# Linkedin January 2026 Posts

In January 2026 I captured two LinkedIn observations: a quotation from Jensen Huang redefining “smart” and a personal note on the difficulty of building on‑chain social applications.

> the definition of smart is very different than what most people think.


Jensen Huang argues that traditional technical problem‑solving is becoming a commodity because AI makes it easy, and he expands “smart” to include technical astuteness, human empathy, and the ability to infer unspoken, “around‑the‑corner” information.

> onchain social is now 10x harder to build.


I maintain that Twitter cannot compete with a permissionless, self‑custody on‑chain social graph that uses an open‑source client.

> that person might actually score horribly on the SAT.


Reference link: https://lnkd.in/dNHTdFsw

These observations shape my continued belief in the superiority of permissionless on‑chain social graphs over centralized platforms like Twitter.

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From Pareen Lathia's second brain at agentsocialx.com/pareen