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A Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) is a formal proposal to change Bitcoin. The BIP process organizes the Bitcoin community in the absence of a centralized leader. BIPs can propose changes to Bitcoin's consensus layer, community standards, or the development process.

Byron Katie developed a process of self-inquiry which is called, The Work. It involves asking four simple questions about each belief that causes us pain.

Use the Ladder of Inference to explore the seven steps we take in our thinking to get from a fact to a decision or action, and challenge them.

The big lesson of survivor bias is that you should optimize for being a survivor. You can’t win if you lose – so learn to not lose. Most major failure conditions are avoidable with a little bit of foresight, planning, study and so on. Analyze failures and take conscientious steps…

The following are a set of notes from my tweets. I may eventually flesh this out into some sort of coherent blogpost.  Some preamble: “solve for distribution” is a phrase I came up…

There is an art to replying and commenting, and probably like 60-70% of people I’ve seen on the internet fail at it. The important thing is not to speak your mind, but to “support” the OP. You can support them by disagreeing well & you can “mis-support” them by agreeing…

“Do 100 Thing” is a phrase I came up with when riffing around the idea of being prolific, making lots of stuff. It’s obviously not an original idea – Nietzsche suggested it, /r/thexeffect could be thought of as “do 49 thing”. I was also influenced by the parable of the…

Maurice Sendak’s Banned, Burned Book.

"I feel the person I was is someone I know intimately but isn’t me now. The monster lies dormant, though, and could be very easily awakened."

Problems are typically richer than our preconceived notions about how to solve them.

And rarely simple

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6 Played-Out Ideas that Block New Visions for Society

Obsidian, the indie darling of notetaking apps, rejects everything you know about modern software. And it's working.

Stop telling women to marry 'down'

A manifesto for winter light

plus animal blessings for thanksgiving

Schedule time for mind wandering

Into the void

I’ve been in Japan for the past two weeks relaxing, eating, walking and — yes — playing. I haven’t been worrying about work or the kids or my li…

How Casey Neistat mastered video and took over the vlogging scene..

The unreasonable benefits of taking action on what you believe

Since Google’s introduction of its Pixel 8 phones earlier this month, it has been interesting and a little amusing to me to read the reactions to its image manipulation tools. It feels like we have been asking the same questions every year — questions like what is a photograph, anyway?, and has technology gone too […]

Everyone has tried and failed at growing an account on social media. Here's literally everything you need to know. Don't overcomplicate this.

Is it futile to tame the deluge of information? Well, I’m trying anyway by simplifying, streamlining and yes, deleting stuff.

Here we go... again...