"The behaviour of Hongwu, the first of the Ming emperors, is an object lesson in how to stifle the economy: forbid all trade and travel without government permission; force merchants to register an inventory of their goods once a month; order peasants to grow for their own consumption and not for the market; and allow inflation to devalue the paper currency 10,000-fold."

—Matt Ridley, from The Rational Optimist

"The word *courage* is very interesting. It comes from a Latin root *cor*, which means 'heart.' So to be courageous means to live with the heart. And weaklings, only weaklings, live with the head; afraid, they create a security of logic around themselves. Fearful, they close every window and door-with theology, concepts, words, theories-and inside those closed doors and windows, they hide."

—Osho

sometimes i get caught in these normie conversations and get a glimpse at what they've normalized and it takes everything in my power not to tell them i cannot relate at all to what they're talking about

i recommend re-reading some of those classic novels they assigned you in high school

they hit harder and are more comprehensible as a grown adult with mature life experience and a better vocabulary

i just poked my head over there and man, linkedin is the worrrst

anyone have one of these? https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark/

y'all, important message:

have kids, it's awesome.

10/10, should have had one sooner