“In summary, be humble, tune out the noise, and stack sats. It’s the simplest, hardest, and most incorruptible path. This is how you beat a system designed to keep you weak, distracted, and dependent.” View quoted note →

“The satoshi unit democratizes access to the strongest store of value ever created.” View quoted note →

“The satoshi unit democratizes access to the strongest store of value ever created.” View quoted note →

“while instant lookup may work well for facts, it’s deadly for comprehension and worse for moral thinking”

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What I learned is that computers fundamentally alter the economics of information. We now have inexpensive access to more information, and to highe...

Fulfilment: pushing the status quo needle, in expectation of improvement Misery: watching the status quo needle, in expectation of degradation

one leading theory is that, when we nap, the brain and the default network clean themselves: a vat of cerebrospinal fluid washes over our brain, washing away toxic proteins that accumulate during our waking hours, including beta-amyloid, a sticky protein thought to be a leading cause of Alzheimer’s disease. Even a single night of sleep deprivation can lead to increased levels of beta-amyloid in the brain. Why Rest is the Biggest Productivity Hack for Your Brain

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Weird and wonderful.

While the S&P has hit new records recently and is currently near an all-time high, Sløk argues the performance boost is due to the rise of the Top 10 stocks. Investors, he worries, are buying the hype and paying prices as if the promises and boasts of these firms (such as trillion-dollar savings and world-changing breakthroughs) are a certainty. The 1990s were a lesson that not every promise would or could become reality. And even though many of those top companies are profitable, compared to the losses of many dot-com darlings, the fundamentals don’t justify the multiples.

Apollo's chief economist warns the AI bubble is even worse than the 1999 dot-com bubble — FORTUNE

"The top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s."

On nostr: something something paper Bitcoin In meatspace: did you catch the game last night?

“If everything is getting more expensive while technology is advancing, someone is stealing from you.” View quoted note →

“Ecash is worth so much engineering effort! Not because it's custodial but because of the freedoms it enables.” View quoted note →

“many of us old timey bitcoiners got into bitcoin specifically for the non-custodial properties. its not that surprising that we are not as excited about it as all the ecash hype people are on nostr.” View quoted note →

Bitcoin transfers wealth from those who dismiss it to those who study it.

“If you can stomach the volatility, you end up with a different kind of certainty.” View quoted note →