111 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coyote_Cosmico 6 Apr \ parent \ on: I have drank Ayahuasca over 100 times, AMA AMA
Ok yeah, finding a trustworthy personal recommendation seems like the way to go. I'd love to chat with you about it, I can try sending you a DM message through lightning which I've not done yet. Will be good for me to learn how.
I'm based in South America and usually in Peru, so I've found a few leads here and there, but still hunting for one that feels right.
Watch for a lightning message!
Any pointers on choosing a shaman or ceremony facilitator in Peru for one's first experience?
I've been looking around and don't really know where to begin because there are so many.
I don't find SN toxic, but the low effort link-only posts diminish the experience for me.
I like to browse the "new" tab to find quality content and help bring it to the surface, but often the entire page there is just links with no comment at all.
I really wish we could filter those out. There is a filter for link vs discussion, but I don't want to hide all link posts, just ones with zero commentary.
I suppose territory mods could steer things in a more positive direction by setting rules that if you're posting a link, at least write a sentence or two about why it's worthy of attention.
157 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coyote_Cosmico 9 Feb \ parent \ on: What does it mean for SN to flourish? meta
When I first stumbled across SN not too long ago I read the guide and saw the residual sat rewards for referring new members. I remember thinking "oooh nice, I'll try to spread the message about this far and wide.. easy sats! Ka-ching!" (What's the best Bitcoin transaction sound?)
But, when I spent some time here it reminded me of the early days of some subculture forums I've been a part of in years past. The posts felt more intimate and "real."
So, perhaps selfishly, I decided to hold off on publicly singing the praises of SN, at least for now. Didn't want to do anything to mess with the vibe.
This feels like the start of something awesome here Siggy!
Been working hard on some stuff to post in your territory soon. I think SN has great potential as an incubator for writers - thank you for creating the conditions for this to happen.
Until those accelerometers get better we'll just have to content ourselves with these Satomic Discombobulators.
With the business contracts they agree on using a particular public court of law, or a private one?
I was more curious about the example above regarding externalities. Like a toxic chemical dump due to gross negligence or willful planning.
I've never heard anyone advocate for that before. Are there any robust arguments in favor of this you could link to?
I'm not trying to debate here, just curious because I've yet to encounter the idea.
I could imagine a few issues with such a system which may be tricky.
"I don't care for your laws, taking my business elsewhere, to the court across town..."
Ubud was just ground zero for the digital nomad movement back then and attracted a lot of bitcoiners who were recently balling out because it had mooned to ~$1k around Dec/Jan '13.
Hubud co-working space in particular was the spot, as internet was still incredibly slow across the entire island, except there. Pieter Levels was always working at the standing desk near the entrance building the early NomadList MVP, and there was a guy who would give an orange-pill Bitcoin presentation there every Thursday or Friday, it cost like $20 and you would leave it with a wallet and knowledge and the $20 equivalent in satoshis.
Unfortunately I never went to that presentation and I began to take BTC more seriously some years later, whoopsie.
There were a lot of middle aged programmer guys renting insane villas and throwing LSD fueled orgy parties, it was strange times.
As I mentioned almost every taxi in Ubud was accepting BTC -- I think that guy who was giving the presentations and his crew had orangepilled the whole taxi cartel and many of the cafes, restaurants, hotels etc.
It didn't last, as I believe a while later Indonesia passed a law either explicitly banning using crypto for these sort of transactions, or they said you could only transact with Rupiah.
I was coming and going from the island but just so happened to be in Bali during the height of 2 bullruns after that and it's been funny to see how things have evolved - from a real pure & punky counterculture ethos in 2013 led by gen Xers and older, to the much younger altcoin liquidity farming defi bros in the last go round.
I was first exposed to Bitcoin in late 2013 when I moved to Bali. Ubud at that time had the 2nd largest number of Bitcoin ATMs in the world, behind San Francisco! At least that was what I read, and it seemed to hold up because there were indeed lots of them, and most taxis and restaurants were accepting BTC as payment. It was quite a scene.
Anywhoo thinking back on the early adopter OGs I hung out with there, I've concluded that many were early to BTC not because they were ultra-prescient tech/ economic wizards, but more because they were societal dropouts and rebel hippie types. I don't say that with condescension, it was just a theme I observed.
An alternative financial system and dreams of a pleb revolution are very attractive ideas to certain edgy personalities, and the traits that got some of these folks so excited about Bitcoin when nobody else was paying attention also seem to manifest some other odd duck beliefs and behaviors.
