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Paul Berg

@prberg #10677

Co-Founder at sablier.com, and open-source developer. I have a broad range of interests, including longevity, epistemology, physics, and psychology.
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I just got my @devcon ticket!

See you in Bangkok, November 12-15

https://devcon.org/sea/ticket/Paul
Building a company means facing a never-ending stream of problems coming your way.

Knowing which ones to prioritize is a skill in and of itself.
A list with all the distribution shapes available on sablier.com

→ Linear Stream: money streaming, i.e., distribute at a constant rate/second

→ Cliff Stream: like the Linear Stream, but with a cliff period

→ Unlock in Steps: vesting with periodic unlocks

→ Monthly Unlocks: traditional monthly vesting

→ Timelocks: lock up all tokens until a specified time

→ Backweighted: vesting on a back-weighted schedule

→ Unlock Linear: A portion unlocks instantly, followed by a Linear Stream

→ Unlock Cliff: a portion unlocks instantly, followed by a Cliff Stream

→ Exponential: exponential curve with an increasing rate over time

→ Cliff Exponential: like Exponential, but with a cliff period
Daylight Saving Time is nonsense and we should stop using it.
Being able to connect to the Internet and work on your laptop while flying is nothing short of incredible.

To our ancestors, this would have seemed like literal god-like powers.
Vesting offchain instead of onchain = self-sabotage
Crypto companies who are not doing their vesting onchain are self-sabotaging their industry.
My thoughts on the Middle East war.

The morally correct position is to stand with Israel 🇮🇱

Privileged Westerners who disagree with this reveal their moral bankruptcy.

Best wishes to the Jewish community. You will win the war.

Shana Tova!
Creativity comes naturally to all children.

It takes effort—and an awful lot of coercion—to stifle it.
I loved this article in Aastha's Substack

"Fierce readers, you see the world through books. More importantly, you see yourself in books."

https://open.substack.com/pub/aasthajain/p/readers?r=29vhc3
If I had shown my teenage self what ChatGPT o1 and Claude Sonnet 3.5 can do, he would have freaked out.
/AI
Sablier has processed over a million Ethereum transactions
Scheduling group meetings is a low-hanging fruit for AI assistants.

The data is there — just integrate everyone's calendars and make a best guess based on overlapping time slots.
/AI
PRBMath has grown to ~3.3 weekly downloads.

These are just npm users — there are definitely more, since some users are downloading the library via git submodules.
/dev
In the last 24 hours, @Sablier's LockupLinear contract on Base has:

→ Processed 43.5k transactions 📈
→ Consumed 3.7 billion gas units ⛽

https://base.blockscout.com/address/0x4CB16D4153123A74Bc724d161050959754f378D8
Crypto cards I use and enjoy:

→ 1inch card: http://1inch.io/card
→ GnosisPay: http://gnosispay.com
In Milgram's experiment, 65% of participants administered the maximum shocks, following orders even when it conflicted with their conscience.

This means that only ~35% of society can resist authority and prevent bad things from happening.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
Reminder that BTT now has a landing page on bulloak.dev
/dev
A parallel between epistemology and programming:

Just like all observation is theory-laden, there's no such thing as self-explanatory code.

Use comments to explain what your code does, especially if writing financial software.
/dev
With Sablier, you can now replicate Amazon and Snapchat's vesting schedules onchain ✨
That we live in a culture in which nuclear energy is so strongly opposed is a moral disaster.
The primary benefit of strength training is its positive impact on cognitive health.

A healthy brain enables better decision-making, which in turn improves every aspect of life.
Is any pharma company working on an eugeroic with a shorter half-life than modafinil?

e.g. 6 hours instead of 12
Read what you love.

Skip chapters you don't find interesting.

Drop the book if it becomes boring.
/Books