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I'm #SteelersNation for life but can't watch another snap to Rodgers We can do this with young guys we saw enough talent in to draft... and I'd actually be fine with L's now versus a few more scraped together W's we may luck into the rest of the season with the current "plan"

Just leaving this here should any @Braves want to send a foul ⚾️ our way again while we 🪓🪓🪓 and keep this season going tonight at @TruistPark 👀 Know @BravesVisionTV is ready 🤜🤛

Not sure about you #bravescountry, but I've been a fan a long, long time and this @Braves squad...

Genuine question I keep coming back to: what did it actually cost per month to run the Cardano projects that went quiet or scaled back? A lot of them weren't underfunded. Catalyst, treasury proposals, token sales, NFT mints, platform fees.... mountains of ADA. The funding is public. The output is public. Go line them up. Mine isn't simple either — indexing all of it, every asset, every venue, since genesis. Slow and detailed. And it costs a rounding error of what some of them raised.

Morning crew checking on the local Great Blue Heron 👀 Also 7-day walk streak 👣

People need to realize that the vast majority of services and products in this space had zero chance of longevity in the first place. And that's okay. That was never really the point. Proofs of concept. Stress tests. Pushing decentralization to its extremes to see where it bends and where it breaks. Proving out the initial promise of smart contracts. Building new cryptographic primitives, or dragging existing ones into combinations that simply weren't possible before now. Most of that was never going to become a business. A lot of it was never even trying to be one. None of it was for nothing. Every dead protocol taught somebody something. Every abandoned repo has code in it that shows up somewhere else two years later. Every failed launch narrowed the search space for the next person who tried. That's not waste - that's how a field figures out what it actually is. And we've barely scratched the surface. This isn't a Cardano thing. Every chain that has existed, does exist, or ever will is running the same cycle at a different point on the curve. The names change. The pattern doesn't. Anyone telling you their ecosystem is uniquely immune, or uniquely doomed, is selling you something. So look past the talking heads. The influencers. The paid shillers who've never shipped anything they couldn't screenshot. Find the people actually building. The ones taking what's already been proven, what's already been given to them for free, and finding ways to push new frontiers on their own. They're not loud. They're usually not in your feed. They're heads-down in a repo somewhere solving a problem four people care about - until one day it's four hundred thousand. We are fewer these days. But we are out there. We ignore the noise. We look at what's good for the whole and embed that at the core of who we are and what we build. Not because it's a marketing angle, but because a thing built on extraction eventually runs out of people to extract from, and a thing built on contribution doesn't. The cycle isn't over. It never was. It just got quiet enough that you can hear the keyboards again. Build. Learn. Grow. Innovate. Repeat.

Pop on here once a week or so to see what Cardano's talking about. Always a bit of good stuff. Still mostly gibberish. Chain's still solid, so back to the lab. @hrd_analytics is closer than ever to saying HELLO.

I don’t get people who pull shopping carts 🛒 from the front. Never have. Never will.

If you’ve got a dog, use a 💩 bag and then leave the filled 💩 bag on the ground next to the sidewalk… you’re still a lazy human being.

Stop by, share a $DREAM 💭 and celebrate DreamPad going mainnet on Cardano 🚀

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