Hard to overstate just how much legacy social media and “the algorithm” have contributed to our current cultural climate and accelerated basically every increasingly endemic negative thing. It’s a metastasizing cancer.

Top Gun: Maverick is an utterly perfect action film.

Sometimes I’ll be loading the dishwasher or doing some other rote, tedious thing at night and I’ll just think about how much I love my children, asleep upstairs in their rooms, and be so overwhelmed with that love that I’m brought nearly to tears.

Friends, I just launched @Think Bitcoin Podcast. It’s something I’ve been thinking about doing for years. I believe we’re doing more than fixing the money. I think we’re embarking on a renaissance of art and culture with and through the soundness of bitcoin. This pod is for conversations about big ideas, about art and philosophy, literature and film. It’s about the art of living well and building beautiful things. It’s about architecting the kind of society we want to build on top of the solid ground that is Bitcoin. Conversations with bitcoiners on this mission. I humbly ask you to check it out, give it a follow, etc. I will start posting episodes on Nostr. The first two episodes, with @Steven Lubka and @Trey, respectively, are already live. More dropping soon!

Portrait of a paradigm shift

Hear me out. A Taschen coffee table art book that is a collection of $58k #bitcoin memes.

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is the most widely misread poem in all of poetry. Most people think the point of the poem is that you should take the road less travelled, march to beat of your own drummer, etc. This is a misreading. First of all, we are repeatedly told that the two roads looked basically the same. Some lines: “Then took the other, as just as fair" "Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same," "And both that morning equally lay" 20 line poem, about 25% of them devoted to sameness of the paths. It matters that he took one and not the other only because choices beget choices (and, importantly, foreclose others) and this is life. We then tend to ascribe meaning and narrative retrospectively to those choices. The traveler laments that he can’t take both paths, have all the experiences, NOT foreclose certain choices by making others: “And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler” “I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence,” the traveler tells us. And when he does, he will ascribe meaning to his choices. He will say he took the one less travelled (even though they were the same) and it really DID make all the difference, as he says, because by making that choice he definitionally could not make the other.

My 2.5 year-old daughter 🥹

Gm #nostr

Another day in the fiat mines

Gm #nostr

Yesterday my wife, laughing, goes “I feel like you have this whole social life on #nostr that I don’t know about.” Clearly I need to get her on here, right?

Hear hear! Pumped for the rebrand and personally very much feel Trey’s evolution here. I’ve wrestled with much the same myself for the last couple years. Historically came from the left, have gradually come to a place where I don’t identify with either party in any meaningful way. I’ve even officially changed my party affiliation to independent. I used to talk and write about how I think the two-party system will ultimately capitulate to #bitcoin and/or be essentially forced to reconfigure and reconstitute in some creative destruction process as a result of #bitcoin (versus Bitcoin capitulating to or being slammed ill-fittingly into the current two party paradigm). Bitcoin basically introduces competition into the two-party duopoly that is our current politics. And more importantly, beyond the two-party company town lies the frontier. That’s where we’re heading. Looking forward to and grateful for Trey’s voice and efforts on the journey. LFG View quoted note →