Nouns

I just donated to @lomelinandrea's crowdfund "Support for knee surgery for Niñonino from Nouns Breakers"

⌐◨-◨ Dancer | Community Builder | NFT Artist - Founder of @nounsbreakers /nouns-breakers - Building with @nounsamigos.eth

Finished Sopranos after a long 2ish years going at it.

Farcaster

Having trouble adding a verified address. When tapping on “connect wallet” and then tapping Rainbow or Wallet Connect, nothing happens. Any help is appreciated.

Books

Book review status update, short term plans, and reflections:

We're almost exactly halfway through 2025.

I've been writing a book review per day since January 1st. That's 183 reviews without missing a day, as far as I know.

I've reviewed everything that I read in 2024 and almost everything I've read in 2025.

The reviews I got the most engagement on were mostly recent-ish (last 75 years) and pop-leaning. Childhood favorites punched above their weight class.

I'm planning on taking a break for at least 3 months, maybe even 6. I'm almost out of books to review, and I think this review business works better as an every-day-or-never thing. 

Plus, I want to spend more time fishing, working on side projects, and playing outside with my kids while they're on summer vacation.

This is the second most fun I've had on social media (the most fun was running a popular NFT account through the rise of NFTs, if you're wondering). Thank you all for the likes, the comments, the quotes, and the rest of the engagement. My favorite reactions were the respectful disagreements. You all are great at that. Thank you especially for pushing back gracefully.

If you've made it this far, I'm inferring that I've earned some credibility with you, and I'd like to expend it all right now. Please carefully consider the following.

You must read good books.

Your entire experience is downstream of the information you consume. The way you think about problems, the way you see the world, the way you feel about other men and women, the things you value, and your sense of how to live a good life are all a product of the playlist of thoughts you put on in your head. 

We consume culture with mothers' milk, as the Romans believed. But we retain some degree of mental plasticity through our whole lives. That means that you, as an adult, are choosing your own propaganda. The thoughts you permit to pass through your mind, the things you look at, the things you watch, and the things you read are not just database entries. They're updating your firmware in real time.

If you choose to consume short shelf life information, you're depriving yourself of abilities to process and understand the world's most important patterns. If you choose to consume partisan information, you are willfully warping your perspective. A poor nutritional diet causes lifestyle diseases of the body. A poor information diet causes lifestyle diseases of the mind.

It's impossible to know what the ideal piece of information for you to consume at any given moment is. Reading about Bictoin on HackerNews in 2011 was extremely high yield for some people. But chances are, if you were reading the latest tech news in 2011, you were mourning the death of Steve Jobs or getting hyped about Arab Spring unfolding on Twitter or something. The chances of a piece of content 100 hours old proving itself of substantial long term value to you rounds down to 0.

On the other hand, the chances of something 100 years old, or better yet 1000 years old, proving itself of substantial long term value to you round up to 1. It's not a perfect system, but give older books the benefit of the doubt nonetheless. The Lindy effect is real, and young content should require extraordinary proof of value before you allocate your time to it. 

Don't worry about falling behind on the news. You can't escape it. I've got 15 years of practice, and I fail at least a little every day. You won't be left behind.

And to state the implicit part of all this explicitly: prioritize books above all else. You should not consume information with the primary goal of adding database entries to your memory. We have the internet for that now. You are training the LLM in your head. You are refining your ability to process novel situations by building up a stable of mental models that have proven themselves valuable across millennia.

I encounter no greater catastrophe on a daily basis than a high horsepower mind malnourished by a suboptimal information diet, or worse, turned against itself by an information diet antithetical to its own true interests.

You are smart people. You don't just sit around on the couch eating chips and candy. Despite your base urges, you eat right.

I implore you to take your mental wellbeing as seriously. You shouldn't just watch short form videos and read political listicles. Read good books, because reading is thinking and every thought that passes through your head leaves behind some trace of itself, great or small, in your deepest nature.

You must read good books.

Beautifully put. 

“You must read good books.”

farcstreetbets

BREAKING: Senate passes Trump's Big, Beautiful bill.

unusual_whales

Defis to 100 trillis
No breaks 
https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1940079692884627495?s=46

🇺🇸 FED CHAIRMAN JEROME POWELL JUST SAID:

- THE SOLID MAJORITY AT THE FED EXPECT RATE CUTS LATER THIS YEAR

Evan

https://x.com/stockmktnewz/status/1940044997031522447?s=46

Great read. Reassuring to see the same conclusions from people who know more. but as always, synthesis and true understanding are a world apart from just knowing.

thiccy

Great read. Reassuring to see the same conclusions from people who know more. but as always, synthesis and true understanding are a world apart from just knowing. https://x.com/thiccyth0t/status/1939452379100807176?s=46

noice

In coming days, we'll be able to tip real stocks through Noice. Wild times ahead....

Bullish on $noice 🔥

Imagine cos sending tiny bits of their stock to reward their most passionate users via likes? Retention superpower.

Ladies and gentlemen, I've officially posted my way to the top:

I'm joining @X as Head of Product.

𝕏 is the most important social network in the world. It's where internet culture originates and where the world's most influential people convene.

Finding my community and https://t.co/MLU16rvXIP

Nikita Bier

wowza. respect. https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1939723101723574703

friendly neighborhood shitcaster // working on @pinetree

BREAKING: The CBO estimates that Trump's "big, beautiful bill" would add $3.3 trillion in budget deficits over the next 10 years, per Axios

Vitalik’s in town.

Join us in Cannes for a fireside chat with our crypto GM, @JohannKerbrat, the founder of Ethereum, @VitalikButerin, and the CSO of @offchainlabs, @ajwarner90.

Tune in tomorrow at 7:45pm CEST on Robinhood X and YouTube.

Robinhood

https://x.com/robinhoodapp/status/1939313739326537800?s=46

These “same thing, diff angle” povs always hit the spot

Seeing a place so beautiful that you start researching God and Aesthetics.

i'm really enjoying seeing less memecoins and more project coins. noice team is a great example of what's to come. congrats.

so i think a big part of this is simply due to feeling comfy holding as opposed to “might go to 0 this afternoon”

seneca

@seneca