So many things are contemplated and executed while drunk with a laptop up and your girlfriend is nearby looking at social media falling asleep

Hey chat, it’s been a while. I’m getting back into the rabbit hole that is understanding what web3 is. I’m hoping I can make a difference here with my decade worth of experience and make a living doing it. That’d be awesome. Hacker life (sort of)

Some things are best kept secret.

One’s moral compass always shines at work

I’ve been doing this art direction at a fintech company thing for a month now. Finally downloaded Damus. Time to catch up on some Web 3.0 building tasks.

iCloud cloud storage is such a ripoff… We’ve put too much trust into Apple’s ability to do everything

Tim Kaine, what a cunt. Cameron, Britain’s former PM, visits DC and then a bill is passed making sure US won’t leave NATO if a president wants it to. What is it with US, Britain’s former PMs and NATO.

We need to make sure that Hawaii is included in the NATO accords or leave NATO in favor of better alliances.

This place is more me

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Financing national ambitions A critical aspect of financing national ambitions and global strategies is ensuring that lenders have the capacity to repay loans. The decisions made by the Obama and Biden administrations regarding Ukraine provide a case study in the complexities of such financing. They banked heavily on Ukraine, underestimating Russia's readiness to secure resources in the South and East of Ukraine. The Western part of Ukraine, which remains under Ukrainian control, holds less economic value compared to the resource-rich areas now part of Russian Federation. This miscalculation can cost us big. How can a nation navigate its financial commitments in the volatile world of international politics and conflict? One extreme option is to default on debts, which, while offering a temporary reprieve, is a strategy fraught with long-term consequences. Defaulting on debt can only realistically be done once, as it severely damages a country's creditworthiness and international standing. Biden’s admin, having put sanctions on Russia, a key member of BRICS, has shot itself in the foot. We’ve showed the whole world our cards and no one wants to play any more. In essence, the situation highlights the need for careful, strategic planning in geopolitical investments and the lousy display on behalf of Democrats when it comes to geopolitics. It serves as a reminder that in the high-stakes game of international finance and politics, bets are costly, and the outcomes can have far-reaching consequences for a nation's economic health. Get your own shit in order, so to speak.

Financing our empires is only possible when the lenders are capable of paying our loans back. Obama, Biden et al. made a huge mistake betting on Ukraine thinking Russia wouldn’t take the resources in the South and in the East. And the West of Ukraine is useless. US is losing money on a bad bet and it doesn’t have much left. There’s always an option to default on our debt, so it’s not like we’re screwed, but that’s only possible to do once.

Snowden’s passport being annulled is unconstitutional. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States

Getting back into work mode. One (albeit small) step at a time.

It’s been a while since I’ve been so excited about technology. Perhaps spending 4 out of last 6 years in corp world and in space/military industry at Blue Origin did the trick. I wasn’t paying much attention. I like the promise, the vision and the romanticism of web3. The timing is also very right with the world trying to reinvent itself amidst a risk of a global conflict. God is great.

I’ve recently been thinking about buying MSFT and AMZN. (Google and Apple - not so much.) I’ve had shares of these companies for a while yet the more I observe the markets and where things are going the more I see these two as no-doubt winners. Been thinking about McDonalds and Starbucks too. But I’m not too happy that the two left Russia, so I’m undecided… That being said, I do appreciate the fact that I want to go all indie, open-source. At Angel’List’s conference last night in SF, Naval was talking about knowledge being scarce. Loved that thought. MSFT and AMZN own networks. The more we use their products the less knowledge we can get by with. Not cool

Life is a kaleidoscope of reflections and derivatives.

I must say, this whole decentralization - web3 - stick it to the man - mr robot - thing feels cool. At the very least it’s romantic. But it could actually change the world for the better. After all, we do live in a fractal universe and patterns tend to repeat themselves elsewhere. When I lived in DC, I wrote myself a reminder to get rid of Apple’s hegemony. I guess my question is, what out there is considered a decent decentralized browser? Firefox? Opera? I currently use Chrome, Yandex and Safari. But they’re all owned by corporations…

Hello. My name is Ivan. Not eye-van, rather ee-wuhn. I am a Russian and I am an American. Does this thing has a character limit like Twitter? I’m glad this protocol exists. I guess I need to read up more about it, but I think I understand the vision behind this kind of tech. I like it. A protocol instead of a corporation. It’s kind of like a constitutional republic compared to a monarchy… What would happen to Twitter if something were to happen to Musk…

It’s 12:23 AM in Moskva, Russia. Listening to Elon Musk on Fridman’s podcast and downloading Watch Dogs Legion. Life right now feels like a reboot.