We grew up thinking the internet would be a permanent archive, but whole digital realms can vanish in a moment. Buy physical media, listen to albums on vinyl, write longhand, collect books. The joys of tangible existence are something that no one can take from you.
Crowdstrike have advised that the world will be reverted to its last valid backup set, dated 7 Jan 2014, within the next 30 minutes. Please make paper notes of anything important to you from the intervening period, and tape them to your refrigerator door in a prominent position.
This is incredible:
The Magnificent 7 has erased a combined $1.1 trillion of market cap over the last 5 days, the most since the 2022 bear market.
This marks the 3rd largest drop in market cap on record.
By comparison, the worst 5-day stretch occurred in May 2022 when the group lost a whopping $1.3 trillion.
Over the last 5 days, Nvidia, $NVDA, alone lost ~$418 billion in value and fell below $3 trillion for the 1st time since June 24th.
To put this into perspective, Nvidia has lost nearly DOUBLE the market cap of the entire value of AMD's, $AMD, stock.
Market volatility is back.
Japan is planning to loan $3.3 billion to Ukraine from FROZEN Russian assets.
This is how the international monetary system changes quickly.
Countries are watching around the world.
You deserve someone who still knows how to talk to you when they're angry, someone who respects you in all states of mind, someone who understands that it’s you and them versus the problem, not you versus them.
The result of childhood trauma is a mind that can’t be present. It’s a constant hypervigilance around who will betray you, abandon you, or what crisis is coming that you can’t control.