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Arjun Khemani

Someone should build a Nostr Wrapped for the year.
Like Spotify Wrapped but for Nostr.
Examples of stats:
- Total zaps received / given
- Peak activity day / week / month
- Biggest zap received / given
- Etc.

2024-11-23 06:34:43 GMT

Optimism is your moral duty. Pessimism is a skill issue.
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2024-11-22 06:03:16 GMT

Yes.
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2024-11-21 17:37:25 GMT

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Literally me lol

2024-11-21 16:42:45 GMT

“That’s an incredible feeling to know that you had something to do with it, to know it can be done. To know that you can plant something into the world, and it will grow - and change the world, ever so slightly.”
— Steve Jobs

2024-11-21 16:41:47 GMT

Nayib Bukele’s Instagram story lol
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2024-10-25 11:53:48 GMT

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YouTube: https://youtu.be/YlKIybg9G0A?si=RPP6uq83iSPFc0A7

2024-10-25 11:50:02 GMT

Chapter 1: The Great Monotony
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2024-10-05 16:01:10 GMT

BTC > DC

2024-10-04 12:35:12 GMT

They are afraid. Based Bukele.
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2024-10-04 06:01:00 GMT

“By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”
— John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace
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2024-10-04 05:40:53 GMT

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2024-10-04 05:31:10 GMT

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“Everything you read makes sense if you simply translate ‘experts’ as ‘crazy people’.”
— Marc Andreessen

2024-10-04 05:08:03 GMT

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Why not?

2024-10-04 05:07:39 GMT

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2024-10-04 05:03:00 GMT

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I see where you’re coming from, but I think the app makes it fairly easy to curate your feed. I’ve noticed that after marking a few similar posts as “Not interested in this post,” it quickly learns and shows me fewer posts on that topic or from that person.

2024-10-04 04:57:43 GMT

What does Nostr think about Zcash?

2024-10-04 04:57:28 GMT

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This is my favorite one to listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcw4GsSAmso

2024-10-04 04:56:32 GMT

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I’m sorry to inform you that drinking less coffee also helps improve HRV

2024-10-04 04:56:17 GMT

Started listening to theta waves before bed, as Bryan Johnson told me to
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2024-10-01 07:11:13 GMT

The Information Age renders traditional conquest of people and territory obsolete as the paradigm shifts from physical to intellectual labor.
While you can force people to perform menial tasks, the true currency of our era—innovation and creativity—cannot be extracted by force.

2024-09-30 06:01:52 GMT

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Indeed.

2024-09-29 15:36:31 GMT

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2024-09-29 15:31:21 GMT

Isaac Newton: I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing…
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2024-09-29 15:20:20 GMT

Make the leap. #bitcoin
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2024-09-29 15:14:30 GMT

@npub1n5r…0ngn: The reality is, if you have to go, I don't care how rich you are. I don't care whether you're a top Wall Street banker.
If somebody can tell you when to be at work, what to wear, and how to behave, you're not a free person. You're not actually rich.
We're in this model now where we think it's all about employment and jobs, and intrinsic to that is the idea that I have to work for somebody else.
But the information age is breaking that down.
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2024-09-29 14:07:42 GMT

@npub1n5r…0ngn on American culture:
“The culture of freedom, individual liberty, open-ness, and protection from the greatest slaughterer of mankind, government.”
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2024-09-29 04:14:42 GMT

Renato Moicano: F*ck Macron, f*ck all globalists. F*ck all these motherf*cking globalists.
They’re trying to push a politically corrupt agenda. If you want to learn about politics and economics, I advise you to read Democracy: The God That Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. I hope you understand that democracy is a fallacy. Democracy is not real government.
So please read Hans Hoppe and understand why the world is going crazy today. Thank you so much, France. Paris is f*cking beautiful.
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2024-09-28 15:34:30 GMT

Javier Milei at the United Nations General Assembly:
“I want to be clear about the position of the Argentine agenda.
The 2030 agenda, although well-intentioned in its goals, is nothing more than a supranational socialist government program that aims to solve the problems of modernity with solutions that undermine the sovereignty of nation-states and violate the right to life, liberty, and property of individuals.
It is an agenda that aims to solve poverty, inequality, and discrimination with legislation that only deepens these issues. The history of the world shows that the only way to guarantee prosperity is by limiting the power of the monarch, ensuring equality before the law, and defending the right to life, liberty, and property of individuals.
It has been precisely the adoption of this agenda, which responds to privileged interests, and the abandonment of the principles outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations, that has distorted the role of this institution and set it on the wrong path.
Thus, we have seen how an organization that was born to defend human rights has become one of the main drivers of the systematic violation of freedom, such as the global quarantines during the year 2020, which should be considered a crime against humanity.”
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2024-09-28 15:31:40 GMT