It appears to me that there is a loose correlation between how early someone adopted BTC to how likely they are to hold some extreme and rigid ideologies, and to have a strong track record of wildly incorrect predictions.
There are plenty of exceptions to that generalization, and it makes the exceptions even more impressive. Some folks truly just "got it" and still very much get it.
It's just an interesting thing to think about, that to be a true OG in Bitcoin it required some blend of foresight, intelligence, naïveté, and weirdness - and many OG's are so heavy on a few of those measures that maybe best not to take them on as one's guru.
I can tell you put in a load of work here, well done!
About the formatting:
somehow everything is set to zero - whether this is done by SN or by copying from the get-go, I don't know
You mean the when you copy paste you lost the text styling and headings, right? Like italics and h2s?
I don't know what program you're using to write, but if you're using Google docs, or you export your file to Google docs, you can get the html in a cleaned-up format (no extraneous code) from a tool like this one.
Then convert the html to markdown. I'd ask gpt to do that, or there are also dedicated tools for it, like this one.
It sounds like a pain but I don't think that would take more than 10 minutes after you've done it once or twice. Hope it helps - maybe try it and drop the results in a comment here?
About the writing:
It's hard for me to give constructive feedback without knowing intended audience. Who did you write it for and what do you want the reader to take away from the piece?
As Seth Godin would ask "Who's it for? What's it for?"
Right now it looks like super-detailed personal notes, to help you absorb and remember the material. I'm sure it served that purpose well.
If the intended audience is someone else, what's the purpose?
Are you trying to inspire them to read the book? Are you trying to give a qualitative review of the content itself, or the writing? Are you trying to highlight some interesting nuggets from the book which most people would be surprised by or interested in? Some combination of these?
I read it all, and to be blunt it took a lot of effort. That's generally not a good thing for a piece of writing, but again I don't know if you're just sharing your own notes here (which is fine) or if this is intended to be an audience-facing piece, like a blog post.
If it is intended for an audience, and if you'd like me to, I can share more feedback.
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It did serve as a nice refresher to Sapiens, and reminded me about the needle (not the awl, but the threaded fine-pointed needle) being one of the most important inventions in early human history. I just find that fascinating because I would never have guessed it.
I learned that from one of Brian Fagan's books where he wrote about early clothing tech, and how awls could produce basic cloak-like garments suitable for shielding us from the sun, rain, wind and basically making us more comfortable in frontier conditions. But for real habitat expansion during the ice age, we needed individually tailored & form-fitting clothing to survive, which was only made possible by the development of advanced threaded needles.
Once early humans got good at that, the world was truly our oyster! 🌎
110 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coyote_Cosmico 18 Jan \ parent \ on: Compact yet detailed history books history
Since you asked about this specifically, I got the goods for you:
The "other fella" who conquered the Inca was Francisco Pizarro (the 2nd cousin of Cortez).
Without getting into original sources, the most readable book about these events is The Last Days of The Incas by Kim MacQuarie.
It's an absolutely epic story. One of the most richly documented and mind blowing accounts of a clash of civilizations we've got, imo.
I can't recommend this one enough, though it's not as short as you're asking for, ~500 pages.
Bonus - here's a photo I took of Pizarro:
Oops my bad. Sorry about that anyone who tried to click them. I just like putting the content here on SN sometimes - could have formatted that better.
I noticed that I get a lot more motivated, happy, creative and funny [0] when I am a little sleep deprived. It feels like my brain is too tired to think about all these things I usually think about so I actually start to think about things I usually not think about or at least from a different angle.
This feels true to me as well, but when I've looked into it the research seems to point in the opposite direction -- concluding that sleep deprivation reduces our ability for divergent thinking / creative problem solving. Maybe that's a different type of creativity though.
But it sure seems like there is a lot of anecdotal evidence out there of creative types doing weird things with their sleep.
I wonder if being tired specifically helps those people who tend to have an overactive "editor" part of the mind. Sometimes you gotta tire that fucker out so the authentic stuff can flow.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/22/upside-insomnia-sleep-deprivation-creativity-musicians
"When you're sleep-deprived I imagine it's quite similar to having taken certain drugs," says Bayley, who has a degree in neuroscience. "The logical side of your brain is slowly withering away because there's not enough energy to power it, and all these crazy ideas start happening that your brain would normally suppress."
I'd love to read your summary. Please do write it up!
I've had the idea to do the same thing lately - thank you for the nudge.
