july
your musings, thoughts & dreams; welcome here
@downshift.eth
row, row, row your boat
gently down the stream
merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
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@ffran
reflect intenesely on every decision you make.
from one day to another you take too much stuff for granted.
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@hyperbad
“the light of consciousness will not be tied to a single planet subject to the inevitable hazards of a harsh and vast universe.”
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@anco
Today is my daughter’s 15th birthday🎂
These past 15 years have been a long journey…
She’s right in the middle of adolescence, but I think she’s starting to settle down a bit.
Today, at least, I’d like to give myself some credit!
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@eriks
feels like it’s getting tougher by the day to get away w being closed minded and/or relying on the past to project into the future
ofc human nature is human nature and we repeat patterns, but we also tend to think linearly time and time again and we haven’t been exposed to this rate of change in all of history, nearly impossible to predict how it all unfolds
could make the case until very recently ppl could go entire careers or even entire lives without shifting too many of their beliefs and be just fine, “this is the way things are” was a fairly safe thought, things absolutely changed, but ppl usually had enough time to update their beliefs if it was necessary to do so
could also make the “always has been” case when it comes to ppl who already operated on the foundation of changing their beliefs and had a much greater chance of “success” in the past - it’s not this cohort im thinking about while writing this tho
to me it feels like the days of slow belief updates are over bc what is “valuable” and at what cost seems much more fragile now, unless the long term true value was already present, which imo is the case for very few things bc we don’t know what we don’t know
so what to do? im not exactly sure, but i can confidently say im bullish on the ppl disrupting their own thought patterns and the ppl who are deeply contemplating the value they are getting, and the value they are providing
the beautiful thing about all this is it will likely lead to more fair and efficient markets for goods and services - where lock in is much more difficult, and extraction without the appropriate value provided is much more difficult
feels like a win for humanity. crypto i think will have a major role to play from the freedom/ownership standpoint, much less from the standpoint of those using crypto to extract as those margins shrink to zero or near zero
i hope we see more public goods come about bc of this too, they could become easier to build and maintain in the yrs ahead due to how ai + crypto can work together in this way, ai increasing individual leverage of making things happen by the ppl who didn’t have the skills prior, and crypto increasing the individual ownership and durability
next few yrs are gonna be crazy, hope to see it all unfold 🙏
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@trh
There are some roles, positions, or stations that you earn and keep.
Others, you have to earn and continue earning in order to keep them.
Most jobs used to be the former, but many of them are shifting to be the latter. The rate, drivers, and trajectory of change are forcing us to reconsider not just what is stable but how we define stability.
The bar is going up. Now it’s moving to the side. Now the bar is a hula hoop? 
Thankfully, there are some roles, positions, and stations that you receive and keep without having earned them. These are becoming ever more important as the defining characteristics of professional relationships become more unpredictable.
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