“Zcash is a blockchain that is built around zero-knowledge proofs where all the transactions, recipients and senders can be anonymous. Truly ‘moon math,’ as they say.”
— @npub1n5r…0ngn

2024-09-28 08:14:03 GMT

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2024-09-28 06:15:51 GMT

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💯

2024-09-27 12:18:16 GMT

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It’s not ad hominem if you started it 🤷‍♂️

2024-09-27 12:17:58 GMT

If you think people are stupid and need the state to ensure individuals act rationally, you’re stupid.

2024-09-27 12:17:41 GMT

The most creative work happens in an unstructured mental environment.
The best exercise happens in an unstructured physical environment.

2024-09-27 12:17:12 GMT

We aren’t running out of resources, we are running out of optimism.

2024-09-27 12:15:59 GMT

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Why I come to Nostr now
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2024-09-27 11:58:35 GMT

“They’re the same picture.”
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2024-09-27 09:48:00 GMT

The sovereign individual is the antithesis of the state.
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2024-09-27 09:47:38 GMT

“Dissent is the native activity of the scientist.”
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2024-09-27 09:46:12 GMT

“And when someone accuses you of being selfish, just remember that he’s upset only because you aren’t doing what he selfishly wants you to do.”
— Harry Browne, How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World

2024-09-27 09:46:00 GMT

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2024-09-26 18:06:05 GMT

11 Books I never tire of rereading:
- The Beginning of Infinity
- The Fabric of Reality
- Objective Knowledge
- Conjectures and Refutations
- Science and Human Values
- The Almanack of @npub1n5r…0ngn Ravikant
- 1984
- Siddhartha
- The Sovereign Individual
- Atlas Shrugged
- The Fountainhead

2024-09-26 18:05:18 GMT

@npub1n5r…0ngn's number one reading advice: “Go read The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality [by David Deutsch].
They rewired my brain, made me smarter.”
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2024-09-26 18:03:49 GMT

Peter Thiel: I think we live in a society in which all the culture and politics hate science and technology in all forms.
The easy way to see this is just by looking at all the science fiction movies. They always show technology that kills people, destroys things, doesn’t work, or is dystopian.
The future is going to be a combination of Terminator, The Matrix, Avatar, and Elysium.
I watched the Gravity movie the other day. You would never want to go into outer space. You’d just want to be back on a muddy tropical island somewhere.
I’m not blaming Hollywood. I think it simply reflects the broader culture.
Silicon Valley, and what it represents, is radically countercultural. It is very much at odds with what people in the Western world actually think about the future or what they want.
So, it’s like a Zeno’s paradox type situation where you have, on the one hand, accelerating technological change (or at least the potential for it), and on the other hand, a culture and political system that is incredibly reactionary and hostile to it.
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2024-09-26 18:02:49 GMT

Everyone talks about Snow Crash for the Metaverse and cyberpunk stuff, but no one mentions how Stephenson normalizes teenagers working at 15 and being taken seriously.
It’s a world where competence, not age, defines responsibility—so different from how we treat the youth today.

2024-09-26 18:02:15 GMT

— Isaac Asimov
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2024-09-15 14:50:00 GMT

Jeff Bezos: “I always tell people who want to be entrepreneurs that…
You need a combination of stubborn relentlessness and flexibility, and you have to know when to be which.”
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2024-09-15 14:48:48 GMT

Basic economics
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2024-09-07 12:17:59 GMT

@npub1n5r…0ngn: “The means for learning are now abundant… but it’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.
College is a checkbox. And the easiest way to see that is if we say, OK, you can go to college but you wouldn’t get a diploma—would you still do it?’”
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2024-09-07 12:17:06 GMT

Steve Jobs: We started with nothing. So whenever you start with nothing, you always can shoot for the moon. You have nothing to lose.
And the thing that happens is when you sort of get something, it's very easy to go into cover-your-ass mode.
What we're trying to do is to realize the very amazing time that we're in and not go into that mode.
Now, how come they came to Apple to work on this? We hired these people from other companies, and the reason they came to Apple was because they knew what to do.
But the companies they were working for wouldn't take the risk and do it. And we said, come to Apple and build this.
And they said, well, who do I have to convince to do that? Nobody. Just go do it.
And we got a collection of, I think, some of the finest computer scientists in the world.
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2024-09-02 15:20:41 GMT

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My math test score!

