"As time went by, the imagined reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as gods, nations and corporations." (Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens)

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun." (George Orwell, The Road To Wigan Pier)

"But my mind clung to my wife’s image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look was then more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise. A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love." (Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning)

"The advertisements which bees find useful are flowers – and if you think about it, a flower is simply a weed with an advertising budget." (Rory Sutherland, Alchemy)

"whenever a generous impulse arises in your mind—to give money, check in on a friend, send an email praising someone’s work—act on the impulse right away, rather than putting it off until later" (Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks)

Wow it’s so easy. Time to short ASML and TSMC.

"For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself." (Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning)

"Like the human brain, the market economy is an information processing system." (Dan Davies, Lying for Money)

Better to have more bitcoin in the hands of the people than in the hands of government. View quoted note →

We need a shareholder motion to rename Microsoft to Soft. View quoted note →

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You can take the model out of China, but you can take China out of the model.

The good old days 🥲

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Happy Friday

Two years on nostr! Here’s my first note. Maybe sent from @Damus? It’s been awesome seeing this place grow. 🍻 View quoted note →