Note I posted on substack. 

Substack has turned into my default posting place now for broader topics. I still post here first for crypto and crypto adjacent stuff.

Great read

You can never go from fall back to summer. You can only progress forward through winter and onward to spring

Let the jackals eat the "carcass of the old order" -- don't stay glued to the brazen displays of graft, it will only demoralize you

Find your Venice and plant seeds for springtime

He addresses the latter point, it will be heartbreaking

But what is the alternative? Name some credible opposition that can play well in the current meta

musician: gigameshmusic.com | dev: github.com/gigamesh

To me it sounds like defeatism and akin to the notion that Earth is cooked so might as well focus all our attention on populating mars.

Also a privileged take. The global poor don’t get to ignore the destruction of institutions they rely on.

A lot of crypto folks have been glued to the brazen displays of graft and are demoralized

price driving narratives can be unnerving