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Building "Brian", my first brain in silicon Fully vested Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Former, failed, Chief VLOG Officer Former Chief Shitpost Officer - NOSTR Inc. Node runner - Miner - Author My public relay: https://nortis.nostr1.com/ My book: https://mikehardcastle.com/my-book-why-bitcoin/

Ego is the absolute worst, but we all have it, including me.

I sometimes indulge it, but most of the time I'm in control of it.

And it's not just companies, a lot of people that NEED Bitcoin fail to consider it and shut their mind down to it.

This meme is a perfect reflection of what I deal with daily, now I'm a fully out and proud Bitcoiner

I know I spend so much time driving the new world, I sometimes forget I come from an old world.

Sadly my peers are so disconnected from this world, even the people I work with in their 20's and 30's struggle to understand what I'm explaining to them.

WTF Maths literally describes the universe, both observable and quantum

Shit, the world really has changed, I call it joined up writing and the concept of thinking of this as a thing is extremely weird.

I almost never write on paper, but the idea that I couldn’t write a book or just a letter in joined up writing is so alien to me.

I’m in my 50’s BTW

Thank you. I have mostly happy memories and she lived a long good life.

I have a cushion on my chair, I checked here before, that’s decadent, but allowed.

I have nice thoughts tho, in the days of landlines, she would take calls for other family members on a notepad and leave it by the phone. The problem is, she often used shorthand, so we couldn’t read them 😂

Cos of the pump 🤣

Even Brian Armstrong couldn’t stop it

One incident involved a tenants son who wanted to pay me through the agent for a years rent.

The agent was going to take this by credit card (with all the associated fees and issues), but then realised any amount above £15K in the UK required money laundering checks and would incur costs.

The son was based in Dubai and this caused problems. I asked the tenant if his son was a Bitcoiner (being based in Dubai, I thought he might be), which he was, so I gave the tenant a wallet address and his son is going to send me BTC.

The second incident involves a business and confidentially prevents me disclosing this interaction.

Twice yesterday I had to interact with normies trying to get me to do something unbelievably crazy stupid in the legacy fiat system.

I literally burst out laughing in front of them before telling them I’m a Bitcoiner, I don’t have to live in your shitty legacy fiat system.

I walked off.

They were actually quite nice, intelligent people who actually understood how stupid the things they were asking me to do, but thought stupidity was normal.

Replying to Avatar Doog

I've been sleeping on this. I think this is in large part because the kind of goals you are encouraged to set or seek—like some many other things in modernity—are kind of warped. Additionally people are not really trained or encouraged to think and reflect on what is truly best for themselves—more cynically maybe many simply do not have this ability.

Modern society says "Get an education, Buy a house, live the American Dream" (if you're in the US) as if these things are universal things that are garunteed to give everyone fulfillment. It's all based on the notion that people are the same (i.e. equal). Turns out people are not the same, across almost any axis.

People have different strengths, different weaknesses. The things that will give them meaning and fulfillment are different. A Billionaire will be driven by different forces than someone in the middle class, the lower class, or under class. Some people are driven to achieve, some to earn money, others by power, other still to live a life of purely seeking pleasure. They should be allowed to do so. It is a mistake to try to put everyone in the same box, to desire the same things, or to think the same, or even speak the same. They should be allowed to be what they are and they should not be changed to be something they are not.

For myself: I wanted a nice car, to own a home, to earn a really good salary. I have done all of those things, and while it did feel good for a time, they were ultimately empty achievements for me. In hindsight, I often wonder if I would have been happier if I had become a carpenter and started a family young instead. Maybe not. I can't change the past, I am where I am.

For any young person reading this: Don't be in a rush to do what everyone else is doing. Don't be in a rush to do what society says is good for you. You have to decide that for yourself. Whatever path you choose, seek to be excellent in it no matter what it is.

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From an older Bitcoiner, enjoy the journey, it is much, much more fun than the destination.

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Did coinbase servers go down cos Larry got fed up buying more BTC at higher prices?

I went all in at $16K, I have no fiat to buy corn