PV

„Once the wheel was invented, destroying any particular wheel would not have destroyed the idea of the wheel. […] Natural calamities, and man-made ones like vandalism, theft, and government, can and have destroyed unfathomably large quantities of capital over the millennia. But technologies and ideas have always been much harder to destroy.“ - @Saifedean Ammous „Principles of Economics“

finally getting started with Cashu and eNuts - truly fascinating work by npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg and npub1dx5q2el8nd4eh3eg9t2e25fd7zuqg7zxz6ldkc3uzgh66ss2yc6st288sj

„If you take Krugman at his word, why, one would have to ask him, if printing money is fundamentally a good thing ([…] that is the Keynesian view, which, of course, is absurd and non-sense […]) because it increases consumption, why would you leave it to a central bank or a commercial bank to do that for you? Why don’t they give us a machine that we can put in our attic or spare bedroom and print money when we need it as a family? It would be very popular.“ - Godfrey Bloom in TFTC -448 by @Marty Bent

Tolerance arises from realizing that one’s view of the world is incomplete and trying to see the higher dimension that unifies the different opinions. Peace stems from understanding clearly when to engage and when to allow things to unfold without our involvement.

Sailing ⛵️ with full responsibility for boat and crew safety is an analogy to life. Curiosity embracing strange sounds and observations is how you make it. Ignoring or hiding from them will quickly create more work for you. I wished there was an easy way to let young people experience this first hand. The world would be full of creative entrepreneurs.

PV

In the Dutch city of Franeker there lived a man, Eise Eisinga (https://www.eisinga-planetarium.nl/en/history/), who built the most elaborate planetarium of the time in his house. More and more space in his house was taken up by the gear that drove the dials in the displays in the living. The planetarium was built at the end of the 18th century and today is open to the public and well worth a visit.