“It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.” — Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
^ AKA I continue to be lazy and not spend time on formatting, but just working on getting content out
Shorter week this week since my PR travels extended last week’s post. Debated waiting until tomorrow to post this, but figured it would be better to get back on the Sunday cadence as a good forcing function.
Relative structure for this week is: Some quick thoughts, then some things that caught my eye idea-wise (Ikigai, a quote, and Ferriss heuristic), then bullets and charts extracted from the Fidelity Lightning write-up, then Podcast takeaways from this week, and finally notes from the RFK book which was an absolute trip
Some thoughts
You know, part of the reason to make this so haphazard and borderline unreadable is that it genuinely is for me to be able to look back on, and if it is poor quality then others probably will not look at it and I can feel like I am just writing for myself.
^ I am really good at justifying laziness
Truthfully, I want to get content out the door since it is so easy to procrastinate and put things off and make excuses.
At least my excuses in this instance are that the product is sub par and not that the product doesn’t exist. I will take 1 over 0 any day of the week and twice on Sunday (it is sunday and it is late, sorry for bad humor).
A very productive week at work, multiple times staying 1-3 hours later at the office and being fine with it, great eating (lost 12 lbs from coming back from PR trip), high energy all week, a lot of positivity, so many greenlights as McConaughey would put it. Safe to say I have a new lease on life. Weekend was great, minimal time wasted. Learned a ton, made a lot of productive steps forward getting roommates to clean up house, pitching new products at work, workouts on point, getting back into basketball, posting on IG and X. Weekend able to workout, stretch, try new things, grocery shop, meal prep for 2+ weeks in advance, confession, library time, great sleep. Overall incredible.
Not in jest, today was one of the best days of my life. I felt so aligned and at peace with everything that I did. Multiple moments of awe that I do not describe thoroughly in the below anywhere, but I will expand upon at some future time.
For my own future reference, hearing “Rhodesian Ridgeback”, the Brian Sanderson book sitting across from me randomly at the library I was not supposed to go to nor sit in that spot - and further the dragon story and the accountant giving up a career, and finally seeing Huber in that moment - truly tough to describe.
Great chats with the roommate today and really being mindful of energy and how I am presenting to the world. Trying (and failing) to live without judgement. Falling off the path but getting right back on. Living intentionally and with integrity. I hope today is day one of many.
The world is happening for me, not to me.
As I go through different phases in my life and career, the concept of Ikigai has been front of mind
Quote I saw and liked from Dick Bush on Twitter:
“My biggest mentors have no clue I exist. ”
Good toolkit from Tim Ferriss:
“3) Write down the 3-5 things — and no more — that are making you most anxious or uncomfortable. They’re often things that have been punted from one day’s to-do list to the next, to the next, to the next, and so on. Most important usually = most uncomfortable, with some chance of rejection or conflict.
4) For each item, ask yourself:
– “If this were the only thing I accomplished today, would I be satisfied with my day?”
– “Will moving this forward make all the other to-do’s unimportant or easier to knock off later?”
5) Look only at the items you’ve answered “yes” to for at least one of these questions.
6) Block out at least 2-3 hours to focus on ONE of them for today. Let the rest of the urgent but less important stuff slide. It will still be there tomorrow.
7) TO BE CLEAR: Block out at least 2-3 HOURS to focus on ONE of them for today. This is ONE BLOCK OF TIME. Cobbling together 10 minutes here and there to add up to 120 minutes does not work.
8) If you get distracted or start procrastinating, don’t freak out and downward spiral; just gently come back to your ONE to-do.”
Fidelity Lightning Report
https://fwc.widen.net/s/fxj6fgcwpq/fda_thelightningnetwork_expandingbitcoinusecases_1187503.1.0_v5
While the Lightning Network fully launched in 2018 with
the intent to enhance transaction speed and reduce costs, it was not until 2024 that its adoption gained momentum
More businesses integrated the Lightning Network in 2024 than years past—expect to continue throughout 2025.
showing signs of maturity. Smaller, less efficient channels deployed between 2018–2020 are closing in favor of larger, more streamlined channels.
Total average capacity of public Lightning Network channels has grown, increasing the probability of payment success as payment sizes increase.
