Niche experiences/things that altered my brain chemistry

Wee Lil Kid (Middle School)

undercut my middle schools student leadership snack prices until school shut me down

scavenged PC parts during e waste pickups, built new PCs, sold them

100k+ followers iFunny page

consistently a top 5 faction in Minecraft

built my first redstone TNT cannon

installing my first Minecraft mod (Lucky Blocks)

many many "parent-teacher" conferences

PC building business

zombies on Black Ops 2

rooted Android

My first ever PC (not the best cable management huh 😂)

Hacking, Cults & Finance (High School)

school scapegoated me for finding a misconfig on a shared network drive

hacked games with Cheat Engine

jailbroken iphone (shoutout Cydia gng)

USB stick with tons of RATs (Orcus, njRat, DarkComet etc)

convinced frens to crowdfund 100 custom iPhone cases to sell

bait-and-switched by Alibaba supplier; 91 cases still in my garage

social engineered my way into RSAconference without a badge (sorry, game is game)

snuck into RSAconference afterparties

called PayPal at 14 asking them to unban me (they did not)

cue 5 fig dropshipping arc

paid someone to do my HW so I could dropship

persuaded a classmate to "invest" in my dropshipping "company"

built the 3rd largest student org on campus

camp Wolfeboro as a boy scout

pirate (ifykyk)

cracked premiere pro

first linux install (shoutout ubuntu)

traded options in class

phone confiscated for trading options in class

started a mini "OGB (orange golf ball) cult"

moderated stock callout discord server

first time I touched a snowboard

started an esports org

went through JA (the most valuable youth biz program ever)

semi-pro in Fortnite (I will beat you in realistics)

built an esports startup

attempted to convince my relatives abroad to use their ID so I could get IPO access through launchpads

traded on binancedotcom pre US ban

sold said esports startup

bought broken GPUs & fixed them

mined Ravencoin & ethereum

A few years of conferences I didn't sneak into

Magic Internet Money & Startups (Yes I'm sort of a crypto bro 😅)

flash loans, yield farming & sandwich MEV arc

trading bot for PancakeSwap

predictions w @t1c.dev

made dumb money on NFTs; thought I'd retire in a few months

first EthereumDenver

lost dumb money on NFTs

restarted UC Irvines Blockchain Org w fren

DG cabal was born (ifykyk)

ensdomains airdrop brought life into me & frens

first contract with a leading protocol for UCIBlockchain

built a physical server + ran a node with UCIBlockchain

listened to Ludovico Einaudi (watching him live is a need)

lost 50% NW during Terra Luna + Celsius + FTX

sold pepe too early at 18M :(

started and failed a blockchain startup

EthereumDenver with 16 college kids in one big airbnb

MiladyMaker333 rave in ETHDenver

6 figs through contracts in 1 year UCIBlockchain

the day I learned to play poker

prediction market arbitrage

prediction market trading

starting a prop trading fund and running it up

accepted into Avax's accelerator program (Codebase)

intro week in Lisbon for Codebase

submitting the withdrawal form for UC Irvine

winning 1st place at Codebase

building inertia_social (prediction market platform)

first order successfully matching in our own in house unified order book

first organic market created by a random

3 months in a big Buenos Aires house with insanely ambitious founders

Some friends at the Buenos Aires House

Winning 1st place at Codebase

If you made it down here and resonate with this list, we probably should be friends :)

And as always, I'm looking for the next rabbit hole to go down!

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