if you call yourself a bitcoiner but you're not into planting trees then you're not as low time preference as you think you are

just finished reading C.V. Wedgwood's book on the Thirty Years War and now i'm starting this one about stupidity #bookstr

what's an example of a work-related email you get that you would pay money not to have to deal with?

pv fam 🤙🌅 i will not be using my hand to pay for fancy groceries

no zero days. consistency is everything. even if it's just a little progress, a little effort, a little time. what matters isn't how much but how frequently

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." Einstein said that to the son of a Life Magazine journalist who asked him for some guidance in life. The journalist was visiting Einstein at his home in Princeton, NJ in 1955, a few months before he died. curious that the man whose fame came as a result of discovering that mass and energy are actually two sides of the same coin did not bring the same equivalence insight to bear on value and success.

when the influx of random star wars and marvel universe content started flooding out of disney's corporate orifices i said no thanks, i'll pass. people insisted No Bro, it's sooo gooood the mandalorian bro you gotta see it you're missing out bro fast forward to today. people are now slowly admitting that, you know what, the shows are ok and now it's feeling a bit overdone and disney clearly lost the plot, etc. i bring this up because this is what the masses do with everything. bLoCkChAiN, sMaRt HoMe, eLeCtRiC cArS, a.I., NfTs, UfOs, sUpErCoNdUcToRs... is there at least a grain of potential in these things? of course. but the reality is far more simple and underwhelming than what the masses are hyping. the masses never admit they were misled so that others could profit off their irrational exuberance and desire to remain current and hip, they just move on and change their linkedin interests to the new thing and pretend it never happened if there is a pandemic in society it's this: emotionally-fueled, ingroup-obsessed, fomo-shamed, attentionless shiny object syndrome combined with low grade narcissism and an inability to care about let alone pass the marshmallow test

part of the reason Moby Dick is so long and goes into so much detail about the intricate biology of ocean life and the philosophy of whales & whaling is because Melville was trying to recreate for the reader the experience of being on a long, arduous, meditative voyage at sea the medium is the message

lots of institutions are in the treatment business, and being proponents of root causes is part of the marketing strategy

eat more meat, get more sun, go on longer walks, lift heavy things, be of service, sleep fully, listen fully, and create more than you consume.

"The effectiveness with which knowledge is transmitted and coordinated depends not only on the institutional mechanisms at work but also on the nature of the decisions involved—for example, the extent to which the law of diminishing returns applies, whether the decision is sequential or a once-and-for-all decision, whether its consequences are restricted to one lifetime or spread well beyond the human life span and so have muted feedback. Systems can be compared not only in terms of how well they make current decisions with current impact, but how well they bridge the barrier of time—especially time that exceeds the human life span—through such devices as present values reflecting future benefits or emotional ties to a family as an on-going unit over the generations." —Thomas Sowell, from 'Knowledge and Decisions' (1980) this book is something else. F.A. Hayek gave it high praise too. #bookstr

if we called capitalism what it really is—decentralized price coordination—there would be a lot less screeching about it being the cause of everyone's personal grievances

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a store of value is just a medium of exchange with your future self gm

walked to and from the gym today in 108-degree weather and it felt really good i go on legacy social media and see everyone making jokes about how miserable they are in the heat, how the world is on fire, climate change something something not on nostr though. on here people are building, helping, sharing, and educating (and shitposting) anyway, i deleted twitter and ig from my phone

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i'm increasingly nostr-only i've been on twitter since 2007, and loyalty is important but it's trumped by principles

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. —Voltaire

"In Germany a 1933 'Law for Removing the Distress of People and Reich' gave the chancellor dictatorial powers, which in turn allowed Adolf Hitler to start wars that brought unprecedented distress—indeed, devastation—to the German people and nation. The point here is not simply that laws, policies, and programs can have counterproductive results. The point is that, when social processes are described in terms of their hoped-for results, this obscures the more fundamental question as to just what they actually do and circumvents questions as to whether doing such things is likely to lead to the results expected or proclaimed." —Thomas Sowell