I like what you say about dynamic balance. It reminds me somehow of what I learnt in high school chemistry classes: static equilibrium. Except that static equilibrium is the opposite of dynamic balance ofc

Very good insight about arguing. If you can recognize this in the moment it's much easier to catch yourself and reorient to a much healthier discussion

Spot on.

Yup learned the hard way. Also don’t stake sats. Lost a lot that way too.

tf is a cent bro...

often that "informed" feeling can be paralyzing too

100% this.

sometimes can be entertaining for entertainment sake

Painful to think of my former mind caught up in that

Right there with you, brother. This site is looking to unseat X/Twitter for my bitcoin news though. It really seems like there's some cool new tech being shared every day. Super refreshing

I also think how you travel changes this a lot. When I hear people talk about how they've traveled the world it sounds impressive, but you drill down and all they've done is sit on planes and essentially teleport to different places.

Travel long journeys by car, or even better bicycle or by foot, and it's a whole lot more fulfilling. You see and experience things so differently because you're actually putting the work into travel.

Your method of moving becomes productive, engaging, problem solving. You're using your body and mind.

Flying isn't so much travel, as it it continuous arrival.

at the very least, dont think it's a bad thing to see the world just for the sake of it!

Definitely agree on the traveling thing. A month is my limit now. Once I've hit that, I start thinking I should be working on a project, fixing something - anything but just consuming. And lots of travel is just consuming, just parading things in front of my eyeballs that are cool, yes, but there's a limit to how long I want to do it. Having good conversations with new people can help a lot in terms of making travel feel productive and engaging. That can be hard to find, though.

Stop attacking me, thought this was a safe space!

In all seriousness I love learning things just because knowing is fun. But it also cripples my ability to take action, or at least I think. While studying the last 3 years I worked in a tighter group of peers, and one which I just loved working with most often said to me "Stop thinking and just do", something which I try to do more hehe.

I can analyze things and look around for the top three ways to attack a problem, gather semi shallow knowledge around it and first after take action. This is hindering to some extent. Following his advice was to simply fuck around and find out if it was good - which in some ways taught me even more and faster since I had practical knowledge now.

And at least for me, more practical knowledge trumps more theoretical knowledge. In terms of moving the needle.

That is absolutely true of me, with some lack of direction sprinkled in. I knew I could succeed academically, so I just kept going, but I never had an idea of what the end goal was supposed to be.

That's a good focus I'd say. If you branch out again later it'll likely be more rewarding too