Galen

@galen

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I wish there was a messaging layer in Metri / Circles. Every time I get trusted by someone it would make things infinitely easier to pass some ID confirmation. Would also be a nice opportunity for some irreverence and affinity building…. Maybe this warrants a new “Circles DM client”

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Hey /berlin ! I’m coming to town for Berlin Blockchain Week from June 11th to June 30th. I’ll bring some nice coffees from Taiwan / Singapore. Happy to make one for anyone looking to hang out!

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Finally got my Pinion world touring bike dialled in exactly. -XL tout terrain tanami frame -29er Lightbicycle carbon rims laced to Son dynamo and singlespeed rear hub -Pinion C12 gearbox -Gates belt drive -TRP Hylex hydraulic brakes -Rene Herse 700x55c slick tubeless tires -Honjo fenders -SQLab saddle -Cane creek headset Some other cool details, eg to mount the pinion shifter with drop bars, I had to spec a special three part separable drop bar. Anyway, rides like a dream. Nothing really to upgrade. 10k kms till the next servicing. 😀

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Just wrapped up a ten day Vipassana sitting (I’ve been going every three or four years since grad school) Surprisingly, my heart rate variability improved from 52ms to 126ms. 🧘🧘🧘

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My good friend in Singapore just got back from the world’s biggest club lighting trade show in Guangzhou. I always like realizing that there are mundane trade shows behind every product and experience.

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Otter parents to the rescue

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Singapore otter pups!

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TIL of the Memphis Digital Delta project. In the low likelihood that it succeeds, I’m imagining some new genre of diesel punk X solar punk as the inevitable path

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Insane coffee discovery in Japan: green beans in a little disposable metal pan, ready to be fresh roasted over a fire. Who wants to help me copy this and market it on Shopify??

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I am kei-car pilled. Rented a Honda N-BOX in Nagano (best selling car in Japan!) • Exceptional fuel economy • Decent sound system • Accessible storage • Good ergonomics for two passengers Honestly it felt like a modern Japanese apartment. Not big, but very functional with everything in the right place.

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Nagano is a Japanese Aspen or Muskoka. Country homes, land cruisers, national parks. Highly recommended. 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵

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Jiffy pop x coffee snob

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Tokyo low intervention wine festival

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Country driving in Karuizawa🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵

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“The Sea of Japan is a Mediterranean”

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I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air. It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.

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Poppy fields as ‘resistance crops’—not requiring post-harvest infrastructure vs rice etc

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Kevin Kelly: Q: Do we want national / sovereign AI? A: National level internet is a failure mode / let’s not take that as our north star. Some transnational global intelligence modelled after the present open internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj_WRXxwA&ab_channel=ProtocolTownHall

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