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These are exactly the types of things Chia is working on, and at least to some degree, are in production.

Tim Ferris has a great podcast episode with Matt Pottinger that discusses this topic. https://tim.blog/2024/05/08/matt-pottinger/

These are all excellent fountain pens! I'll add the Lamy 2000 (Fine nib) to the list, as it's my personal favorite and is what I use all day every day. And I happen to also use a P…

Just wanted to +1 on physical books and writing with fountain pens. My daily routine involves journaling in the morning with a Pilot Custom 823 in a blank Midori notebook, doing al…

Hahaha, accurate.

What is it?

It's frustrating, I agree. People are obviously going to continue being people with pyramid schemes and the like. At the same time, there are enough who also agree that it's a mess…

Yeah, it's definitely not ready. I agree with everything you are saying. Though, the industry is aware of this and working on it. There is at least one company (Chia Network) where…

Josh Kaufman did a lot of work in this area for years, maybe still does -- Personal MBA. https://personalmba.com

The designs of most cities in the U.S. absolutely treat pedestrians as second class citizens compared to automobile traffic. I'm currently working on a project that demonstrates ex…

Yes, and the highway system was originally intended as defense infrastructure to more easily move equipment across the country. A great idea, but a design that was not originally i…

This statement on using more energy than proof of work is ... incorrect. How did you come to this conclusion?

Agreed.

Thank you. And I completely agree.

Thank you for leaving the dead … super important habitat! Also wanted to mention the importance of diversity. Everybody thinks trees trees trees but, at least where I live, native …

Yes!! I love the awareness here.

Do you mean as awesome as the people who say jif? ;-)

I was just recently reading an article about the osage orange! While its most popular use was definitely as that of a hedgerow, the wood of the osage orange tree is "unusually hard…

Same

While it's been at least a decade since I've looked at M/UMPS ... I do remember the database having some really interesting stuff going on that suits the storage of healthcare data…

For now, but I don’t think this is true for long. There are too many talented people working in this space who care enough to develop solutions to some really difficult problems th…

> Proof of Work is currently the only solution for a truly decentralized network that’s not susceptible to coercion. Enter Proof of Space and Time. PoST improves upon Proof of Work…

Same.

Well, a personal anecdote: I have been using pen and paper in a similar fashion as the author for over 20 years. In fact, the last few years I’ve been using literally the same note…