Social anxiety sucks. Even when you feel welcome and appreciated you still feel scared.

Christianity is astrology rewritten with human characters

I've never read an article or book that saved me from making mistakes as a manager or a founder. The scenarios I seem to bump into are usually entirely preventable but also very specific. Coming from an engineering IC background (albeit with a marketer's worldview), I have had many shortcomings in managing the procedural aspects of business. I'm less experienced in business modeling, legal, and people operations. I recognized those weaknesses after a startup I had built burned down around me. I've learned a lot about those areas over the last few from many odd mistakes. I am still making mistakes - I made two just this week (that I'm aware of)! Anyway, Founder Mode misses benefits of Manager Mode, and vice versa. As always, the answer is somewhere in the middle.

you can acknowledge the value of a truly scarce asset like Bitcoin without wasting your brain on libertarianism.

Batman: TAS holds up.

everyone wants to be a source of truth. source of truth for this, source of truth for that. fucking game of thrones over source of truth. how about you all just do your jobs, eh? there's value in distributing knowledge.

those of us born roughly 1985-1992 were alive just in time to absorb the unfiltered internet, raw human cognition injected directly into our sensory streams during our developmental ages. as children, we were offline by default. it was not common to own a computer at home. some of us accessed, learned, and created the first computers, the first digital media, digital worlds. as young adults we were first to social media and were able to access p2p tech with little real concern for digital government surveillance. we have since seen the transition from no one has a computer to everything *is* a computer. we are all cyborgs, one way or another. without AI, we had to learn how to think. with the Internet, we had all of humanity's information organized into accessible graphs, but had to stitch the world model together ourselves. now that we have AI, the outpouring of our souls are instantly magnified intellectually, our outputs multiplied at a moment just before the creative capabilities of humanity expand exponentially. our own creative capabilities are multiplied and we will become the social and political rulers of the new digital continent. we hold the keys to human history in our memories of purely human experience. we will be the last humans to retain any memory of the pre-computer era. we are the first to lead into digital nativism.