“I think Charlie Kirk, God rest his soul, was a real shitbag. But I’d rather live in a world with him in it than one in which folks kill each other to get retribution or achieve political ends.” “There are things you do not want to politicize. The rule of law, democracy, and due process are ideals that belong neither to the left nor the right. They separate a society you want to live in from a society you don't. Any party or project or person who threatens to replace these foundational principles with terror and barbarism threatens us all.” - Cathy Reisenwitz

Well the social division is about to get even more unbearable. Fucking wonderful.

Free speech is wildly important. It allows us to see the truth of someone and sort them accordingly. The right way to handle people with horrific ideas is to let them be public fools, and to have better ideas. Violence makes them martyrs. It does not help.

Charlie Kirk is an awful human being. Shooting him is not only clearly wrong, it's not going to help anything. This shit will now get worse.

I have a hard time with social context. At this point, at 42 yrs old, I have developed a lot of social context skills, and so generally I do pretty well. But still, when I'm around very polished or proper people I'm always a little bit anxious, a little bit on guard. For this reason, I tend to be dramatically more comfortable around people who are a bit... rough around the edges. The nerds, the mildly autistic, whose with no filters. The mild assholes. Their roughness gives me license to say something that might not be totally appropriate in that moment. I can relax around them.

Do you think there really is such a thing as a 'very sensitive person'? I'm thinking that we are all 'very sensitive' but often also very repressed and so that sensitivity stays buried. For the majority of my life I would have told you, and some partners of mine would have told you, that I was a rather cold person. That was a lie. I am very sensitive and always have been and only recently am I less repressed and more honest about that. And I am thinking here not so much about how people present to the world, but more about their internal experience. I think, perhaps, we are all very, very sensitive.

My therapist suggest I add some more creative expression to my life. ...does making fabulous slides for a presentation count??? Feels like it does. I love some good slides!!!

American cities really do have a violence problem. I've witnessed it, I've experienced it. It's bad. But this recent outrage hits me as very political and disingenuous. If Iryna Zarutska had been just a normal looking black lady... would any of us know her name?

If you are new to Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, this video, from @VelasCommerce , is a non-technical intro. It covers the basic concepts of scaling, channels, & routing. We have also just made this Creative Commons, so please make good use of it!

Finally got my hands on Bitcoin Magazine’s Lightning issue⚡It’s got articles, interviews, and these great little explainers - a great read for pros and newbs alike. But I may be biased 😉 since it also features my article: Taproot Assets – Bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange p.74

Well, he is right about this.

What would be a good way to articulate the difference in the internal experience between caring about someone and wanting to encourage them to grow as a person vs "trying to change someone"? I think I can feel the difference, but I'm not sure how to articulate it.