JB
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At peace with life at 66°N. Writes shit, edits books, hikes to the top of snow-capped mountains — usually barefoot.
Swedish central bank (Riksbanken) is no longer insolvent.
Tomorrow it will receive a 25bn SEK (~$2.5bn, 2% of balance sheet) capital injection to cover the accounting madness that was the "-18.100bn reserve" entry on the bank's balance sheet. Oops.
(Finance) clown world becoming more and more clowny.
Now, excessive money printing is a __direct__ fiscal drag on Sweden's treasury.
Be aware; be mindful; get the hell out.
#finpol #macro #finance #centralbanks #clownworld #bitcoin


Kapitaltillskottet på 25 miljarder kronor utbetalas till Riksbanken
Läs nyheten på riksbank.se.
Hit my highest ever rating on chess.com today.
It's a long, never-ending story of improvements, practizing openings and learning from past mistakes. Very life-like (psst @jack mallers)
But improving in chess is also about learning to see patterns, calculating variations, but above all recognizing your own behavior -- mindset and physical relaxation even more so than brainpower or opening knowledge (at my paltry level, anyway)
While chess is an open info, objective game it's so unbelievably spiritual and psychological as well: I play better when I'm calm, life is in order, and there are no immediate distractions. If I'm annoyed, haven't moved my body, worry about money or work, or there's something else bidding for my attention, I play noticeably worse.
I play better in the morning and afternoon than in the evening. I play better when I take my time and carefully analyze the position (which means occasionally losing on time) than when I try to rush my opponent's clock by playing fast. I play better in 5min games than in 3min games.
The stats and the undeniable trend is what most fascinates me. For an average of about 13 games a day over the last year, the pattern has been the same: improvements followed by steep collapse before slowly and carefully getting back better and stronger. Anti-fragility etc
Final fascinating observation: Look at the bottom numbers for how unbelievably small the edge is. I win about 48% of games and lose 46%. And that small, invisible difference is what propels me upward.
Nothing feels more soul-crushing than when I'm on that downward trajectory, losing hundreds of points in a few days. But it's _just_ small margins shifting -- shooting me in one direction or another. Over time they correct themselves, law of large numbers in operation.
Important to remember: small margins, small improvements -- even in a noisy and volatile environment -- repeated day in and day out, create progress.
Peace out.
#chesstr #chess #bitcoin #chesslife #64squares #selfimprovement #reflections


brought some sheep over a mountain today
#nature #villagelife #nostrgram #landofice #winter #hiking #sheep #sky #horizon #beauty


🎶🎶Thiiiiiiz fjall is on fiiiiire 🎶🎶
#smoke #misty #mountain #iceland #winterishere #sunshine #nature #photography #snow #nostrgram


saludos from 66°N.
Winter isn't just coming; it's here.
Fresh, crisp air. Snow on the mountain. Peace in our souls.
#nature #iceland #villagelife #mountain #snow #peace


I often wonder if I have the best bookshelf in #bitcoin
@Seb Bunney @Saifedean Ammous @Lyn Alden @jimmysong @Aaron van Wirdum @gladstein @cjasonmaier @Andrew M. Bailey @Bradley Rettler @Craig Warmke @knutsvanholm nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pfnostr:npub1qw6e8meaj5gzk49alamh9qf35lpmml5sq7ctjtxhcjk55qppmcjs0j2v52 @Gigi @Niko 📚 Sovereign Individual
#books #beauty #plebchain


street view #reykjavik #bitcoinmaffia #plebchain #weareeverywhere #bitcoin


Don't let schooling get in the way of your education.
#ourworldindata #climatechange #nature #naturaldisasters #plebchain #selfdevelopment #education #smarts #schooling #optout #abolish
https://www.nottheendoftheworld.co.uk/


Iceland, um, obliges you to come visit.
GN, #Nostriches #plebs #Bitcoiner
#iceland #northernlights #aurora #colors #winteriscoming #skyisalive #nature #reykjavik


