this is dope

valentine's day is a cute holiday for children and young people who are not yet dating or married and therefore don't have any other anniversary to celebrate love if you're a grown adult though i think you can move on. it served it's purpose. if you still feel you need it then perhaps it's time to pause and reflect. gm

"Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flash of truth." —Jules Michelet, French historian (1798-1874)

i don't know about this halftime show

it's super bowl sunday so i'm gonna throw on some Dostoevsky while i dutch oven some chicken thighs in beef tallow

warren buffett never bothered to learn anything about software development or cryptography but software devs and cryptographers have learned a ton about capital & commodity markets, macroeconomics, game theory, adversarial system design, MMT, history, & thermodynamics bitcoin rewards the curious and punishes the smug

if you want butterflies and you're smart you don't go chasing butterflies you grow a garden

AI is the new Metaverse which was the new VR which was the new Big Data which was the new Blockchain which was the new Cloud

i find it's best to let your curiosity overwhelm your judgment, and that a sense of wonder can quiet that voice in your head that keeps telling you to be angry anger isn't just a loss of control it's a loss of perspective

the truth should be able to hold up to scrutiny

this is a helluva timeline we're living through and i'm grateful to share it with all of you weirdos ✨

i work in an office sometimes and i have come to learn that normies are sick all the time. all. the. time. they bond over it and think it's normal. fascinating

if you say you like philosophy but you're not living your life as someone full of inquiry and reflection and skepticism then you're not actually studying philosophy you're just reading it "Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." —Epictetus

"Politics is downstream from culture, and cryptography in general (and Bitcoin in particular) changes culture." @Gigi

Citadel21

Bitcoin's Meme Wars — Citadel21

Bitcoin.

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i know he's a jerk, but here's one of my favorite Nassim Taleb quotes. i think about it often: "The reader is invited to do the same. Look around you, at your life, at objects, at relationships, at entities. You may replace volatility with other members of the disorder cluster here and there for clarity, but it is not even necessary—when formally expressed, it is all the same symbol. Time is volatility. Education, in the sense of the formation of character, personality, and acquisition of true knowledge, likes disorder; label-driven education and educators abhor disorder. Some things break because of error, others don’t. Some theories fall apart, not others. Innovation is precisely something that gains from uncertainty: and some people sit around waiting for uncertainty and using it as raw material, just like our ancestral hunters."

reading James Joyce made me realize that freedom is also a kind of exile, and that those seeking it are seeking separation as much as autonomy. freedom always carries with it a feeling of being cast out or unwelcome. gm

if you can hypothesize its occurrence at all or expect it to any degree then it's not a black swan the term 'black swan' has been corrupted to mean anything unlikely or out of the blue its original meaning was something theoretically impossible or literally unexpected

Fibonacci brought Indian–Arabic decimals, fractions, and the calculation of interest to Europe in his 1202 book 'Liber Abaci.' originally from Pisa, he was living in North Africa at the time. here's one of the pages. his 'Fibonacci Sequence' can be seen on the right

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