Japple, PhD, LeT., ERs

My 69 year-old mother just asked what I thought of #bitcoin. Is this mainstream yet?? At least mainstream media.

@INTERIORPORN1 They look young. Still heaps of time to have kids 🤷‍♂️

OMG, do you know how much of a flex this is?? 😭

@AlexAndBooks_ *according to rule 1 he -starts- 60-75 books a year

Mark Manson is one of the bestselling authors in the world (20M+ copies sold). He's also an avid reader who reads 60-75+ books a year. Here are 15 reading tips from him: 1) You shouldn’t finish every book you start reading. I have a personal rule, if I get 10% of the way into the book and am still not enjoying it, I put it down and move on. Life is too short and there are too many books in the world. 2) Or sometimes, what I’ll do is scan the table of contents and see if there’s a chapter later in the book that looks more promising. If so, I’ll jump to that chapter. Many books that I’ve “read,” I’ve actually only read chapters 1, 5, 6, 11 and 12. 3) If you run into a section in a book that isn’t interesting to you or that you already know a fair amount about—skip it! I can’t tell you how many psychology books talk about the damn “Marshmallow Study” from 1972. I’ve read about it a dozen times at this point, so when I see it in a book, I skip it! 4) Sometimes I’ll even do this within the same page. I’ll hit a paragraph that is repetitive. I’ll skip it. Then realize that I missed something, jump up halfway through the page, skim a few lines, find the info I need, then go jump back to the end of the page again. 5) The point of reading a book is to maximize the processing of interesting information. Reading sequentially and processing every word of every book is rarely the most efficient way to do that. In fact, unless the book is really interesting and/or really well-written, it’s never efficient to read it sequentially. Train yourself to learn how to skip and skim well. 6) You don’t actually need to remember all the information in each book, you simply need to remember what information is in each book. I don’t remember it, I just remember where I saw it. And then I go pick the book up, flip to the appropriate chapter, refresh my memory, and write it down again. 7) For many years now, I have consistently read 60-75 books each year. A lot of friends and family hear that and look at me as if I have some sort of superpower. But the fact is, my reading speed is only slightly above average. My secret is that I schedule time to read every day and rarely miss a day. 8) If you budgeted thirty minutes a day to read and consistently hit it, that’s a book every ten days… or 35 books a year! 9) Add in flights, commutes, lunch breaks, or that occasional book that you simply cannot put down, and then that’s easily 50 books a year, or about one book a week. Not to mention, the more you read, the faster you become. 10) It’s like anything else: do it intelligently, and consistently, week after week, year after year, and one day you’ll wake up having read a few hundred books and everyone will look at you like you’re some sort of freakish encyclopedia who knows and remembers everything—but really you remember nothing—it’s just that something someone said triggered a memory about a book you read four years ago and a bunch of associated ideas came flooding back into your mind and now you sound super f--king smart. 11) Choose a specific window. Maybe an hour, maybe a day, maybe a week. Turn the phone off or at least put it in do-not-disturb mode. Delete a bunch of apps. Keep it physically outside of your reach. And during that block, commit to no screens. And then go read "War and Peace." 12) Try creating a reading zone, a cozy chair by a window or somewhere with midable noise. Bring a drink of choice, you know, coffee or tea... and then make reading a ritual that you experience for pleasure and not just a chore. 13) Set microtargets and reward yourself. Instead of saying, 'I need to read 50 pages every day or I'm a loser.' Try five pages. Then celebrate finishing that small goal by, I don't know, get up, grab a snack, do some stretches. A lot of us sabotage ourselves with giant, unrealistic reading goals. A series of small wins leads to bigger wins down the line. 14) Book clubs or reading buddies: Accountability is everything. Find a friend in real life or online and pick a book to read together. Discuss it once a week. That social pressure can push you to keep turning pages when you've otherwise quit. 15) Read more than one book at a time. I actually find it much easier to sustain my attention and excitement for books if I’m able to jump back and forth between them. I generally try to read three books at any given time and I divide them up into three categories in my head. I have kind of the philosophically and technically challenging book; I have just a general non-fiction educational book; then I have like a light fiction or a biography or something like that. I see it as like my 'fun book.'

@ryzzqq F me. That was only YESTERDAY?!

But cobie posted a smiley face yesterday? Why we dumping

@optionscjp We must protect retail investors by preventing them from investing in companies with excellent potential.

So Leopold is either - closed his fund down and called it a day and is chilling in the Maldives - filing late - or filed to be confidential because he’s still building out a position and thinks the market will blow it up if it’s public ( Warren Buffett has done this multiple times) I wouldn’t doubt it if it was him filing to stay confidential due to the insane amount of people tracking his trades

@bsiegelIR @Sam_Badawi 👀

@Sam_Badawi There's a third option. He successfully petitioned the SEC to keep his filings private.

So there may be a reason why we haven’t seen the 13F filing from Situational Awareness LP. Leopold Aschenbrenner could have closed the fund or sold most of the $5.5B across $BE, $LITE, $SNDK, $CRWV, and $IREN, bringing assets below the $100M threshold so the fund would no longer have to file.

Leopold is too successful. We cannot possibly allow the serf-retail plebs to invest on the basis of these required disclosures. Therefore, they are not required for Lord Leo. Thank you.

@cprkrn @rogerkver Wow I did not see that twist coming

Best part is finally being able to dump my Bitcoin Cash. Fuck you @rogerkver!

@_The_Prophet__ Very worrisome. The surveillance state.

⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear. It migrated inward. Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space. That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons. So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public. The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it. The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open. The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility. That is the trade. A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation. This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question. The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults. It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation. The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.

Great story

@JohnLeePettim13 Here's the confession: I loved the sound of the twin engines

@FourVork Niall is the GOAT financial historian

10 books to understand how money works: 1) The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World narrative of how money, credit, and finance shaped civilizations: from ancient bonds to modern bubbles.

