The convenient fictions about the world that are taught to children become held so dearly they hinder seeing things as they really are as adults. When navigating life armed with only the knowledge instilled in you by your parents, tribe, church, school, or government, you end up only serving their agendas, not your own. Question everything. You may end up right back where you started, reinforcing your worldview, or you may discover uncomfortable truths that you can no longer avoid and change your mind about many things. Either way, you'll own your own mind, no longer relying on the inertia of your upbringing.

I remember when election season in the US started about a year before the election, and you could just hold your nose and try not to be affected by the stink and noise. Nowadays it's continuous election season 24x7 and there's no escaping the sewer gas.

Structure one's life in such a way that it is irrelevant who the politician, bureaucrat, or strongman of the day is, then one can ignore the smoke and mirrors such charlatans employ to seek power over you.

GM ☕ There comes a time when it is better to know someone who knows something than to try to learn that subject oneself. It's great to have smart friends and colleagues to lean on.

If the success of Bitcoin and its ecosystem is still dependent on or even just affected by which politician or bureaucrat is in office, cypherpunks must write more code.

GM ☕ Turns out the kids are alright after all...

The mining process for proof-of-steak.

Pro tip: You can buy shares from a retail broker that don't even get recorded in your name of an ETF that promises it will back its IOUs 1:1 with bitcoin IOUs from a retail bitcoin exchange that hopefully tracks the price of bitcoin through an SEC neutered arbitrage mechanism and give said retail broker all the information needed to perform identity theft in the event of compromise, or-- You can just buy Bitcoin.

Perspective changes everything.