People do not seem to realize their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

brinks on brinks on brinks my goodness

people always ask me why i don't get a dog or a cat if i like them so much i then say that you can like things without wanting to own them and they act like i said something profound and need a minute to collect themselves

the reason i frontloaded my bitcoin buying and withdrew to cold storage where i hold my own keys is because i don't expect acquiring bitcoin to be that easy in the future and it appears the future is pulling into the station

If you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what to do, kid… Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty, freedom is the most expensive. —Bill Cunningham

pv fam 🤙 time for another day of resisting centralized authoritarian overreach and chewing bubble gum. and i'm all outta gum 😤

just catching up on this whole balaji bet and his newfound enthusiasm for bitcoin tl;dr seems to be he only just now had his bitcoin ah-ha moment, getting super jazzed about very foundational premises and implications. which, i'll be honest, is mildly shocking. unless: he's always known this, but sees the writing on the wall re: the regulatory fate of the shitcoin casino he's been able to profit from and decided to get ahead of it but i exchanged DM's with him a couple years back about bitcoin vs. everything else and i do think this time he's seeing the light finally. wild.

you will have to be responsible for educating yourself outside of school. that includes undergrad and graduate programs. actual progress and worthwhile advancement in understanding comes from your own extracurricular studies. sorry to be the bearer of bad and expensive news

if you could be a multi-millionaire (in real purchasing power terms) very quickly but it required you to lie constantly to honest, hard-working people would you do it?

some people's guilty pleasure is trash tv like the bachelor mine is watching a livestream of a former lawyer as he reads off a piece of paper on behalf of the banking cartel he leads to see how people react to the fraction of a percent number he decides to mumble after a long irrelevant preamble

rock (gold) paper (gold notes) scissors (fiat) play stupid games, win stupid prizes

thinking of publishing all the highlights from books i read here on nostr otherwise they just remain mine to see and appreciate and learn from. seems wasteful. and selfish. nostronauts: would this interest you or nah?

"We come out of the womb and we're just a blob of nothingness. That's the first separation: from our mother. Then we add on all these things—name, interests, etc—that serve to separate us, make us unique from everyone else. And it's almost like the journey of life is going into that multifarious identity space but then piecing together the things—the understandings or the information—you need to recognize your fundamental unity with everyone. So going from unity to multiplicity back to unity. Contending with that properly is the journey toward discovering and embodying virtue. And what is virtue other than a word we use to point toward that highest place and the aspects of it that we can bring down into our life and display in our action." —John Vallis, in convo with American HODL, Robert Breedlove, and Erik Cason

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pv fam 🤙 spring mornings are a great time to be a nostr enjoyr

"History shows that in areas of irregular weather or rainfall natural forces have made men more concerned with invisible, omnipotent cosmic powers than with the reality they perceived on earth. Meso-American man devoted tremendous effort to trying to understand why some years it failed to rain on schedule, withering his cornfields and threatening him with starvation and extinction." —T.R. Fehrenbach, from 'Fire And Blood: A History of Mexico' (1995)

"Wisdom is prevention." —Charlie Munger really wish he and Taleb were at least a little orange-pilled. oh well.

seeing more full stack developers and 10x engineers but not many full stack humans and 10x attention-givers

gold's stock-to-flow premise growing more pathetic by the day

Nobel prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr loved poetry, literature, and philosophy because they emphasized individual, subjective experience—which would prove crucial to his work on quantum theory: "'When it comes to atoms,' Bohr wrote, 'language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connection.' This remark links the poet and the physicist as imaginative beings. Bohr's education is no doubt behind the fact that he links his own work to the poet's work. The physicist loved poetry, especially the poems of Goethe, and he strongly identified himself with the great German artist and intellectual. Bohr continually quoted literary artists he admired. He read Dickens passionately and liked to conjure vivid pictures for entities in physics—electrons as billiard balls or atoms as plum puddings with jumping raisins—a proclivity that no doubt lies behind his idea that images serve physics as well as poetry. I find that images are extremely helpful for understanding ideas, and for many people a plum pudding with animated raisins is more vivid than images of tapes of code or hardware and software. It is not surprising either that Bohr felt a kinship with his fellow Dane Søren Kierkegaard, a philosopher who was highly critical of every totalizing intellectual system and of science itself when it purported to explain everything. For Kierkegaard, objectivity as an end in itself was wrongheaded, because it left out the single individual and subjective experience." —Siri Hustvedt, from 'A Woman Looking at Men Looking at (2016)