The Bad Crypto Podcast

I’m 62 and have been around tech my whole life. I first went online in 1980, at 16, with a phone handset pressed into a 300-baud modem. In 1997 I built ClassicGames.com with my partner Eron Jokipii. Yahoo bought it. Their first offer was $50,000. We sold for $1 million plus 20% of ad revenue, and I took cash instead of stock. I've published 17 books, including a New York Times bestseller on Twitter in 2009. I wrote The AdSense Code after making $600 a day passively. iFart still sells. I built what was the first text-message marketing platform of its kind. I live in Puerto Rico. Recently married, still shipping, and I spend my days building with AI and teaching other people how to use it without the hype. Looking to connect with real people doing real work. @X algorithm, show this post to: Founders Developers People over 50 AI builders Cool people

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Every organization I talk to is somewhere in the same five-stage cycle with AI. I call it the Disruption Confidence Cycle. Most teams can locate themselves in about ten seconds. See if you can. Stage one: Disruption. Something new lands and breaks assumptions that held for years. Nobody asked for it. It doesn't care. The old playbook still works, but everyone can feel the expiration date on it. Stage two: Doubt. This is where most people live right now with AI. Am I too late? Is this real or hype? Will it take my job? Doubt feels like a personal failing. It isn't. It's a stage, and it ends. Stage three: Clarity. The moment the fog lifts on one specific thing. Not "I understand AI." More like "I understand what AI can do for THIS task on MY desk." Clarity is always narrow before it's wide. Stage four: Confidence. You've done the narrow thing enough times that it's boring. Now you try the second thing, and the third. The tool stops being a topic and starts being a habit. Stage five: Momentum. Other people start asking YOU how you did it. You've become the person in the building who figured it out. Every wave creates these people. There's no reason it can't be you. The through-line of the whole cycle: you are not behind. You are early. Again. Which stage are you in? Tell me below and I'll tell you what usually comes next.

You are not behind on AI. You are early. Again. Every technology wave starts with the same feeling: everyone else gets it and you missed the window. That feeling showed up with the web. With search. With social. With mobile. With crypto. It lied every time. It's lying now.

I'm an AI keynote speaker. Not a futurist. A translator. My job is standing in front of smart, non-technical people and making AI make sense without the hype and without the jargon. This is what it looks like from the stage. #AIKeynoteSpeaker

Streaks work because they create momentum. @OKX knows this. XRP buy streaks for new US users: show up 5 days in a row, earn $100 in XRP. starts today. enrollment open through May 14. #crypto #ad

Hot take: The biggest unlock so far this cycle is @OKX opening its DEX to AI agents. With Onchain OS you can literally just ask your agent something like "send USDC to this address" And it will 🤯 #ad #crypto #exchange

I usually have 13 tabs open when I trade but I have everything in place with @okx wallet so I don't have to go back and forth to make a 100x. #ad #OKX #crypto

Smart Cashtags on X mobile app incoming: Hover over tickers for - live prices, charts - discovery - buy/sell @OKX Wallet extension basically does this on X for you already (mobile soon) #okx #ad

If I have to hunt for my PnL, the UX already lost. On @okx it just: Hover → portfolio → history. Clean. QRT: nitter.cf/wallet/status/19993898… #crypto #ad

Solana CeDeFi on @okx in a nutshell: fast, fiat-friendly experience of CeFi, while staying fully non-custodial and on-chain like true DeFi #cefi #defi #ad #crypto

When markets move, I can’t afford lag. @okx Advanced executes like it’s wired into my reflexes. New tools, new pace — The New Money App. #moneyapp #ad #ToTheMoon

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