Of 2024’s Top Performing Stocks, Only Two Remain Positive in 2025 — Both Are #Bitcoin Treasury Firms.

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A new monetary era just began.

people like this dropping dead at 65 hit hard sometimes. most of us assume we'll live to 80-100 but not much is guaranteed after about 55-60.

maybe we need to do what we want to do today. is that high time preference?

This will be also my next iPhone.

What i‘ve learned in addition:

- economy iPhones are best price/value relation

- iphones can be used fine for more than 12-18 months. My 12 Mini is almost 3 years old now.

When you have a kid, you realize all the cliches about having a kid are cliches for a reason; because they’re true.

GM

From the time you decide that you, your wife, your nearly 3 year old boy, and your 3 week old baby are going to get in the car to go pick up coffee and breakfast, to the time you are actually IN the car ready to go… is roughly 1.5 hours. Prepare accordingly.

Truly a master work

An incredibly detailed and well reasoned case for buying altcoins

Every Bitcoiner would do well to read this book

This survey highlights a crucial reality: mass adoption is still far off. While I can’t speak for everyone’s experience, these results align closely with my own social circle, most still remain skeptical. And that’s precisely why we’re so early. The adoption curve follows a familiar pattern: the greatest opportunities exist before the majority understands their value.

I’m raising my children to meet the world they’re going to encounter in thirty years.

I’m not raising them based on the world I grew up in 30 years ago.

I see many parents get this wrong.

Are there still places with vibes anymore? Or did the internet kind of kill it?

I feel like digital spaces have vibes. Nostr has a vibe for sure, but everywhere I go (in America at least) feels flat, steril and homogenous now.

People like to pretend otherwise, romanticizing local charm and it’s fun to do so, but in reality there is no meaningful difference between New York, LA, Chicago, Austin, Miami etc…

The differences feel increasingly superficial. Miami with its neon pink and bad Latin art. New York with its identical minimalist cafes selling identical oat lattes. These aren’t cities anymore, they’re brands. “Keep Austin Weird” feels less like the rallying cry of a bohemian collective and more like a safe corporate brand slogan.

It wasn’t always like this. Cities used to incubate true subcultures that couldn’t thrive anywhere else. Seattle once had grunge music emerging organically from local clubs, distinct in sound and attitude. Detroit was a birthplace for techno and industrial grit that couldn’t have been manufactured. New Orleans had jazz clubs and vibrant local traditions that permeated every street corner authentically. Before the internet collapsed distances, you could sense deep authenticity upon arriving somewhere new. The vibe wasn’t something designed by marketing departments; it was organically woven into the streets, the people, the music, and local myths.

Now, vibes feel engineered and commoditized, reduced to Instagrammable moments and easily replicable aesthetics. I once watched from the balcony of my hotel in Nashville as 200 women waited in line to take the same stupid picture with the same stupid set of angel wings.

Digital spaces, ironically, have become refuges of uniqueness, fostering communities unburdened by geographical homogenization. Platforms like nostr host unique niche communities, from hyper-specific gaming bitcoin cultural milieu to obscure philosophical discussions, that retain genuinely distinctive vibes.

Perhaps we’re now entering a strange inversion, where real-world spaces chase digital popularity, adopting blandness to maximize broad appeal.

In this inversion, digital worlds might become the primary spaces where unique vibes survive, thrive, and multiply—leaving our physical world as little more than a flattened reflection of what used to be.

Nostr is where the vibes are at.

Sometimes I get spun up about this or that.

And have to remind myself that there are a lot of things wrong in the world and some of them are above me.

I’m focused on my family and I’m focused on bitcoin.

And honestly that’s enough.

If we get Bitcoin right it will make fixing the other things easier.

Yeah his Mistborn series is considered to have somewhat weak prose for an author of his caliber. Unlike say Rothfuss or Jensen.

Spending a few hours tonight going through my fiction writing and seeming where I can change passive voice to active voice, like removing was/were wherever possible. A bunch of tiny little sentence tweaks to tighten up the prose.

One of my early run-throughs was to search for "ly" and see what percentage of adverbs I could eliminate by using stronger or more precise verbs. And now this run through is meant to increase the ratio of active voice.

As a benchmark comparison, Brandon Sanderson used the word "was" as about 1.2% of his words or less in the Mistborn trilogy, whereas I found it to be 1.5% of my fiction writing.

Stack #Bitcoin.

Live simply.

Be humble.

Say less.