res ipsa ☺︎ (resipsa)

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do you guys get more or fewer than seven incoming spam calls a day?

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i was originally going to say “we’ve taken a wrong turn”, but we have been nudging in a crooked direction for as long as i remember. it’s just kind of “the way it is”, humans caring about human things. it was always susceptible to our greedy biases not because it is what it is but because we are who we are. the whole premise of crypto is clunky and inefficient by design. but in order to get rich quickly we abstract away everything that was inconvenient about crypto and in doing so turn it into the same problem crypto originally set out to solve. him calling BTC “Our Precious” strikes a chord with me. we turn into Gollum the way we obsess over prices, wealth, and success. ideas are only eligible to be good if they are also “venture-scale”. what looks like success for crypto is actually a lifeless force and limp in meaning, and above all else feels more like failure than triumph. i haven’t lost faith. you only need a little tiny bit of fight in you to see you through the day. good things have a way of feeling futile sometimes but if it gets you out of bed it is a good day. https://x.com/punk6529/status/1991278025996972291?s=46

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Venice self-guided immersive program lol🌞 you will be transformed

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after spending a bunch of time and money over the last six months trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with me— urgent care, immunologist, naturopath, obgyn, blood panel, scratch test, pee test, poop test, ultrasound— apparently i am *just* stressed. it is one thing to feel emotionally stable, but i am learning that your body can disagree. early this year an urgent care doctor suspected i was having an anaphylactic shock and stabbed me with epinephrine. i had no known allergies. when i went to an immunologist afterwards my body reacted to every single item on the allergy test— i had a hyperactive histamine situation. since then whenever things got unusually stressful (war and authoritarianism to further exacerbate) spots on my body would swell and itch. i am pretty level about it now; its been a minute. when people say stress could kill you, i didn’t think they meant potentially your face and throat swell up and your heart pumps on turbo trying to keep up with your dropping blood pressure to prevent a cardiac arrest. we just have a culture that feels pretty cute about stress. i was astonished that stress looked so unflattering. i don’t know why i’m telling this story now (other than to try out the extra character count). more time spent listening to blasting music in a fetal position can be good for you. i was pretty misguided to think mental tenacity alone could see you through. you can will your way into many things but sometimes you can’t will your way out of high histamine and low cortisol.

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i just officially left my job. i think you have to be pretty damn lucky to find yourself sad leaving a job (regardless of how excited you are about your next endeavor), and i’ve experienced it twice. maybe to some other people it’s about what they’ve accomplished, but i mostly only remember how the wonderful people made me feel. feeling so immensely grateful at the moment✨

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