Gm nostriches, after a bit of a delay, the “dad” birthday gifts arrived yesterday, new biking gloves for the eldest, grips and pedals for the youngest, great opportunity to slightly customise her new bike, while also showing anyone in the know there is support behind the scenes. Actually considering whether I need some new grips as these purple #deathgrips (all 3 of us have this type, custom designed by a racer years ago and also simply cool). Purple anodising just harks back to my early nineties youth so hard!!!! But “death grip” (also an awesome biking movie) is when you hang onto the bars, fingers off breaks, knowing the best way through is to let it all go, more speed, more commitment the better. And so, barrelling into mid October, price action not really doing what the moon boys promised, but still, not choosing to Luke Groman it and wait for a lower entry, a Jordie Visser looking for the “next micron”. Full commitment, only one way through the upcoming “distinction” let’s say, Deathgripping onto the cold hard sats, waiting to hit that “hardline” 40 ft kicking and pulling the 100ft backflip!!!!!! Take it easy freaks! Are this morning’s students ready!!?!?? https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dehk729tgCM/?exln=Zzd3a3IxMWc5N2xw

Gm nostriches, hoping my day out of the fiat provides a little headspace to reset, given I appear to be becoming quite the “expert” in wellbeing (never an expert, always a student). But downsides “headspace and relaxing” could in fact be a distraction. Just writing some stuff and managed to get the stars to align halfway through with an effective academic “googlewhack” that brought two of my favourite topics into the realms of, not a solution (Thomas Sowell told us, “there are no solutions, and not trade-offs”), but a clearer mind, a target, and a tool to fight those bastards that appear to want to make us feel like shit. Happy Thursday fuckers, #coffeechain with cream for a Thursday treat……. Moderation of treats…… #catstr actually letting me sleep at the moment, but did bring a live mouse on the house as I was heading to bed.

Gm nostriches, already storming through the week into Wednesday, have to maybe do a bit of prep for teaching on Friday, but also keep on going with some writing from yesterday. Janky to say the least, but beginning to break “wellbeing” down certainly has a motivational draw……. Bring a little inflation and bitcoin into the mix, no idea whether it can be kept academic or whether I have to make it some type of autoethnography bull crap, but low time preference as a foundation for improved wellbeing, now see what’s written about that. “hey fatty, that £9 extra sugar syrup retard latte may get you through the next 10 minutes but you’re failing every part of next year’s you” Maybe keep it a little more conceptual, but let’s see if there is any literature out there. Holy crap there is some rubbish. 🤔 Head down, but eyes on the prize, says the guy who had Macca’s for his dinner last night (for the kid’s birthday, ok 🤣, holy crap 💩 inflation is doing a number on those nuggets!!!!)…….. #coffeechain to the rescue and kid birthday season done for another year…… not that I did much, other than buy a disgustingly sweet dessert that got fully rejected.

Gm nostriches, 14 years ago, today, after leaving the, then, girlfriend waiting to go into labour at hospital, I had gone home to spend a final evening with the dog (my first born), then early in the morning, got a phone call that Labour had started so I had to hot foot it into the Labour suite. Respecting the order of duties, I had a quick shower, took the dog a short walk, and then went in, much to the annoyance of the rather exasperated mother to be. Mother is still exasperated about most things, I’d still choose to take the dog a walk before leaving the house…… Weird how a birthday message to the eldest turned into a message about the dog. Also Birthday present from the cat!!!! Found it with a bare foot!

All my students had heard of a blockchain, none of them had ever been to mempool.space. Now those attending have now actually seen the blockchain in action, but no one has so far claimed the sats in the wallet. Wait and see.

Gm nostriches, back into the grind of a Monday morning, two hour lecture this afternoon, chance to work out what small addition to make through the morning, other than referring back to my bitcoin analogy on Friday to see if anyone was paying attention, and so connect this with the seed word treasure hunt a few of them have actually been engaging with. 😉 And so, maybe open the laptop in the lecture to see if anyone has taken it or just include a link to the utxo…..……… “if someone won, there is no way to who that is. Isn’t it wild, guys???” Now let me hear from you all, “Bitcoin is awesome!” BTW, I lost mine in a boating accident through the summer (best not mention about coldcard or entropy just yet) #coffeechain

Ge nostriches, strange moment, as my youngest turns 10, looking back on the past decade, thinking about where I was, where I am now, what I’ve learnt and with the power of hindsight, what would I tell my former self; no stock picks allowed…….. Apart from look after your head buddy (was recovering from a concussion at the time, and no idea what I should be doing), I’d also say, deep breath, keep a level head. Everyday you’ll be tested, remember what our brother told us, you can only change your own opinions, and as Marcus Aurelius says, it isn’t what the world (other people) does to you, but how you react. Deep breath, everyday, you’ve got this, eat your steak, sleep as well as you can, go on a bike ride more often, oh, and say hi to Dug. 🥲

Richard J Murphy, explaining how MMT will arrive in the future, being a solution to the latest crisis. Linguistic gymnastics and weasel words to justify why debt doesn’t matter. Hey price, building resources requires market demands and efficient use of resources (including money) to build them overtime. Just printing will call all sorts of tomfoolery. Love listening to Keynesian retards. Catastrophizing on every front with the money providing this idiot of solution. We need to crisis to get our evil way that our theory will help solve. Source: YouTube https://share.google/zICOtsp8tKCmBT1SJ