A well-optimized participant in the Lightning Network can see transaction fees as low as 0% and payment completion times of less than half a second.
A shift is occurring in favor of fewer, larger well-connected nodes as opposed to many smaller nodes.
The Lightning Network is delivering on the promise of being the most efficient way to transact in the digital asset ecosystem.
Lightning can be viewed as a yield-bearing network that does not require users to give up control of their bitcoin
accelerated once the Bitcoin SegWit upgrade was introduced in 2017. It was launched on Mainnet shortly after with multiple interoperable implementations
permits permissionless unilateral exits as a part of the protocol
non-custodial yield generation
average capacity (in bitcoin) has grown by 118%, while the average channels per node fell 30%
Large channel capacity ensures a higher success rate for sending and receiving higher value payments. As payments are sent and received, both sides of the channel’s liquidity can be efficiently utilized
With an average capacity of nine million satoshis, users can send roughly $9,000 through the channel at the current exchange rate as of January 2025. Assuming most daily payments fall well below this threshold, a channel of this size—when opened with a well-connected peer—could facilitate thousands to millions of individual payments indefinitely
uses multi-path payments (MPP), allowing a single payment to
split up into several smaller payments across multiple channels. This significantly increases the upper bound of maximum payment sizes
Avg channels and avg capacity grew, also average channels per node increased
indicates that fewer nodes hold the majority of the liquidity, and these nodes manage their liquidity across several channels, leading to a less skewed distribution at the node level In other words, while there are more channels with substantial liquidity, the network’s nodes have distributed their liquidity more evenly across multiple channels
bitcoin-denominated capacity has grown by 384% since 2020
The entire capacity of the Lightning Network (both public and private) is unknown
Across most of the digital asset ecosystem, participants are accustomed to having a global fee rate that all users must conform to. However, in the Lightning Network, each user can decide the fees they are willing to pay and deploy channels to achieve it
having an effective channel strategy is key to achieving low fees
Using the dataset from Voltage, we can see that larger Lightning transactions experienced lower fee rates. While this may seem counterintuitive, it is likely due to nodes in the network using a fixed cost or flat rate for their base fee
Nodes are size agnostic
At the time of writing, Lightning appears to be one of the most cost-effective protocols for sending substantial amounts of value
It is possible the Lightning Network could further entrench itself as one of the most cost-effective methods of transacting within the entire digital asset ecosystem when properly configured
Through a well-connected self-hosted node, transactions that required an average of one to three hops paid a fee of 0.04%. In other words, transactions over 1,000,000 satoshis (~$1,000) have cost between $0.39 and $1.27. This fee-to-transaction settlement ratio is rare within the traditional payment processing sector and across other digital asset networks
The Lightning Network is known for its speed, as almost all payments below one million sats (0.01 BTC) finalize in less than one second. It should be noted that all data transfer speeds are limited to the speed of light by physics, even in the most ideal conditions.
Transactions requiring only one hop have the highest success rate at over 99%
With each hop that is added, the success rate declines by 4–8%
A key factor in this rate is engineering solutions such as
payment retries. With these solutions in place, we anticipate that payments on Lightning will become easier and more reliable.
Fedimint, Cashu, Nostr, and Podcast 2.0 applications all utilize the Lightning Network
Company payrolls could be automated and earned down to the second worked, enabling employees to realize their paycheck in real time rather than bi-weekly or monthly
Similarly, AI agents perform tasks very frequently and will need a method of transacting between one another. Lightning is highly suitable for these kinds of transactions because of its superior speed and cost
. Compared to Lightning, which requires channels with liquidity on both sides,
ARK introduces shared unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs), allowing users to share virtual UTXOs (vUTXOs) with a larger group instead of on a one-to-one basis.⁶,⁷ ARK also plans to have interoperability with the Lightning Network, thereby expanding Lightning’s network effects
The Taproot Assets protocol enables the issuance of digital assets outside the scope of the underlying blockchain (Bitcoin)
Assets are created and embedded into bitcoin’s existing dataset of UTXOs. Taproot Assets have the potential to expand Bitcoin’s functionality beyond seemingly simple value transfer by enabling the transfer of all assets inscribed to the network
This distinction is important because these two protocols enable ownership of inscribed assets to be traded at “lightning” speed with a negligible cost. Stablecoins, NFTs, and real-world assets such as gold and corporate bonds could trade seamlessly between users, companies, or even countries.
