They have some good Bitcoin content, not least their Basics series, and I don't mind their rough language etcetera, but they lost me as a listener the other day when they, in addition to similar things earlier, described their plan to trick a colleague who was getting married that the firehouse had a swingers club, and goad him into wanting to go... Sure, I have no clue about their personalities, and cultures differ, but in my opinion, people trying to shame their colleagues are not people whose ads I want to listen to. (I would almost consider suicide if I was tricked like that and fell for it, and definitely quit the job instantly even if I didn't, I wouldn't want to work with such people)

Fire pit season.

Take a break from the nonsense.

Play some #tennis.

Violence is their product.

And Bitcoin sucks the soul out of violence.

Agreed. One of the few podcast of any topic that I listen to every episode.

I'm down in LA for Pacific Bitcoin. If anyone else is down this way, please come say hi if you see me over the next few days!

I normally keep my Uber rides under 45 mins. But for a few reasons I ended up just getting a two-hour Uber from an airport the other day.

The driver was nice but was like, “damn lol I hope Uber pays me well for this”. The issue with long rides is that the Uber driver is far away after the ride in a new territory and has to try to earn rides back to their normal location. He asked if he could at least stop for coffee or something and I said of course.

So we go for a while and eventually pull over over at a convenience store and he goes to get some coffee and a snack. I go out and get a coffee too and then I pick up his tab and pay for both of us. Uber ended up calling both of us for a health check because the car was stopped.

Buying him a coffee opened him up a bit so we talked for a while. He asked where I was coming from and I said Egypt, and he said he was from Ghana. While chatting and me explaining why I am coming from Egypt, he made a great point that in many places outside of the US, family is a big deal whereas in the US, it is much diminished. And as a result, it’s very important to build connections with neighbors and coworkers in place of that. Even just tell people “good morning” if you usually see them on the way to work so that people know who you are. He came to the US alone four years ago so that is something he describes having learned and a strategy he is using.

Anyway as we pulled up to my destination I gave him an unusually big tip to compensate any inconvenience or unpaid time he might have getting back. A few mins later my doorbell rang and he had come up to say was super thankful for the big tip. The Uber algorithm had kind of screwed him over and the trip price (and thus his share) was low for the hassle, and he felt screwed over by Uber, but then he saw my tip which instantly fixed it.

I should have checked to see if he had a lightning wallet or tried to convince him to download one if not, because then I could have done one of those social media “okay everybody tip this guy” posts. :/

#Bitcoin is the one chance we have to fix the world. If we take unnecessary risks to tweak the protocol and add fancy features, we’re risking another 1000 years of fiat slavery.