GM of a small biologic manufacturer. Dad of two young boys. Interested in medicine, natural science, green energy, computer programming, bitcoin.
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Last Notes npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "The ultimate fate of all intelligent beings has always been to become as grand as their thoughts." (Cixin Liu, Remembrance of Earth's Past) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation." (Will Durant and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Shoulder, but who cares. Tastes great either way npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben And then we succumb to our base instincts again on the battlefield. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "He dismisses the idea loftily and informs me I know nothing about it. “The details, yes,” says he, “but this relates to the whole. And of that you are not able to judge. You see only your little sector and so cannot have any general survey. You do your duty, you risk your lives, that deserves the highest honour—every man of you ought to have the Iron Cross—but first of all the enemy line must be broken through in Flanders and then rolled up from the top.”" (Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Absolutely npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben And yet the success of our species relies on the fact that we’re capable of overcoming zero-sum base instincts through community and collaboration to create great civilizations. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "We are acquisitive, greedy, and pugnacious because our blood remembers millenniums through which our forebears had to chase and fight and kill in order to survive, and had to eat to their gastric capacity for fear they should not soon capture another feast." (Will Durant and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Caveat: I don’t spend much time thinking about social media and incentives but here’s a thought. Could one build a tool for cross posting between platforms? For example, a musician uploads a video to said tool, selects the platforms for the post (nostr being an option). This reduces friction, and might help the chicken-egg content problem on nostr. If the tool had a way to track engagement/monetization across platforms, this might provide incentive. That said, it requires cheapskates to zap more than 1 sat. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "And, while every other organism is a factory for converting resources of a fixed type into more such organisms, human bodies (including their brains) are factories for transforming anything into anything that the laws of nature allow. They are ‘universal constructors’" (David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Quality shitpost npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben As long as it’s not defence… npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "Because you do get institutionalized. When you take away a man’s freedom and teach him to live in a cell, he seems to lose his ability to think in dimensions. He’s like that jackrabbit I mentioned, frozen in the oncoming lights of the truck that is bound to kill it." (Stephen King , Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben If you’ve ever wondered if our money is debased, look no further than an IPO for a company valued at $1.75 trillion with annual revenues of $0.0187 trillion (and negative earnings). npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Maybe I don't understand basketball well enough, or rules have changed. But how is that first video not a travel? npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "Over a cigarette, he considered the nature of the problem and what he might be able to do about it. (Skilled maintainers advise never trying to solve a new or complex problem without a thorough mulling first.)" (Stewart Brand, Maintenance of Everything) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "Entropy increased in the universe, and order decreased. The process was like the boundless wings of the giant balance bird pressing down upon all of existence. But low-entropy entities were different. The low-entropy entities decreased their entropy and increased their order, like columns of phosphorescence rising over the inky-dark sea. This was meaning, the highest meaning, higher than enjoyment. To maintain this meaning, low-entropy entities had to continue to exist." (Cixin Liu, Remembrance of Earth's Past) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "This country which he hated was now his native country, his home. He had lived here ten years, and every particle of his body was compounded of Burmese soil. Scenes like these—the sallow evening light, the old Indian cropping grass, the creak of the cartwheels, the streaming egrets—were more native to him than England. He had sent deep roots, perhaps his deepest, into a foreign country." (George Orwell, Burmese Days) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "In Ethiopia, it is the ability to run in a way that protects your own *and others’* energy that is seen as the primary skill of an endurance athlete." (Michael Crawley, The Ethiopian Running Secret) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much." (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Marry a woman who wants homemade burgers for Mother’s Day supper npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Never in human history has advice from older generations been less likely to contain valid wisdom for the present. This is not necessarily a criticism of older generations, but a reflection of how quickly the modern world is changing. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "And while having kids may be warping my present judgement, it hasn't overwritten my memory. I remember perfectly well what life was like before. Well enough to miss some things a lot, like the ability to take off for some other country at a moment's notice. That was so great. Why did I never do that? npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben @grok is this true npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "The final point is that scale matters when it comes to governance. I have an aphorism phrased by friends as follows: I’m a libertarian at the national level, a Republican at the state level, a Democrat at the municipal level, and a communist at the family level." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The World in Which We Live Now) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "Maintenance, in this larger sense, has nothing optional about it. The necessity of maintenance doesn’t accumulate invisibly; it is understood as a given. When you take responsibility for something, you enter into a contract to take care of it. If it’s a child, to keep it fed. If it’s a knife, to keep it sharp." (Stewart Brand, Maintenance of Everything) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Testing @npub18aa0eeebc6e67f0a5cc3a81a2f6deaecbedf2b52e98da7faa947028d15a12f6c npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben nice npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben What the fuck is going on? I can’t go to sleep npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben But corn that 1 sat is ackshually 1000 msat which will be generational wealth in 100 years npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Next level: don’t even ask first 🫡 npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben What a tool npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben walk down by Dubai Creek after sunset and hear the call to prayer ring out all around npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Beautiful! npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Banger note npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben An important reminder: libertarianism doesn’t work without strong community ties. You need to surround yourself with family and friends you can trust. No man is an island. Fight for freedoms from state overreach, but give in to deep socialism with your people. Find God, touch grass, be generous. Freedom is worthless without a community with whom to enjoy it. