Turning 40 was nothing.
But 50 hits different.
You start to reflect on life. What really matters? How does it all add up?
Let me tell you what feels good… and also what doesn’t.
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Imo, crypto now going through something vaguely like post-2000 tech crash. We proved modest product market fit in several areas, but A. Products and infrastructure need to be much better to truly cross chasm to mainstream. B. And adoption is ~5 years behind where some hoped. /1
During the Bush and Obama eras I felt like I was very much in tune with, and part of, coastal urban educated liberal American culture.
Since the Trump era, I've felt increasingly alienated from that culture.
Some mantras for political thinking:
Truth is hard.
Humility is hard.
Independent thinking is hard.
Resisting tribalism is hard.
Over and over, you will forget that these things are hard, and that's probably when you'll fail at them.
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Today, Elon tweeted this diagram by @SwipeWright, which sums up how a lot of people (including me) feel. Then a bunch of ppl responded w/ graphs showing that Republican politicians have moved farther right in that time than Dems have moved left. Here's what I think is happening:
Florida has passed legislation that will now make it mandatory for all high school students to take a class on financial literacy before graduation.
That's fantastic, and every other state should do it also.
What about the 2/3 of Americans who didn't go to college? Why is their debt less important? Why continue to lend if the debt is so toxic it must be cancelled 🤔 So regressive.
Within the last few weeks, we’ve seen the problems with financial censorship and devaluation take center stage in the world, from Russia and Ukraine to Canada.
Nothing has highlighted more the need for Bitcoin as independent money enabling individuals to be their own bank 1/x
There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
Look around your environment.
Rather than seeing items as objects, see them as magnets for your attention. Each object gently pulls a certain amount of your attention toward it.
Whenever you discard something, the tug of that object is released. You get some attention back.