what is the point of returning the object? also if enough people are relying on it, is it worth considering adding it to the spec?

Even the worlds renowned atheist is saying we need Jesus. What does that tell you? 🤔💭

He is a strange figure in the Bitcoin space. He was supposedly ordered to study Bitcoin from a militarily strategic standpoint or something like that, so he came up with a crazy theory about how Bitcoin is a strategic asset. That all makes sense, but then he goes on social media and promotes his theory to the general public, which is very unusual for a military official to do imo. Not only that, he has a messiah complex about it and relishes in all the attention he's getting. I'm really not surprised he was reprimanded by the military, he was getting way too public for them.

Author proofs so that I can check the details.

The gray stripe is a not-for-resell indicator as an author proof.

Orange circuits grow across the cover, representing the future.

It's kind of a verbal meme, but one of my favorite questions is, "what radicalized you?" Since I'm someone who appeals to moderates with a tempered but purposeful element of anti-establishment fire, it's kind of a notable question.

My first thought is, "well let me tell you about my childhood and why I'm not a huge fan of the state."

My second thought is, "let's talk about the global financial crisis."

My third thought is, "look at the 2016 time period where U.S. fiscal deficits started to wonkishly deviate from unemployment.

My fourth thought, regarding the Current Thing, because nobody wants to go back that far, is, "they replaced a beautiful blue bird with an X and said it would be half of the global financial system."

And that made me angry.

I rarely lose my temper, but whenever I do a couple times per year, my writing gets 10x as much reach and likes and shares, and gets basically immortalized. But I'm rarely happy about it when it does.

I still think about this a lot in terms of how I choose to use social media- with reach comes responsibility.

It's both a bad thing and a good thing. On one hand, it's not great that posts based on a combination of emotion and reason get *way* better reach than ones based on more pure reason alone. For "clicks" the best thing I could do for a given post is lose my temper and go all-out on something.

On the other hand, the rare cases where I lose my temper are based on serious built-up frustrations over months. I'm frustrated about something, keep holding it back, and then something becomes intolerable. My socially-compliant self-censorship all unravels at once, not perfectly, but with a clear aspect of *deep* honesty. And people see that honesty because it reflects their own. So it spreads.

So, most of the time, I write carefully, and I know my audience comes from multiple different backgrounds, literally from Indonesian farmers to Wall Street institutional billionaires, and I try to politely move the Overton window from within the Overton window. But a couple times per year, I lose my temper and post my emotional thoughts, which in some ways are more honest, but are also not exactly my ideal self-actualized self.

I end up being grateful for both my constant attempt at control and my rare tempers, because somewhere in the middle is my truth. That blend between controlled reason and built-up emotion is really hard to manage in an era of digital media and semi-immortalized content.

Anyway, I'll post this random stuff on Nostr, not Twitter. You guys and girls get the real thoughts because you're here.

hot take: too many people riding the fence, myself included.

We need to commit to this thing if we’re going to get out of navel-gazing phase. Communal singleness of purpose.

I’m staying #Nostr only for the rest of the year.

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