Most people fall into a trap of avoiding a certain type of narrative/project if their first investment went to zero.
If you have a thesis on a specific narrative, product, meme or whatever you’re investing in, just because the first one failed doesn’t invalidate the idea.
I’ve had tons of plays where I was correct in my thinking but chose the wrong coin.
Naturally you want to shut your brain off from the idea because it hurts to think about and you don’t want to feel stupid twice.
Although if you can stay positive minded and realize where the mistakes were in your execution or how the team del

There’s going to be a period of time where your skillset greatly outweighs your portfolio.
It’s the most emotionally volatile point in your journey.
Day after day you refine your execution, sharpen your read on the market, and yet your net worth stays trapped in some arbitrary figure “hell”. You watch others with 100x your size and realize they don’t have any secret knowledge, just more capital.
This is the make or break zone.
Being low capital means you have a small window of opportunity to gamble into elite wealth as degenspartan would say.
Each trade is like walking across land mines, one o

Dear @a1lon9,
It’s been great to see Pump supporting and fuelling communities once again, as when the eco is in it’s flow state, it provides the best narratives and runners out of any platform.
I’ve been an advisor and closely working with the $CODEC team who are building really impressive architecture for Operator agents and Robotics.
With their recent success they’ve had many VC’s and liquid funds reaching out. Multiple funds have called them "unprofessional" since they’ve launched their token on pumpfun.
Even though their product and infrastructure is miles ahead of teams raising at 9 figur

The best edge you can have as a trader these days is thinking for yourself.
AI has trained us to outsource thinking, causing generational brain rot. If you can break down a thesis step by step, without relying on a terminal spitting out pre ordained text strings, you’ll stay in the top 1%, as you aren’t letting your cognitive edge slowly erode.
Right now, the real threat to society isn’t monetary inflation, it’s cognitive inflation. People are outsourcing their brainpower and worldview to ChatGPT, treating it as the source of truth.
The discipline of forming your own conclusions through writin

Protocols and teams should stop paying KOLs for content.
Your product or narrative should be interesting enough that people with influence should automatically want to buy and write about it naturally.
“What if I can’t get anyone interested in my product to tweet?” Then keep building, you clearly haven’t found the right niche or networked enough if you can’t build a few core supporters.
1. They’re going to be much more likely to work overtime and go above and beyond to help you succeed since you demonstrated strong moral behaviour (a rarity in this space)
Play the long game and don’t take shor

The thing is, if you really want to make it in this space everyone around you will think there’s something wrong with you.
To truly be the 0.001%, life outside of the trenches is almost non existent.
No girls, no hobbies, no social outings, no netflix or anything which takes you away from the grind.
It’s a type of mindset which is extremely unrelatable to even the likes of professional athletes because there’s no reason you can’t be online 24/7.
We’re stuck in our own paradox of freedom.
Everyone wants the magic ability to click buttons for money, until it’s time to say no to 95% of enjoyments

People on this app saw the largest revenue generating app in our industry raise $1 billion in 12 minutes at $1.5 billion mcap and said “let me short it”

The $PUMP trade:
I’m expecting $10+ bil within the next week.
If you’re a VC or institutional sized trade, unless you’ve been net short the past year, Pumpfun was the primary reason traders realized alt’s with no products were extremely overvalued.
If you’ve traded memes the past year, unless you’re in the top 1% then you’ve probably lost a significant amount of money as well.
We all tell ourselves we have no emotional bias when trading although that couldn’t be further from the truth in crypto.
Animal spirits and cults around projects/eco’s are what generate the unfathomable returns. Main cha

ICM’s success isn’t dependent on Launchcoin or any single platform.
It’s a regime change from how we view utility projects onchain.
We went from multi billion dollar launches to pumpfun due to insane mismatches in price and fundamentals.
Now we’re shifting from vaporware to projects with real users, volume and revenue.
Majority will give up right as we turn the corner of real adoption.

I think this will change soon.