Is obsidian walking the blackberry path? It seems to do everything I need except allowing me to run the server side on my own hardware. Am I missing something?

In every new encounter we have the choice of using our intellect and experience to "defeat" the other, or we can use them to find creative solutions together 🍀.

Was thinking about "logic" in biology while reading Nick Lane's book "Power, Sex, Suicide" (ignore the catchy title; it's a great book). Not every logic applied by someone who studies nature is automatically bio-logic. In summary and retrospect, I would say that most of the logic I have used in my years in biology was math, physics, or engineering logic. Very little was truly bio-logic. Nick Lane, by contrast, argues very logically that bacterial design prevented them from growing and evolving the complexity of the higher organisms that surround us today. What I am trying to say is this: determine and address the root question (challenge) in what you do as early and as rigorously as possible.

I have been driving a Tesla Model 3 for 5 years (bought it right after Tesla announced it had added Bitcoin to its balance sheet). A great car, very reliable. But I wonder why Tesla would constantly nag you about driving a little bit too fast, breaking a little too late (like having grandma on the passenger seat), or watching something else for 5 seconds when you are alone on the road, _and_ refusing to re-activate the USD 7k full-self-driving package after ignoring their nanny advice for a few times (happened to a friend). All this while Elon is spearheading sovereignty and free speech. Drove a Taycan the other day just to see that all the nanny functions can easily be switched off using the standard user interface.

It's funny to see people reposting Jack's notes with almost anyone following Jack in the first place.

Bitcoin is counter-culture: leaderless, permissionless, trustless, censorship-resistant, and discussed at an unconference.

In the late 80ies and early 90ties I spent all my time on molecular and cellular biology which earned me a PhD in the natural sciences. This is not a bragging exercise but the preamble to a book recommendation. Granted I studied three decades ago, it is nevertheless amazing how much more clarity and insights I get from Nick Lane‘s books. Had he been my professor then I might never have gone down the software engineering path, might have missed Bitcoin altogether 😬. So, if you have a friend or family member who studies biology - here is the perfect gift 🍀. #biology #mitochondria #energy #life #genesis

I find it both fascinating and surprising how much of the publishing world (including posts and podcasts) is increasingly synchronized daily, with ideas starting with a thought leader on one end of the world and ending with a poll among the people on the other within 24 hours. I admire people who take the time to breed their own ideas to fruition. And I need to remind myself to be more critical of what I read, even if it sounds compelling at first: do I really want to read, digest, and adopt it? Or do I let it pass?

Congratulations to

The Nutty Pill

for winning the Golden Nut in the #nutnovember contest. It's a really cool Bitcoin history and learning app that rewards knowledge with sats.

GM

IMHO, the combination of Nature and Architecture is outstanding here in Melbourne

I am seriously behind with processing my photos, but I have this for you in the meantime🤙

Otway National Park

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Enjoying Melbourne

The investment legend of the last decades is sitting on a record cash balance. What is the next rational move?

Prepare for longer offline journey by downloading podcasts in #Fountain. Go offline. Works for a little while then I am kicked out and need to log back in. Is it just me or is Fountain online only?

Within 15 minutes, we added Bitcoin payments to an existing WooCommerce store using LNbits with the OnchainWallet and SatsPay extensions, offering the option to pay via lightning or on-chain. This is a fantastic display of perfect interplay between standard components 🤙