Addictive personalities work the same way drugs bring pleasure: good if done right, bad if used to mask insecurity, and deadly when there's never enough. These blogs will be put aside for some practical stuff this new year. Like dropping acid. arrivederci, -rushil

It's like a project manager without a nuanced understanding of software. Their skills are sending emails and scheduling meetings. The developer is the one that ends up building the project through technical know-how. To think linguistically means to have no idea how anything actually works. You're intellectually or creatively incapable

Gm Pal, I've been getting street-cred on Twitter so I haven't been consistent with the newsletters. Upcoming newsletters will be bits and pieces of an essay I'm writing on DAOs (exclusive to your eyes only -.-). Let me know what you think since we're basically pen pals and all.

Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is rushil. x to the y z. you can tell that's me cuz of my big noseI write explanations for people curious about things that I’m curious about. Right now, those curiosities lie in crypto and daily living. You might ask why

Seeing through our eyes and thinking from our minds is how we interpret situations. We can't do that from another person's point of view. This makes it difficult to read the room, especially when you lack social cues. When engaging with people, everything happening in the moment is your side

Dopamine is linked closer to motivation than it is to pleasure. It's about anticipation for "what's next" rather than satisfaction from "what's happening". The chase instead of the reward. The question of "what's next?" triggers dopamine release into our system. That injected dope converts into motivation and spent on what

Paranoia is you thinking that people are out to get you. Side-effects of being paranoid is not being vulnerable to people who care. You get good at deflecting, making it about others rather than yourself. I know this because I deflect in the way that I write. The first few

Deflecting is an art and we're all Picasso. Not because we're great at lying, we just don't know the truth ourselves: The physicist Richard Feynman once said that "you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool." It's common to find ourselves in situations where we're

Sméagol became Gollum after his attachment to the One Ring: He became deformed and twisted by body and mind because of his affection for his precious. Attachments aren't bad, but it's the context that matters. Addiction is our justifications getting louder while priorities become silent. Example: ^It takes one to

I was supposed to go skydiving today, but it didn’t happen. Luck presented itself in the form of clouds instead (what can you do?). My immediate thoughts when waking up this morning were of the Latin phrase ‘Memento Mori’: “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what

Talking is easy because small talk is static. It has a structure where words feel automatic or rehearsed. Conversations are dynamic, long, and random. There's no rehearsed answer, just people making it up through improv. That's tough to do because you need to be attentive to improvise. A lot of

“Web3 is a more intelligent version of the internet, built on the principle of decentralization. If you’re not familiar with decentralization, try thinking of it simply as the ability of a group to function without reliance on a central authority. Banks, governments, and businesses are all examples of centralized

Sisamnes was a corrupt judge who accepted a bribe and gave an unjust verdict. Once his king found out, he had Sisamnes arrested. The punishment? A slow and painful death by flaying his skin alive. The skin would then be used as a seat cover for his son to sit

Schools least of all teach people about the power of incentives: It sounds harsh, but let’s understand the incentives education offers. Graduating from university means that you spent X amounts of money––to solve Y number of problems––for 1 degree. There are roughly 25 courses in a degree

There’s a deep part of our nature that wants to maintain a sense of certainty. Our inability to accept uncertainty in life causes us to overthink. What are my future plans? What comes after I graduate? Where’s my career headed? Who will I settle down with? Where will

Anxiety is a heightened activation in the sympathetic part of your nervous system. The physical elements are already measured in the human body. It's the mental aspects of anxiety that are hard to put into words. Here's how I define it: A feeling of anxiousness is not being able to

All locks have a carefully crafted key to align every pin. Only then can you unlock it without resistance. Knowing how to code, write, and invest are my attempts to craft a key. It's a system to hit each pin and open closed doors. Start constructing a key as soon

Value in companies has shifted to those who control demand rather than distribution. This section is to understand how businesses will evolve alongside the internet. "Aggregation Theory describes how platforms (i.e. aggregators) come to dominate the industries in which they compete in a systematic and predictable way. Aggregation Theory

The best investors don't give investment advice. I'm not a great investor, but I try do the same. Truth is, you'll never learn about investing from reading my newsletters (or anything for that matter). You simply learn from trial-and-error. By doing. Don't distract yourself by looking for investing how-to's. They're

The two proofs above are types of blockchain protocols. My one-sentence explanation for blockchains: Block = verified transactionsChain = blocks linked together Blockchain is a network ledger that shows a record of valid transactions–verified by the protocol. Proof of Work and Proof of Stake protocols confirm the transactions on a blockchain.

When buying bitcoin, I searched for optimistic evidence on why it's good. I now look for reasons to no longer hold (while still holding). I went to subscriber pals for the answers. Here's an interesting case: How Easy Is It To Replace The Global Reserve Currency? Money printing and inflation

It costs a lot to participate in Decentralized Finance. If you play the DeFi game, you've probably heard of "gas". Gas is a fee you pay to trigger DeFi code stored on the Ethereum blockchain. It's like a ticket price you pay to enter the carnival. Gas is the ticket

I'll now use Charlie Munger as a scapegoat on where my net-worth currently lies. Warning: it's the smartest or dumbest decision based on your views (Munger wouldn't approve). My investments: 30% cash48% bitcoin31% tech ETFs (currenly struggling)1% defi tokens That's it. A sad sight if you're against Bitcoin. Happy

A sunk cost is sticking with something bound to fail. The blood, sweat, and tears poured into a project make it harder to step away from it. It's like a captain sinking with their ship. They’re too invested in it and that investment–the one that makes you sink–

NFTs have become the optionality boom of 2021: What Are NFTs? Non Fungible Tokens are cryptographic keys that prove authenticity, ownership, and status for digital "assets". Art is the current practical application. Think of NFTs as GIFs, pictures, videos, music, or anything online, but with a cryptographic receipt attached. The