*Fiddling with a device in a meeting means you do not belong in that meeting. Meetings should be rare, riveting, and short.* View quoted note →

*Nothing produced limitlessly and for free can ever, eventually, have value. Fiat is always and everywhere a ponzi phenomenon with seigniorage the State’s irresistibly silent Madoff-like pitch. Bitcoin, its kryptonite, will never take the meeting* View quoted note →

*financial sophistication cannot substitute for industrial control. In energy markets, physics – not finance – sets the tuition entrepreneurs must pay* View quoted note →

*markets overpay for stories of the future and underpay for hidden treasures of the past* View quoted note →

Thanks for sharing! “Confirmation bias is the worst enemy of iteration. In a Bayesian system, it’s fatal. If you only accept the data that supports your hypothesis, you’re not updating – you’re entrenching. The people who learn fastest are the ones who are most willing to be wrong…with the humility to trade conviction for information, one update at a time.” View quoted note →

*The tragedy of the “banking the unbanked” narrative is that it accepts the moral legitimacy of banks as gatekeepers. It assumes exclusion is the problem, rather than the existence of the gate.* View quoted note →

*Governments are whispering about digital IDs. Platforms are quietly tightening the screws. AI is learning who you are faster than you can explain it* View quoted note →

Why software will save Nvidia from an AI bubble burst • The Register

Why software will save Nvidia from an AI bubble burst

: Want to survive the crash? Find another way to make money with GPUs

*Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.* Tolkien

You either disappear early enough to be a hero, or linger long enough to become a state asset.

*The State... expands its own failures by demanding an even bigger budget to fix them* View quoted note →

*#Art ... #teaches faster than essays and travels where policy can’t* View quoted note →

*Better worlds aren’t #voted in. They’re #run in #parallel until people notice* View quoted note →

*Moderates argue inside broken systems. #Cypherpunks route around them* View quoted note →

*real discipline …shows up when comfort is available and you say no anyway* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin's energy [consumption] makes lies expensive. Most of our civilization's computational infrastructure makes lies cheap* View quoted note →

*The deeper economic truth here is that reproduction at scale in affluent settings becomes a form of capital investment with heavy ongoing expenditure. It is a status game where the currency is not just money but the human capital and logistical machine needed to raise multiple children with a certain quality of life. In that sense it may be the purest form of the luxury flex today precisely because it cannot be bought in an instant. It must be sustained year after year which is why it remains unattainable for most and aspirational for many.*

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A Big Family is the Ultimate Status Symbol (FT, Paton) \ stacker news ~econ

It's the end of the year, so I guess the FT algo/email-pushers are giving me random shit they think I'll click on... and sure enough, they were rig...

*The rising prominence of Qwen and similar models does seem to suggest that a key measure for any AI model, beyond how clever it is, should be how widely it is used to build other stuff. By that benchmark, Qwen and other open Chinese models are ascendant.* So Long, GPT-5. Hello, Qwen | WIRED

WIRED

So Long, GPT-5. Hello, Qwen

In the AI boom, chatbots and GPTs come and go quickly. (Remember Llama?) GPT-5 had a big year, but 2026 will be all about Qwen.

*This year has been a good lesson in humility* View quoted note →

*The deepest changes don't announce themselves. They begin quietly, compound patiently, and endure by staying open* View quoted note →