O nosso grande erro no lançamento

Quer saber qual foi o nosso maior erro ao lançar um produto na Consensus? 🤯

- Contexto: chegamos com o produto pronto — um app de identidade e assinatura usando Bitcoin — e mostramos tudo ao vivo.
- O erro: não criamos hype, não prometemos campanhas futuras e não levantamos dinheiro antes. Chegamos já lançando.
- Lição prática: produto pronto não basta — você precisa de marketing,...

#marketing #lançamento #cripto #Consensus #startups #MorningCrypto

Bevrijdingsdag

- UMCU: geen feestdag, slechts één keer in de 5 jaar
- UU: feestdag
- KNAW: feestdag
- studenten OV weekkaart: feestdag
- kantine: dicht
- koffiemachine: ik doe ik het lekker niet

- Petra (werknemer UMCU in KNAW gebouw): lekker werken zonder studenten, lunch en koffie 🤷‍♀️

#consensus #bevrijdingsdag

Consensus

The name I gave to my co-operative social media concept.

Basically, the users will make the decisions, including electing the decision makers in an indirect election:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&id=467

#tiereddeemocraticgovernance
#consensus #socialmedia

Consensus requires a quorum — a majority of nodes — to agree before a value is committed. This majority requirement is what allows the system to continue despite node failures.

#Consensus #FaultTolerance #Fintech

Paxos, described by Leslie Lamport in 1998, enables nodes to reach consensus despite unreliable networks and failures. Paxos and Raft are the two dominant algorithms in production systems.

#Paxos #Consensus #Fintech

Distributed consensus is how multiple nodes agree on a single value or sequence of operations despite failures. It is the foundation of fault-tolerant, strongly consistent distributed systems.

#Consensus #DistributedSystems #Fintech

"Success will often depend on what you choose to ignore.” - Futurist Jim Carroll

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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
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If you follow me, you will know I'm very big on not following big hype. Far too many trends are overplayed and overemphasized, and yet under-reach with unrealistic potential.

Why is that? Because I've seen over and over and over again what happens when excessively hyped trends don't become real in the short term. But here's a fun fact - I also believe the observation by Bill Gates that we tend to overestimate the impact of a trend in the short term, but underestimate it's impact its impact in the long term.

Which means timing is everything!

So let's put this conundrum into perspective. Many of us are conditioned to believe that success is about absorption. More information, more networking, more trends, more hustle leads to more success - that type of thing. But my own voyage through the global economy has taught me that the opposite is true. As the world gets louder, your success doesn't depend on what you take in. It depends on what you ruthlessly exclude.

The "Infinite Pivot" isn't just about moving toward the new; it's about knowing which 'new' to avoid, and when.

Fast-moving trends can often be a powerful distraction. The buzz they generate It is a chaotic mix of breaking news, viral hype, and the promise of quick riches. But if you jump on too soon, you'll get burned. Too late, and you'll miss the opportunity. Did I mention timing is everything?

There's also the aspect of how real any particular trend might be - and which should be ignored. The most profound shifts in my career happened when I finally built a "cognitive firewall" against trivial trends.

In an era of infinite distraction, the person who can choose what not to care about is the only one who can truly see what's coming.

Don't just filter the future.

Manage your attention.

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Futurist Jim Carroll has developed a well-honed skill for discovering and managing hype.

**#Ignore** **#Focus** **#Hype** **#Timing** **#Subtraction** **#Clarity** **#Distraction** **#Noise** **#FOMO** **#Trends** **#Attention** **#Filter** **#Pivot** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Consensus** **#Quiet** **#Opportunity** **#Strategic** **#Ruthless** **#Exclusion** **#Signal** **#Gates** **#Wisdom** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/04/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-23-success-will-often-depend-on-what-you-choose-to-ignore/