when in doubt, use physics-based thinking elon talks a lot about first principles thinking and for good reason, but it can be generalized to physics thinking this is the mental framework I used when deciding which chain to build on, years ago I asked: "which problems can we solve and which problems are out of our control?" generally, the only insoluble problems are the ones barred by the laws of physics so then I asked: "which system uses physics to guide its future?" that is one way to gauge how future-proof a system will be unsurprisingly, that was Solana. this is where IBRL comes from then you ask yourself again: how do we make the most impact here? the (simplified) physics formula for momentum is: p = mv where m is mass and v is velocity (speed and direction) a startup has little mass and all our competitors had raised much more money, so we had to rely on going super fast in a single direction which meant shipping fast with an exclusive focus on solana to gain momentum