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All of these context questions are equally interesting to consider wrt people. The power of what you try to bring to mind is significant in constructing reality.
Has it had more influence on how you act or how you view the actions of others?
Both. I view it kind of like a law of social physics, or socio-biology. I see it unfolding in myself intimately, and others coarsely.
But I think I'm not exaggerating wrt its power, and its pervasiveness in this new online reality.
There's something really important in this. I had a Gurwinder post on audience capture here someplace that gets at a similar idea, though this one has some more threads to pull.
The idea, regardless of what you call it, is one of the biggest influences on my thinking in the last five years. Hard to think of one that's had more impact.
A combo for me:
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I can curate more successfully, block noisy people, have my own territory where people who are anti-compatible don't generally go
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Btc selects for a certain inquisitive type, a certain counter-culture hunger (which can def go bad, but see above)
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I can get a surprising amount of engagement, not in the "millions of followers" sense, but in the "handful of people will read me closely and talk to me" sense; it feels like a bar where I'm one of the regulars, and though I am not really known in most ways, I feel deeply known in a few
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Zapping is just enough of an honest signal
It may be a smallish site, but I feel like it's still actively moving forward, really searching. Bullish on it becoming even more meaningful.
Listen to things outside your central interests, is my advice. W btc stuff esp it's easy to get spun up looking for hopium, confirmation of what you already think, evidence that you're awesome and soon to be rich. At least that's what happens to me.
Find podcasts on literature and philosophy or whatever. That can be joyous and you're unlikely to fall into euphoria loops.
Karlsson is a treasure and you beat me to posting this.
I assume he will eventually be broadly recognized and make it big and then I will be salty in classic hipster fashion.
Ugh, this is beautiful, Siggy. What a testament. And I love how you didn't do the normal thing that people do, make your friend sound like some kind of paragon. But rather a messy person, full of virtues and vices, wins and losses, all mixed together. Sounds like me, sounds like everyone I know. He is lucky to have been seen, over the years, with such attention.
Agree fully. You're on fire today.
FWIW, this is why I think a lot of the usual maxi crap is not just wrong and stupid, but actually harmful. The people who can be caught with that bait have been harvested from the sea. The other 95% of humanity reads unhinged btc ranting and bounces off, hard.
The good news (for people who care about btc adoption, and it achieving something in the world, and, yes, NGU) is that as people come in, the tide is slowly turning, and new stories more reality-compatible are available that people won't bounce off of.
Your smart normie friend now has a chance of not finding this whole thing a tire fire of lunacy. That bodes well, even if he never joins the others in the woods under some felled trees wearing deer pelts with his harem of feral tradwives.
I've been wondering about this too. I met a guy who had been into btc pretty early (2015 ish) and had a real job and had bought a lot of it (dunno how much exactly counted as a lot). Contra the usual narrative, he was no steely-eyed god-king with deep principles, he was basically a dipshit who was in the right place/time to strike it big, but less than average success in all other ways.
Anyway, I think: what if that guy had held until now, and found himself with a hundred million dollars on his laptop? What would he do? My first instinct is to think he'd be scared shitless and would move it to Unchained or something. My second thought is that he doesn't have the sense to be scared shitless so maybe he just lets it ride?
But there must be many such examples of way bigger whales than this guy. Remember that Asian hacker guy who had billions worth hid in a big gulp cup or whatever it was?
I am far far away from the most maxi bitcoiner, but why you would sell bitcoin to pay down a mortgage is baffling to me.
Jesus, I'd spend all my time doing this, till I got booted back to the present.
Of course, explaining to people who I was would take up a lot of that story time I reckon.
They thought about things and looked into the distance. If magazines were available they thumbed through those. That's what I remember.