posted by the wife of a friend of mine yesterday
turns out it's a thing
i can't believe people keep doing this to themselves in december 2024 with no sense of caution or curiosity or concern 😔
gift a pair to your favorite podcast enthusiast who doesn't love the idea of putting high frequency radio receivers inside their ears against their brain for hours
"In our time and culture, the battlefield of life is money.
Instead of horses and chariots, guns and fortresses, there are banks, checkbooks, credit cards, mortgages, salaries, the IRS.
But the inner enemies remain the same now as they were in ancient India or feudal Japan: fear, self-deception, vanity, egoism, wishful thinking, tension, and violence."
—Jacob Needleman, from 'Money and the Meaning of Life' (1991)
normie land is killing me y'all
it's like an entirely different reality out there. one where people are sick all the time, lazy, obsessed with sports and tv, and full of anxiety or stress about something.
financially illiterate. never read books. low energy. joking about being tired all the time.
truly soul-sucking
today is the anniversary of the bitcoin whitepaper and also Halloween
consider dressing up as your favorite peer-to-peer electronic cash concept and scare the neighbors' kids with some spooky financial sovereignty 👻
Austin, Texas to me is great, partly because it gives me access to _all_ of Texas which is *very great*
but you may not prefer Austin or Texas. that's okay. find your place. find your happy. you'll never see me trying to convince people to live in one place or another because i understand that people are different.
i just want everyone to find their place
if you don't like where you live, move. you're not a tree.
i just want to see people happy with where they're at. the more happy people there are in the world the fewer problems we'll all have with each other
and a big contributor to happiness is where you live
people are so afraid to make a mistake, but you learn by making mistakes
if you want to improve i would start by getting out there and making more mistakes