Phil Champagne does a great job of collecting, organizing, and providing context for all of Satoshi’s known public writing. Here are some of my favorite excerpts from the book. Amazon link. The below are copied verbatim from the book. I may have mistakenly attributed some things to Satoshi that were actually Phil’s own words. Hopefully … Continue reading Highlights from The Book of Satoshi
Here is a complete list of every podcast I currently subscribe to. My plan is to share 5-10 great episode recommendations each month, and to update this list monthly as well. Current go-to app is Pocket Casts. Second is Overcast, which I use to upload mp3s (of things like ripped YouTube TED talks, conference panels, … Continue reading Every podcast I subscribe to
Goring told him that most people will go along with whatever their leaders tell them to do without question, whether it’s a democracy or fascist dictatorship. Naively, Gilber replied, “There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress … Continue reading “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders”
Ok I didn’t actually count the number of highlights, but there are a lot. It’s a dense book, with fancy language, and I had to slog through sections. But the time invested was worth it. This is a book I’ll read again, particularly as I see some of its sweeping predictions come to fruition. It’s … Continue reading 62 highlights from The Sovereign Individual: “The morality of the Information Age will be the morality of the market”
When I turned 29 I wrote this essay, a list of 29 lessons that were meaningful to me. Now 4 years have passed and I’m 33, the age that Murakami calls “a kind of crossroads in life”. Because I don’t have the desire to write an entirely new essay of “33 things I learned in … Continue reading 29 things I re-learned in 33 years