Interested to see how you approach it, there are a lot of different formats you could use for this. If it's going to be super detailed you may consider breaking it up into multiple posts? Similar to what @elvismercury did with his Broken Money book club.
Just an idea. I really like this sort of content on SN and look forward to reading yours.
Wow now that's a list!
From the tweet:
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• 21 Lessons by
@dergigi
• A New Kind Of Science by
@stephen_wolfram
• American Kingpin by
@nickbilton
• Antifragile by Nassim
@nntaleb
• Argentarius by Alfred Lansburgh
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Bitcoin Alpha V0.01 by@piratehash
• Bitcoin Billionaires by
@benmezrich
• Bitcoin & Black America by
@bitcoinzay
• Bitcoin Clarity by
@kiarabickers
• Bitcoin For Kiddos by Chris and Frieda Bobay
• Bitcoin Is Venice by
@AllenF32
• Bitcoin Money by Michael Caras
• Bitcoin by
@knutsvanholm
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Check Your Financial Privilege by
@gladstein
• Cryptoeconomics by
@evoskuil
• Cryptonomicon by
@nealstephenson
• Cypherpunks by Jacob Appelbaum, Julian Assange, Andy Zimmermann
• Debt by David Graeber
• Digital Gold by
@nathanielpopper
• Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
• End The Fed by Ron Paul
• Energy And Civilization by Vaclav Smil
• Energy by Richard Rhodes
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Fiat Money Inflation In France by Andrew Dickson White
• Fooled By Randomness by
@nntaleb
• Fossil Future by
@AlexEpstein
• Free Software, Free Society by Richard Stallman
• Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
• Goodnight Bitcoin by
@ScottMSibley
• Grokking Bitcoin by
@kallerosenbaum
• Hard-Boiled Egg Index by Kudzai Joseph Gumunyu
• Honest Money by Gary North
• How Is Fiat Money Possible by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
• If You Give A Monster A Bitcoin by @ScottMSibley and Mallory Sibley
• Independence Reimagined by
@knutsvanholm
• Inventing Bitcoin by
@skwp
• It Doesn'T Have To Be Crazy At Work by
@dhh
• Layered Money by
@timevalueofbtc
• Magic Internet Money by
@jayberjay
• Mastering Bitcoin by
@aantonop
• Money, Sound And Unsound by
@jtsale
• Money by Riccardo Siotto
@Yes8Richie
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell
• On The Origins Of Money by Carl Menger
• Programming Bitcoin by @jimmysong
• Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson
• Remote by David Heinemeier Hansson by jasonfried
• Rhyming Bitcoin by
@BVBTC
• Sade'S Satoshi by
@CharFadirepo
• Skin In The Game by@nntaleb
• Snow Crash by
@nealstephenson
• Thank God For Bitcoin by Bitcoin and Bible Group
• The Art Of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond
• The Bitcoin Standard by
@saifedean
• The Black Swan by
@nntaleb
• The Blocksize War by
@jonathanbier
• The Book Of Satoshi by
@egg_descrambler
• The Bullish Case For Bitcoin by
@real_vijay
• The Cathedral And The Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
• The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Ethics Of Money Production by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
• The Fiat Standard by
@saifedean
• The Grid by
@GretchenBakke
• The Hitchhiker'S Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Internet Of Money (Volume 1) by
@aantonop
• The Internet Of Money (Volume 2) by aantonop
• The Internet Of Money (Volume 3) by aantonop
• The Lessons Of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
• the simplest bitcoin book by
@SimplestBTCBook
• The Little Bitcoin Book by
@AlenaSatoshi
• The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver
• The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
• The Mystery Of Banking by
@MurraySuggests
• The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas
• The Price Of Tomorrow by
@JeffBooth
• The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg
• The War Of Art by
@SPressfield
• There Are No Electrons by Kenn Amdahl
• True Names by Vernor Vinge
• V For Vendetta by Alan Moore
• What Has Government Done To Our Money by Murray Rothbard
• When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson
• Why Bitcoin? by
@TomerStrolight
• Why Buy Bitcoin by
@edstromandrew
• Working In Public by
@nayafia
Awesome! I haven't listened yet but just added to the queue.
@kr - a meta question for you: how do you approach potential guests for the podcast?
Do you find it hard to get their attention and interest for a new / small platform? Any tips on outreach to increase the chances of a yes?
I want to start a podcast too. Mainly as an excuse to have free conversations with thinkers who I'd happily pay to speak with for an hour. I've felt intimidated about asking them though, to give their time to a 'nobody' like me with a nonexistent audience.