As a payment rail, Lightning is one of the fastest in the world. Now, users can load it with virtually any asset
Podcasts
Forgive me because it is getting late and I do not feel like proofreading all of these haphazard notes, some were train of thought notes, some voice notes etc. but for me they will all make sense.
At some future point I will come back and clean things up - but in case I forget, lo siento. (coming back to this line after doing summaries - yeah, I definitely need to come back to this to get all these book recs out!)
As usual, the titles and first 3 bullets are AI generated - last week Grok, this week ChatGPT - flip flops which is better tbh. Maybe prompting sucks.
After the first 3 bullets, there is DH comments which are the rest of the things I felt were worth jotting down.
Bitcoin and the Nature of Reality with Jeff Booth - FFS #67 - The Bitcoin Infinity Show
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1qvroQs74kWPPW09Cal8X3?si=68aad7a732774422
Explores how Bitcoin is challenging traditional financial paradigms.
Discusses the interplay between digital assets and the nature of modern reality.
Offers insights into how emerging tech can redefine economic systems.
DH Comments
Always learning
Having fun, when you are in this space with entrepreneurs priced in btc you are kind of insulated from the negativity
Happens slowly over time, jeff living in the future
Nodes in new system slowly happens
Emergent happens over time, new system strengthens, old system weakens
Price falls to the marginal cost of production
In order for prices to go up in a world of exponential productivity increases, there has to be manipulation
Edc - vc returns on top of btc
Have you love the companies and founders you work with because its long term and they need to be agile, favors cooperation
It distributes over time
Money w fixed supply incentivizes saving over spending
Btc - free market comp gears towards cooperation
As you don't need all these things to live a good life, your time explodes to be able to do other things
Lakehouse - wonder where?
If you’re in failing country, leave to go to beneficiaries of stealing productivity and stored labor from other people - profound
Nick bostrom simulation theory
Companies use neurons and brain cells to do ai comps faster
Brain cells just energy, neurons firing synapses
Brian Cells are just electrical pulse
Free will cannot exist within the brain because the brain is mechanical - dh - maybe there is some energy or force outside of our consciousness that plugs into the physical substrate? (Host)
Perfect slave but not own master? Unable to feel uneasy (host)
Why do we feel uneasy? How does it get uneasy?
Brain is creating the universe?
Consciousness horizon?
We are a mirror, we create reality by our actions
Everything you do touches everyone else through your actions, you can bend universe through your actions
Double split/ cat, not unified, spooky at a distance
One photon creates wave function, goes through both slits without an observer
So at really small scales, world doesn't look like we think it looks like, unless you observe it
Maybe that gap of a fractional second is us creating reality?
If somebody shows up as a victim, then its harder to be around someone like that
everything in service of love and belonging
They don't know they are creating their own reality, people don't want to tell the victim that, basically saying I care more about what you think of me than I do about you
Someone comes around and says I care more about you than what you think of me
But generally that victim person doesn't change, and then reality keeps proving them right and they keep seeing proof, more people move away, person doubles down and creates more drama to try to get them to come back
That persons world has the exact same abundance as my reality they just can’t see it
Their version of reality is just as true for them, we just see 2 totally different versions
Rhodesian ridgeback - are you freaking kidding me
Example with crowded loud party where you hear your name
Anyone at that party can take you out of your struggles by changing your consciousness
Universe all tied to energy
James webb telescope points to no big bang
Book rec economic science and the austrian method by hopper?
Through action that the subjective and objective are tied
Pursuit of meaning when value is solved
We all live in our own movies, think about ourselves all the time
All in service of loving and belonging
Everyone believes their world as much as you believe yours
You have to ask questions and help them get there and give them hope
Read Jeff’s article on finding signal in a noisy world
If other people are lying to themselves, then i must be too, I probably take credit for everything good in my life and make it bigger and anything bad happening is someone else's fault - attack those areas and realize that it is your fault
If you see something in someone else they don't see, need to turn their sign around
Never talk about people behind their back in a negative way
Only spend time with people you care about
Obligation is not to make them change, it is to tell them
Thinking through friends and peoples different interests and stuff, do friends have to be bitcoiners?
