Tom White
@tomwhite1
I think, write, invest, and have a suffix | Building @beondeck | Thinking @ http://whitenoise.email | #bitcoin | Collector
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Tom White
By definition, you will likely succeed a vanishingly-small percentage of the time, but—as the saying goes—that’s a feature, not a bug. The point is to venture—fistfuls of money in hand—at the furthest extremes of capitalism, hoping to stumble upon that rare, proper intersection of technology and commerciality.By design, most investments will miss... See more
Tom White • This Time is Different
he Roman Catholic Church presents a unique data point. It is not merely a religious body but the longest continuously operating international institution in human history
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If we can democratize access to a veblen good, status becomes about being a part of something, rather than how much money you have. We already see this in products like Fractional and PartyBid, which enable collective ownership of highly sought-after NFTs, as well as in products like RabbitHole, which allow users to earn crypto by using the latest
... See moremirror.xyz • Social Token Paradox
I’ve got no advice on these up and down times of elation & depression you seem to have, but I can tell you that time is very dangerous without a rigid routine. If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you’ll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.
Flannery O’Connor
Letter to Betty... See more
We are all sailing away to the sea
. True freedom is not found in grasping for power but in receiving what God gives.
The battle in the desert is between one who has rejected all limits and One Who has limited Himself – indeed, Who has clothed Himself in our human nature, been wrapped in swaddling clothes, and will one day be fixed to the Cross. It’s a contest between the limitless... See more
The battle in the desert is between one who has rejected all limits and One Who has limited Himself – indeed, Who has clothed Himself in our human nature, been wrapped in swaddling clothes, and will one day be fixed to the Cross. It’s a contest between the limitless... See more
I will not observe limits OR I will have dependence, limits, and trust in God
As Carl Jung puts it, The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
You are what you love
We don’t understand consciousness. We might as well be generous with ours.
Rascal's Wager
This allows us to pop the algorithmic bubbles—the weapons of math destruction—used by the Twitters, Facebooks, Googles of the world to lull us to sleep. It shuts off the intermittent dopamine drip to which we have become tethered and addicted.Though I do not lead a life so interesting to write about each and every day (partly why this newsletter... See more
Tom White • Curation as a Cure
“Art is like theater. If you want to whisper, you have to whisper loudly enough so that the audience hears you, and knows it’s a whisper. So the artist has to be able to blow the subtleties up proportionately, and at the same time have them be recognized as subtle. It’s what makes a good artist, even if he is painting badly.”
— Eric Fischl
— Eric Fischl