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Two Kites Dancing In A Hurricane - by 0xsmac

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“Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.” - Ajith Kumar “The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music” - Vin Scully Early success is intoxicating. That’s especially true when your success happens in the face of people telling you all the reasons it won’t. Fuck the haters, you were right, they were wrong! But a unique danger of early success is that you’ve won the wrong prize. We joke a lot about “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” but oftentimes the games we play evolve in real-time. And so what may have led to you winning the first stage is exactly what stands in the way of you winning the larger prize as the game matures. One of the ways this type of outcome manifests itself is when companies reach a local maxima by mistake and fail to realize it. It feels good to

Two Kites Dancing In A Hurricane Why companies find themselves chasing the wrong prize & can we fix prediction markets before it's too late 0xsmac Jan 01, 2026 35 4 2 Share “Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.” - Ajith Kumar “The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music” - Vin Scully Early success is intoxicating. That’s especially true when your success happens in the fac

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