Been listening to acoustic covers this week - these guys are so good. This is my current playlist but I love all their covers - they do not disappoint
Georgia's economy is practically a potato trade - you can't tell shit from Shinola with their currency. This is where Bitcoin becomes fundamentally purposeful in peacekeeping - it could introduce a new level of financial clarity and self-sovereignty, letting them trade on their own terms and mind their own business while being friends with all parties.
Never lower your standards to fit in
absolutely. It is the hardest and most important thing of all. And only way to understand your personal bias better is by being curious.
More thoughts - if you are a pawn ♟️, don’t stand behind someone - you get nowhere. Don’t stand in isolation, you are not as effective. Stand next to each other on an adjacent file, you help each other move forward
If you’ve played both sides, you’ll realise that your perspective of opponents from where you are and from the other end is very diff. If you have competitors, might help to put yourself in their shoes and understand their game plan before taking them out
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Curiosity is the strongest countermeasure against bias
Find joy in the little things. It gets too dark, too quickly otherwise
The most remarkable innovations often occur at the intersection of humanity, technology, and creativity.
I love how Bitkey is penetrating a large market segment of common users that’s missed out as Block remains true to its ethos of bridging the underserved. Bitcoin is skirting on the edge of mainstream adoption - that vision and faith and relentless pursuance of creative explorations is now beginning to show rewards. Pretty amazing how Block, despite being a large company has an innovation drive that remains competitive - have read over 50 large companies and many struggle doing exactly what Block thrives in. Block’s growth over the next 10 years is going to be just exponentially wild
lol, I feel it too! I don’t even have a proper bio - it’s been the same since I started. Time for some cleanup!
Was catching up on some tv shows over the weekend, Lincoln Lawyer was good but damn the cars! One of the best things about America are the classic cars. You can’t beat that. I drove a red convertible mustang for a while when I lived there - riding that across the golden gate felt so surreal .
I love fast cars but could never be a racer. Once I followed someone I was dating for a drag race and one of the drivers asked if I would like to sit in the passenger seat for a spin and i said why not. Oh man - my heart just flew out of my body with those corner. I think I held my breath all throughout. Never again.
Watching Gotham garage next. Gotta love the pimping up of classics. I love the synergy of the team and how they problem solve openly - business direction, creativity, sales deals.
If you are overwhelmed with the US elections, catch up on some classic cars. It might remind you of the little things that you love about America again.
Love his sense of freedom in his work, the irony of the article. Each piece disrupts convention yet feels normal. Love those loose pants, asymmetrical skirts. And those dresses - demure yet free, sweet but wild. I’d pick a tank top, culotte over a button down anyday. His menswear is elegant yet chill, there’s a deep personal rebellion yet there is strength in subtlety - you have to have explicable taste to appreciate it. There’s so much to learn from his journey. I also love that his favourite part of the day is his long walks with his dog and time away from work to connect his ideas. But when I’m 80, I hope to be with my grandkids and take long walks with my husband and dogs and not get buried with work.
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The sun is gone, my heart is broken. But I have a light, I have some glue - Kurt Cobain
Thinking of Andrew today. My heart goes out to you and your family
keep the faith
Wrapping up my day with this beautiful book - Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Album. Sometimes we get so caught up with “what’s happening to us” that we forget to see this precious life we have for what it is. Morrie says “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” I’ve read this book many times and while each time it reads differently, this passage has always been my favorite.
Some other lines I love :
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.
If you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too—even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.
Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it
Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others
Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved.
The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.
(In a conversation with a TV host) “Morrie,” Koppel said, “that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?” “You bet,” Morrie whispered.
Everyone knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently .
How can you ever be prepared to die? “Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, ‘Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?’
Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
Even I don’t know what ‘spiritual development’ really means. But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there’s someone who is watching out for them. It’s what I missed so much when my mother died—what I call your ‘spiritual security’—knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame.
If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
Learn to detach. detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.
You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.
We’ve got a form of brainwashing going on in our country,” Morrie sighed. “Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over.
Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
When Morrie was with you, he was really with you. He looked you straight in the eye, and he listened as if you were the only person in the world.
I believe in being fully present
there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don’t respect the other person, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don’t know how to compromise, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can’t talk openly about what goes on between you, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don’t have a common set of values in life, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.
“And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?” “Your belief in the importance of your marriage.”
People are only mean when they’re threatened and that’s what our culture does.
The big things— how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.
Every society has its own problems. The way to do it, I think, isn’t to run away. You have to work at creating your own culture.
Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.
Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hang on too long.
It’s not just other people we need to forgive, We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
“If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing.”
Which is? “Make peace with living.”
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
that's kind of you, its too far ahead to decide. I do have an old guitar and some books for beginners that I am going to start with
