Book I’m Reading
I got this one from my brother as a Christmas gift. I love it when people get me books from my Want To Read list on Goodreads *hint hint*. Cahill chronicles how Irish “monks and scribes laboriously, lovingly, even playfully preserved the west’s written treasures.” I’d never heard about this “little-known ‘hinge’ of history” and Cahill has written a page-turner here.
Video I’m Watching
Bitcoin and Kingdom Entrepreneurship (The Magnalia Podcast #9)
Great thoughts here from Ahshuwah Hawthorne:
Bitcoin and Kingdom Entrepreneurship (The Magnalia Podcast #9) pic.twitter.com/08Yf4AcnN2
— Magnalia (@magnaliafdn) April 25, 2025
On Bitcoin
Bitcoin thrives on chaos. It’s a decentralized, globally distributed, digital store of value. It’s a flight to quality, as Larry Fink (CEO of BlackRock) says.
Don’t be surprised if Bitcoin grinds upward through 2025. It’s the best money ever engineered.
If you’ve not spent 10 hours seriously learning about it, it’s worth at least that much of your time.
Tweets I’m Reading
A must listen for those who want to understand the Israel Gaza war. I am unaware of a clearer articulation of the situation here achieved in two minutes. Credit to @joerogan @joeroganhq for the discussion. https://t.co/2j4ZSOdCa4
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) April 22, 2025
The Presbyterian Church (USA) Fires All Foreign Missionaries + Ends Mission Agency https://t.co/mJEKoROUqw pic.twitter.com/5mDzXgS8sj
— Protestia (@Protestia) April 22, 2025
Reflections on the Economy of Internal Attention
— Steven Lubka ☀️ (@DzambhalaHODL) April 24, 2025
Our culture is profoundly illiterate at noticing the internal landscape that forms the bedrock of all human experience.
Inside each person is a vast, subtle and yet very real internal landscape which spans the somatic, the…
Noticing myself adopting a certain rhythm in AI-assisted coding (i.e. code I actually and professionally care about, contrast to vibe code).
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) April 25, 2025
1. Stuff everything relevant into context (this can take a while in big projects. If the project is small enough just stuff everything…
Volatility, regulatory complexities, and poor software can make tax accounting a nightmare. These services can ingest transaction and trade data to calculate capital gains – there's no need to get trapped in a tangle web of tax complexity! https://t.co/xGLkBrKfjo
— Jameson Lopp (@lopp) April 25, 2025
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