Maciek Ziolkowski @SatoshiPL

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I'm increasingly convinced that burnout doesn't come from working long hours or weekends. The people I know who burned out were the ones who were really bored with their work, not the ones who worked the most hours. Burnout comes from working on things that don't energize you.

One of the healthiest habits to learn: Be kind to yourself when your mood is low.

An intelligent man never lets urgency from others override the patience his strategy requires.

Intelligence without curiosity calcifies into arrogance so fast you won’t even notice.

I’m in love with this sentence: “Consistency looks like nothing is happening, until everything changes.”

"I have nothing to hide." False. You have medical history. You have financial behavior. You have location patterns. You have political views. You have relationship data. Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.

Privacy is normal. No "normal person" ever needs to justify why they want privacy, or feel ashamed for wanting it.

Adulthood is also the realization that if you still keep in touch with someone even just a few times a year, it's already a pretty good friendship. People change, they move away, they experience ups and downs that they are embarrassed to talk about, they get busy with their kids, they get health issues; but as long as they still care enough to stay in touch, don't let them go, these connections are rarer than you think.

i'm not satoshi, but I was early in laser focus on the positive societal implications of cryptography, online privacy and electronic cash, hence my ~1992 onwards active interest in applied research on ecash, privacy tech on cypherpunks list which led to hashcash and other ideas.

Privacy: because we may be innocent today, but authorities can decide we're guilty tomorrow. And they'll use our data to prove it.

Your best performances will come when you are working in a way that is a full expression of you. The work becomes a natural display of your personality. This is when you not only get better results, but also love the activity — because in doing the craft, you feel alive.

So much success in life boils down to keeping yourself unemployed enough that you can stop everything you were doing with no hesitation, and take the jump when the game was obviously getting redefined: you just needed to pay attention and not blindly follow the herd.

Nobody will be arrested. Nobody will be held accountable. The money will never be returned. They will just cut deals with each other, print more money, and act like it never happened. Wake up before it is too late and own something that cannot be printed into oblivion.

There are stuff in real life that cannot be transmitted in books and stuff in books you can never pick up in real life. The disease is the inclination to learn from books what you must learn in real life and attempts to reinvent from experience what can only be found in books.

Bitcoin performance vs change in global M2. While gold & silver have been absorbing demand for inflation hedges, accelerated money printing remains a major tailwind for bitcoin. HT @DigitalAssets From the report: "Historically, bitcoin bull markets have aligned with periods of increased global liquidity. As a new monetary easing cycle has begun globally and with the Fed’s QT program ending, it is likely that we will see this growth rate continue to the upside throughout 2026, a positive catalyst for bitcoin’s price." Full report: fidelitydigitalassets.com/sites/g/files/…

The #1 sign you’re winning in life: No one understands what the hell you do for a living.

“The smartest people are all self-taught, even if they went to school.” — Naval Ravikant

Charlie Munger: “Everybody engaged in complicated work needs colleagues. Just the discipline of having to put your thoughts in order with somebody else is a very useful thing.”

Monero is pumping with no etf, no major exchanges, no michael saylor, no government strategic reserves just a community of people who love freedom

The One Month Life Reset: Go dark for one month. Turn off all notifications. Don’t explain yourself to anyone. Wake up early. Walk. Lift weights. Eat simple foods. Work. Think. Write. Read. Embrace cognitive friction and struggle. You’ll unlock 10 years of progress in one month.