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"Some days I lean back and wonder if the Bitcoin protocol is actually mining *us*, minting newer, better, more sovereign individuals in the process. I like to think that’s what artists are doing too: taking our scarce time and attention and returning something that feels well spent and meaningful. I usually come away from both musical concerts and bitcoin insights feeling changed somehow, more in tune with what’s going on and what really matters, feeling the sense that we’re all in concert with one another with bitcoin helping to ensure that our concert is in tune, on time, and grounded in the same key." https://www.citadel21.com/bitcoin-and-music

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." —Helen Keller gm

turns out "buy bitcoin" isn't the dealbreaker for people but "read these books and articles to understand why" is you can literally tell someone "here, read these books, they will make you rich" and 9 out of 10 people won't read even one those numbers seem at first glance like exaggerations but i've lived long enough and had enough firsthand experience to know they are probably underestimations plenty of time to netflix, to scroll, to go to bars, to watch sportsball no time to read

"you know how there are 100 cents in 1 dollar? well there are 100,000,000 sats in 1 bitcoin. same idea." sats are not confusing. there are lots of confusing, unintuitive aspects to bitcoin but sats is not one of them. please move on

y'all need to be collagen maxxing made these gummy treats with nothing but grass fed pasture raised bovine gelatin, fresh orange juice and lemon juice, raw honey, royal jelly, and a little salt. gm

shortly after i trapped a possum, a big raccoon decided to pry open my chimney cap and fell in. the sides of the chimney were too slick for it to climb out, so it was just in there making noises for a week. awful. turns out all you need to do is drop in a knotted rope so it can climb out. homie was gone in less than 12 hours. gm

many people give up alcohol at some point and when you ask them why they usually tell you how they don't like how it makes them behave. "i just drink myself sick" "i'll go buy drugs" "i get violent" "i gamble too much" true story: awhile back i was out for the night, drinking and rabblerousing no doubt, and came home around 11. decided to crack open a beer before bed. hopped on amazon, browsed for probably an hour, and eventually passed out. couple days later this shows up at my door 👇😅 so no, i have not given up drinking. of all the decisions i've made in my day this is still probably the least problematic. #bookstr

if you mix a couple large spoonfuls of greek yogurt with half a scoop of chocolate protein powder it turns into a delicious thick chocolate mousse gm

always helpful to remember that life is coming from you not at you

i've taken a different approach to my man cave basements are not the way

grok ai doesn't know what a merlot steak is a quick google search got me the answer: it's from the hind legs, between the round and the shank. only two per animal.

i don't know which podcaster needs to hear this but i'm not buying an eight sleep gm

coworker: "you're not worried about your 401k?" me: no, i moved that into bitcoin years ago. coworker: "wait are you joking?" me:

i'm trying to catch a possum using a (humane, relax) trap baited with marshmallows so the neighbor's cat doesn't get caught. any tips would be appreciated. so far all i have to show for it is fewer marshmallows.

i am ghibli'd out gm

optimization-focused influencers who spent their careers optimizing are still struggling on the dating scene and can't seem to optimize their way into a long-term relationship i won't name names but more than a few i've listened to have been noticeably despondent and frustrated in recent years as you watch them grapple with uncertainty about what exactly they have been optimizing towards

one of my colleagues just came back from a ski trip "with a nasty case of Covid" the year is 2025. people are quatruple vaccinated or somesuch, boosting themselves through the seasons like good pharmaceutical respecters. the argument for this warp-speeded moneymaker evolved from protection to prevention to mere symptom mitigation. and yet, here we are. people asked how she was feeling 2 days later and she said "like i'm on death's door, ha ha" at what point does a person like this pause and reflect? ever?

"It's the slavery of attachment that is hell, not the things themselves that we are attached to. It's a grave error to imagine that by giving up the object of our attachment we become free from the force of attachment itself." —from 'Money and the Meaning of Life,' by Jacob Needleman

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the saving vs. spending debate over money and bitcoin in particular is simple money is for doing both. saving is just spending on a longer timescale.