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Ripple Labs unveils dishwasher built using their patented $XRP design principles

Happiness is having better problems. Success is having better failures. Discipline is having better addictions. You don’t get rid of the struggle. You upgrade it.

"You will spend 40,000 hours of your life trying to make money; it's worthwhile to spend 100 hours figuring out how to keep it." - Michael Saylor on #Bitcoin

Easy 😌

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing Wall Street the US could reshore its defense industrial base without crushing the real value of the UST market. "And just like that, the purchasing power of your LT USTs in gold and BTC terms...is gone."

After utterly massive outperformance in the years and decades prior, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is about even with simply owning gold since 1998, or about 27 years ago.

The bull case now is more horrific monetary policy.

The S&P 500 is as volatile as bitcoin now

Things in China’s favor: 1. US needs to roll a lot of debt in the first half of 2025. 2. Midterm elections are a risk for Trump if he goes too hard for too long. 3. The Chinese, culturally, are world champions at being willing to endure hardship. 4. China controls a lot of rare…

China invaded Taiwan. That how you should frame this past week. The Trump admin is attempting to re-orient global trade in roughly the same manner that it would if on Tuesday Chinese soldiers landed on the beaches of Hsinchu. They decided to pull forward a hard break to…

I’ll spell it out explicitly one last time. Everyone thinks Trump wants balanced trade. He does not. He wants to force allies to stop trading with China. Completely. Zero inbound supply. Because it’s not just because of American jobs. It’s a proactive move to slow down…

As you scroll, remember that 99.99% of what you see will be forgotten to history. Invest in things that stand the test of time.

I disagree, and here's why. Yes, America is indeed deglobalizing. But China and the Internet are still expanding. And those will be the two poles after the current era. The centralized state, and the decentralized network.

Trinh @Trinhnomics

5 months ago

I disagree, and here's why. Yes, America is indeed deglobalizing. But China and the Internet are still expanding. And those will be the two poles after the current era. The centralized state, and the decentralized network.

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Social media says: do everything, everywhere, all at once. Reality says: focus on doing one or two things extremely well, in one place, consistently, over a long period of time.

fwiw i think the real use case for ai is helping us learn to think like the earth

As far as I can tell, the most notable political science results of the 21st century is democracy cannot work well with low fertility rates. All converge on prioritizing retirees over workers and immigrants over citizens escalating social transfers beyond sustainability.

“There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world.” - Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)

Wow this is so me

the memes we generate shape the future; be careful what you create

@naval I'd say it's laziness. I know lots of proud people who've prospered despite it, but I can't think of many people who've prospered despite being lazy.