Initially I only read the first line of this peep, and I'll admit I didn't think you were talking about the game

Looks brilliant! Would love to visit Turkey - I'll be sure to visit shortly before/after I go to Georgia again.

Generally nice weather, apparently one of the best times of year to visit. And I like my apartment - similar to Georgia, I don't need a coworking office because it's actually spacious enough to build out an workspace in my own room.

Hahaha. Palermo is good. It's most similar to Tbilisi (Georgia) in terms of the architecture, weather, and general vibes. There's also a fair bit of litter/graffiti/plastic like Tbilisi. Less poverty, though still lower income (and significantly cheaper costs) than north Europe.

Just updated my now.txt https://jamesscaur.keybase.pub/now.txt
I replace it every 2 weeks. Inspired by @sivers.

Roller Skates (Dub Version) - Steel Pulse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhMlwMAW4hc

"The Hustle" by KRAZAM: https://youtu.be/_o7qjN3KF8U

1 week in Italy. I am now beginning to automatically say "bene" when good things happen, like when a tricky piece of code runs for the first time.

Bad diets are killing more people globally than tobacco - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/03/bad-diets-killing-more-people-globally-than-tobacco-study-finds

Now this is what I call *_M U S I C A L L A Y E R S_*

https://youtu.be/OLuxHTr23Ik

Fresh out: https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/cf-noaction/2019/turnkey-jet-040219-2a1.htm

Brilliant, done.

Can't come but sharing anyway because @streamr is so cool

"The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?" —Tim Ferriss via @momentumdash

#nsfw Bitcoin and Friends Episode 1 - best thing I've watched all week.

Mamavatu - a beautiful Tamil (Indian) song by Susheela Raman. Check out the story in the YT description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAhtLKUG7cE

#lkie

Love Rumi. Thanks for sharing @vibez.

I'm more likely to believe Apple than I am Google, for the simple fact that they make money with pretty hardware and Google make money with ads & datamining.

How?

Hah! Well done!

Just spent a few minutes tracking down which country this is from. The Basque country, a region near France.

Great. Now I have another place I want to visit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Country_(greater_region)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e51W--w2Fk

I'm a real big fan of the concept that "negative" actions/emotions, if harnessed well, can help a good person be more effective. Why else would our world have evolved to have us able to lie, hurt, and threaten each other? There's clearly a value to deceit/aggression.

Love Machiavelli... Here's a great School Of Life video on him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOXl0Ll_t9s

Paraphrasing: a good politician isn't one who's solely friendly, kind, honest... it's an effective one (who sometimes employs underhand methods) who helps people at large.

Yep. Though I do believe in the long-term if you aren't playing the rules of the game you'll fail.

By the way, speaking of scams, did you hear the SEC filed it's first no-action letter for a crypto token sale? Effectively paving the way for legal crypto co's.

^ EXACTLY

Yep, and it's not just data - that's places I don't live nor work at, and my time/focus (the urgent-yet-public email)

Can't wait til I can use Metamask for govt services and pay a lawyer $15 to look over my application and sign it

That, or a good friend... lol.

I hadn't seen other episodes but the presenter seemed cool. Any favourites?

@shittymemes free meme to kick off crypto spring

"Your voice counts." love it @Bevan!

Regarding the email, maybe I'm overreacting. Even if the NZ government can't add an "NZ-Government:True" header to the email, it's well known that spammers always add a "Spamming:True" header to their emails. I can just filter by that.

Oh yeah, that "office address" is expected to have a physical shareholder register.

We've really only just seen the tip of the iceberg for crypto disruption… Imagine if governments trusted a PGP signed doc, or even tokenised equity. Much better than (forgeable) pen-and-paper!

Incorporating a company in #NewZealand is not designed for the 21st century. You have to give:

• a residential address,
• an office address,
• and a contact email for "urgent matters"

All of this data is then publicly published. You effectively have to lie to complete it.

SpankChain are a crypto project worth watching. Whether you support sex work or not, there's no denying that crypto solves real problems for them and there's massive efficiencies/profits to be realised.

https://micky.com.au/porn-star-reveals-why-cam-girls-love-crypto/

Nice, I like the look of that UI, could be a good replacement for Google Docs. Thanks for sharing & welcome back @tonedeath

Elon Musk wins the 2019 April fools contest, time to pack up folks. https://soundcloud.com/user-209448905/rip-harambe1

Yeah maybe the goal is to stay aware of your bias and keep trying to mix it up and see it it works better for you

I agree. Welcome @dotone!

The perfect irony that the Wolf of Wall Street was also a real-life scam: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-perfect-irony-that-the-wolf-of-wall-street-was-also-a-real-life-scam

@naval on crypto companies & remote work:

“…crypto companies are open-source projects for the most part…[run by] mathematicians and cryptographers and hackers… [and] by it's nature, [crypto] ends up being much more distributed, much more remote"

https://bit.ly/2UF7nOm

Paul Graham on How To Make Wealth: https://www.mckaywrigley.com/post/paul-graham-how-to-make-wealth

- but I think it's useful to recognise how limited the brain is.

And back to @Bevan's original quote, I want to know - how do you choose what information is useful to let in to your own life? How do you prevent being affected by this new kind of censorship on a personal basis?

i.e. while he was riding the backwards bike, it gradually became easier especially as he focused only on riding backwards. But then when he switched, it took him almost as much time to relearn how to ride normally.

I still don't know what the best thing to do with this info is -

Here's a really cool video on how important biases are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0

One of the new takeaways I've taken on subsequent rewatches is that your perception is pliable - yet you're limited to only one dominant form of perception (or bias) at a time.

Agree. As for solutions... I'm a fan of the concept of a "low information diet".

Choose what occupies your attention like your food. Choose ahead of time what you want your biases & distractions to be, what you want to read, *especially* when you're inactive/on "autopilot"

That's a great quote.

I've heard good things about E-residency. It's a bit expensive but totally forward thinking and I'm sure the tax benefit would more than make up for it long term.