Just Do Nothing. A Venture Fund's Returns Compared to Protocol Returns. My personal story... Here’s a story about how doing everything was way worse than doing nothing and how working my ass off investing in startups has done about 6x worse than the money that just did nothing. It reminded me of a human behavior lesson I learned over a decade ago. In the weirdest way possible. Thirteen years ago, my buddy @tewy launched a site called DoNothingFor2Minutes dot org. The site is still there today. A photo of waves. The sound of the ocean. A 120-second timer. One instruction: Don’t move. Don’t touch your mouse. Just sit still. Of course, I couldn’t. Thirty seconds in, I clicked a tab. Reset. Touched the mouse. Reset. Ten more tries. Reset, reset, reset. It took me 12 minutes before I finally sat still for two. The site went viral, almost broke the internet. And Alex? He went on to build a multi-billion-dollar company off this human behavior. Calm dot com. The lesson stuck:...
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