Ben

"Now the civil servant called the trades that ended up as losers “gross mistakes,” just like journalists call decisions that end up costing a candidate his election a “mistake.” I will repeat this point until I get hoarse: A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness)

GM! And gfy 🇺🇸 😘 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

"One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England." (George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier)

"The energy scientist Vaclav Smil [has calculated](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Enriching_the_Earth/G9FljcEASycC?hl=en&gbpv=0) that fertilizer from the Haber–Bosch process is responsible for about 40 percent of the world’s dietary protein. Roughly speaking, this is equivalent to feeding 40 percent of the world: about 3.2 billion people. More than three billion men, women, and children — an incomprehensibly vast cloud of dreams, hopes, and fears — owe their existence to two obscure early-twentieth-century German chemists and the fertilizer industry they spawned." (Charles C. Mann, Breakfast for Eight Billion)

I have two paintings from nostr:nprofile1qqs0fk6jwz7ejxchh6s7d5p473w7uwffr8pfga9m4sgrgtfz836wp5qmzruqa . They are amazing. Original art is like a window into the artist’s world. It’s something to treasure for generations. nostr:nevent1qqs8x0n9nk67pc7cjs0m2lmhy74ufujtpu4khjq4zph0v9s4kkhcleqprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj73ghma7

"A strategy is a way through a difficulty, an approach to overcoming an obstacle, a response to a challenge. If the challenge is not defined, it is difficult or impossible to assess the quality of the strategy" (Richard Rumelt Rumelt, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters)

"My life feels remusicked since my own little Exodus journey began. It turns out the experience of desire is shaped by the object of your desire. If you desire money, your desire will always seem pinched, and if you desire fame, your desire will always be desperate. But if the object of your desire is generosity itself, then your desire for it will open up new dimensions of existence you had never perceived before, for example, the presence in our world of an energy force called grace." (David Brooks, Faith Is Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be - The New York Times)

Roses are red Bananas are yellow Nostr is cool So chill and so mellow GN ✌️

"The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy." (Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front)

I don’t think this is right. These apps are an escape hatch, built on an open protocol. They need to be good enough to allow creators to access the protocol. But more important than the apps are the creators that use nostr. Adding value to the protocol means that other walled gardens can’t ignore it. They need to use nostr to feed the machine of their business. Eventually, hopefully, enough people will realize that freedom comes from open-source social media apps. I don’t think it’s necessary that Amethyst be a better app than Twitter. nostr:nevent1qqsxyny45w2pckw65wqk296ccazmxlrp4g4j52g8kjfdq6tletm5h2qpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqqz75zx

Definitely check out nostr:nprofile1qqsrgyzdaheuckfksqkgxz9r6qys72zh6j46f69hyzkv4a4j4vzfj6gprkucd if you haven’t already. This is a great new feature. nostr:nevent1qqsdpcpqz67ekhq6h62ppexuqxvnsvl4zg9x2zxqsyc9h5m64038u8cpzemhxw309ucnjv3wxymrst338qhrww3hxumnwsacse2

"As time went by, the imagined reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as gods, nations and corporations." (Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens)

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun." (George Orwell, The Road To Wigan Pier)

"But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look was then more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise. A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love." (Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning)

"The advertisements which bees find useful are flowers – and if you think about it, a flower is simply a weed with an advertising budget." (Rory Sutherland, Alchemy)

"whenever a generous impulse arises in your mind—to give money, check in on a friend, send an email praising someone’s work—act on the impulse right away, rather than putting it off until later" (Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks)

Wow it’s so easy. Time to short ASML and TSMC. https://youtu.be/vuvckBQ1bME