Book I’m Reading
Here’s another little booklet I’m reading for my ACBC biblical counseling certification. The process is going well. I’ve actively counseling people and am nearly halfway through the 50 counseling sessions required in phase three of the certification process.
Hope for the Depressed is a biblically rooted, practical book for anyone struggling with depression, and anyone walking alongside someone struggling with depression.
Podcast I’m Listening To
Articles I’m Reading
Post-quantum readiness for TLS at Meta (Engineering at Meta)
ABC To Put Running Ticker On All News Shows Saying ‘FOR LEGAL PURPOSES DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING WE SAY’ (Babylon Bee)
On Bitcoin
Ruminating on Asset Allocation
^ An excellent memo from Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital. I’ve been reading his memos for quite a while. This one isn’t strictly about bitcoin but the concepts explained here can help one think about allocating some percentage of your net worth to bitcoin.
Tweets I’m Reading
Here is the prompt I used. Just copy/paste this into @grok and replace [healthcare] with any topic you are interested in.
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) December 18, 2024
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Find any programs related to [healthcare] in the continuing resolution bill located at the URL below and summarize them in a table including the…
Hard tech is a compound growth curve. “Innovation” is your growth rate, r. But innovation only happens in steps of hardware, so the time between each hardware iteration is your period (nt).
— Isaiah Taylor – making nuclear reactors (@isaiah_p_taylor) December 19, 2024
Look at the equation. Which one matters more? r or nt?
Go faster. https://t.co/uW9Nujho3q pic.twitter.com/YB7wVWtxjP
$MSTR sold off this week due to the double hit of BTC falling and rates rising—this should not be a surprise to anyone.
— Jeff Park (@dgt10011) December 20, 2024
What is surprising to me though is the delay in monetizing the converts via issuance or retirement. Though the trade isn’t dead by any means, it’s still a…
Okay, we've got 10 days left per the IRS
— Terence Michael (@ProofOfMoney) December 20, 2024
to qualify for their "SAFE HARBOR" from Bitcoin taxes.
There's a lot of confusion on exactly what we should do, with even CPAs and Bitcoin tax experts contradicting each other and making assumptions.
(it's not their fault. the guidance…
$MSTR True North Episode 11 – Let's talk about Leverage https://t.co/eJ1gnjamhv
— Jeff Walton (@PunterJeff) December 19, 2024
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