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Auxmos
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Here to maintain remembrance. As our lives become increasingly digitized, the integrity of our previous selves (digital history) is of utmost importance. I'm prone to forget and I won’t be lied to, so I’m here.
Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

When it comes to analysis, design, or management, a critical and recurring challenge is to be able to:

1) hold two or more competing thoughts in your head,

2) but then not get stuck with decision paralysis,

3) and thus to be able to form a view and take action.

It's easy to fail in either of the first two steps.

For the first step, many people can't steel-man their opponent's view, don't take time to seriously consider competing arguments. This represents tribalism and insufficient critical thought, and has a high likelihood of being wrong. People become easy to manipulate, and where their views end up largely depends on luck of their surroundings and who managed to convince them of something earlier.

For the second step, a smaller subset of people get past the first step but then get stuck in decision paralysis or cynicism. There are too many paths, too many compelling and contradictory points. It then becomes a problem of overthinking and thus inaction. It's easier to identify problems than to build solutions, so this valley of inaction is an enticing trap that feels intellectually stimulating but leads nowhere.

The narrow path beyond those two, and what we should strive for, is to be able to do enough critical thought to the point where it starts to venture into the realm of decision paralysis, but then find a way to weigh the probabilities and form a conclusion to start taking action on, with the willingness to pivot if evidence/probabilities mount toward a different direction.

Anyway, happy Christmas Eve.

🤝❤️

Is the devils ability to offer the world to Jesus (Matthew 4:1-11) evidence of his ownership of the world? 🌍

What if he was offering the world to Jesus in the same sense that commercial banks offer loans to individuals?

The implication would be that he has the ability to offer the world to Jesus (aka. offering a loan), but there is a sense in which he doesn’t really have (ownership of) the world to begin with.

🤔

#Jesus

#Bitcoin

“If you care about your Bitcoins you need to care about Bitcoin as well. If you don’t care about Bitcoin itself then ultimately your bitcoins might become worthless.”

-Bitcoin Mechanic

#Bitcoin

People always say they’re the “class of” whatever year they first bought Bitcoin, but I think it’s more appropriate to say you’re the “class of” whatever year is your 4th year in BTC. (One whole halving cycle)

It better reflects the heart behind the “class of” camaraderie 👨‍🎓

That collective sense of “we made it through” together 🫂

Here’s to my graduating class 🤝

#ClassOf2024