Floccinaucinihilipilification (n.) — the habit of regarding something as worthless

when bitcoin hits $100k i will treat myself to a full detailing of my 2002 Toyota Camry

one of my favorite questions after small talk is out of the way is: what have you changed your mind about recently?

the reason google and amazon pay their engineers so much is to prevent them from starting companies of their own and usurping them exorbitant pay is a competition prevention strategy

"The mathematical equilibrium models of the Chicago School disregard the ability to learn and the freedom of decision of the individual, his 'marginal actions' wherever there is change—indeed, the actions of real people. They fail to see that each individual person has the freedom to make his or her own free choices ... and they do. Here, they contrast with the Austrian School around Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises, which does not reduce people to mere objects influenced by material factors." i bet Red Bull has some bitcoin

Christopher Peterson of the University of Michigan led a team that set out to gather universal desirable character qualities throughout the world, and to evaluate and map them—sort of the opposite of the classification of mental disorders Peterson's team agreed on 6 characteristics ("core virtues") and 28 character strengths, which exist in all cultures and which give life meaning. It has become the foundation of the Positive Psychology movement. The 6 core virtues: knowledge, courage, humanity, fairness, moderation, and transcendence The character strengths include: curiosity, learning, integrity, love, self-control, modesty, hope, and humor

pv fam 🤙🌅 nothing is preventing you from being smarter today than yesterday. a little progress each day is how anything is done.

saltiness among nocoiners is in full force out there

this is so badass "Thomas Johnson, a slave who later became a well-known missionary preacher in England, explained that he had learned to read by studying the letters in a Bible he had stolen. Since his master read aloud a chapter from the New Testament every night, Johnson would coax him to read the same chapter over and over, until he knew it by heart and was able to find the same words on the printed page. Also, when the master's son was studying, Johnson would suggest that the boy read part of his lesson out loud. 'Lor's over me,' Johnson would say to encourage him, 'read that again,' which the boy often did, believing that Johnson was admiring his performance. Through repetition, he learned enough to be able to read the newspapers by the time the Civil War broke out, and later set up a school of his own to teach others to read. Learning to read was, for slaves, not an immediate passport to freedom but rather a way of gaining access to one of the powerful instruments of their oppressors: the book." —from A History of Reading, by Alberto Manguel #bookstr

hopefully coinbase can keep it together today maybe if their team wasn't so busy diddling around with supporting trash they would have quality infrastructure in place

my highest ROI investments #bookstr #bitcoin

trying real hard to stay humble

i can tell you what my love language isn't: organizing books based on the color 😖

my favorite question isn't "why?" it's: "says who?"

"Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe." —Franz Kafka, to his friend Oskar Pollak (1904) #bookstr

one of my favorite ironies is the overwhelming lack of gender diversity in HR

here's a question that life has a way of forcing you to reflect on at some point: when an asshole tells you the truth, do you focus on the asshole or do you focus on the truth?

four issues of this bitcoin magazine will cost you over $660.00 plus shipping lol

saying a smart thing in a complicated way with fancy words does not signal intelligence, it signals insecurity. it also means you're making it harder for your intended audience to follow along with your thinking jargon doesn’t make you sound smarter it makes you inconsiderate

can someone please have an honest conversation with Fountian about their awful font?