One of the most commendable pursuits in a #man's #life is to forge enduring structures that reflect his #values, crafted through the fusion of thought and labor. #masculinity

Prioritize health. Your physical and psychological #health is of utmost importance. Don't give it away for superficial pleasures such as junk #food or immediate mental gratification.

Coherence of identities => happiness In the modern world, any person contains different #identity structures, e.g. farmer, husband, Christian. Each identity structure is a bundle of a view of the world, a view of the self, social #relationships and #values. #Happyness can be found in the recognition, unfolding and alignment of your multiple identities. This is called "identity coherence".

How to determine value? The #value of a piece of #information, a #relationship or material #possession is a function of its contribution to your life's #objectives.

You don't need #sugar in your #nutrition. It's just a substance that clouds your thoughts, distancing you from your #authentic self.

Dissatisfaction is a creative state. #Dissatisfaction will get you to reach higher. Dissatisfaction is a creative state. It is the #spiritual essence within us seeking expression through us. -Bob Proctor

Is #life about the journey or the destination? It's both. The destination should be a dynamic, actually unattainable #goal related to the perfection of #body, #mind and #soul. The journey should be about the liveliness of continuous unfolding, connections, discovery and emotions - happy and sad.

Do you eat to live or do you live to eat?

Whenever you face a #decision, don't make it based on where you are right now, but based on the human you want to become. #motivation

The #soul is the master, the #brain is the servant - not the other way around.

An #idea is thought directed towards #purpose. And no #force is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Since 1973 the petrodollar has anchored the US dollar to oil. In this system, oil importers such as Japan, Europe or China need #dollars to buy #oil. The price of oil in dollars is thus equivalent to the dollar's international purchasing power. As long as this purchasing power is stable, it is prudent to store trade surpluses in US treasuries for later oil consumption. Any dollar-demoninated price increase of oil, e.g. via depletion of oil fields or sanctioning of Russia, however, increases motivation to sell treasuries and move to alternative assets such as #gold or #bitcoin. This would destabilize the financial system because interest rates on treasuries would rise which would to collapse in an overindebted dollar system. Great interview with Luke Gromen on What is Money?

Moved from iOS to #GrapheneOS. Prison walls were high but not insurmountable. #Freedom.

#nostr can be used as a lightweight interface between web applications. We can build a #free Internet that outcompetes the legacy monopoly-controlled data silos. Insightful reflection by @jb55 on https://whatismoneypodcast.com/episodes/nostr-and-the-future-of-social-media-with-will-casarin-wim359. (hear last 7 minutes for details) #grownostr

#Benchmark of #ChatGPT in different university entrance #exams compared to humans. What does this mean for your #business or #job?

Visual Capitalist

How Smart is ChatGPT?

We visualize the performance of ChatGPT in various professional and academic exams, highlighting the improvements of GPT-4 over GPT-3.5.

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The #blockchain trilemma - you can only have two of three. Bitcoin solves security and decentralization perfectly on #layer1. That is why everything else is a #shitcoin.

We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to #nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves. -Andy Goldsworthy #grownostr

The weakness of Western #liberalism is its interpretation of #history as an unquestionable process liberating the individual from social constraints. Ultimately, this leads to self-destruction of its #social and #economic system. #grownostr

#[1]​‘s reasoning why Bitcoin must rise in a nutshell: (1) #Technology drives down prices to the marginal cost of production, i.e. we live in a deflationary world. (2) #Deflation is not measurable from inside the ever-inflating #fiat #bubble. The wealth increase becomes visible though when divided by 21 million. #Bitcoin rises.

Don‘t be afraid. #AI is neither sentient nor #conscious. Rather, it is a natural language interface to a compressed database of humanity‘s #knowledge. #grownostr