Been waiting to see you show off the tools you’ve been building. Really enjoyed seeing what you’ve made, how you built it, and why.
I’ve been on a similar journey, but with your experience and knowledge, you’ve managed to push much further and faster.
If you ever get time, I’d love to see a blueprint of the systems you’ve built, or even a video documenting your AI coding journey. I think that would be super insightful.
Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.
He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.
Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.
Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.
Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.
Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.
Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.
The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.
A number of great accounts popping up
1. @UKGovscan - Independent transparency project.
2. @GreatBritishTT - Data-driven analysis of UK gov spending.
3. @UKDecline - Keeping track of the UK's spiralling decline statistics.
4. @HoTPOfficial - Vote on every bill and law ever debated in Parliament.
Send others you know of, I am keeping a list.
Pimp and share - data is a weapon.
QBridge IPO: Completed.
After two years of waiting, Qubic’s connection to Ethereum is no longer coming, it’s here.
• 92 bidders participated
• Final share price: 810,000,000 QUBIC
• Total burned: 547,560,000,000 QUBIC (estimated)
• ~0.4% of circulating supply removed in a single event
That’s done. Now it moves.
IPO complete. What’s next:
QBridge goes live on April 2nd.
Shares become tradeable.
Qubic starts connecting outward.
The chain that started with AI just opened its door to Ethereum.
"We equip children to teach themselves. You enter the room and can acquire knowledge independently—like rabbit-holing into Bitcoin."
@LinaSeiche on building 500+ classrooms designed for curiosity, not compliance.
Full Episode:
Rumble: https://t.co/8L3HeNyDQM
YouTube: https://t.co/qdtMVpfRFK
Podhome: https://t.co/nHelKIOBop
Watch BTC dominance.
About to leg down as BTC resets.
With business cycle bottomed and liquidity rising.
Next macro leg up closer than most think.
It’s a big one.
BlackRock just bought $646M of IBIT in one day - biggest purchase in 90 days. Meanwhile retail dumped 47K BTC holders in 72 hours and exchange balances hit 7-month lows. You know what this means: supply shock incoming while weak hands capitulate.
The most successful people I know all have an almost irrational belief that everything will work out
And I just recently learned the word for it: Pronoia.
It means the opposite of paranoia. The belief that the world is secretly conspiring in your favor.
The funny thing about Pronoia is that it's self-fulfilling.
When you believe things will work out, you try harder. You persist longer, and you see opportunities where others see dead ends.
What's that quote again?
"Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." – Nat Friedman
We all need a little more pronoia in our lives.