We all know… First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. But what we might not have expected is that “then they fight you” has been swapped for “then they co-opt you”.

I’m convinced that an “anger problem” isn’t a problem with too much anger, it’s a problem with misplaced and repressed anger. Anger is a defensive emotion. When anger is needed but suppressed it just builds and builds until it explodes all at once. “Angry” people are people who don't need to learn to be less angry, but who need to learn to be angry more frequently, in smaller doses, where it is actually needed. *in general of course.

New favorite song, Lily Allen - Fruityloop "It is what it is. You're a mess. I'm a bitch. Wish I could fix all your shit. But all your shit's yours to fix..." It's a thing most of us know intellectually. You can't fix someone. You fix you, they have to fix their own shit. We know, but holy shit is this one hard to actually do!

I couldn't find a gender neutral cartoon figure. All of them were very flat and looked male to me. And so I made one! Meet Jamie, an actually gender neutral cartoon figure.

I'm completely obsessed with Dunbar's number! How many of the issues we currently face are simply because we all have instincts for living in small packs of 100-200 people, but we now live in metropolises??? (spoiler: a lot!)

Mockery works great! ...in the short run. But in the long run you are simply helping your opponent to grow their base.

Evolution > revolution Do you want to change who is at the “top” of the current system? Or do you want to create a better, more balanced, system?

People are rarely wrong, they are just missing perspective. If you want to change minds, don’t tell people that they are wrong, with what they are looking at, they probably aren’t wrong. Instead, show them that there is additional data that needs to be added to their equation.

I was a monetary theory nerd before I was a Bitcoin nerd & I love having a front row seat to watch how the evolution of technology expands monetary theory. Do we even have a theory for a multi-asset Lightning Network? What kind of economic theory applies when Alice can pay with whatever unit of account she wants and Bob can receive the money that he likes?!? Trying to guess how this will play out is going to require some more study into the psychology of unit of account, looking at previous examples of competing currencies, and thinking about how increased liquidity and reduced switching costs affects choices. My current thinking is that the network effect will wind up applying to the Lightning Network itself rather than to the specific coin or unit of account. What economic theories do you think apply to a multi-asset Lightning Network?