Sacha

I tuned my inputs to listen more to channels from the real world, including the nature channel, the friend channel, the love channel, the curiosity channel, the literature channel, and the travel channel. I smelled a lot of roses and marveled at amazing vistas near and far. I even let myself get bored from time to time. I reduced my clock speed to

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Readers, I highly recommend the prescient article written by the incomparable and much missed Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, on rabbisacks.org:

Future Tense: The New Antisemitism

What is it & how do we deal with it?

1 November 2007

All of my agency hacks are kind of like this—seeking out big, glaring edges that most people might rather ignore.

I recently sent an email that I wouldn’t have dared try a few years ago, along the lines of: “I’m planning to start an organization similar to yours; would you consider letting me run yours instead?” The response? Crickets.

sBTC: a more secure Bitcoin bridge

In the next couple weeks, Stacks will release sBTC, a non-custodial 1:1 Bitcoin-backed asset that operates as an open-network, decentralized 2-way peg solution to bring Bitcoin into Stacks with as little counterparty risk as possible. This has been a vision for years, and you’ve probably heard something about it... See more

Dit moet bovenal een herwaardering van klassieke moraliteit, liefdadigheid en de waarde van menselijk leven inhouden, evenals een verwerping van totalitarisme en de revolutionaire en utopische ideologieën en haar afgoden waaronder sociaal-darwinisme, globale dominantie, de socialistische utopie, de ‘volmaakte’ wetenschap en de mens zonder morele... See more

Ask for things that feel unreasonable, to make sure your intuitions about what’s reasonable are accurate (try not to be a jerk in the process). If you’re only asking for things you get, you’re not aiming high enough. Jobs are a great example: Especially if you’re early in your career, you should aim to get rejected from most things you apply for.

The algorithms and machine learning that decides whether your child gets health insurance coverage are impossibly opaque and complex.

But they are still embodied, even if they appear not to be. They run on silicon and coltan and copper, housed in servers that can be destroyed, hacked, or damaged. Complex legal paperwork can’t stop a bullet piercing... See more