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Benking · 5w
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Diyana · 5w
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So bittersweetly tangible to see this.

Lived in Canggu part time for the last 7 years. Sold our little place last summer, and I spent that season driving my scooter around grieving.

I’ve changed so much since we first started living there, and so has Bali.. a relationship that inevitably and sadly grew apart.
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Contra · 7w
We’ve stopped reading carefully and we’ve stopped speaking plainly, and you can feel what that’s costing us. The good news is both are skills, and skills come back the moment you start using the...
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I am actively cultivating my social environment to be ever more direct and productive. To foster expansive perspectives and conversations, even if they are at first uncomfortable.

It’s easier to reshape who I spend time with as far as friends and digital social interactions. But it was far more challenging to navigate this with the moms this last weekend, in the face of generational perspectives on this emerging and confusing world.
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Contra · 7w
This is the way
proofofprice.com · 7w
What does that even mean have ‘abundance’ anyway. We do have abundance in the western world already. Just lazy and lots of dumb fucks who rather complain than work for it (talking and thinking esp...
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Yes, I admit my use of the word ‘abundance’ was itself lazy. What is a good word for the exact inverse of scarcity? That was what I was attempting to communicate..

Your observation of people becoming lazy in the face of these questions is exactly why I’m attempting to grapple with them. The unknown is paralyzing when we believe we need solid structures to stand on to be ok.

What I’m attempting to communicate is that it’s possible to jump off the “sinking ship of certainty” into the “turbulent waters of the unknowable” and still feel perfectly safe. A sense of safety that isn’t tied to any conceptual framework of a physical or social structure.
Diyana · 7w
Do techie guys prefer techie women or??
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This techie guy married a woman who was a former computer engineer.
Though now, both of us are far more interested in all manner of consciousness. It’s wonderful that we have shared language across two important domains.

Over the last decade she’s become a masterfully effective coach for tech execs and ceos who are wanting to learn to navigate their “inner software environment”.
I’ve become obsessed with how these emergent technologies are affecting our individual and collective consciousness, our paradigms, and our social operating systems. And how they are likely to continue to unfold and mutually evolve.
proofofprice.com · 7w
Yea you’re right and all but then there is bitcoin and satoshi hammered the hard cap on it’s head with Thors Hammer and it’s our duty to never ever change that and your bullshit theory goes out ...
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I don’t disagree in the near term. I’ve had all my ideological chips on orange since ‘17, and the cosmic roulette wheel continues to land on it.

What I’m ultimately saying is, given the fullness of time, that nothing escapes change.

Bitcoin emerged as an incredible solution to a problem that has existed for all of recorded history. But even the problem that Bitcoin solves is subject to change. The need for holding and exchanging value through time and space is likely to become obsolete.

What happens when we move to a post scarcity world? When energy is as abundant and free as the air we breathe. When anything physical is as easy to create and replicate as it is in Star Trek. Does Bitcoin still offer a solution in that future?

I don’t claim to know what the future holds, other than ever more rapid and unpredictable changes.
I am learning to dance in a world where every footfall emerges and disappears , and the tempo of the music is picking up.

For the moment, I’m delightfully dancing with Bitcoin as it is imposing a new paradigm.
What is next!? What else is possible, and where will the cosmic music lead us?
The tune is sublime
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proofofprice.com · 7w
What does that even mean have ‘abundance’ anyway. We do have abundance in the western world already. Just lazy and lots of dumb fucks who rather complain than work for it (talking and thinking especially about Germany here).
Liberthea Anadara · 7w
I agree with most of what you said. Not everything is literal. Context matters. People change. Words shift. But there are some things you take literally. Not because you're rigid. Because you have to...
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Oh, and I’m also curious what you mean by unchanging truths? What is an example of something that is perpetually true?

As with any framework, I’m willing to have this one wrong, maybe there is something that is as constant and consistent as change itself.
Liberthea Anadara · 7w
The ways in which you can test the spirits that doesn't change when we understand how. . .it want change there are somethings that want change because it stands in truth. The things that does am flexible on that. . .
Liberthea Anadara · 7w
I agree with most of what you said. Not everything is literal. Context matters. People change. Words shift. But there are some things you take literally. Not because you're rigid. Because you have to...
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Curious, how do you choose what to hold firm, and when or how to let go?

I also agree with your premise. I hold some frameworks, tool sets, and principles firmly as navigation mechanisms in these turbulent waters. As well, I recognize that in the fullness of time, all of those will be called up for review, adjusted, or potentially discarded for what is more relevant and effective.

It sounds like you agree that everything is ultimately subject to change?
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The biggest lesson I’ve learned in the last decade, is that no one on this planet is to be taken literally.

Any words spoken in a moment are just that, a moment to be observed and considered in the greater context, all of which are absolutely subject to change.

In fact, it seems that this era is more about learning to be comfortable with the ever changing and becoming that is happening all around us. Instead of needing to have any certainty about anything beyond the immediate moment.

In an ever and more rapidly changing world, how could we expect any thing or any one to remain constant?
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proofofprice.com · 7w
Yea you’re right and all but then there is bitcoin and satoshi hammered the hard cap on it’s head with Thors Hammer and it’s our duty to never ever change that and your bullshit theory goes out the window. There is a constant in this world now and it’s called bitcoin. As long as it remains ...
Liberthea Anadara · 7w
I agree with most of what you said. Not everything is literal. Context matters. People change. Words shift. But there are some things you take literally. Not because you're rigid. Because you have to stand on something. What I'm teaching — the test, the patterns, the consent framework — those ...
Benking · 5w
True… but maybe the only thing worth trusting is awareness itself. Everything changes, even our interpretations of change. The challenge isn’t finding certainty in people or words, it’s staying grounded while everything moves.