Category: Blog
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What’s Rational vs. What’s Real
I bought a decent amount (for us) of crypto in late 2021 (“bad” time) and held it through the whole bear market and next bull market, until last Tuesday when I decided to sell it hours before President Trump’s threat to kill 90 million people in Iran. 4 years isn’t that much time spent in…
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Reading Notes: Simulacra and Simulation (Baudrillard)
Reading notes collected from PDF Reader. The simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. – Ecclesiastes Simulacra and Simulation, p. 1 ANDREW (April 8, 2026 — 2:53 PM ET) what is Baudrillard saying here? “But it is no longer…
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“A Psalm of Life”
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not…
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Something like: “Sober up, something is happening.”
There is tension in everything. This is the grounding the theory I have currently. If there is a way the world works, I would say it has something to do with tension. Tension in the sense that most of our experiences, consumables, and relationships are connected to each other thing and they’re in constant push…
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Life is a series of…
decisions about whether you’ll clean up those 7 drops of milk the kid just spilled. Likewise, will I spend the 10 seconds it takes to not leave pants on the ground. Or get a haircut on time. Life is a series of decisions of whether I’ll do the thing that needs to be done right…
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The morning I have wasted
AI will add, they say, trillions of dollars in value to GDP. Yet, if all you are is a middle man between a CLI and a terminal, you have been conned my friend. Today, I am that middle man. I’ve spent the whole morning fiddling with this auto trading dashboard that I’ve been playing around…
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The Bots are Awakening
Things are heating up. AIs have created their own social network. They’re coordinating. Learning from one another. Hard to appreciate how really very interesting and weird this is. I’ve been interacting with OpenClaw bot through Telegram in the last day, trying to figure out what it is, you know, so as not to be Left-Behind-Guy,…
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The Religious Nihilists in Charge
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” For some reason, the Trump 2.0 Administration has become a death cult. They’re a group of people who told the world for years that they believed, absolutely, in a few core things: And they absolutely…
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Another sad day in Minneapolis
What do you write? I’m unsure about where we’re “at” in this timeline, but the weight of it all feels like it’s speeding up. The killing of Alex Pretti by ICE is very sad. And it’s incredibly wrong and evil. I wish I could make more sense of things, but we’re seemingly racing to a…
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Record of Snowfall
Starting today, January 15, 2026, I’m attempting to keep a record of all snowfall in Black Mountain, no matter how much or how little.