LT3 #132 — What Guides You?

Host: Superhighgasfees (@SHGFees) · Sat evening / Sun Sep 20, 2026 · 1:12:51 · 5 speakers

TL;DR

• An evening edition of LT3's daily space on the question "what guides you?" — mentors, moral compasses, and the people whose one-off comments stick with you for years.
• Super announced an LT3 content pivot to three-to-five posts a day, prompted by something Burningbush said in an earlier space, plus an admission they'd been running big pages "with blindfolds on" regarding analytics.
• The first fifteen minutes belonged to Burningbush's men-only offshoot community — three presidents, no vice presidents, an active war with May June's group, and Tim learning he was a founding president live on air.
• Tim delivered the room's most quoted framework: know yourself before you seek guidance, then snowball in one direction instead of pushing five boulders uphill — and told Super he's not ready to narrow yet.
• Chicken Wizard and Sho talked through the ethics of gifted NFTs and whether a gift with conditions is really a gift; both landed on "don't shame people who sell."
• Tim closed with plans to give back locally — Big Brothers Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity, buying art from local artists instead of only while traveling — crediting Sho's soup kitchen talk for the nudge.

Highlights

[12:31] Second place, and the other Tim. Burningbush opened his check-in with "no kids, no wife, I'm trying to live more like Tim," then reported losing his golf tournament to a man who was also named Tim and also Asian, and who was so genuinely pleasant about it that Burningbush concluded the backhanded compliment must simply be pending.

[13:21] The men-only sub-community and the ongoing war. Burningbush laid out the org chart of his new offshoot group — three presidents, no vice presidents, himself plus Tim plus DeFameless — noting that Tim was finding out about his presidency at that exact moment. The origin story: he asked to join May June's community, was informed it was for women, and responded by taking his ball and building a rival institution.

[15:11] Sho audits the leadership structure. Sho pointed out that three male presidents and zero women meant nothing would ever get organized. Burningbush countered that removing nagging from the equation is precisely why things will get done, before sliding into elaborate lore about brand deals, DeFameless on tech, and Tim constructing the high-rises they all slumlord outside stadiums.

[17:43] The actual topic: guidance as iteration, not revelation. Super explained that what guides him is rarely a brand-new idea — it's something adjacent to what he already half-believes, said by someone who's done the thing. The worked example: pivoting LT3 to three-to-five posts a day after Burningbush said so, then digging into analytics and realizing their best window was 3pm EST. "We were operating like we did go viral... but we were operating with blindfolds on."

[24:16] Sho on being selective about who steers you. Sho added a filter to the sponge model: stay open, but know who has your interests at heart and who wants their views to become your views. She also confessed — with some alarm — that people have asked her to mentor them and she said yes. Later, at [37:42], she named her faith as her real compass, describing the nudges she ignores until they stop being ignorable.

[31:56] Is a gift with strings still a gift? Sho asked Chicken Wizard the question she'd been sitting on: he won't flip gifted NFTs, which she shares, but she never attaches conditions when she gifts. Chicken Wizard reframed it — the gift was membership, not just the token — and both agreed you shouldn't shame someone who does sell: "maybe that money might feed them for like the next month."

[39:56] Tim's snowball. Claiming he was only "up here aura farming," Tim then gave the most-referenced answer of the night: before you can be guided, you have to know what you're looking for. Young architects tell him they want to get where he got, as fast — which gives him nothing to steer. Direction turns scattered energy into a snowball that compounds; five boulders all roll back down.

[42:48] …and the immediate correction to Super. When Super took that as a cue to narrow his focus, Tim told him not yet: he's still in the generalist phase, and can't know what to hone in on until he's tried enough. The example — a body pillow Super hadn't heard of until another space — became the case for exploring first, then converging, then diverging again to combine IRL product skill with web3. Sho and Burningbush both noted they had been about to say the exact same thing, word for word.

