Reviewing Readwise notes while waiting for a 05:00 flight… "The fact that we had neither nicotine nor caffeine also contributed to the state of apathy and irritability." (Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning)

"Over a cigarette, he considered the nature of the problem and what he might be able to do about it. (Skilled maintainers advise never trying to solve a new or complex problem without a thorough mulling first.)" (Stewart Brand, Maintenance of Everything)

"Entropy increased in the universe, and order decreased. The process was like the boundless wings of the giant balance bird pressing down upon all of existence. But low-entropy entities were different. The low-entropy entities decreased their entropy and increased their order, like columns of phosphorescence rising over the inky-dark sea. This was meaning, the highest meaning, higher than enjoyment. To maintain this meaning, low-entropy entities had to continue to exist." (Cixin Liu, Remembrance of Earth's Past)

"This country which he hated was now his native country, his home. He had lived here ten years, and every particle of his body was compounded of Burmese soil. Scenes like these—the sallow evening light, the old Indian cropping grass, the creak of the cartwheels, the streaming egrets—were more native to him than England. He had sent deep roots, perhaps his deepest, into a foreign country." (George Orwell, Burmese Days)

"In Ethiopia, it is the ability to run in a way that protects your own *and others’* energy that is seen as the primary skill of an endurance athlete." (Michael Crawley, The Ethiopian Running Secret)

"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much." (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness)

Marry a woman who wants homemade burgers for Mother’s Day supper

"Like the human brain, the market economy is an information processing system." (Dan Davies, Lying for Money)

"And while having kids may be warping my present judgement, it hasn't overwritten my memory. I remember perfectly well what life was like before. Well enough to miss some things a lot, like the ability to take off for some other country at a moment's notice. That was so great. Why did I never do that? See what I did there? The fact is, most of the freedom I had before kids, I never used. I paid for it in loneliness, but I never used it." (Paul Graham, Having Kids)

"The final point is that scale matters when it comes to governance. I have an aphorism phrased by friends as follows: I’m a libertarian at the national level, a Republican at the state level, a Democrat at the municipal level, and a communist at the family level." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The World in Which We Live Now)

"Maintenance, in this larger sense, has nothing optional about it. The necessity of maintenance doesn’t accumulate invisibly; it is understood as a given. When you take responsibility for something, you enter into a contract to take care of it. If it’s a child, to keep it fed. If it’s a knife, to keep it sharp." (Stewart Brand, Maintenance of Everything)

Testing @npub18aa0eeebc6e67f0a5cc3a81a2f6deaecbedf2b52e98da7faa947028d15a12f6c

What the fuck is going on? I can’t go to sleep Feds jumping out their jeeps, I can’t go to sleep — Don’t kill your brother Learn to love each other…

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I Can't Go to Sleep (feat. Ghostface Killah, RZA & Issac Hayes)

Wu-Tang Clan، Ghostface Killah، RZA، Isaac Hayes · The W · Song · 2000

An important reminder: libertarianism doesn’t work without strong community ties. You need to surround yourself with family and friends you can trust. No man is an island. Fight for freedoms from state overreach, but give in to deep socialism with your people. Find God, touch grass, be generous. Freedom is worthless without a community with whom to enjoy it.

Nostr won’t win until we get thread bois. A 🧵 👇

I’ve been gone a little while. What’s new, nostr?