TRUE WEALTH (2nd Ed) Worriless sleeping Clear conscience Reciprocal gratitude Absence of envy Foamy coffee Crusty bread Inexperienced enemies Frequent laughs No meals alone No gym classes Gravel bicycling Good digestive functions No Zoom meetings Periodic surprises Nothing to

We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. —David Clark, 1992

I think he could become the number one designer in China 😂😂😂

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Some spend life chasing the perfect wave. Others become the reason someone else finds theirs

Shohei Ohtani has officially put together the greatest athletic performance of our lifetime. 6 shutout innings, 10 strikeouts & 3 HRs We’re watching the greatest baseball player of all-time

Shohei Ohtani's 10 strikeouts and three home runs in chronological order

Peter Schiff celebrating a 2x return that took 15 years to achieve

It's easier to innovate when you're the original of something. People copying you can only copy a snapshot of your current state. They don't know which aspects of the snapshot are essential and which are random things you'd been about to change anyway.

“There is no innovation without speculation. No electric vehicles, no Covid vaccines, no OpenAI. No Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX or Moderna. No railroads in the 19th century or internet in the 21st. Every one of those started with a bet — sometimes one that seemed absurd at the time.”

Tired of shills? So is Nick Tomaino 😤 ‘99% of guests just sell narratives. Buy BTC, buy ETH, use products.’

Why do the PhD’s all work for the MBAs? 🫣

Fight Club was booed when it premiered at the 1999 Venice Film Festival. Edward Norton remembers it “got booed hard.” and organizers walked out. During the backlash, Brad Pitt turned to Norton and said: “That’s the best movie I’m ever going to be in.”

Reminds me of one of my all-time favorite posts – ‘You Are Not Late by Kevin Kelly’

There’s 0% chance the government pays off the national debt. There’s 100% chance the debt overload causes Bitcoin and Gold to go higher and higher.

not to dunk here but this is a good learning point for non-technical folks in crypto the reason the underlying infrastructure (L1 vs L2) matters is that L1s like Solana are, in theory, more resilient than single servers like most L2s

for the first time (in a long time), it feels like the leading crypto narratives are based on *real* things: real revenue, real products, real use-cases. honestly refreshing.

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