Vulnerability based trust, someone has to go first, other person either meets them or ejects. Best relationships get deeper and deeper to more layers where you find out who is there for you. You get to bottom and those are the people who stay
You can do that over and over again, you can do it with everyone
Honesty is the currency of the future
Lives in vancouver?
Jeff often gets asked something like hey im stuck in my fiat job what do I do, he says just start. Its an open network, start meeting people, create content. Find the people you love and vibrate to it
“Ton of opportunity in this space, its exploding. If you don’t want to be an entrepreneur go find a company thats building into this that you really like the values of that company and what they're doing”
Opportunities are endless
BTC224: Global Liquidity and Bitcoin w/ Matthew Mezinskis (Bitcoin Podcast) - We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4A8ltXwMoNipFBeOQnvfcq?si=a4b67493d05b4a3e
Examines global liquidity trends and their influence on Bitcoin markets.
Explores the intersection of traditional finance and digital currency innovation.
Shares insights into billionaire investment strategies within the crypto space.
DH Comments
Power curve for btc is 97-97% r squared
Money supply growth maybe like 12%, so what is money demand? Diff is inflation
Rotation out of bonds after 40 yr structural declining int rates
Geoffrey west scale book rec
60 - Why 60/40 is Broken: Radical Portfolio Theory by Jeff Park - 21st Capital
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Le15yWFF6AzQPCuv9Ngv2?si=c0bfa380dd8c407b
Challenges the traditional 60/40 portfolio approach in modern markets.
Introduces radical portfolio theory and alternative investment strategies.
Provides a deep dive into risk management and financial innovation.
DH Comments
got into finance bc quant minded and liked score card and competition - tether to reality
Curious about nature of ownership from the start
60/40 is so outdated, endowments we’re already incorporating diversification through different instruments and private equity real estate land, etc., or even within public equities getting diversification a lot of opportunities and models have emerged and changed since 6040 was first proposed
Line between retail and institutional investors increasing gets blurred because some of these products are coming to market in a way that is more accessible than ever
Historically financial institutions could be described as an hourglass analogy where capital is flowing from the top to the bottom and the institutions sit at that bottleneck and extract fees, and they had a reason to exist
Not much competition, it's like don't like chase? Go to pnc then go to this other thing - no option no real free market
Btc, just go online, just buy memecoin, polymarket
Backend of trad fi is so obsolete, crypto totally revolutionizes, change full plumbing
Btc attacks core of custody, turns upside down
Implications for lending and borrowing and derivatives
We will find that parallel track to succeed with bitcoin
If banks provide custody solutions, may impact etfs, jeff thinks it wont be a bad thing
Trump doesn't have to do much, just get out of the way. Sab 121, just in the way
Need to have qualified custodian? Most venture or private assets don't even have that concept - exempt bc diff securities and model
Equities used to represent growth and prod gains and ungraspable gains that are productive, a lot of them now are just inflation tracking, growth model change - once upon a time there really was a drive for productivity.
Now financial manipulation that shows growth in a specific way that investors care about, things like share buybacks - kind of a growth but not super productive, increases roe but not really creating prod growth of country or labor or capital
Gdp model flawed - consumption, government expenditure drives growth
Debt to gdp insatiably growing, fiscal led growth by gov spending
So eq and bonds kinda converging bc rep similar discount models in thinking about default risk of country and interest rate and risk willing to tolerate for a period of time and whether you want to be a lender to that sovereign
Fiscal dominance core thing that is driving convergence
When so much cash pumping, these things just become proxies for money expansion
Whole world on giant global carry trade, never been more interconnected
Us in a bad position, competing foreign and domestic policy
Us cant pursue domestic policy maximization because interferes with intl maximizing strat
Japan carry thing, everything hyper financialized, 15 bps raise and world cant handle, japan ultimately funding us
60/40 is actually becoming 100 of something
Goal is to get out of that system, things that aren't driven by cross capital flows and
60 compliance assets, 40 esoteric that havent been institutionalized- btc, polymarket
Gambling fundamental human right? Idk if dh agrees w this - ban everything allow everything in the middle?
