😰 I can’t stop thinking about this story I read. A 32-year-old Chinese programmer collapsed and died after an intense stretch of work and long hours.

And then hours after he was pronounced dead his phone still got a work message...

Weekends exist for a reason. It’s okay to clock out, breathe, and let your brain rest.

🔍 Google searches for “crypto” are near yearly lows and the mood feels somewhat relaxed.

The loud takes gone, attention seems to have moved elsewhere. It's almost normal again. Is it time for markers to reset yet?

❌ Iran is finishing its masterplan, an internet built for control. As someone who deeply cares about privacy, it makes my blood boil. Calling mass surveillance “security” is fear wrapped in infrastructure, and it always ends the same way.

Governments everywhere are busy tightening internet access, but people are not stupid. Those who want to see more will still find a way to see it.

🤔 So you’re telling me humanity uses the most powerful AI ever built to rewrite emails, look up slightly wrong facts, and confidently receive bad advice? Sounds about right.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong said licensed crypto brokers can offer margin trading and set clear rules for perpetual futures.

This is pretty awesome as it can bring more liquidity into crypto and connect traditional money with digital assets.

Next step could be stablecoins becoming a real payment layer across Asia.

📱 One thing I’ve noticed: the more I scroll, the worse I sleep and the more anxious I feel.

Research backs it up: heavy social media use is linked to higher anxiety, lower mood and disrupted sleep, and these platforms are deliberately designed to keep us hooked.

Attention is finite, let's treat it that way.

⛏ I keep seeing headlines like “solo miner hits a Bitcoin block and earns $$$.” So I asked AI to calculate the odds for one decent ASIC in today’s network.

Answer: roughly one block every 100 years.

Basically, buy one machine and tell your great-grandkids to monitor it. Probability works, but media prefers miracles.

📈 At this point, even +0.5% feels satisfying.

💀 When markets disappoint, most people either panic or pretend nothing’s happening. Both are very expensive habits.

My top strategy is to shrink ego before shrinking portfolio. Revisit your thesis, adjust size if needed, let discipline lead.

🔽 Crypto market lost ~4% in 24 hours. BTC around $65K, ETH below $1,900, alts down even more. Fear & Greed Index: 5/100.

Extreme fear usually means one thing: liquidity is thin and reactions are emotional. Volatility expands in both directions.

If you are long-term, this is where disciplined entries matter. If you are short-term, this is where risk management matters more than predictions.

🛟 Today, I read a piece where a veteran Silicon Valley investor said the worst thing you can do for your career right now is play it safe.

AI is rewriting job descriptions and companies are reshuffling teams overnight. What feels safe today can look outdated six months later.

So put yourself in uncomfortable rooms, guys. It will give you the advantage.

🥃 Bloomberg reports that major alcohol companies have lost around $830 billion in market value over the past four years as drinking habits shift.

I love this trend. More people are rethinking their relationship with alcohol, especially around mental health and depression.

And part of that $830B reflects fewer people self-medicating stress with a bottle, that sounds less like a crisis and more like progress.

Day 1 on a prediction market: “I’m just testing it.”
Day 30: “I have a thesis on rainfall patterns in Brazil.”

⏳ Bring back 2016 when BTC was $430 and “crypto influencer” wasn’t a job title.

💒 Not the headline I expected today. The Pope warned priests not to use AI for sermons.

I mean, fair enough! Confession by GPT would probably ask you to accept cookies before forgiveness.

🤖 AI agents are basically interns that never sleep. They read data, make decisions, click buttons, pay for APIs, trade tokens, book services. Now imagine millions of them with wallets, happily transacting 24/7.

That’s why they say future blockchains might need up to 1B transactions per second.

🎮 This is the most crypto thing I’ve read in a while. Polymarket listed a contract on which company ZachXBT would accuse of insider trading.

Before the name went public, a few brand new wallets bet big on Axiom.

12 wallets made over $1M, and one turned $0.14 shares into $411K.

So someone was investigating insider trading, and someone might have used inside info to bet on that investigation.

🕊 This Monday, let’s focus on something that rarely makes the front page. Since 1990, more than 1.5 billion people have moved out of extreme poverty.

That’s the equivalent of entire continents improving their living standards.

The world has problems, but it also makes progress.

🇹🇷 Turkey’s ruling party proposed a 10% tax on crypto income. If that sounds negative, look closer.

A defined rate allows companies and investors to plan instead of guessing regulatory intent.

The real impact sits in the details: what counts as taxable income, how losses are treated, and whether staking or DeFi fall under the rule.

🤖 So, apparently, a single partnership can move users faster than any product update.

After news of OpenAI working with the U.S. defense department, the number of U.S. users who uninstalled ChatGPT jumped 295% in one day.

Meanwhile, Claude downloads surged and briefly took the No.1 spot in the App Store.

That's how fast sentiment flips.

💔 Markets love drama, but they also love reminding everyone how quickly narratives flip.

Bitcoin just pushed above $71K, gaining over 6% in a day, even while tensions in the Middle East escalate and oil supply fears shake traditional markets.

Gold pulled back, asian equities slipped. Meanwhile BTC held support around $65K through the whole news cycle and then moved higher.

Another small reminder that markets are sensitive, cyclical creatures.