happy fourth, kids, and remember, friends don’t let friends listen to country music

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.

Farcaster

I HAVE A PLAN FOR US TO TAKE FARCASTER TO RIO

It's very simple:

1. You mint NFTs.
2. I design and print a mini guide in Portuguese that highlights what makes Farcaster exciting, and why now’s the time to join.
3. I fly to Rio and hand out as many as possible at Blockchain Rio, the biggest crypto event in LATAM.

Why would we do that?
Brazil is one of the most social, internet-native markets in the world — and this is a chance to show, through action, what makes FC worth joining: fun, open, and community-driven. :)

Griv

Griv Announcement: You can upload multiple photos per day.

Here’s what power users do:

Upload/Checkin:
1) morning run
2) healthy breakfast
3) recovery (sauna, stretching)
4) gym workout
5) outdoor cycling or hike

The first reaction-mining token on Farcaster ⚡
CA: 0x045a57B12e016d48f424C844Ac6878D96e45EB07

0x045a57B12e016d48f424C844Ac6878D96e45EB07

No signals - Just believe.

We are all Satoshi !!!

⚡️ChainReact update:

For a fair launch, we made the token through Сlanker
CA: 0x045a57B12e016d48f424C844Ac6878D96e45EB07

Rewards will be shared with users for their reactions.
First drop tomorrow

⚡️<React_Earn_Repeat>

Rain 5000 $degen

My very first Win on kaito…. More to come amen 


Good morning guys

stack

big fan of @worldcoin @dreamcoins @dolphinnow @stackdotso

I Took a Photo!

reply guys

locked and loaded My Noice Allowance With $KART & $USDC .

i keep my Tipping Routine in upcoming week .

Spend More than $3 in a day is my weekly goal 🎯

Degen

umm am I missing something or is something big coming to base soon...

placed a bet, best of luck all

the problem with this narrative is the users who opened a Coinbase account, bought a few hundred dollars of crypto and left it there are just fundamentally NOT users that will care. this is a main selling point for base, and it fails first principles. even getting listed on Coinbase doesn’t mean what it used to.

love u tho peter

Anthony Bright

@superfly1