I've lived in the same place for the last 30 years. And in those decades I have visited dozens of countries both for business and for fun. The comfort and familiarity of home is always nice to return to, yet I constantly seek out opportunities to visit unique destinations. The most important thing I've learned from interacting with people from cultures different from my own is that sometimes those differences matter, very much so, but most often they do not. It is the humanity we all have in common that matters the most.

Unless it fell out of the sky into your open hands, every good you value in life is the result of the efforts of some other person or group of persons collaborating to produce it from where it did not exist before, and has been offered to you in trade for some other thing of value. It is this way that people can come together, voluntarily, to produce abundance greater than the sum of their individual abilities. To claim you are *entitled* to the product of the labor of anyone else is to claim he or she is your slave, and you must act with deception or force to take what is not offered to you. The difference between wealth and poverty in a society largely depends on the willingness of people to respect these boundaries, to learn how to collaborate and build, and to peacefully go separate ways when this is not possible.

GM ☕ Never have twelve words been worth so much.

GM ☕ It's nice to see old friends and acquaintances popping up here. As a child of the 70s I grew up when you didn't have a "digital home". But when you moved to a new place, it was almost if you had died in the old neighborhood and were born again in the new, making all new friends. I ditched Twitter at the acquisition and arrived here not much after, finding a lot of new faces, an exceptionally vibrant energy, and a return to many of the themes (and memes) of the older bitcoin community that got crowded out in the hellscape that Twitter had become. I had moved to a much better neighborhood! Oddly, though, so many of the really interesting people I interacted with there seemed content to stay. So it was again like that childhood experience of letting go of the old and embracing the new. Recently, however, there has been a steady drip of refugees arriving, among them people I had either lost contact with or just old familiar names it was nice to see again. Anyway, this was a long-winded way of saying hello (and GM) to the newcomers, come on in, the water is fine. 😄

I am not diabetic nor do I have any out-of-normal blood chemistry (no high cholesterol, etc.), and exercise frequently. But I *am* overweight, and not by a little. A few weeks ago I started a strict ketogenic diet. In support of this, I started using a continuous glucose monitor that provides a reading every 15 minutes. This is a complete game changer! The ability to see how food, sleep, stress, alcohol, and workouts all affect blood sugar levels makes fine tuning one's diet and daily activities very easy. It's not just for diabetics (except in the eyes of health insurers, who don't cover it otherwise.)

GM ☕ Nothing like the feeling of a morning coffee, a fresh editor window, and a new idea.

Satoshi wept.

Pro tip: When the comet arrives, be the mammal, not the dinosaur.

Voting is deliberate consent to the outcome, explicitly granting your sanction to the status quo and the system of threats and force against you and others that back it up. It is difficult to argue against the injustices stemming from the people ruling over you when you have participated in and perpetuated the very thing that gives them oxygen.