#RUNSTR #Walking
Nick
nick@nickjstevens.com
npub1ljq0...cpnl
I’m an engineer, trail runner, father, learner, teacher and dreamer.
#RUNSTR #Walking
New blog post: covering the rationale behind my UK cost of living web app.
UK Cost of Living Explorer - Priced In
Data-driven app to explore UK cost of living when priced in fiat, gold and bitcoin
Exploring the footpaths near Chudleigh Rocks
GM. Water and light.
You don’t have to compete in games you don’t want to play
Ilsington Church 🏴
Numbeo summary of price inflation in Exeter, UK. Has your salary kept up with these rises?!
Notice how proper food (eggs) is the worst affected.
My UK cost of living explorer has much more data and going back much further if you want to find out more:
Priced In — UK Cost of Living Explorer
GM (belated - I had issues with Primal and uploading images earlier!)
GM!
This is an interesting piece from the Mises Institute: https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-are-living-fourth-american-republic
The evidence would point to the Fourth American Republic being over now, and it's now the rise of the American Empire. Some great lessons in history from the fall of the Roman Republic...
“Nothing stops this train”
Inflation can mask the true value of your time and energy.
I built a web to explore the data and the results are suprising.
By changing the denominator and pricing houses, eggs, or butter in hard assets like Gold or Bitcoin you can strip away fiat currency devaluation and see what’s really happening your purchasing power.
Priced In — UK Cost of Living Explorer
GM
Multi-tasking nowadays is having 3 separate conversations with 3 separate LLMs at the same time.
Coffee by the water. ☕️
“It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.”
Had a great holiday in Switzerland. Now that I’m back in the UK it’s obvious how bad the UK roads are - potholes everywhere, rubbed out road markings, car parked every which way. Where does our tax money go exactly?
How might The Mandibles be rewritten were Bitcoin to have been available?
“Ironically, attempts by nation-states to wage “information wars” to dominate or thwart access to cyberspace would probably only accelerate their own demise.” — a quote from The Sovereign Individual, first published in 1997.
Bitcoin is scarcity of energy. Attention is scarcity of time. Privacy is scarcity of space.