@QiaochuYuan 💯, Feynman was also a bad teacher. Too intelligent to have the perspective of someone struggling to understand.

no, goddamnit, feynman was just wrong, some ideas are genuinely irreducibly complicated. i know mathematics it would take literally years to explain to a layman, which is literally why graduate school exists as an institution, to do that high-level mathematics takes place in a very sophisticated language where every concept is defined in terms of other concepts which are defined in terms of other concepts etc. etc. etc. and fully unraveling all of these concepts back to what a layman would be familiar with takes potentially thousands of pages depending on the subject. and i'm not talking about stuff with no applications, this is the level of effort it would take to fully explain all the math that goes into the standard model of particle physics, eg other subjects are also like this! you might question whether some of these subjects are mostly fake, towers of theory disconnected from reality, but that's a different conversation entirely. the towers of theory actually do exist and require actual effort to climb

We're running towards Asimov's timeline

@WorldWideCarsTM Daaaaaaaaamn

'82 Audi 100 Coupé S $18,500 71000 KM

@Moonlight_myths Holy smokes

Today, his routine is always the same. He falls asleep between 2 and 3 in the morning while watching videos, wakes up around noon, walks into the kitchen, and asks me what’s for lunch. If I ask him to take out the trash, he says “later.” If I suggest he look for a job, he gets annoyed and tells me I’m pressuring him. Recently, I told him I no longer have the same energy, that my back hurts and I get tired easily. He replied that we should hire someone to help with the housework. Two months ago, I had a severe spike in blood pressure and was bedridden for three days. I thought it might make him react. On the first day, he ordered food delivery. On the second, he left dirty dishes on the table. On the third, he asked me when I was going to get up because there were no clean clothes left. That’s when I finally understood: he doesn’t know how to live without someone taking care of him. And that someone has always been me. My sisters tell me to kick him out—he’s already a grown man. But when I see him sleeping with that peaceful expression on his face, I still see the five-year-old who used to fall asleep hugging his pillow. I kept him frozen at that age. I didn’t prepare him for the world. I protected him from the world. And now the world is my home… and I’m all he has.

I’m 60, and my son is 33. He still lives in my house, sleeping in the same room he grew up in and using the same closet I built for him when he was ten. He eats the food I prepare for him every day. He doesn’t work, doesn’t study, and doesn’t look for anything. He wakes up late, turns on the television or computer, and that’s how his day passes. If I don’t serve him breakfast, he skips it. If I don’t wash his clothes, he leaves them piled on a chair until he has nothing clean left to wear. But it wasn’t always this obvious. It started years ago, little by little, and I allowed it all to happen. When he was a child, I didn’t let him do anything on his own. I tied his shoes until he was twelve because he said it took too long. I did his homework for him “so he wouldn’t get stressed.” If there was a problem with a teacher at school, I went to speak on his behalf. If he argued with a friend, I stepped in. I always told myself, “He’ll have time to suffer when he’s an adult.” I never let him experience discomfort.

@ShardiB2 Yikes

I mean Holee FKIN SHEEET

@HRH_SHP @Zocky484867 I'd love to hear from other people who did it without any degrees. What did it take?

@Zocky484867 She doesn’t have any degree, though. No undergraduate degree, no law degree.

Kim Kardashian finally found something that she can’t buy. It turns out that actually getting an undergraduate degree and then going to law school and then taking the bar is the way to go. Who knew? She’s taking a break from the bar exam (which is only held twice a year as it is). She skipped February and will skip July, and probably should just skip the rest until the end of time since she’s not willing to put in the work to learn the material.

@cryptoaladeen Limelight

Swatch saw the Royal Oak and said “what if we made it look like a nicotine vape flavor lineup” 😭

@rwlesq "Before that it gets a little hazy" 😂 great story

Who should it be returned to? The British Royal Family has had it since 1850, when it was given to Queen Victoria by the British East India Company. The British East India Company got it the year before, when it was surrendered by the then 10-year-old Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh of the Sikh Empire to the British at the end of the Second Anglo-Sikh War. He had it because he had been installed as Maharaja of the Sikh Empire in 1843 after a coup in 1839 and several years of instability. The Sikh Empire had it since 1813, when its founder, Ranjit Singh, took it from Shuja Shah Durrani after Shuja Shah Durrani was deposed and exiled from the Durrani Empire in Afghanistan. Shuja Shah Durrani claims that Ranjit Singh had his son tortured until he gave him the diamond. Shuja Shah Durrani had it because the founder of the Durrani Empire, Ahmad Shah, was given it c. 1750 by either the grandson of Nader Shah or the head of Nader Shah's harem, following Nader Shah's assassination. Nader Shah was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran. He got it when he looted the Mughal Empire in India in 1739 and took it from the Peacock Throne of the Mughal emperors. Before that, it gets a little hazy. However, it appears to have bounced around the Mughal empire since 1526, occasionally being gifted or stolen (or stolen while being gifted). The Mughal Empire got it as ransom after Humayun, the son of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, got it in ransom for a family captured during the Battle of Panipat, in which the Mughal Empire was founded with the conquest of the Delhi Sultanate in northern India. The Delhi Sultanate had it since 1310, after it subjugated the Kakatiya dynasty of southern India. I wasn't able to easily determine where they got it from. So yeah, the British may have it as a result of colonialism and empire, but that colonialism and empire dates back to before the United Kingdom existed. Maybe the British Royals shouldn't keep it, but chances are that whoever they return it to is just the second-to-last (or third-to-last or fourth-to-last) conqueror of the diamond.

@kv4rl doesn't pomp have a bitcoin holding compnay?

Few more clowns pivot from crypto to AI, then up only