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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
GDPR: An Assessment
It has now been a bit over three years that the European General Data Protection Regulation has been in force. What has the effect been? First, it's worth pointing out that the principles behind the GDPR sound quite reasonable and the aim of the regulation makes sense. It&
Simple and Clear
I find writing blog posts on a regular basis extremely rewarding. I would like to do it every day. I'm sure doing it consistently over the long term will have large benefits. At the same time, it's easy to start writing something only to then find
Generosity and Kindness
At Chorus One, we have had two values on our websites for a while. These are: > Radical Truth & Transparency We are committed to understanding reality as it really is.We seek feedback and conflicting views to eliminate the biases within ourselves that distort our view of the world.