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Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!
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This paper answers why confident idiots run the world.
Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy.
It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.”
they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception.
And the results are wild.
participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile.
they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence.
the paper revealed a brutal paradox:
the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain.
if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing.
this creates a dangerous systemic loop.
the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions.
meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse.
top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else.
they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add.
we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence.
the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't.
the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.
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Interview with @SoskaKyle to discuss the generational HYPE trade, what it's like trading with @ThinkingUSD, and how to make it this cycle.
0:00 Bull or Bear Market?
2:49 Kyle’s Journey into Crypto
8:44 “Would You Be Right or Make Money?”
15:52 Teaming up with Flood
21:01 The Famous $HYPE Trade
36:02 Bitcoin and the Quantum Problem
43:20 $ZEC vs $BTC
46:30 Selling All Their $ETH
52:53 Crypto’s Real PMF
1:00:05 Are Great Traders Born or Made?
1:11:11 Memorable Trade (A Painful One)
1:21:39 Cycle Skip Theory vs 4 Year Cycle
1:26:50 Midcurve Traps & Onchain Metas
1:31:40 Hardest Lessons & How to Make It
1:37:55 Managing Tilt & the Art of Selling
1:49:02 Regrets and Final Words of Wisdom
niltsx retweeted
So much nonsense about @fomo security and mobile wallets today. Longer post:
The real question isn't "mobile vs hardware." It's where your key lives and what it takes to use it.
A hardware wallet keeps the key on a device you physically hold, and every signature needs that device plus a button press. That raises the floor, but it doesn't fix bad opsec. A Ledger user with their seed phrase in a notes app is in worse shape than a careful mobile user.
fomo is different from both. It uses @privy_io embedded wallets. Your key isn't sitting on your phone. It's split into shares and only reassembled inside secure hardware when you sign. In practice, your wallet is about as secure as your login.
The gates that matter:
1. Your Google/Apple login. No 2FA there means anyone who gets in can open your fomo.
2. 2FA inside fomo. With it on, a passkey or authenticator code is needed to sign, to set up your wallet on a new device, and to export your key. Without it, a logged-in session can sign anything.
3. Exported keys. Once you've pasted your key into another wallet, a notes app, or a screenshot, none of fomo's protections apply. My bet is this is where most drains start.
Face ID alone isn't the gate people think. It checks whoever is holding the phone. If someone logs into your account on their own phone, it's their face.
Where you log in matters too. A desktop browser full of extensions is generally a bigger target than an iOS app, though malicious iOS apps exist (see FomoPeek).
Apple ID with 2FA, Face ID to open the app, and passkey 2FA in fomo is far safer than a Google login with no 2FA on a desktop browser with no 2FA in fomo.
One ask for fomo: turn 2FA on by default for transactions and exports.
In the drain I looked at, every theft transaction was signed outside the fomo app with the raw key. That points to account security and exported keys, not a fomo or Privy breach.
niltsx retweeted
THIS is how you LEVEL UP in my 'Diablo with Mechs' roguelite! 🆙🔥
Frame of Suffering - wishlist on Steam!
#WishlistWednesday #mecha #indiegame #ARPG
niltsx retweeted
i spent all my free time over the last two years building ALATURKA from scratch, entirely on livestreams with a $0 budget.
it is basically a PS2-era 70s Istanbul GTA with heavy driving physics and döner kebab deliveries.
here is the new official trailer. RTs appreciated.
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SZ is one of the best I know at compounding into winners / sizing up as a trade develops...
A common mistake traders make is putting their largest size on at the initial entry when uncertainty is arguably at its highest...and therefore take an unnecessarily large loss when wrong.
Once you’re in a winning position and the market has begun validating your idea, you have far more room to add dynamically while managing overall risk - keeping it relatively static.
In other words... earn the right to size up and press.
You never really have the market by the balls, but occasionally it lets you think you do.
Give it a watch.
tradersz.com/anticipating-ra…
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Yeah, like, once this bloodbath ends and volatility returns, we might see another smol rally in $ANSEM and similar shit (which I don’t touch, btw).
But if you’re looking to profit from projects like $WIF and other long-forgotten crap, I strongly recommend you focus only on something new.
Although you know my stance on spot positions in ANY memecoins, all that crap will only last a moment. Real profits will be found where there’s at least some utility.
All shitty projects ALWAYS end in disaster. And your job is to avoid becoming a victim of those who promote them. Only one in a thousand forgotten projects will show any growth; the developers of all the rest have long since viewed them as nothing more than a way to take the last 3 cents you have left.
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96% of FOMO’s users are unprofitable as the wolves who are leading retail to a slaughter are being hosted private dinners by the app’s founder.
1.5 million dollars extracted DAILY from our ecosystem while those responsible for it get paraded and idolized.
We’ve lost the plot.
