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Writing as Liberation
I'm enjoying writing at the moment. It is scary for me to do this. It makes me feel exposed. But when I do it anyway and publish a post, it is liberation. It is especially the act of publishing that is liberation. Sometimes I try to write something
Issues Amplified
One of my key learnings is that by default an organization amplifies the issues of its leadership. This is something I had seen before Chorus One several times. There were great people, vision, brilliance and excitement. But then things didn't quite work out. Mostly, it was because of
Crypto is Political
> The darkness is here and will sweep over our digital world. It cannot be stopped, since the benefits it brings are too great. All the latent potentialities of humanity that are being pushed down will be allowed to rise up to the top. - Dark.fi Manifesto [https://dark.
Tennis: Relaxed and Confident
In September, I started playing tennis again [https://bfc.do/tennis/]. I wrote a few posts back then about it and especially the mental aspects of tennis. (See here [https://bfc.do/the-inner-game-of-tennis/] and here [https://bfc.do/tennis-update/].) Now, some time has passed and I wanted to provide an
Write Three Positive Things About Today
One of my favorite habits is to write three positive things every day. I do this every evening and have been doing so for approximately 2800 days or ~8 years. I have rarely missed a day, so have written over 8,000 entries. It's very easy to do,
Off Twitter & News
Yesterday, I decided to take a break from Twitter and reading news for a week. (Though, I suspect I'll end up extending it.) After I made that decision, I immediately felt a wave of relief. It felt as if everything had become more quiet. Suffice to say, this
Random Thoughts on Elon Musk
I have spent quite a bit of time studying Elon Musk. A few years ago, I read Ashlee Vance's biography [https://smile.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-Ashlee-Vance-audiobook/dp/B01EI4XNAM/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=musk&qid=1638721849&sr=8-4] of him. More recently, I read the fantastic series
Learning to Crawl
When it comes to writing, it feels like I'm learning to crawl. Not that I remember what that was like, but I mean I don't have a feeling of competence. It feels like a struggle. I lack a process or mental framework to refer to. That&
Towards Reality
I do not see things clearly. The world is complex, but my mind is limited in what it can handle. Information comes in through the senses, but only an infinitely small subset of what is happening. Then I apply generalizations, try to discern patterns, make sense somehow. What is going
Just-in-Time Liquidity & MEV Ethics
I've been pondering the ethics of MEV extraction and we've been discussing the topic at Chorus One. A particularly interesting example is Just-in-Time Liquidity Sandwiching [https://twitter.com/ChainsightA/status/1458537399160614912]. It works like this: A trader creates a transaction to swap tokens on Uniswap. Someone