Although not on same price scale as Tulips, Hyacinths also underwent a "mania" in 1700s France https://aradergalleries.com/blogs/news/the-hyacinth-in-the-18th-century?srsltid=AfmBOoqGedOHfFUkvFEOArgWFKq79MUypfupGthluzcBSeWyZOHPVhB2

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Today I learned about Berlin keys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_key

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"He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion--prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded." "Then he wonders why he's unhappy. Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things which are sacred or precious to us are the things we withdraw from promiscuous sharing. But now we are taught to throw everything within us into public light and common pawing."

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Everyone trying to change education today starts from a school. Wouldn’t it make more sense to go from online to on land.

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Picked up this book from Olgivy’s recommendation.

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https://youtu.be/7X0heCzy10E?si=X66pVrEDUGiXbcg_ Watching this video made me wonder whether people are interested in Nietzsche’s idea of the will to power or the repercussions of destroying the conscious.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj2v_covEpo Some of these stats are wild especially the ones about education and married parent households.

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Listening to Thiel's latest podcast with The Free Press. He talks about the impact the internet had on the elections where it becomes harder to play identity politics because everything is propagated online. It makes me wonder what else is not on the internet just yet, and I realized it's not much. The elections gave us a good image of the current state of things. On one side, they spend 2-3x more for doing things the old way of doing things like hiring an army to go door to door, and on the other, they leverage the network by going to the most connected nodes.

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“Just as the postulation of AI scaling never so much excited me, neither does talk of its possible diminution much discourage me. It is still a question of whether and at what pace we can find or create “AI-shaped holes” in organizations, or with individuals. And that is up to us.” https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/11/austrian-economics-and-ai-scaling.html

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The unbundling of education is starting. With education moving back to the states and school choice, this makes a good time to enter into the market. The frontier lies on the internet.

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https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-the-american-academy This is the CBDC for education. A different centralization is not the way.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/notboring/p/the-trump-bubble?selection=876a6798-6e52-4089-b5fa-19dd31d4468d&r=ezk3i&utm_medium=ios

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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1856114715694444856?s=46 This is a good start, but education is in need of a disruption. Schools cannot continue as they are because of AI. We need to lean more into the human aspects.

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"And what is the essence of religion? The great aspiration of the human spirit toward the highest, the noblest, the best. The human spirit as the creator and the conqueror of the ideal. The great life-giving force of the universe. The heroic human spirit." The Fountainhead

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Many people were posting a chart saying that whenever the Fed decreased interest rates by 50 bp, it caused a recession, but they left out 1995. The Fed did this but then the markets went on to a four year bull year. I wonder if this is going to be a repeat of that. I’m cautiously bullish, but it hard to imagine up only for four years.

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