I’m doing some writing on bitcoin and software development. To start I’m doing a 5 part series that I call: The Invariants of Software Development. The invariants are things all good software teams do, regardless of methodology followed. The Intro:

The Tools of Ignorance

An Introduction to the Invariants of Building Software

An Invariant is a motto,a guiding light that–no matter where you’ve found yourself in the agile to waterfall spectrum, and no matter the ritual...

And Invariant 1 - Think, Then Do

The Tools of Ignorance

Invariant 1 - Think, Then Do

The first invariant is to: Think, Then Do. This aligns with the “Strategy” atomic unit discussed in the introduction. In order to understand th...

If you work on a product or engineering team, you may get something out of this.

How can I tell if I’m paid up on certain relays? The DMs sketch me out.

My family had Thanksgiving dinner last night because of some travel issues. Please consider this conversation recipe advice from the future. * Start with Trump. It energizes the troops and sets the tone. Our table looked like a damn rally. Throw in a bit of Milei and at risk of peaking early. Had to calm folks down for… * Effective Altruism. Rechannel some of that enthusiasm, and really rile your loved ones up before the main course. * Bitcoin. This year is easy. Gradually, Then Suddenly is for sale. The fam is well taken care of and of course you already purchased copies for the whole gang.

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* Slip in a few “put a chick in it and make her gay” references. You’re going to want to watch the latest South Park as a family after dinner, and you’ll need to pique their interest. This is a good tactic to get off any Israel/Palestine talk. That’s inappropriate for Thanksgiving and gets in the way of bitcoin talk. * It’s very important you save mocking Sam Altman and OpenAI for close to last. Everyone loves a good callback, and you can expand on your EA shit talking. It’s a two for one. * End on a high note. Back to basics with Number Go Up. Have @Saifedean Ammous ‘s interview with @Lyn Alden at the “Wen Moon?” question queued up. Pass it around. Happy Thanksgiving from the future.

It is important for the future of humanity that AI is not aligned with Sam Altman… …or the OpenAI board who out Altman’d Altman.

I think the general tech public would be amazed how little even typical board decision making would stand up to public scrutiny. It’s pretty bad out there.

Worrying about, working on, and legislating stablecoins is such an utter waste of everyone’s time.

Baseline government CPU excludes taxes, energy, and food. It is close to useless. As is often the case, a few Texans did the work to get you a much more accurate number. https://chapwoodindex.com/

Is Ladar Levinson on Nostr? Maybe @Snowden would know?

It may not be a mantra, but I hear Horace Greeley’s “Go west, young man”. Sure there are Comanches, droughts, and general mayhem waiting for you, but there is a decided advantage to getting there early. Pay me in #bitcoin.

Gradually, Then Suddenly

Bitcoin Payments: 'Someone-Is-Going-Next' Logic

Why every business will decide to receive bitcoin payments. Someone-is-going-next logic. If not you, then who.

In my world, the overlap between concern for overpopulation, climate change, sound money, and AI alignment is 100% overlapping. This group has a 90% overlap with war enthusiasts as well. I can attempt to persuade on each topic one by one, or if I can orange pill them, the others magically swing as well. This is how bitcoin fixes everything.

This may be the last cycle where a typical middle to upper middle class American or Western European can accumulate an entire bitcoin with savings.

@ODELL gave his all. Subscribed to all the paid tip sheets, fantasy camps, and definitely never has problems logging in and setting his lineup. Blessed to win this pillow fight and crawl out of the depths of the bottom of the SatsBowl.

Bitstein is a national treasure.

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On October 31, 2008, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto appeared on the Cryptography mailing list to share his vision for “#Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer ...

High signal: Skipped or dropped out of college to work. Low signal: Graduated a 4 year University. Red flag: Degree from an Ivy institution. It was already becoming clear that college was low signal when I graduated in 2006. By 2011 when I was hiring lots of software engineers, designers, and product managers I’d completely ignore college status. Now I’m convinced it’s a net negative.

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Our biggest obstacle in DC is pretended to be a Native American for decades to steal valor and advance her career. They’re not sending their best.

Trust the science.

I don’t mean to brag, but I knew Craig wasn’t Satoshi long before this retarded loser Christen came out and said so. Also, remember everyone in this drama is a known con artist. They may be mad at each other, it may be more scheming, but I’m no longer watching.

Alex gave me a pedicab ride home from Bit Block Boom. He took bitcoin as payment. He’s also fucking wild and has a podcast. So we did an episode. View quoted note →