Logan

“More and more lately he’d been brooding about this great collective dream that everybody was being encouraged to stay tripping around in.”

Recently celebrated my birthday. With each passing year, and the growth of Bitcoin and AI, I find myself focusing more and more and more on health and longevity. We have perfect money. We’re staring down a future of more abundant possibility than any generation before us. The number one goal is increasingly just stay healthy, fight aging, fight for a call option on that future.

In honor of the new Springsteen film, top 10 Springsteen albums: 1. Darkness on the Edge of Town 2. Born to Run 3. Nebraska 4. Greetings From Asbury Park 5. Born in the USA 6. The River 7. Devils & Dust 8. The Rising 9. Tunnel of Love 10. The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle Discuss.

I honestly don’t even notice the sound of the bitaxe running in my office at all times anymore. My wife thinks this is crazy. I view it as my body becoming attuned to hashing. We are symphonic together. An orchestral sonic tapestry of work.

Gm everyone

You guys, the whole point of the classic Steve McQueen film, The Great Escape, is that ultimately they don’t escape, at least not physically. That life is a series of successive confinements, BUT, nevertheless, it is the community we build, the ATTEMPT to escape with others, that is in its own way a kind of spiritual escape, a freedom of the heart. McQueen’s character fails in his attempts to escape alone. It’s when he joins the others that they find something that transcends the confines of the prison.

Can you guys spot the nostr:nprofile1qqswp94gnm4epqsgjkndl4lnd8krzdj5u4mzuppdtxksdymkty63g7gpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvsdxmyd4 sticker in the background of my nostr:nprofile1qqsgu87297qpckvutg0gcwh89y2epyc5xdc5mlqeslh0p0q6587as4qprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuum9vd6xjmmww3mk7tn0wfnszxthwden5te0dec8ymmc0yhxkunfwd6xzurndvhxcas9ytldw setup 👀 Visual message is get yourself a bitaxe, eat hodl butter, and read some fucking literature.

Low time preference. High culture.

“The greatest art offers us images by which to imagine our lives. And once the imagination has been awakened, it is procreative: through it we can give more than we were given, say more than we had to say." -Lewis Hyde, The Gift

🚨 NEW EPISODE of nostr:nprofile1qqsgu87297qpckvutg0gcwh89y2epyc5xdc5mlqeslh0p0q6587as4qprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuum9vd6xjmmww3mk7tn0wfnszxnhwden5te0wfjkccte9e6x2um59eh8zatf0ghxjme03qfe48 : “The Speculative Attack as Civilizational Event” with @bitcoinpierre is live wherever you get your pods. But I recommend checking it out on nostr:nprofile1qqsx2wyjt6lmvc05rrvv05r5hm3w3t7h0pcpmkyswrpd4ymd2u09tscprdmhxue69uhkummnw3erztn5w4hxuetvwdshguewvdhk6qg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0t956v2: https://fountain.fm/episode/PrGloTZXbC4htXb01DZJ

Decentralize the hash rate. Re-read Hamlet.

I’m a big believer in re-reading books and re-watching films. I think the Schopenhauer quote that “one can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books” is true. I want to open-source how I do this in my own life. Most people engage with great works of literature, art, film, philosophy etc once, when they’re in high school or college, and then never again. This is a shame. What you can glean from and resonate with in King Lear, for example, as a working father versus as a childless16-year-old is significantly different and orders of magnitude more profound. Great art is not meant to be engaged with once when we’re really young and then never again. That’s leaving a lot of epiphany, a lot of beauty, and a lot of wisdom on the table. One thing I started doing several years ago was creating a mandatory minimum curriculum each year. Meaning books/films that no matter what else I read or watch in a given year, I make sure I get to them. I’ll get more specific on the book front in a separate post, but suffice to say my bare minimum is two Shakespeare tragedies and a selection of poetry I’ll unpack later. I also find it grounding to read at least one of the Gospels every year. That’s table stakes for a year. It’s not too heavy of a lift (intentionally, as I am a working father of two young children, after all, with scarce free time). But it’s always rewarding. Over the last few years I’ve started expanding it a little bit. On the film side, I watch the following ten: 1. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles 2. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock 3. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Kubrick 4. Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu 5. Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir 6. The Godfather - Coppola 7. 8 1/2 - Fellini 8. Sunrise - F.W. Murnau 9. The Searchers - John Ford 10. Seven Samurai - Kurosawa In a good year I certainly watch more than this. And there are certainly other films I also try to prioritize re-watching, but this is just baseline. If folks find this sort of humanities nerdery interesting I’ll start posting more notes about it. I have one particular shelf in my house that’s just “the pocket,” “the essentials.” The idea is to visit and revisit it often.

Found a levered altcoin trader in my children’s playroom this morning

Sitting in spot. Unlevered. 8–month-old is napping. Lifting things.

In other words, stay humble, stack sats

Sitting in spot. Unlevered. Making pictures with my 3.5-year-old, listening to Simon and Garfunkel.

Decentralize the hash rate. Read Shakespeare.