Some of the things I’ve been up to:

- Family travel to Asia
- Contributed a short story to Philosophical Foxes
- Started a podcast with my girls
- Reading about hardness, crypto vs. institutions, askers vs guessers, and buried giants 

https://someofthethings.substack.com/p/summer-fun-edition

Til next time 🫡

Cohost of /gmfarcaster, a live stream Farcaster news show.  Engineer. Mom x 3. I love to share the wonder and beauty of daily life.

“Speaking of hardness and certainty, did you know humans will trade pain for useless information?”

I didn’t… but once you point it out @adrienne that sounds soooooo human.

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🤣😂 so perfectly human. 
But maybe our search for hardness isn’t as dumb as it sounds, maybe it gave us currency, institutions, blockchains. 🤔 

Cc @0xstark.eth 
Re: humans will “endure physical pain for information about the value of a monetary reward, even when that information won’t affect its value.”

From https://www.science.org/content/article/humans-will-trade-pain-useless-information
@js

From https://www.science.org/content/article/humans-will-trade-pain-useless-information
@0xstark.eth