Instant fame monetization. Interesting idea, disintermediate the whole system and do it in 24 hrs
Its not like casino where its just negative ev inherently
Memecoin trading both, get utility out of it, pay money to have fun
Good memecoin traders, really good coders and technically super capable - poker analogy
Guy who has bot farms and codes and deeply understands software and tech analysis, blockchain latency etc is obviously going to trounce the guy sitting on his couch
Spacs are approved listings and have info asymmetry, for memecoins you can check wallets and addresses and stuff
Things that are scarce are valuable if other people think they are valuable
Bonds not scarce, equities becoming less scarce
Nvda, yes, but then 2xvol nvda. Is volatility what you're looking for? Ok it just got increased
“Winners are scarce, but there is abundance along the pathway”
What are things like true financial ip that cant be copy pasted. Btc. Farmland. Litigation financing. Not like nvda where you can get 2x or 3x etc
Being outside the system in ways that advantage the system and are new
Like poker, or sportsbetting. Trend that things that are gray move to the light and get institutionalized
Edge is we are early and things will merge, ahead of forward curve adoption
Time arbitrage between old and young
So much of int rate arbitrage is redistribution of wealth across generations temporally, need to find things where they cant play that game of ycc and pulling forward spending of what is rightfully yours and transfer wealth from the new to the old
Yes memecoins go to zero, but so do most stocks. Timelines just accelerated
Memecoins happen so fast that you can’t even play arbitrage of passing hot potato to the next generation
Subtle but philosophically acute point that young folks are making, like not going to play the game of locking up my money for 10 years because ik what happens to my money when I lock it up for 10 years and go into that system - you're gonna steal it!
And so im gonna play in my little box where things are so fast and vol is like 500,000% bc that is the part where older people cannot play in, like you actually cannot come into this market at all
World is funny, reason why things happen the way they do. Meme trading is wealth trading from the old to the new, poetic
Young people moving to where old people are not - social media analogy
Social capital becoming financialized
Btc standard etf from bitwise
Brian Estes: Could U.S. Issue Bonds Backed by Bitcoin? BitBonds, SBR, and Price Models Predict 7-Figure Bitcoin - Coin Stories
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5hHcKKavF5RrUKlo57wmFd?si=def76161112e4a01
Investigates the potential for U.S. bonds to be backed by Bitcoin.
Explores innovative financial instruments like BitBonds and SBR price models.
Discusses the implications of predictive models forecasting high Bitcoin valuations.
DH Comments
We dominated the internet, now is it time to dominate block chain
#2281 - Elon Musk - The Joe Rogan Experience
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4OKO5j5RFCx5efek9XXlj3?si=ffbf25ee74bf4fc0
Features an in-depth conversation with Elon Musk on technology and innovation.
Covers Musk’s perspectives on future technologies, space exploration, and AI.
Delivers insights into the challenges and opportunities facing modern society.
DH Comments
Because they have magic money computers, the checks never bounce for the government, so you don’t have the natural corrective mechanism like you have for a company, or for an individual net result is inflation which is effectively a tax on everyone
Joe: imagine evil doge - basically competent people evil folks
Elon brings up that they are importing immigrants illegally and that is effectively zero cost, and then giving healthcare and the bottleneck is dollars are not zero cost - dh reminds me of principles of economics where there is proof of work for doctors lawyers etc. and you cant just print doctors
Elon timelines are CRAZY compressed
Cant succeed within the matrix
O keefe video undercover guy where they nudge someone - someone was brushing the ice like curling
Sam Bankman-Fried on Life in Prison With Diddy, and How Democrats Stole His Money and Betrayed Him - The Tucker Carlson Show
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Mc4j96eudcEUFUUTy6mWx?si=f8f66ad6e2be4fe1
Offers a raw account of SBF’s controversial experiences and viewpoints.
Examines claims of political betrayal and financial mismanagement.
Provides a look into the intersection of finance, incarceration, and media narratives.
