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My latest newsletter, #Bitcoin Tech Talk #336 is up! Excerpt below:

1. The Case for Staying Put - I’ve been traveling for the past 6 months so this was an interesting article for me to read, about the virtues of familiarity and how weak ties are a necessary part of a communal life. The disconnectedness that we all feel is largely due to this phenomenon of not having enough weak interactions. One aspect that I thought was enlightening is that most people only improve a house in a way that enhances resale value. This is a function of real estate being a store of value. In a deep way, finding meaning requires us to value things in non-monetary ways.

2. Why Weddings - Along the same lines, this is an article about the intangible benefits of a wedding. I’ve been a fan of weddings and encourage people thinking about them to have one. As the author discovered, he thought it would be a waste of money and found out that it contributed something much deeper to his life than he imagined. We’re very used to valuing things only from a monetary perspective because of the hold that fiat money has over us. But as this article shows, there’s value to be found that’s not monetary and it’s those things that are often the most meaningful.

3. Organized Fun - I guess that makes it three articles in the same genre, that of disconnectedness in modern society. This one is on the proliferation of ā€œorganized funā€ or the structuredness of leisure that’s now so common. The article is pretty cynical, but makes some good points about the monetization of peoples’ boredom. In a way, the proliferation of these things reflects the much higher bar for entertainment people these days have.

https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-336

weddings often lead to horrible divorce experiences making people lose everything they worked for in life. Why do we need a contract between love? A written contract that plants a bad seed from the get go.

Go all in before CBDCs are forced upon us. #bitcoin Stack Now

ChatGPT is great and horrible at the same time. We need a ChatGPT that is decentralized. ASAP

Bitcoin is money by the people for the people. NO REGULATIONS NEEDED. P2P electronic cash. Remember cash deals? same thing but better, no need to carry a suitcase full of paper. Power to the people.

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Discipline is Saving

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I’ve been taking cold showers for many years now. When I tell most people that, they think I’m crazy. Why subject myself to cold showers when warm showers are available? Why make the act of taking a shower so painful and unpleasurable?

I take cold showers because they’re uncomfortable. Discomfort is not a bad thing. It’s a good thing if it helps you grow. For me, cold showers are a way to test myself, to discipline myself.

Purposeful Pain

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Discipline makes uncomfortable activities comfortable through purposeful pain. The first time taking a cold shower was horrible and my body was shocked from discomfort. Mentally, it was difficult to handle and I did everything as fast as possible. The next time wasn’t much better, but by the tenth time, it wasn’t so bad.

Each time I took a cold shower, I learned how to handle the cold. More than that, I was learning how to get used to uncomfortable situations. The discipline of handling the cold was creating in me the more meta skill of learning how to discipline myself. I was learning to learn.

I learned for example that there’s joy in the journey. Every skill is frustrating to learn at first because you’re no good at it. But if it were easy at the beginning, it wouldn’t really be a skill. The real value comes at the end of discipline. Discipline, in other words, is saving or investing of time. The pain experienced in the process of learning is time spent now to make time more valuable later. A more disciplined and skillful person is more productive over the same unit of time than a lazy and unskillful person.

Consuming Pleasure

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Indulgence makes comfortable activities uncomfortable through desensitization. Porn, gambling and addictive substances are all more pleasurable at the beginning and have diminishing returns over time. By the end, other disciplines start suffering as laziness or impulsive behavior spreads. Indulgences destroy whatever disciplines you have.

The journey becomes hellish, especially as addiction takes over. The beginning of the journey may be fun, but by the end, addictions exact a heavy toll on your life. Indulgence, in other words, is incurring time debt. The pleasure experienced in the process of indulgence is time stolen from the future. An addicted and less disciplined person is less productive.

This is why for personal productivity, it’s much more useful to eliminate bad habits than to attempt creating good ones. The drain from an addiction of some kind is much more costly than a discipline is likely to help. Disciplines take a long time to mature so require years before the real value is gained. Stopping an addiction, especially cold turkey, is a huge boost to productivity because it pays off time debt.

As with finance, pay off the debt first and then think about savings. Indulgence is debt. Discipline is saving.

you gotta put out your best fight while young. šŸ˜Ž

The only thing we have learned is that corruption rules. #bitcoin!! fix the. money fix the world!!