pv fam 🤙🌅 reminder that you are under no obligation to be the same person you were yesterday new habits, new rules, and new projects are fair game no need to ask for anyone's permission, you can just start

you are shutting down your bitcoin company out of an abundance of caution/fear/worry i just fired up my new Futurebit Apollo II home bitcoin miner out of an abundance of sovereignty/hope/responsibility we are not the same

i hate to break it to you but good communication is mostly about listening, not talking

i've found that what most reliably leads to your desired outcome isn't ambition or striving but rather a resistance to feeling discouraged

i was able to follow way more than i thought i would at btc++ 😅 very well worth the time. highest of signal and more than a little inspiring. @niftynei() 🇺🇸💸🧡 has built something special

"For those that are still skeptical [of #bitcoin] I would say  allocate100 hours of your life to study it. The average person works 2,000 hours a year for 40 years. You're going to work 80,000 hours in your life to make money—you should work 100 hours of your life to keep it. It's really a tragedy that you would work for 40 or 50,000 hours and then lose all your money because it's ripped off or debased away because you didn't know where to store it." —Michael Saylor

privacy is not a crime i'm a law-abiding citizen who pays his taxes & cares about his country & i decide what to selectively reveal to the world. my trust is earned. sensible people keep to themselves and want to be left alone. to treat them like criminals by default is asinine

still one of my go-to albums for heads-down work

Spotify

Fear Inoculum - Album by TOOL | Spotify

TOOL · album · 2019 · 10 songs

confession: 1/3 brick offsets give me the ick

today i learned that 'neurodivergent' is a made up word used by people who want to pathologize the experience of being a unique human being so they can blame their undesirable outcomes on biology instead of their own choices neat

one of my pet peeves is "show of hands:" "Show of hands: who here has ever..." just don't. you're gonna go and say what you're gonna say regardless of how many hands go up so just get on with it. "Oh okay, a lot of you. Well real quick, for those who aren't familiar..." 😐

lmaooo

this is long, but i read it back in 2013 and it's pretty much what orange-pilled me. several things clicked.

How the Bitcoin protocol actually works – DDI

i got myself one of these last year. i used it on the lingual (inside) of my teeth about 3 months after my official dental cleaning. i used it once more about a week before my next appointment. super gently near the gumline, 5 mins tops it's hilarious, the hygienist was joking about how she has nothing to do i still think eliminating sugars and refined grains does the lion's share of the work though

Mountain Dew is a masterclass in branding because the name is quite obviously best suited for spring water and they somehow made it associated with profitable, teen-friendly extreme sports energy market instead i'm convinced you could have named that neon yellow liquid anything and those geniuses would make it work

pv fam 🤙🌅 twitter is increasingly wretched, full of ghoulish attention seekers and embarrassing engagement farmers trying real hard to avoid

fun times

my biggest hurdle before going super hard into bitcoin was understanding why the ethrium and crypto token crowd didn't get it. what is their argument? am i missing something, that stuff is obviously not decentralized, monetary policy is changing and unpredictable, etc etc then someone told me: oh they get it. they don't care. they know most people don't know the difference and don't read and aren't technical, and there's a lot more money to be made fleecing those people with marketing and "future potential" stories ah, there it is. there's the incentive. now it makes sense. never looked back

vegans love to point to vegan celebs but vegan celebs end up discovering that veganism is just malnutrition with a marketing team

one time while inventorying the Cairo museums, Andre Malraux told Egypt president Gamal Nasser that to change a people's standard of living without changing its spiritual standards was to lead it to disaster. i think about that from time to time