That feeling when you spend hours trying to fix a bug in a hackathon project, get a normal nights sleep after event, find it’s a simple five minute fix after looking at it again once well rested 🤦‍♂️. I’m getting old.

What other conference would you want to be at this week in ATX

Always a sign of a good conference when you’ve onboarded at least one of your cab drivers to bitcoin.

Nothing like technical controversy in bitcoin to tickle even many bitcoiners’ authoritarian funny bone. Humans are tribal. We don’t like challenges to our tribes even at the expense of our principles and, like Jonathan Haidt’s rationalizing rider on the emotional elephant, we can always come up with ways to reconcile even the most contradictory positions.

“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly to the aristocratic. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends to act more and more exclusively in the interest of the ruling class, whether that class be hereditary royalty or oligarchs of financial empires or entrenched bureaucracy.” - Politics as Repeat Phenomenon, (Bene Geserit training manual) From Frank Herbert’s “Children of Dune”