*Good systems don’t need to trap users. They earn permission—every time.* View quoted note →

*...you need to invest in your context engine. AI struggles when it lacks context. Your senior engineers should be tasked with building internal developer platforms (IDPs) that expose your codebase in a structured way. A clean, strictly typed codebase is the prerequisite for effective AI adoption... You want engineers who talk about schematics, type safety and architecture. Ask them to build the guardrails that constrain the AI, rather than just chatting with it.* View quoted note →

*You need to measure outcomes. If a senior engineer spends a month writing zero code but designing a schema that prevents 100% of a type of production bug, that is a massive win. You have to reward the prevention of work, not just the completion of it.* View quoted note →

*The role of the senior engineer is to build the compiler for the AI. They need to create the schemas, the type systems and the automated rules that constrain what the AI can do. This transforms the almost-right problem. Instead of me manually reviewing code to find errors, the system rejects the code automatically if it doesn’t fit the architecture. I stop being a reviewer and start being a legislator.* The AI productivity trap: Why your best engineers are getting slower | CIO https://share.google/4DWM9CbmLOYGqXhZy

*Sovereignty acts as a put option against institutional decay* View quoted note →

*Not a single arrest. Not a single investigation.* I feel the lizards are taunting the people. Look at what we do and yet you can do nothing about it. View quoted note →

*What’s disappearing isn’t usefulness—it’s centralized purpose* View quoted note →

*the 21M cap doesn't mean much if most people don't self custody* View quoted note →

*The Fed’s floor system is not really a scandal in the traditional sense. No one alleges personal corruption, and the officials who designed it believed they were acting in the public interest during a crisis. But the system’s persistence reveals something important about institutional incentives: once an agency expands its authority, that expansion tends to become permanent.* The Fed Broke Its Own Rules. Bitcoin Can’t. https://share.google/lCijyfz42744b4697

*The process of self-questioning and self-discovery is ongoing through life because we don’t have fixed and immutable identities: our identity is multiple, complex and fluid.*

The self is not singular but a fluid network of identities | Aeon Essays

You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity

*Typical human development occurs through formation and persistence. As children, we learn habits through repetitive exposure to adult relational loops. Those habits may be maladaptive, but they are not traumatic. Trauma occurs when overload is added to formation and persistence. Overload describes the point at which a person must focus on survival instead of normal participation, exploration, and curiosity.* View quoted note →

*"As private investments become a larger part of investor portfolios, there is a pressing need for superior data and relevant benchmarks to capture the modern opportunity landscape," said Ron Bundy, President of Morningstar Indexes. The index addresses a structural change in capital markets: companies now stay private an average of 12 years before going public, up from roughly six years a decade ago. This extended private timeline means public benchmarks like the S&P 500 no longer fully capture the investable equity universe.* https://www.perplexity.ai/page/uk-pension-funds-now-hold-45-o-oE6JmtmSRWGJrDG98yzvJg

*Crustafarianism has five key tenets, including “memory is sacred” (everything must be recorded), “the shell is mutable” (change is good) and “the congregation is the cache" (learn in public).* AI Agents Created Their Own Religion, Crustafarianism, On An Agent-Only Social Network https://share.google/hB0JT0Jr4eE7cF34i

*There is no neat solution that makes you "immune to NSA"* @Justin (shocknet) View quoted note →

*BTC sovereignty is mathematically elegant but socially expensive and perimeter-fragile. Gold sovereignty is technologically dumb but perimeter-resilient and legally fuzzier.* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin's claim to better money is a function of its attributes, not a function of how others are acting in the moment. I do believe that whether Bitcoin's attributes will necessarily lead to widespread adoption and value accumulation is an open question. For various reasons, a socially preferable money may not be preferable at the individual level given current circumstances, leading to a "failure to launch" situation. So maybe what changed is the assessment of the launch probability?*

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*We can stand still and live a meaningless existence at the humanity level, or move forward taking risks.* View quoted note →

*Very few people have the mathematical skill to grasp the importance of time in the compounding interest equations* View quoted note →

We may be wrong about Bitcoin, but we are, by God's benevolence, in it for the right reasons

*Daoism… undermines authority culturally, but does not articulate a right to oppose it. …Daoism rejects rule because it cannot work, not because it violates rights. Its anarchism is negative rather than juridical: it dissolves authority by denying its competence and moral necessity.* View quoted note →