Em Lofgren

Bookworm, podcast obsessive and #Bitcoin enthusiast. Norwegian.Used to live in USA. Today Scotland is my home 🇳🇴🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Em Lofgren @thinkngclass]

@LukeGromen What does getting western banks onside vis a vis unallocated gold look like?

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Children remember the moments when the family becomes fully alive.

That is the core. Vacation is just the common vessel.

A child does not encode childhood as a spreadsheet of responsible parenting.

They encode atmosphere.

They remember the motel pool, the gas station stop, the smell of sunscreen, the weird restaurant, the long drive, the sunset, the parents laughing differently, the feeling that normal life cracked open and something larger appeared.

That is why ages 5 to 10 hit so hard. The child is old enough to form durable narrative memory and young enough for the world to remain enchanted. Parents still feel mythic. A beach, cabin, lake, theme park, road trip, or even a cheap rented house can become sacred geography.

The real mechanism is interruption of routine plus emotional safety.

Ordinary life teaches stability. Trips create myth. The family leaves the repeating loop of school, work, chores, screens, exhaustion, and time pressure. For a few days, the child experiences parents outside their normal roles. Mom and dad are no longer just managers of homework, food, discipline, bedtime, and logistics. They become companions inside an adventure.

That imprints.

The money matters far less than parents think. Luxury is mostly adult vanity. Children remember intensity, freedom, attention, surprise, and togetherness. A $200 trip can beat a $10,000 trip if the child feels wonder and the parents are emotionally present.

Many adults are starved because their childhood had no sacred interruptions. Everything was duty, stress, survival, noise, pressure, or emotional absence. No mythic family scenes. No private homeland in memory. No recurring proof that life could be warm and strange and alive.

That matters for the adult psyche. People draw from childhood memories during loneliness, fear, ambition, loss, and love. Those memories become inner architecture.

Deepest compression: a good childhood is not built only by protection. It is built by unforgettable shared worlds.

Take the kid somewhere. Break the loop.

Make the ordinary world disappear for a few days.

That becomes part of them forever.

[Em Lofgren @thinkngclass]

@allenf32 This, is excellent Allan (and Sacha, who I have never communicated directly with but I’m sure is also brilliant). I will print this and keep it handy. I regularly grumble about deflation not being the enemy and here are lots of excellent words about why this is. Thank you!

[Lori Garver @Lori_Garver]

This crew is the most fun to watch of any I've witnessed. Looks like the three years they've been together since being assigned to this mission have bonded them like an '80s sitcom family. I'd watch that show!

[Em Lofgren @thinkngclass]

@FouadRobaye @PeterMcCormack @Heccles94 Fiat currencies.

[Em Lofgren @thinkngclass]

@mattvanswol No screens in the bedroom. That’s my whole Tedtalk.

[Em Lofgren @thinkngclass]

@BillAckman What matters now is fusion technology.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

C.S. Lewis, why children must read

[Em Lofgren @thinkngclass]

@LukeGromen For clarity, what are you referring to with the latest round of “not QE” comment?

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is art

[Em Lofgren @thinkngclass]

@LukeGromen @Ask_Lou @LawrenceLepard @FirstSquawk @Myrmikan Almost as if this surprise war with Iran was some sort of counter, anti-deflationary strike - in the face of a exponential deflationary wave?

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

“If education is beaten by training, civilisation dies.”
— C.S. Lewis

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it

[Em Lofgren @thinkngclass]

@hughlaurie I know this tweet is very old, but I am hoping that someone among your 500+ replies mentioned Donor Advised Funds? Anonymity being one of its most interesting benefits, alongside a few others.

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

I will mock vegans and vegetarians relentlessly for believing “plant-based diets” are healthier for humans, but I will never mock them for insisting factory farming is an abomination that cries out to the heavens for redress.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

C. S. Lewis and Dorothy Sayers and Ray Bradbury aren’t here to defend literature and the arts, so I’m afraid it’s up to us. I’m hereby enlisting you in the war to save the humanities.

[Time Preference @TimePreference_]

the wealth gap isn't widening because of capitalism

it's widening because asset owners benefit from monetary expansion while wage earners suffer from currency debasement

the cantillon effect isn't a market failure, it's a policy feature

[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[Andrew M. Bailey @resistancemoney]

You understand philosophy a lot better when you see it as The Inter-discipline

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

I love this metaphor from Terence Tao—widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician—about one of the drawbacks of using AI to solve hard math problems. https://t.co/qOVNhfa2cC