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben 🤮 npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Big Pharma lobby 🤝 Big Farm lobby npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Jiro dreams of wife’s demise npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben I like having a copy of my notes that I control. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Gotta bitch@ em all npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben They are not private companies. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Kagi is great, and always getting better. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben @npub1lrn…qnw5 when 1 sat zaps are in the air. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben 🫂 npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben I’m a simple man. You zap sats I say thank you. If you get some exposure for your website, that’s great. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben I had the same experience when I went to Iran. Probably the most welcoming and hospitable people I've ever met. Whatever happens next, I hope the people of Iran find freedom. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben 😢 npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben 🙈 npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Nostr won’t win until we get thread bois. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben I’ve been gone a little while. What’s new, nostr? npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben The Dao of Ricky npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben I’ve dealt with this though not in the context of childhood abuse. An over active internal monologue definitely gets in the way of enjoying life to some degree, though there are some benefits as you point out. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben https://youtu.be/IqF_A6bsyEw npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben 1 x 100 sat zap >> 100 x 1 sat zap npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben I have millions of sats that no government will ever touch. I’m not selling to blackrock either. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Glad to hear! npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Sad! npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben yes npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions. We will see how modern behavioral science shows this to be completely untrue." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Levant is an imbecile npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Now do winter 🙈 npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Thanks! npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben I first read “outrage” and I was thinking “no shit” npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Sagrada Familia is a must see. I’ve never been inside a building like it. Park Guell is great for a walk outside the city with unique Gaudi architecture. It’s hard to go wrong with food. Here’s a little spot my wife and I like a lot. It’s a local place; need some Spanish to get by. But the octopus is so good. Order “pulpo a fiera” and some other tapas. https://maps.app.goo.gl/WuzwpntzPNuC5JHV7?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Oh nice. Barcelona is such a great city! npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben I’d love to be wrong, but I don’t think you’ll find one. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben https://m.primal.net/PYlA.jpg npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Cankles for days npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben https://m.primal.net/PXlz.jpg npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben GM npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben “You can just do [x]” is such a powerful meme and a reason why I love nostr. Human agency is so powerful. If you don’t like the way something is, build something better. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Sent npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben What a robbery by the reds! npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Wow! What an opportunity! Lucky me npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Thanks! npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Thanks! npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben My original oil painting from @nprofile…pv26 is finally framed and on my office wall. Looks great. Grazie mille, Carlo! npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben #nevent1q…j3p7 npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Uh oh. Bear market is coming npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben GM npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Proton drive is pretty derpy. Mail and vpn work well and that’s enough for me to justify the subscription. Overall I’m happy with proton npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben thx bby 😘 npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben donald trump can get fucked. just in case you’re wondering where I stand npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Fuck around and find out what you’re good at npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben ? npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Curbside pickup was the best thing to happen during COVID npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben “[Think] these crooks tapped your phone to not have a file on you?” Run the Jewels, Talk to Me npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben *GMempools npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben GM npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben GM! npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Why does ai always add an extra finger… npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben The journalist is on nostr, in case you didn’t know. note1z52tmscrdsd3wqqaltjuas2uyrlue8wpru38s5r5ysqnh5mkcspqc4rdux npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben I deleted my Twitter account in May 2023. I realized that I had no interest in giving them my data for free, nor did I want to pay $8/month for full access. Doomscrolling was making my life worse, not better. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben "Arguably, in expectation, a dentist is considerably richer than the rock musician who is driven in a pink Rolls Royce, the speculator who bids up the price of impressionist paintings, or the entrepreneur who collects private jets. For one cannot consider a profession without taking into account the average of the people who enter it, not the sample of those who have succeeded in it." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness) npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben https://m.primal.net/PIWJ.jpg npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Support nostr journalists! note18xgzcc8leajcx775w7t8g5ku792jzt0sygrflfpumqjnuuhd4vgsf0mqzl npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben That’s good that there’s no fever. Hopefully the baby sleeps well! That’s the best medicine npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben Sorry, that sucks. I’m not a doctor but I am a dad. My boys generally respond well to Tylenol for fever/pain. We haven’t dealt with many ear infections though. I think they recommend going to the hospital if the fever stays high for three days. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz ben The nostr ceos complacency must be addressed by the board. He’s not earning his salary.
