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What other rabbit holes have you fallen into?
3062 sats \ 33 comments \ @jasonb 9h BooksAndArticles
So most of us are half way (or less) down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. Here’s a pic of another rabbit hole I occasionally fall into.
What about you? What’s a subject you find yourself coming back to learn more about just when you thought you were becoming knowledgable?
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202 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 3h
Thanks to Bitcoiners copying the gold bug "sound money" narrative, I've fallen into the rabbit hole of trying to find out what exactly went on prior to 1971, basically: how did the gold standard fail.
Because it did fail. But what really happened. What were the triggers in practice. And how can we detect such scenarios in a digital world?
It goes very slow because I'm digging up memoirs from politicians in the 60s. Some are awesome because they had great correspondence on the topic. Others have been a waste of my time. But maybe, just maybe, can it help. Because thinking that there will be a bitcoin standard (which I personally don't think likely) and then there will be that forever, would probably be wishful thinking.
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150 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 2h
I'd be very interested in reading something about this, even if just a list of things you read.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 2h
Its scattered right now but I'll compile something.
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152 sats \ 7 replies \ @k00b 4h
These days I try to stay away from non-work related rabbit holes, but here's some that I enjoyed over the years:
  • Biohacking-ish things from 2015-2020 - saunas, routines, supplements, ketosis, fasting, blood tests. That's one thing I can see myself coming back to.
  • I dipped a toe in the pickup artist scene around the same time. Mating psychology is a lot of fun to learn about.
  • Right out of high school I got really into telescope design, intending to study astrophysics and unable to afford a decent telescope, so I started planning to make my own.
  • Graffiti and oil painting. Although that wasn't much of a rabbit hole. I just did it.
  • Anarchism and political philosophy not long after.
  • Fashion and interior decorating for a time.
  • I've grown weed a few times over the years and really enjoyed messing with soil composition, genetics, environment.
  • Fermentation.
  • Smoking meat.
  • Hamburgers.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3h
What made you give up the pursuit of astrophysics?
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152 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 3h
My plan was math+astrophysics, and while that lasted, I would tell people I was going to be carpenter upon graduation.
I didn't know why I was doing it exactly. Then my girlfriend broke up with me and I stopped going to school and became a grocery clerk before going back to school four years later (for premed lol).
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 2h
You may dig some of those Hopewell books in my original post here. They are a serious math and astronomy mystery rabbit hole.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 4h
Graffiti and oil painting
You would have been west coast when doing this? Whats that scene like there?
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4h
California. I was never in a scene. Musicians are lucky in that their art is more social than most.
Also my stint was short. I only did ~4 significant tags: two water towers, one billboard, the exterior of an abandoned warehouse. Oil painting didn't last more than a year. I only produced three complete paintings.
tbh most of my rabbit holes are me exploring the entryway pretty thoroughly more than anything.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 4h
When you say make your own telescope, does that include figuring out how to make lenses? That sounds really cool but extremely ambitious.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4h
I was going to make everything except for the lenses and mirrors. Making lenses and mirrors would probably require a lab of some kind.
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171 sats \ 10 replies \ @Scoresby 8h
I fell hard down the arctic exploration rabbit hole. At first it was just the adventure stories, people surviving in insane circumstances, but then a love of the ice and the way it makes our natural world so alien, and then finally admiration of the freedom comes with the arctic regions: no one is there to tell you what to do.
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121 sats \ 5 replies \ @jasonb OP 8h
Ever seen James Carpenter’s “The Thing?” It’s one of my favorites movies.
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69 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 8h
The thing is awesome. Excellent movie!
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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @Car 5h
Love how the sequel went right into the original 👌
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25 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb OP 4h
There’s a sequel?!?! And it’s good?!
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car 57m
There’s a sequel?!?!
Yes, they did an exceptional job of combining The Thing (2011) running time: 1:43:00 min into The Thing (1982) running time: 1:49:00 min. The Thing is actually a 3:32:00 min movie.
And it’s good?!
For me it was because when you watch them back to back they flow so well.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 38m
Nice, I’m going to have to check this out.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb OP 7h
Is there a particular book you’d recommend, by the way?
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 7h
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 6h
Thanks!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @purpurato 6h
If you haven't seen this I believe you'll like it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjq7Gl_hhPY
Made me want to know more of those stories.
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150 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 8h
https://i.postimg.cc/G2WJDLx5/darth-nfc-holes.png
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 8h
If you do not read this "rabbit hole" entirely, all the rest are meaningless.
https://livingintheprivate.blogspot.com
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 3h
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17 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 2h
Oh wow. Edgy. I’ve never heard anybody tell it from his side. Is it convincing?
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 1h
I was already convinced as it's all pretty obvious stuff in hindsight... That's what lead me to it, receipts and color to confirm my bias.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @winteryeti 5h
GPU mining was definitely my rabbit hole, but it's still fun to tinker with.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 4h
Nice!
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70 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7h
Pizzagate. I definitely think something nefarious was going on with that pizza store, though I disagree with some of the more wild claims about child sacrifice and cannibalism.
Election rigging against Trump. Some data patterns did not sit well with me and to this day I have not seen a satisfactory explanation. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the historical data to dig further.
Covid vaccine skepticism. This is actually a bit more mainstream, since many people don't trust the vaccines. The studies used to claim that the vaccines were "safe and effective" were not well done studies.
@delete in 24 hours
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 20m
Aliens and UFOs
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SHA256man 8h
i have a series-in-progress in my bio, deocculting parasitology in an entertaining manner;
everything is intricately connected; the other ones are:
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @digitalbase 8h
More rabbit hole inspiration (always fun question!)
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