The resources to understand technical arguments - are literally at your fingertips these days. Do the harder thing, dig in, and learn.
Is Bitcoin still a peaceful revolution?
Current read/rec:
Goodreads
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's…
The author has written a study that places George Orwel…
 My mother was a voracious biography reader and so so was I at one time - so much context in them.
Past age 18, people seem to not like getting older, or not realize they too will be whatever they deem as old. IF and only IF they are lucky. The alternative to aging is death by accident/disease/war/etc. "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love" - Marcus Aurelius tl;dr Check your "still living" privilege...
Good time to go to Red Cross and take or refresh your First Aid/CPR/emergency response classes--you'll never regret having basic prep/response, for any situation: https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class
No browser is perfect but I find that encouraging people to use Brave - for any reason - then gets them exposed to Brave’s “Privacy is Normal” messages. The more times you see it …
I didn't really like the standard (defensive) narratives around Bitcoin and Ransomware, so I wrote this to try to fix it. Let me know what you think. View Article →
I think this will be the new job description/resume/CV in a year or so: Open Source job - look at repos, if code good, DGAF Fiat job: image Yes, I vibed that UI in seconds (WAS mostly a back-end dev).
This year is the last batch of high school and college coders who would have learned how to code manually. They are having a hard time getting hired now, but they may be much more valuable in the future (along with all of us who learned by manual coding and also appreciate vibe coding). Especially when the LLMs go down. We need a #bitchat LLM.
Besides Venmo, another good way to talk to people about financial privacy and censorship is via its motherdeath ship PayPal. It’s an easy one to bring up in a lot of circumstances. For example: Was on a work mtg yesterday and was talking about common payment integration options on calendar services—-casually mentioned I won’t use PayPal. Why not, someone asked.