but that shouldn't influence your decision to accept the idea (esp. if it's valuable).
It's a call to be open-minded and more tolerant of opposing viewpoints: we never know what we might learn. Don't take the limits of your vision for the limits of the world.
Some pieces of cliché writing advice that make sense:
- Good writers read more than they write
- Learn how to write well by writing a lot of stuff
- First drafts (and, indeed, most of what you write when you start out) always suck
- Good writing is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration: pro writers deal with drudgery
- Good writers read more than they write
- Learn how to write well by writing a lot of stuff
- First drafts (and, indeed, most of what you write when you start out) always suck
- Good writing is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration: pro writers deal with drudgery
A man ought to study philosophy, up to the point of looking on generals and donkey-drivers in the same light. — Crates
So, I get paid for writing banger posts on Farcaster? Maybe it's time to quit my job and take up casting as a full-time role. How much $DEGEN do I need to retire comfortably and become the newest member of the FIRE movement? Asking for a friend.