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Today is Favorite Friday, where we serve up the resources we most enjoyed this week 🍲.

So if you're looking for content to dig into this weekend, this is your list...

🥢 Our Favorite Resources

What we most enjoyed this week

1/ 31 Lessons on Crypto

This week, a big educator in the crypto space (The DeFi Edge) put out a banger thread with some lessons from losing and making a lot of money in crypto.

It’s 100% worth reading.

A lot of the lessons will resonate like…

… and a lot more.

If you enjoy 2036, you’ll probably love the thread.

2/ The Whole Milk version of Elon Musk

Here’s the thing - you don’t get extraordinary results by doing ordinary things.

That’s one of the reasons we love crypto. Most people think it’s batsh*t crazy.

But no other asset class compounds at 150-250% per year for 14 years.

And to go big, we need to learn to think big. You can study Elon Musk - that’s true.

But what if Elon Musk was from the Midwest?

And what if he drank whole milk with his meals?

That’s Brett Adcock. He’s building multi-billion-dollar companies at the speed of light, and he thinks differently.

He was interviewed this week. And it’s a great conversation worth watching.

3/ Arthur Hayes on Impact Theory

I’ll admit I didn’t see this one coming.

Arthur Hayes is a camera-shy man. Or so I thought.

I hadn’t seen Arthur on video for months.

Now I’ve seen him twice in a week.

It’s like an early Christmas 🎄

Granted - his interview on Impact Theory is long.

But if you’ve got 3 hours to spare for a deep dive on the upcoming bull market - and what comes right after it - check it out. 

4/ The story of SBF finally revealed.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of now-defunct FTX, never ceases to haunt us.

This week:

• his trial started (which you can follow here)

• Michael Lewis (author of a bunch of famous books, including The Big Short, which got turned into a movie) published a book about him.

The book - Going Infinite - has gotten so much negative press that I had to get it.

In the process, I also added these two books to the shopping list:

• Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish (who runs the famous blog Farnam Street)

• The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised by James Pethokoukis

… both of which have come recommended from multiple sides in a complex web of smart people.

[On a different note: I also bought a bunch of parenting books (1, 2) that might or might not be useful as my child isn’t due for another 3 weeks (and I guess we can only judge the effectiveness of the books in like… 18 years), but if you’re short on time, I also enjoyed:

• this song that remixed Naval’s wisdom on being present. It’s similar to the entire albums dedicated to him (I made a playlist here for you)

• this thread on parenting that might be useful to some of you]

🐦 A couple of Tweets we found interesting

The best of the bird

🏆 The winner of this week’s task

Earn $30 in BTC for opening a bitcoin wallet

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s task.

Here’s a list of all the participants as well as the winner.

Congratulations to the winners 👏 - your $30 in BTC are on their way.

Paid tasks will resume next week.

🖼️ Crypto meme of the day

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