Devin Baker

This means that the dollar tends to be structurally overvalued on a trade balance basis. It trades based on all of the normal fundamentals that other currencies do, but then also has this extra layer of demand at all times, for all these various purposes. Most currencies are primarily used by the country that issues them, whereas the dollar is used... See more

The dollar is different. It’s the main currency that entities around the world do hold for long periods of time. Since the dollar is used for those four previously-described purposes internationally, it means there is excess demand for the dollar by entities around the world above and beyond simply interacting with the American economy or financial... See more

Pump's model is tuned for velocity. You get a flat SOL rate per token that hits a $69k market cap, and zero cut of protocol fees via PumpSwap. So the name of the game is launching as many tokens as possible and riding waves of hype.

LaunchLab, or forking your own version of it, is the way to go if you're gunning for a viral hit and care more for lo... See more

In this vision of redemptive labor, we can glimpse a more hopeful future where technology serves its highest purpose by eliminating true toil while preserving the sacred space for human hands and minds to engage in genuine craft. When automation frees us we gain capacity to redirect our energies toward the kinds of deeply human creative acts that b... See more

We can and should automate toil, but we must preserve craft. The difference is simple: when I use a model as leverage to remove toil, I remain source; when I ask a model to remove my agency by replacing my labor, something ancient and unseen becomes source.

Anxiety is the mind refusing to be consoled and nourished either by the body itself, or the beauty of the world that this body inhabits

Anxiety is not an answer to a problem we are worrying about but the measure of our distance from the place where the answer lies .

The cure for anxiety is almost always found in some kind of radical simplification, a simplification that slowly opens up a very physical, rested experience of timelessness.