deep reflection: reading bezos’ last letter. he quotes dawkins on biology’s first principle with everything trends toward equilibrium. toward sameness. toward death. organisms work against this. they maintain difference. temperature gradients. chemical imbalances. information asymmetries. this work is life.
companies do the same work. markets pull toward commodity. toward normal distributions. toward efficient equilibrium. staying different requires constant energy expenditure.
democracy isn’t normal. free speech isn’t normal. open protocols aren’t normal.
decentralization isn’t normal. they all require active maintenance against entropic forces.
the world wants you typical. wants your company typical. wants your platform typical. a thousand small forces pulling toward the mean.
“be yourself” isn’t inspiration. it’s thermodynamics. it’s the work required to not dissolve into surroundings.
bitcoin is work against monetary equilibrium
nostr is work against information gatekeepingsquare is work against financial exclusion
the work never stops. when it does, temperature equalizes. the organism dies. the company commoditizes. the mission dissolves.
differentiation is survival. and survival is work.
