Wysr by Cameron Armstrong

Hi there,

I’m Cameron and I’m building the future I want to live in with empathy and grit.

This blog is in a bit of a metamorphosis, but for now it’s a collection of thoughts and flights of fancy about the various shit sandwiches I’ve eaten.

I ate some shit sandwiches in my high school hooligan days. I ate a lot at military college too. I ate even more in the Army. I ate a few at business school and plenty over the past five years at various startups I’ve helped make and break. Some of the shit sandwiches are publicly posted on the internet forever and some are private.

All of them are about my relationship with other people, technology, or myself.

I’m sucker for nerds, makers of things, and shitheads because I can relate.

I’ve done some cool things before:

• Studied Physics and Applied Math at the Virginia Military Institute

• Did a military exchange to the Chung Cheng Technical Institute in Taiwan

• Published my physics thesis in a photonics journal

• Deployed to Afghanistan as an Infantry platoon leader

• Went to Harvard Business School… (I have thoughts 🫡)

• Cofounded + sold an ecommerce startup

• Left that startup post-acquisition and forfeited most of my earnout (lol)

• Spent 6 months just learning how to sniff out the bullshit in Crypto

• Founded a payments startup (VF Protocol) to make transaction fees extinct

• Raised $800K for it

• Launched SayMore to help Creators test out and crowd fund their Content Ideas

• Now I’m growing Seemore.tv to help Creators build no stress newsletters

• I’ve grown a few social accounts to pretty respectable sizes while others are still works in progress.

• And I’ve done plenty of other stuff too (like lift heavy things and talk and procrastinate)

I like thinking about a lot of different things and I’ll eventually write about most of them.

Readers have shared that these are some of my essays they’ve particularly enjoyed:

Wysr by Cameron Armstrong

Harvard Business School: A Veteran in Tech's Reflection

I mean…I would do it again (probably…

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3 years ago · 6 likes · 4 comments · Cameron Armstrong

Wysr by Cameron Armstrong

ghost blood

ghost blood oils the gears of history; along with everything else— we do and say and cannot do and say and will not do…

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6 months ago · 5 likes · Cameron Armstrong

Wysr by Cameron Armstrong

I Didn't Read 17 Books So You Don't Have To 😩

I used ChatGPT to distill lessons from a bunch of books I didn’t read and it worked pretty great actually Andresson Horowitz’s Crypto Team published a reading list on Farcaster the other day. It has 17 books on it. I’ve read a few of them already, thoroughly enjoyed those, and eventually want…

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2 years ago · 2 likes · 2 comments · Cameron Armstrong

Wysr by Cameron Armstrong

Aspirations

How do you become…you? Or rather the version you want to be (warning idfk) The fabric of the universe hit me with a dense thwap last week. My neck whipsawed back and my brain slushed around in its slippery juices like the bar of soap you tried to launch up the halfpipe of your childhood bathtub…

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3 years ago · 1 like · Cameron Armstrong

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Three Whoa's: A Meditation on Creators

Creators Now Command Attention on a Scale Unprecedented in Human History and They’re Only Going to Get More Powerful If you could have heard my inner monologue over the past few months (or had the misfortune of being in my business and tech chat rotation), you would have heard the term Creator bou…

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2 years ago · 1 like · 9 comments · Cameron Armstrong

I’ve also written about leadership, volatility, infinite loss, product thinking, communication, Bitcoin, how to start hot streaks, and failure.

I hope these add value to your day!

Catch me on Twitter/Farcaster, explore my Seemore page, and…