"Arguably, in expectation, a dentist is considerably richer than the rock musician who is driven in a pink Rolls Royce, the speculator who bids up the price of impressionist paintings, or the entrepreneur who collects private jets. For one cannot consider a profession without taking into account the average of the people who enter it, not the sample of those who have succeeded in it." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness)

"Now the civil servant called the trades that ended up as losers “gross mistakes,” just like journalists call decisions that end up costing a candidate his election a “mistake.” I will repeat this point until I get hoarse: A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness)

GM! And gfy 🇺🇸 😘 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

"One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England." (George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier)

"The energy scientist Vaclav Smil [has calculated](

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Dr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fund...

that fertilizer from the Haber–Bosch process is responsible for about 40 percent of the world’s dietary protein. Roughly speaking, this is equivalent to feeding 40 percent of the world: about 3.2 billion people. More than three billion men, women, and children — an incomprehensibly vast cloud of dreams, hopes, and fears — owe their existence to two obscure early-twentieth-century German chemists and the fertilizer industry they spawned." (Charles C. Mann, Breakfast for Eight Billion)

I have two paintings from @🟠 isolabellart . They are amazing. Original art is like a window into the artist’s world. It’s something to treasure for generations. View quoted note →

"A strategy is a way through a difficulty, an approach to overcoming an obstacle, a response to a challenge. If the challenge is not defined, it is difficult or impossible to assess the quality of the strategy" (Richard Rumelt Rumelt, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters)

"My life feels remusicked since my own little Exodus journey began. It turns out the experience of desire is shaped by the object of your desire. If you desire money, your desire will always seem pinched, and if you desire fame, your desire will always be desperate. But if the object of your desire is generosity itself, then your desire for it will open up new dimensions of existence you had never perceived before, for example, the presence in our world of an energy force called grace." (David Brooks, Faith Is Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be - The New York Times)

Roses are red Bananas are yellow Nostr is cool So chill and so mellow GN ✌️

"The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy." (Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front)

I don’t think this is right. These apps are an escape hatch, built on an open protocol. They need to be good enough to allow creators to access the protocol. But more important than the apps are the creators that use nostr. Adding value to the protocol means that other walled gardens can’t ignore it. They need to use nostr to feed the machine of their business. Eventually, hopefully, enough people will realize that freedom comes from open-source social media apps. I don’t think it’s necessary that Amethyst be a better app than Twitter. View quoted note →

Definitely check out @Kagi if you haven’t already. This is a great new feature. View quoted note →

"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)