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“排除所有不可能的因素，剩下的无论多么难以置信，都必定是真相。”

Another similar thought is "I don’t know if I want to do this, but I think I should"

In many cases, there is no "should" - that's your perception of someone else's thoughts, and you're likely wrong anyway

My therapist calls this "should'ing all over yourself"

The desire that something “should” be the case is parroting a point that you pretend is your own idea 

It doesn’t mean you’re wrong right

Word of the Day: 

KLONG (coined by Frank Mankiewicz) — the sudden rush of horror when you realise you have forgotten something important or you see a typo in your article that has already been published.

this week I will by myself coffee with my magic internet money

It might be superficial, but one of the freedoms I have loved since I started my first company is the option to choose my equipment without justifying it to anyone or following any corporate guidance. 

Some friends tell me it's superficial, yet I don't think so. 

We spend so much time working using tools of the choice that it seems like one of the best freedoms to have 😄

There will always be light just invisible sometimes.

There is this idea that discovery is linear & with enough incentives/tools we’ll create the future

But we have so many examples of breakthroughs by serendipity!

Bring back think tanks! Not just incubators/build funds, but spaces for people to think, to experiment, to dream!

Word of the Day: 

LANSPRESADO (18th Century) - that friend who always conveniently has no money when the bill arrives.

Every day has a hidden message that is clear enough to observe.

Markets gud, price mechanisms gud. Congestion pricing in NYC continues to be winning, just as it has been winning for years in Stockholm, Singapore and elsewhere.

When demand > supply, there is always an auction. Either you pay with money, or you pay by waiting in line, with often grievous costs to mental health ( https://nytimes.com/2019/01/21/upshot/stuck-and-stressed-the-health-costs-of-traffic.html ) and to no one's benefit.

Blockchain transaction fees are similar: in the dark ages we used to wait some random number of 5-60 minutes for a transaction to get included into a block, and made excuses about how this is a virtuous act of expressing "low time preference".

Today, transactions reliably get included in 1-2 slots, and the more efficient fee market design in https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1559 is a major reason why. Tomorrow, transactions will be included even faster.

choosing to stay deaf to the demands of the world

ironic that as access to “expertise” increases exponentially, much of the expertise becomes outdated at an exponential rate too

Word of the Day: 

IRUSU (Japanese) - Pretending not to be home when an unwanted visitor knocks at the door.

Believe in the time of life turning tides in the right time itself to give you enough to make the most of it.