DH Comments
“I prefer a digital world”
“Diddy has been kind” - wtf
Sounds like such a weasel
“I was center left”
“I was giving to republicans privately”
“I didn't want to do anything inappropriate” when asked if he called on any democrats he donated to when he got in trouble
“I had as good relationships with Democrats as Republicans in DC at the time, although it would be hard to see that from the outside” yeah right dude
Sbf auto thinking his sentence in the minimum that it could be - kinda funny and indicative
No friends, no employees visiting, no donors reaching out - maybe is lying to not incriminate, but so sad
Actual good joke by SBF at the end said “if someone told me five years ago, you’d be hanging out with Diddy every day, he would think “oh that’s cool. I wonder how that happens. Maybe he gets into crypto””
#590: Why Gen Z Understands Freedom Tech with Ian Carroll - TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2cO0KX9qx8B75dG5Ulei0h?si=9655369d18ba4a43
Explores why Gen Z is uniquely aligned with digital freedom and innovation.
Highlights the impact of blockchain technology on empowering younger generations.
Discusses how freedom tech is reshaping perceptions of finance and society.
DH Comments
sbf seems clear psyop
Patsy
Powers that be were like we need a way to throttle crypto, its escape velocity speed and we are behind, debanking and fraud to justify
Ftx suppressed boom, like w gold
Degeneracy progression in crypto, slow walking towards most egregious outcome, comparison to movies or pop culture, like starts with elvis humping the air and showing a bikini to like full sex shows and satan worshipping on tv in front of kids
Dh - what is the chestertons fence of usd dominance
We didn't realize how geriatric our leadership is and how out of touch systems are
Sever a lot of incentives and remove a lot of parts of the old guard
Social media, crypto, gov, currencies, how info spreads, how misinformation spreads, all now leveled up and forced to understand things as decentralized. Used to be just trust the news
Doesn't happen overnight
Its like what is going to replace it
What is worth taking and what is worth keeping
Young people seeing the older people fall into the traps and then they level up themselves, see the corruption and breaking and stuff, level up thinking and understanding
Dh look into enclaves like maple
Need to own the framing
Web 5?
#2284 - Ian Carroll - The Joe Rogan Experience
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Gm5ES4zPuCLk4fNbT5YOS?si=087e48dd49a24080
Explores Ian Carroll’s unique insights on technology, freedom, and the evolving digital landscape.
Features a candid discussion on how emerging tech trends are reshaping society and media.
Delivers thought-provoking commentary on the intersection of personal freedom and digital innovation.
DH Comments
bill murray said nixon was framed
Wired or whatever with belushi woodward with watergate
Belushi so exaggerated and fake, belushi lightweight, fabricated
Nixon a crook, why getting out why framing maybe jfk assassination?
Book rec David lifton best evidence, warren commission
Jfk brain removed
Oliver stone
Jolly west read book chaos
LSD did not just escape the lab it was to co-op the anti-war movement Manson family being paid and given LSD show that LSD is bad
Strange scenes inside Laurel Canyon book recommendation
Once you have the war on drugs, you can go after the civil rights protesters and the anti-war people
Lays the groundwork for Co intel pro
Looks like mk ultra
Mind control and acid and experiments they know how to break people and control people and hypnosis
Childhood sexual abuse, paired with mind control, and operation monarch that hasn’t been disclosed
Nickelodeon, victorias secret, leslie wexner
Book the strange death of vince foster
Book wars a racket by butler
Talking about sort of woke ideology and infiltrating the collectivist movements you give the 99% of people who don’t have meaning some degree of meaning they will latch onto that aggressively
Yuri Basmanov speech from the 1980s
Mickey williams and the plandemic films
They messed up in covid because we all can see this stuff
All the people in power existed pre internet so the schema is totally different
Dissolving illusions book
RFK was made out to be the crockpot Kennedy. He sued for companies, dumping mercury and rivers cleaned up a bunch of rivers cleaned up the east river and had moms come to him with vaccine injured children and he initially didn’t want to get into that space but then started out because of these moms and, look where he is today
they knew that rat caused a bunch of problems because they had tested it and Africa
George HW Bush nickname Poppy because during that era we were managing the opium production in Laos and Vietnam? And we were selling it to fund things in the black market.
