No and no.

I think the first "problem" is a "we have to fix something I predict in the future" thing which clearly isn't broken now, and the second isn't realistic anyway, so its a waste of time, imo.

Favorites when i was younger: Sublime, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Marley, 311, Nirvana, a lot of alternative rock and some classic 90s pop is always a go to.

Today i listen to a larger variety of music, but less often. Probably my favorite band right now is Twenty One Pilots and we listen to that a lot in our house, but I also love orchestral music, film composers and soundtracks, and more electronic mood music. I can binge that stuff for hours while I'm working on ideas and/or writing.

Not sure, but I've thought about it a lot.

It's way more fun

I enjoyed the first Stormlight but it got so huge and involved that it was a little overwhleming. I haven't gotten back to it after the second one.

No idea if we ever see the 3rd book from Rothfuss. I still hold out hope, but it gets harder to justify it as every year passes.

Eh, only if I think they will make a bitcoin denominated return honestly, OR if i think what they are building is so valuable that I'd be willing to lose money in order to see it be made into a reality. But none of those companies are really in the stock market usually.

In a general sense I have no intent to invest in much of anything in traditional finance these days. There might be a very, very small set of exceptions over time, but mostly I just avoid it as a rule.

I agree and disagree in a sense. For someone to truly be on a bitcoin standard, they shift the mindset to weighing everything against the bitcoin cost and potential, and using bitcoin as their dominant monetary tool. But I also don't agree that someone not using bitcoin directly, "isn't really using it," simply because they aren't getting the value out of it.

Analogy, my grandmother is using the internet when she calls someone on the landline, but she doesn't know it and doesn't get any of the real benefits that the internet offers, but she definitely is using it and no longer has to pay long distance rates because of it.

So part of me agrees in a sense, that there will have to be a big shift in mental framing, and I think it will happen naturally, but it will never permeate to everyone. We are social creatures by our nature. There will be plenty of people who "adopt" bitcoin without knowing or caring why, they will simply use it because its the largest network of people demanding it for trade and unwilling to accept fiat trash.

will check this out, thanks.

Wait is that the "plants are trying to kill us guy?

I watched that video and it was fantastic

Thanks dude I'll check it out!

hmm, probably in building the alternative networks to make the bitcoin ecosystem more robust against corporate or state capture. This is where I think nostr and the pear stack will play a massive role.

People forget that a huge part of Bitcoin's security is ensuring that the narrative and perspective around it can't be manipulated. Social media is an attack vector at the social layer. Building routes around central points of control and manipulation in simple information propagation is really important.

Luckily I think we've understood this intuitively, even if not in the explicit context of defending Bitocin, and we've made huge leaps in a very short span of time.

Separating the money supply from political control. Hands down, not even a contest.

No, their starving I'm sure

All the time. Probably one a week, or two weeks depending on my density of chores and driving, lol.

If you are meaning comparing the amount though, I do much more listening then actual reading. Probably 3x. The overwhelming majority of my reading is stuff that gets published as my audio, physical reading outside of that is minimal just due to time constraints.

Both.

It would be better if it improves and we have things I would like to see as a technological solution, but it's not going anywhere if we don't get those things. Never discount the fact that it fucking works and it seems there's nothing anyone can do about.

austrian economics, bittorrent and p2p tech, system's administration for some company maybe (not sure how long that would last, i don't work for other people very well). I'd have eventually ended up running my own business one way or the other, imo. It's the only place where I feel like I can scratch my own itch without getting trapped.

Also very likely i stayed focused on media and film production and just took it to Youtube. That's a very likely outcome considering I've migrated back to as part of what I do with Bitcoin

All the time. That's why i ask for suggestions and stuff. It's not only hard to find good stuff, but its also hard to filter the huge amounts of trash. So i rely on other people's linking or sent suggestions a lot

I will absolutely be building myself a full book shelf for all of my collection in the new studio though, so you'll definitely get to see it relatively soon (probably 3 months before i get to start aggregating it all in earnest).

Ah shit. It's literally ALL in boxes right now and about 80% is in my storage unit. We are finally finishing out the basement so I have nothing of consequence to show you on that front, lol.

Basically everything I do podcasts on, lmao.

Also I love just building stuff and tinkering with electronics. I ripping out my closet and put in custom shelving and cabinets. My brother and I remodeled my kitchen. The extra bath is currently half done 😅. I've done construction for a large portion of my life and I just like doing it. Its also a great way to reset.

I had an awful week last week and just a huge series of cascading "bad news" items that piled on top of each other, and when it gets bad I just reset by fixing things or building something.

I used to play lots of games and watch tons of film, but i do less of that as I've gotten older. Still read a bunch of books, and also will randomly explore ridiculous amounts of random software and tools on the computer. This is specifically why I've ended up with a podcast about Bitcoin, Ai, and P2P tech... these are things I spend a lot of time just exploring in my free time.

The Name of the Wind Mistborn and honestly maybe The Martian, i really loved that book. Great pacing and very cinematic in structure.

But this is also an impossible question, because i also consider "best" "favorite" and those terms to be hard to pin down. For example, the films and books I respect more than any other because of the sheer depth of the story and novelty of what they tell, also aren't often the ones I read or watch over and over again. So are they my "favorite" or are the ones I've seen 20 times, and maybe even think are a little stupid in some ways, but love that about them, are they my favorite?

Tons more could make the list that I've loved but only read/listened to a single time; Foundation, Dune, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Dresden Files (silly at times but really fun series), numerous Brandon Sanderson books, etc.

I also find myself diving into fantasy more than sci-fi most of the time. But as is the common trope, "sci-fi is just fantasy with rivets." So hard to say one or the other most of the time, lol