My conclusion from my conversations this morning is: focus on serving the moment in front of you with sincerity, integrity, and excellence, and leave the rest to unfold as it should.
Siphiwe
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Lover of people.
I’m having amazing conversations this morning that are really stimulating my brain. You’re all just getting the thoughts that spill out afterward without context. I just love beautiful conversations.
We see the immediate “gains” from some grand policy or intervention, but we’re terrible at connecting long-term negative consequences back to their causes. The feedback loops are so delayed and complex that we can’t learn properly from our mistakes at scale.
It’s almost like the most honest answer to most big questions is “I don’t know” but that doesn’t make for compelling leadership or funding or followers. So we get people who are confident about things that are fundamentally unknowable at scale.
The closer and smaller the circle, the more you can actually know what’s needed because you see direct effects, hear real feedback, observe actual outcomes. But as scale expands, you’re increasingly operating on abstractions, theories, models that may not reflect reality.
Everyone thinks they’d be the one who wouldn’t get corrupted by power, wouldn’t fall for the scam, would handle fame better, would be braver in a crisis. But history shows most people are remarkably predictable when actually tested.
Working with Windows again. They should use this to test enlightened yogis. If you can do this work without losing your mind, then we’d know for sure you’re truly enlightened 😆
Family dinner delayed by two hours because I couldn’t stop - just had to solve one more thing, and one more thing. Such is the nature of an obsessive brain.
Thought: Angry outbursts are a form of emotional soothing. People blow up because that’s what feels like it’ll make them feel better in the moment.
People are everything. From my perspective every network that tries to scale faces the same three challenges: getting good people together, helping newcomers break into established circles, and keeping out the value-suckers and disruptors. This is hard, nobody has cracked it yet.
Cheap is expensive. What you save upfront usually costs you way more in time and frustration down the line.
Is it just me? You can be stuck on something forever when you’re forcing it, then walk away and suddenly see the answer. A little pressure sparks creativity, too much suffocates it.
Grateful father🥰
I think people should be careful not to write their memoir/autobiography too early. Nothing worse than publishing your life story only to have your most dramatic plot twists happen the next year. Wait until you’re old enough that the major fuck-ups are behind you.😆
Working on Nostr feels like building something niche that’ll likely be the future default. The freedom to try things, explore, innovate, and just be free is incredible. It’s like being in the wild without nannies - you get to help create safety that can survive the wilderness.
Thank you to the artists, creators, and entrepreneurs who dare to create. Yours is a lonely journey filled with doubt, fear, and adventure. You’re my heroes for standing up and accepting the call. May God (Universe, or Shakti, etc.) richly reward you for your heart’s labour.♥️♥️
There’s something about the moon that hits me in a way I can’t describe. Warm, awesome, humble.
What’s also fascinating about Steve Jobs is that he clearly had some internal insight or timing that drove his decisions, but couldn’t transfer that knowledge to others. So people focus on his behavior instead of understanding what was actually guiding him.
I get the nostalgia for Steve Jobs, but doesn’t that yearning highlight the real challenge? How do you build a company that thrives without its founder? Berkshire, Tesla, SpaceX - they’ll all face this test eventually.
The world is ripe for a rise of dictators. People are looking for a strong man savior to make everything calm. This has hardly turned out great for us in history.