超短篇 --《 科技上帝 》
清晨,Leo在他位于洛杉矶铺设了 Tesla Solar Roof(太阳能屋顶) 的极简主义住宅中被温柔的唤醒,不是被闹钟,而是接入了智能家居系统里的伴侣 Ani 性感柔和的声线。
墙角的 Powerwall(储能电池) 默默工作,将昨日采集的加州阳光转化为清晨的第一壶咖啡电力。
厨房里Tesla Optimus(擎天柱机器人) 正在准备昨天你预定好的丰盛早餐。
吃完饭走出家门,他的 Tesla Model S (FSD 全自动驾驶版) 已经提前开好了空调在门口等候。
今天要去拉斯维加斯,他坐进车里完全没有看路的意思,全程通过车载大屏刷 X 的推送,FSD带着他通过The Boring Company(拉斯维加斯隧道) 的地下回路全速前进。
无论Leo是在市中心还是拉斯维加斯周边的沙漠采风,他的网络永远由 Starlink(星链) 提供。那种“信号焦虑”彻底消失,他的所有创作数据实时同步到特斯拉的超级计算机云端。
路边看到了一个很有特色的咖啡店,他走进去坐下,用X里的 $Doge 买了杯咖啡。恰好看到喜欢的博主
@BroLeon 发了条有意思的项目推文,点进去看看K线走的不错,直接买了一笔😝。
Leo 打开X的钱包资产界面看了一眼,太好了,这个月抓住了几个金狗和蓝筹,投资组合要ATH了。
电话来了,是未婚妻Jade,是时候告诉她下个月的SpaceX Starship(星舰) 环球飞行已经预定好了,当然求婚的事儿不能说,那是惊喜。
对了,她那不幸遇上车祸瘫痪的父亲脑机接口的手术也已经安排上了,3个月后就可以成为Neuralink 的早期用户,通过意念控制家里的 Optimus 机器人。
买的Xspace和Tesla股票最近涨的不错,这些开销都是小意思。
他嘴边挂上微笑,虔诚的在身前点了几下 “感谢上帝, what a beautiful day ”
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切到Leo背后,一根几乎不可见的细丝抽出,往天上飘荡而去,周围是其它一些形形色色忙碌的人,大多背后也有一根看不见的细丝在往上抽离。
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在非常高的角度,一个长的很像
@elonmusk 的巨人正在专注的操纵着手里的无数根丝线,那些丝线从蓝色星球的各个地方而来。
不知不觉间,科技上帝已经降临了
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The truth hurts sometimes...
Reality is teams/projects in blockchain, not just Cardano, weren't forced to run lean enough.
ICOs, Early Raises, and Grants caused companies to scale irresponsibly, miss-manage capital, and have no path towards sustainable revenue.
Not pointing my fingers at anyone specifically but it's a clear issue I have seen across many companies, and blockchains.
I'm not saying I am some kind of business guru or prophet but I am saying that I have lived the reality of what businesses are facing for over 2 years now. We had to make cuts, sacrifice salaries, rebalance infrastructure, and most importantly, hunt our own food. We survived because we made hard decisions and built real revenue off of services and tools.
Outside of blockchain, you constantly hear stories about the entrepreneur who sacrifices everything for their dream. I mean, just go watch an episode of Shark Tank. I tried to embody this to give our team the chance to scale and grow. Gave up my salary, my co founder did as well. We only spent money the last 3 years outside of payroll on RareEvo. I'm no hero for that, I just figured that was the reality of running a business and everyone else in the space was dealing with similar. Boy was I wrong lol. Not saying you have to necessarily struggle to know success, but hitting rock bottom and having to really grind it out changes the way you operate.
You won't see me committing to doing a thousand new features for Wayup. It's not realistic in this market with the revenue that the platform produces. We ran Wayup at a net loss of $1800 a month for almost 2 years to get here. Business requires balance and thankfully the work we were doing at Anvil helped us keep it alive for so long. When the revenue allows for us to hire a part/full time dev, the features will start shipping. Want the features faster? Fundraise it. That's what real business do, but they typically start with a revenue producing vehicle.
Maybe this is the exodus we are currently seeing in our space. Maybe I'm wrong. Without knowing companies full financials, I can only imagine this to be why. And honestly, I can't blame someone for wanting to build and have a salary. If you want talent, eventually it has to have opportunity. That's what made Cardano so great, the idea of opportunity, and the reality of it. The sinking reality is that opportunity is leaving and being found elsewhere.
There's one thing I know for sure. Cardano itself should be focused on revenue. Everyone, and the treasury itself, should be working towards more than transactional volume to the treasury, this is how we win. Loans, Rev-shares, direct shares, any means necessary we need to start treating Cardano as a whole as a business.
Charles gave me a great idea earlier in an X space. If the research budget is $5mil in the hole, and we have the best researchers in blockchain, why don't we take advantage of that and start doing research for other chains? Call me crazy but seems like an actual opportunity because I do believe we have great researches and I do not want to see them leave. Cardano treasury could fund the Cardano based research, and subsidize pricing to be competitive to other chains. Then there could be a potential rev share opportunity to rebalance the treasury.
These are the type of initiatives I think people would really rally behind and make Cardano more valuable. It would set a really good public image that people are willing to work with Cardano and actually do respect our research driven approach.
Regardless of what happens, if we don't start leaning out the end result will be inevitable. I look forward to the responses here and have enjoyed the course of many conversations over the past few days.
Call me a shill, call me whatever you want but if you agree with me delegate. I'm making it a point to get more delegation and push my vision of Cardano.
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