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The Conscious Contrarian challenges conventional wisdom to uncover new, more attuned principles and perspectives for navigating the future.

Bugonia is another Lanthimos masterpiece

Yep, I've never been to the country but as an onlooker there is always this subtle feeling that something is off.

Does anyone voluntarily use Microsoft 365 over Google Workspace?

This chart sheds light on why BTC hasn't caught up with M2. The expansion of global M2 is largely due to the expansion of Chinese credit (not QE) and hence not associated with an increase in Central Bank assets or necessarily an effect on markets like Bitcoin that are highly sensitive to liquidity

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Grund: Expansion von M2 in China durch Bankkreditvergabe (ohne QE)

Anyone in #London interested in going to the Real Bedford game on Saturday? CC nostr:nprofile1qqs2auxkkgfgylem580xrztp8ek5sf83s86k0vfq2feuz6y4lkhskgcpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mq357ul7

Reading Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “1929” about the Black Thursday and the ensuing Great Depression.

Two striking observations about the gold standard at the time:

1) The massive bubble and eventual bist actually happened on a gold standard, in other words Bitcoiners’ assumption that hard money will simply fix everything may be too optimistic. Chat GPT’s thoughts on the reasons below

2) Despite 1), gold of course massively outperformed during the crash, resulting in FDR’s executive order to abolish private gold ownership. In that scenario Bitcoin ownership would arguably be far more difficult to abolish.

Overall, it’s a very good read with a lot of echoes with today.

Curious about any more thoughts and insights!

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The key sentence summarizing this mindset is: “I must have thought that by 50 something magical would have happened”

It’s literally magical thinking

This may be an excellent time to buy Square stock. The stock seems poised to catch up with the other big Tech titles once it breaks out of that channel. Especially now that we have that Bitcoin backwind with a real opportunity to disintermediate Visa/Mastercard in the long term. CC nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qzvmhwden5te0demkxtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0v9uhv6nvv45kcmtcxpskcdm2xfc8zapjx3ck2ep30gmkzwrn03jjx3 wdyt?