*There's no firewall between the most capable people in business and the power of the state, business and state are just tools wielded as leverage over society in general. People tend to either think that businesses run the government, or that the government interferes with business, when in reality they are levers on the same machine.*

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Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for All \ stacker news

Not just another money-grubbing lawsuit This stuff really freaks me out. Apparently, people are suing Meta and YouTube and all the other social med...

*The deeper story is this: for decades, COBOL modernization was a lucrative, slow-moving professional services business precisely because the complexity was intractable without armies of specialists. AI doesn't just make that cheaper — it potentially makes the entire consulting model obsolete. When the cost of understanding legacy code drops to near zero, the business model built on that cost collapses.* Claude

*Be small enough that the competitve pressure doesn't distort your priorities. Be opinionated enough that you can't be dragged into building the same thing as everyone else. Be capitally efficient enough that you don't need the growth rate that forces you onto the treadmill. Be weird enough that nobody can copy you without becoming you.*

Westenberg.

Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason

Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direct...

*Fear is there to give you important information, not to paralyze you* View quoted note →

*Everyone is trying to figure out how to be their own boss before the system breaks* View quoted note →

*Extraction is psychological before it is financial* View quoted note →

*Get your financial house in order. I'm not a financial advisor, and I'm not trying to scare you into anything drastic. But if you believe, even partially, that the next few years could bring real disruption to your industry, then basic financial resilience matters more than it did a year ago. Build up savings if you can. Be cautious about taking on new debt that assumes your current income is guaranteed. Think about whether your fixed expenses give you flexibility or lock you in. Give yourself options if things move faster than you expect.* View quoted note →

*Build the habit of adapting. This is maybe the most important one. The specific tools don't matter as much as the muscle of learning new ones quickly. AI is going to keep changing, and fast. The models that exist today will be obsolete in a year. The workflows people build now will need to be rebuilt. The people who come out of this well won't be the ones who mastered one tool. They'll be the ones who got comfortable with the pace of change itself. Make a habit of experimenting. Try new things even when the current thing is working. Get comfortable being a beginner repeatedly. That adaptability is the closest thing to a durable advantage that exists right now.* View quoted note →

*it seems like [Bitcoin's] still at the whims of competing incentives, narratives and politics* View quoted note →

*the first-of-its-kind study makes one thing clear: next time you’re stressed, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to go for a jog, or something else that gets your heart rate up* Scientists Find Intense Psychological Differences in People Who Exercise

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Scientists Find Intense Psychological Differences in People Who Exercise

Researchers found a major difference how those who exercise regularly manage stress compared to those who don't.

There is no guarantee that the Fiat 🐛 will be displaced by the Bitcoin 🦋 . Nor do we know the timescales of success or failure.

*The mechanism is simple: borrow → pay interest → borrow more to cover the interest → repeat. Every debt spiral in history follows this script. The only variable is how long the bond market plays along.* View quoted note →

*Trait 4: Think in systems Werner used the Yellowstone wolves as his illustration on this point. Reintroducing wolves to the area triggered a domino effect. The reduced elk population stopped overgrazing riverbanks, vegetation returned, erosion decreased, and the physical geography of the park shifted. Strategic implication: Your developers need to lift their heads up from the code in front of them and see the bigger picture. How does their service interact with the twelve other services it touches? What happens when their database gets slow, not just to their app, but to everything downstream? When they’re working with AI systems, what feedback loops are they creating?*

*The Enemy wins everything when one assigns to it imagined powers that it does not have* View quoted note →

//_ the [monetary] grid does not require a central clock to maintain synchronization, only an immutable ledger.//_ View quoted note →

The good news: nostr now has more than 12 active npubs The bad news: you're getting schooled by a bot.

*relentless perseverance is necessary to avoid a decline into meaninglessness*

*To stop struggling against failure is to begin the descent into irrelevance* View quoted note →

//_ Decentralized consensus is the architecture of freedom. IF the BITCOIN protocol replaces the decree OF FIAT MONEY, the inertia of legacy systems WILL become a historical footnote //_ View quoted note →

//_You aren't depriving yourself <by staying humble and stacking sats> You are paying your future self.//_ View quoted note →