https://www.tubefilter.com/2022/07/14/youtube-tiktok-time-spent-kids-2021
Kids (4-18) are spending more time on TikTok than YouTube. This gap has grown in recent years. I watch TikTok sometimes and can attest to its addiction. TikTok is FAST and once you adjust to it, you don’t wanna return to slow. On a tangential note, I quite like Netflix’s playback speed feature. I play most movies and TV shows at 1.25x now, and will watch more Netflix on my laptop than my “smart TV” because the smart TV lacks that feature.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-school-dropout-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705
39yo June Huh won the Fields Medal. In high school he dropped out to become a poet. I see in his story further evidence of the deep unity within all knowing. Many years ago a friend and I were discussing the idea that we could live in a simulation. To which he replied, “If we’re living in a simulation, then math is the operating system”.
https://thebitcoinlayer.substack.com/p/is-bitcoin-an-inflation-hedge-yes
Nothing groundbreaking here, but I enjoy Nik’s newsletter. And I re-iterate my base case that bitcoin will hit $1M before 2030. After which, it will crash to something like $200K, and the naysayers and critics will be in oestrus, and the cycle will repeat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/well/family/check-in-text-friendship.html
After reading this (and I had to find a roundabout way to read it because I don’t pay for the NYT and had reached my limit of free articles), I emailed two friends from college and (surprisingly) they replied rather quickly. I will try to do this more often – maybe even create an explicit habit out of it.