Books I’m Reading
Experiencing God has been around since 1976 but this is my first time going through it. I’m joining a group of 20-30 people at my church and we meet weekly to discuss the unit for the week. I’m thoroughly enjoying the study!
For the last couple of years, God has been gradually removing the idol of productivity from my heart. I have tended to draw my worth and value from my activity, work, and output. Idols are always cruel taskmasters. This leads me to consistently take on too much, which distracts me from what are truly my top priorities.
It’s been refreshing to be reminded of two realities so far through this study:
- God is always working around me.
- He is pursuing an intimate love relationship with me.
Video I’m Watching
Capital Group is one of the largest shareholders of Metaplanet, a Japanese company I’ve been following since last year. Here’s their CEO on their approach to active investing:
On Bitcoin
Q4 2025 may be one of the best quarters of Bitcoin’s life.
We’re witnessing the confluence of:
- An ongoing Fed rate cutting cycle
- A “de-dollarization” among global central banks and gold flipping treasuries as the preferred central bank asset
- Record institutional adoption
Crypto Twitter doesn’t call October “Uptober” for nothing.
Related to the four-year cycles in Bitcoin, here’s what the 4th quarter in the year after the halving often looks like:
Tweets I’m Reading
What can someone who's built multiple billion-dollar companies teach you?
— Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish) September 21, 2025
Some lessons from my conversation with Brad Jacobs:
1. If you get the major trend right, you can make mistakes and still succeed.
2. If you want extraordinary results, you can’t think like everyone else.…
This is hands down the best explanation I’ve heard thus far for why Knots has gained traction.
— Frank Corva (@frankcorva) September 20, 2025
I’ve had thoughts like this for a while now but haven’t been able to articulate them as well as Rizzo does here.
My favorite quote follows the video in this short thread🧵: pic.twitter.com/VILZYVKNpI
I departed Google DeepMind after 8 years. So many fond memories—from early foundational papers in Google Brain (w/ @noamshazeer @ashvaswani @lukaszkaiser on Image Transformer, Tensor2Tensor, Mesh TensorFlow) to lead Gemini posttraining evals to catch up & launch in 100 days, then…
— Dustin Tran (@dustinvtran) September 19, 2025
Why @galaxyhq Might Be the Most Undervalued Crypto x AI Stock w/ @FloodCapital
— Milk Road (@MilkRoadDaily) September 5, 2025
What do Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft …have in common?
They’re spending $330B on AI infra this year.
And one crypto company is building the AI infrastructure to power them.
Tune in to know… pic.twitter.com/D8vkIaL3ca
Here's my conversation with Norman Ohler, a historian and author of "Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich," a book that investigates the role of psychoactive drugs, particularly stimulants such as methamphetamine, in the military history of World War II. It is a book that two… pic.twitter.com/5eh8ITf8UC
— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) September 19, 2025
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