Erik Cason

Hard work is the only way to become powerful, both mentally and physically. There are no shortcuts.

Dating apps are like the concentration camps of love. Everyone is forced into a process of selection based upon opaque criteria of ‘worthiness’ that debases and devalues the humanness of the other. Just a few moments of appraisal based upon a superficial projection that is disconnected from any of the dynamism of what love is; it is a synthetic process where love goes to ‘work for freedom’ into its death. It’s where romance goes to die, and becomes a mythology of longing for all… So it’s going pretty well.

"Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it"

Life just kinda of gets progressively more difficult—dealing with death and hardship, difficult traumas and life events, and eventually an ailing body and your own demise. It’s not to say there are not wonderful events and experiences in there, but it generally is an uphill battle. The good news is that as we gain experience through life we generally become more equipped to deal with the onslaught of difficulties and more capable of skillful navigating them; but it really never gets easier, you just become more experienced in dealing with the difficulties.

I’m about 1/3 of the way through this, and I have to say that Karp makes an excellent and compelling argument that has me questioning my own stance and judgment of these issues more than I have in the past decade. Most substantially, I find he has made a compelling argument for the need for Americans to stand for something, and be willing to engage with the messy and convoluted process of trying to rediscover what being American would really mean. If we are to take the idea of a Technological Republic seriously and the need for classic liberal American values to be imbued within that, than we need to take this call very seriously and how we can contribute to it in the most meaningful way possible. nostr:nevent1qqsry3ancxhedmtczk3ln0hhhcztmmxg8p2jfc8zyt37prlcgaje7aspzemhxw309ucnjv3wxymrst338qhrww3hxumnwhy8qhy

The idea of a ‘deep bear market’ with bitcoin in the $80k range is both laughable and ridiculous. Like zoom out and see what is being built. Never has there been a greater opportunity to build substantial and meaningful contributions on top of the most important economic and financial innovation created since double entry accounting itself. There are mountains of capital to be created for those that are willing to put in the hard work and take the risk on building on top of what they believe in.

WTF are we doing with storing huge amount of money on some crappy $150 piece of plastic? Is this really the best we can do?

GM. Let’s make it a great day.

I’ve been trying to actively seek out the arguments against bitcoin again lately, and sadly, I am just seeing all of the same BS rehashed over and over. It’s sad that these people won’t just bend the knee, eat the crow pie, and admit they were wrong and that bitcoin changes everything. This is the real existential angst of what Bitcoin does and is, and it demands that you go through the deepest levels of philosophy and first principals thinking to accomplish it, of which many are unwilling to do; which is why they are either no-coiners or shitcoiners.

The only lack Nostr really has imho are at key times like this where bitcoiners are absolutely dunking on the shitcoiners.

Bitcoin is about big love. The biggest of love towards all of humanity and posterity to come. Supporting it is an implicit statement to all of the world, that even without knowing you, or any identifiable features about you, that you deserve the dignity of a free, fair, open-source money that is controlled by no one, and is open to anyone.