People go through life seeking control, yet past a certain threshold, the more power and control you yield, the more insecure you become. Few things we can every truly control. Sometimes we must simply face the world with equanimity.

Pro life tip: become a lawyer just so you can preface almost every sentence with "This is not legal advice, but _"

Just bought my Ape Pass for the Bitcoin Asia conference. 😎

I look forward to a year of grit and discovering new paths. Blessings to all.

Things are getting interesting in the semiconductor industry. Will RISC-V eventually replace x86-64 as the dominant architecture?

Tom

RISC-V hardware ecosystem gets strong industry support - Qualcomm joins with four other industry players to form Quintauris

Five semiconductor companies make a new RISC-V company.

3D printers are pretty cool. Thinking about getting one.

Soft launch for a new Bitcoin Asia conference? When was this announced? Asia is a big continent, we need more details!

Conference

We have a portfolio of the most recognizable and longest running brands in bitcoin.

Job applications back in the day: Find an ad in the newspaper. Call the company. Go in for an interview and show them your CV. Hear back later. Job applications now: Find a post on Indeed. Navigate to a third-party job app website. Fill in ten pages of questions. Upload a keyword-stuffed CV. Click submit. Never hear back anything.

I don't eat beef, except for burgers, steaks, carne asada, ground beef, and shabu-shabu. 🥩

Not dunking on the Wallet of Satoshi guy, but I knew there was a reason to hold off on setting up a custodial Lightning wallet.

DMs on Nostr not being E2EE by default is terrible. That should be changed.

Chinese is so hard to learn, but I believe it will be worth it in the end. 日後

The funniest thing about Demon Slayer is how each demon's life flashes before its eyes right after it's beheaded, and these flashbacks sometimes take the majority of an episode to complete.

Can't we bring back supersonic commercial jets for transoceanic voyages? My flight back home is going to take 12 hours. 😩

Govt when you illegally download a movie: JAIL Govt when it lets criminals get over 800 million citizens' biometrics and personal info: shrug

New Steam Deck drops next week. Think it might finally be time for me to get it! I have over 1,000 games on Steam. Mobile PC gaming just makes sense.

90% of proprietary apps: You need to have a phone number to use this app. In other words, you need to pay money and reveal your identity to a heavily state-regulated telecom company first, before you have permission to use this app. Then we'll use your number to track you across *every* app, for intrusive advertising purposes. Nostr: You just need to generate a keypair on any computer better than a potato, for free, and then you can anonymously post to the whole world.

Where in the world is Hector Escobedo? Take a guess.

Visiting a country where you don't speak the language at all, by yourself, is challenging. Finding this out right now in Taiwan lol

I'm in Taipei, eating your baozi!