Freeway Ricky Ross and the cocaine sales and funneling in Los Angeles DH watch the episodes of JR with Ricky Ross
Gary Webb committed suicide by shooting himself in the head twice
Seismic shift in the media industry because you watch the people on the mainstream networks who get fired because the viewership sucks and then they try to start their own thing independently like a lot of the casters such as Tucker and then they fail because it turns out they just looked good enough and could read off propaganda, but they’re not actually good at asking questions and journalism type things
You need to be interested
Thomas campbell the big toe, the theory of everything book recs
Remote viewing funded by cia - dh lookup
The telepathy tapes - dh lookup, kai thickens? On podcast autistic kids with provable telepathy
Graham hancock and ancient conspiracies dh lookup
Jimmy corsetti exposing the coverup dh lookup
Pyramids being for power generation, built on aquafors
The occupation of the american mind documentary
Bb said they propped up hamas by gunding and keeping them there, same logic as us funding taliban
#794: Brandon Sanderson on Building a Fiction Empire, Creating $40M+ Kickstarter Campaigns, Unbreakable Habits, The Art of World-Building, and The Science of Magic Systems - The Tim Ferriss Show
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0dJLtcP1H8l2hSFG0Ppe37?si=79ab61f1f96d43d3
Provides insights into Brandon Sanderson’s creative process and world-building techniques.
Explores strategies behind launching highly successful Kickstarter campaigns.
Discusses the habits and methodologies that fuel sustained creative success.
DH Comments
korea, diff language means diff thinking and way to construct the world
Pretending your goal is to publish, writing is good, working out and exercising is good when you see someone playing pick up basketball you don’t say oh so when are you going to the NBA when you see somebody writing a manuscript you do ask when are you gonna publish?
On writing, two extremes, steven king gardener vs architect with outline
If you were struggling to write dialogue, go sit in public public and listen to conversations and write down exactly how they are said, and then you can practice practice by watching a movie or reading the writing of somebody you are emulating and try. Try to write it in the director or the authors style that same conversation that you overheard.
Biggest thing with writing that is consistently, you can make a playlist have a setting somewhere you go back a coffee shop music you always put on and just do it every day. There’s another way of writing things down physically long and then getting the next day typing it out and then, you type it out and it’s content and work on the new content for the next day long form
Talks about having an early interest in reading and then it subsides around fifth grade and then he has a teacher called Mrs. Reeder or something who pointed out and then encourages him to read, and then he discovers this book about dragons, and this woman middle-age to abandon her accounting career to have kids And not have a follow her dreams
Brandon has lectures on narrative structure and world building that are free online
Braided roses in Characters whether its buddy cop thing that dont mesh or romance. Promise progress payoff
Save the cat and save the cat at the movies books
On writing book
Writing to sell book
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO - All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2PEtt73dk3dsTyNQOKeb6Q?si=6f2cf3503a4049ef
Analyzes current geopolitical challenges, including tariffs and market volatility.
Explores perspectives on Trump’s economic strategies and their global ramifications.
Discusses emerging trends in crypto reserves and shifts in IPO landscapes.
DH Comments
This is just my tweet after the fact, mostly news so stuff just enters my brain, some of the crypto stuff at the end was actually very important, here was the tweet:
Finally, competent people are in the government and understand BTC - “immaculate conception”
BTC is not going to be sold
Hint hint wink wink 💩-coin pile can be sold to buy more BTC
@Jason “lets put a tax on all txns”, @DavidSacks shoots down immediately
Overton🪟
Book this week
I mean this book was just absolutely nuts
If 1% of the stuff is even partially true then wtf, a lot of people point out RFK hasn’t been sued yet
The fact that he published this in November 2021 and then a crazy amount of the claims have been validated just in the last part of 2024 and early 2025 with Trump presidency is crazy
Social media censoring, vaccine coverups, wuhan coverups, USAID ties, like woah, stuff goes deep
A few specific things I jotted down to look into later are below:
milgram experiments have intelligence agency ties
Germ games playbook
Schwartz document predictions with lockstep scenario