The selfish reason to be calm is that anger burns you first before burning the other.
A cool and calm person is more effective than an angry and agitated one.
The selfish reason to be honest is to clear the mind of exhausting lies and to navigate towards people and situations where you can be completely authentic.
Inflation = printing money. Period. Prices are measured in dollars. If we create too many dollars, that causes the value of the dollar to fall in terms of goods and services. This “inflation” started 18 months ago. Shortages and supply chain issues are a separate issue.
all sums are zero. no new wealth. only stagnation and a brutal fight to increase your wealth at the cost of others. entropy be my god, death be my light, praise the dying of the light
you gotta be shorting electric car, rocket, crypto, AI, and fusion energy companies. you gotta be calling tech a bubble every year. you gotta be advocating degrowth. you gotta be warning about population growth. you gotta be banning general purpose computation
you gotta be rentseek maxing. you gotta be buying commercial real estate. you gotta be providing nothing of economic value while benefiting from the work an innovation of others. you gotta be calling bitcoin rat poison. you gotta be dumping gigatons of sugar into american bloodst
When you ask a great master or a real expert for advice, they give you seemingly vague or non-specific answers, they shun being prescriptive. What they think matters is not what you believe matters. Further, they know you will misinterpret a specific answer.
3 hallmarks of ignorance in free speech debates:
1) Claiming that blocking someone on Twitter is inconsistent with free speech advocacy.
2) Conflating controls on what *adults* can say and hear with debates over what *schoolchildren* are taught.
3) "Fire in a crowded theater."
if you find the phrase “free speech” concerning and think a government “truth” agency seems reasonable i promise you, historically speaking, you are not the good guy
This is correct. And, to every other layer of the tech stack: client and server side ISPs, cloud services, video and ebook platforms, CDNs, DNS, browsers, email clients, operating systems. twitter.com/naval/status/1…
Bottom-up: you choose who to follow, who to mute, who to block
Top-down: Twitter decides who you hear from, and more importantly who you dont.
Anyone who doesn't get this should be ignored
The prophecy isn’t fulfilled until Twitter bans Elon, and then a few days later he becomes CEO and manually reactivates his own account, like some kind of shitposting Jesus.