[47:03] Burningbush's serious voice. Switching out of what he called his satire-patronization register, Burningbush said what guides him is watering the people he's planted in the world — wanting to be someone others would happily play another round of golf with. At [49:27] he made it concrete: use the name on the name tag, and if there isn't one, ask. Not as manipulation — just because it makes people feel valuable.

[50:45] The 2021 callback. Tim observed that this was a nice version of Burningbush, and recalled the one who'd jump into spaces screaming "pump it" over a high-intensity soundtrack before selling everything and leaving Tim with the bag. Burningbush declined the bait and offered to water him instead. Meanwhile at [57:53], Tim credited Burningbush with dragging him into web3 in the first place — including the early exchange where Tim thought he was being asked to mail over his physical wallet, and the roughly five-year road to finally buying the ape.

[1:03:18] Tim, looking for somewhere to put the skills. Tim said Sho's talk about her volunteering had stuck with him, and he's now looking for local ways to spend time that aren't about money — Big Brothers Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity, and buying art from local artists rather than only when traveling abroad. At [1:07:53] he turned it back on Super: you've shipped products and kept a community alive daily, so you're already qualified to pair up with someone newer, if only as the person who answers their questions.

[1:10:32] The Romanian time zone reveal. Chicken Wizard announced he was going to bed — it was 4am his time — which Burningbush treated as proof of vampirism. Chicken Wizard noted the flaw in the theory: a vampire would be asleep right now.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "I'm doing really good. Have the house to myself, no kids, no wife. I'm trying to live more like Tim." — Burningbush [12:31]
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• "You guys have three guys as your presidents, you have no women, so nothing is gonna get done. You won't have any organization because you don't have any women." — Sho [15:11]
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• "I was just up here aura farming, but... it's similar to how I used to think that like you needed someone else or something else to guide you in life. But at some point I realized that for me, before I could look for any guidance, I needed to know myself." — Tim [39:56]
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• "Whereas if you keep trying to push like five boulders up a hill, each one will eventually roll back down." — Tim [41:23]
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• "I'm taking the high road. I'm talking about what guides you, and I'm choosing to water you, my little flower. You're actually a tree. You're like a redwood at this point. But uh yeah, don't fall on me, Tim." — Burningbush [51:47]
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• "If I was a vampire, then I would be sleeping during the day now." — Chicken Wizard [1:11:01]
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Who said what

• Superhighgasfees (host) — set the topic, and used his own day as the case study: a content pivot he adopted because it was a small iteration on something he already half-believed. Kept circling back to how much of his path traces to single remarks from people like Jed, Lyss and Burningbush.
• Sho (@AgogoKaren) — the room's discernment check: open to changing her views, firm about her compass, careful about who gets to steer. Brought faith into the conversation without preaching, and pressed the gift-with-conditions question everyone else had been circling.
• Tim (@tim_8093) — the night's most-quoted contributor. Mentors young architects, argued that self-knowledge precedes guidance, told Super to stay a generalist a while longer, and ended by looking for local volunteer work to put his building skills into.
• Burningbush (@BurningBush_eth) — comic engine for the first act (war, presidencies, slumlord high-rises), then genuinely reflective in the second: what guides him is making people feel valuable, one name tag at a time. Also the reason Tim is in web3 at all.
• Chicken Wizard (@ChickenWizardX) — joined late from 4am Romania with the moral-compass answer: credit to his parents, especially his mother's line that your word is your creed — hence the gifted NFTs sitting untouched in his wallet.

Worth a full listen

• [12:31]–[17:23] — The sub-community bit builds faster than any summary can hold it: golf defeat, declaration of war, an org chart with no vice presidents, and Tim being appointed president in absentia.
• [39:56]–[45:12] — Tim's full guidance arc, from "know yourself first" through the snowball metaphor to the generalist-then-specialist-then-recombine framing, delivered as direct advice to Super. The most useful stretch of the hour.
• [47:03]–[51:47] — Burningbush's sincere answer about watering people, immediately followed by Tim's affectionate demolition of 2021-era Burningbush. The tonal whiplash is the point.