Book I'm Reading
After finishing Mafia, I picked this one back up. It’s hefty, but despite many more words per page, and much more granular detail than Mafia, this one reads much easier. I’m amazed at how a writer’s skill can make such a difference in drawing the reader in versus repelling them.
Wilson is another book in my quest to read at least one biography on every U.S. President.
Podcast I'm Listening To
Continuing on this theme of rest, I’ve continued listening to this excellent 7th Day Rest series from the BibleProject:
On Bitcoin
Not much to say here. The price action is bullish but remains pinned between the 200-week below and the 8-week above. Buyers are supporting near these prices. Dips below the 200-week get bought up; just look at the nine weeks. Historically, buying Bitcoin at this 200-week level has translated into outperformance.
This is a good summary of Bitcoin generally right now by Will Clemente:
Tweets I'm Reading
This may be the most evocative graphic I’ve ever seen. It shows how much was left of Napoleon’s army at each point on the way to and from Moscow. pic.twitter.com/NS4yJi02CN
— Paul Graham (@paulg) August 3, 2026
Good interview from What Bitcoin did, not longer than a solid 40 min. Will eplain it to you in solid detail. This situation will make for a great movie script one day. Bitcoin is truly Schrödingers gold. https://t.co/ZAqyeAyhfW
— BITCOIN CORDA (@bitcoincorda) August 2, 2026
Ten million people have watched an MIT professor accidentally destroy the executive coaching industry.
— Lumen (@lumenxbt) August 1, 2026
He filmed the lecture once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.
Executive coaches charge fifteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in… https://t.co/WdGntUX30T pic.twitter.com/alADW73WZb
Also, sentiment never got extremely bearish even with the huge sell off in the AI names.
— Christian Flanders (@CFlanders7) July 31, 2026
Someone asked me recently why I’ve become interested in aesthetics after having spent most of my life more interested in STEM-adjacent topics. I hadn’t really considered the question consciously before, but I’m certainly thinking about aesthetics more than I used to. I think it’s… pic.twitter.com/m95i0TLTBk
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) August 2, 2026
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