2024-09-02 12:24:37 GMT

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2024-09-02 12:21:17 GMT

Freedom can never be given, it can only be taken away.

2024-09-02 12:21:00 GMT

@npub1n5r…0ngn on American culture:
“The culture of freedom, individual liberty, open-ness, and protection from the greatest slaughterer of mankind, government.”
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2024-09-02 12:20:17 GMT

Prices are the economy’s nervous system.

2024-09-02 12:20:01 GMT

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2024-09-02 04:04:12 GMT

Perplexity marketing goes hard
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2024-09-01 15:35:16 GMT

Best book on psychotherapy I’ve read, thanks to @naval’s recommendation.
Sadly, it’s counter-culture. Many with “mental illnesses” would benefit from reading Glasser’s work instead of wasting hours discussing their feelings or past with a therapist or taking brain-numbing drugs. https://image.nostr.build/07bfcce4c65d697208eeabdb3c353acf288dc31d2a2e2d852dd1e81be1f97c34.jpg

2024-09-01 15:34:21 GMT

“Everything you read makes sense if you simply translate ‘experts’ as ‘crazy people’.”
— Marc Andreessen https://image.nostr.build/505f8a1bb70f029f31cbf868f301c1f0fa1e1b6d0406cca10f617d75ae6fa962.jpg

2024-08-28 18:41:49 GMT

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2024-08-28 18:41:19 GMT

Peter Thiel on higher education:
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2024-08-27 06:18:06 GMT

@naval: If you’re ending up in Forbes 30 under 30 or on the cover of magazines, that’s not conducive to being a good founder.
All the value comes from a few hundred genuine, brilliant tinkerers who are there for the love of the game. They’re there for the love of the craft. They’re there because they’re creating something that they want to see exist.
I genuinely believe Elon when he says he wants to die on Mars.
And so these kinds of people—Ilya Sutskever, the genius behind OpenAI, and Greg Brockman and others, obviously, and Sam Altman—these are people who have been working at the edge of their knowledge to try to figure out something new for decades. They are not there to be famous. Fame is a byproduct.
And honestly, anyone who’s on this stage, like me, talking about this—you shouldn’t trust 100%. We’re not the real deal. The real deal, the real power, the real knowledge, the real wealth, the real creativity derives from a small number of modern, you could call them scientist inventors—the new Thomas Edisons, the Henry Fords, the Nikola Teslas.
Interviewer: And who are they?
@naval: Who are the new ones? They’re people you’ve never heard of. They’re that geeky kid standing in the corner at the AI hackathon who’s shipping something that you can barely even understand or describe. You can find a lot of them on Twitter, but good luck sorting out the wheat from the chaff.
By the time they’re known and they’re famous, then maybe, like Elon, they still have ambition and they still keep driving. But they’re not the true builders underneath. https://video.nostr.build/c8fa1167026b0fec534193413ad018a0627dd8cab92a7296b5886841ce0634b3.mp4

2024-08-26 16:37:29 GMT

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2024-08-26 16:36:58 GMT

We have more resources today than ever before. Let that sink in.

2024-08-26 16:36:47 GMT

John Steinbeck’s six rules for the writer: https://image.nostr.build/819f3b20555ebdb8c73c489e70b3e81b37f3d44413030f585124425e103e692f.jpg

2024-08-26 16:36:11 GMT

“Moderation is a propaganda word for censorship.”
— Elon Musk https://video.nostr.build/f3b20c5bc25f43e123139a6bec82e35a9e4d5f0a7694a70db383cdb7b7c13186.mp4

2024-08-19 15:43:23 GMT

Meet your heroes https://image.nostr.build/96cf84a28519547ca2f6669344e0f0287651e94bb5c85ef254c17bd503df303e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/bef023acc2503517c5dd977ba024281734c1be423cc5250077028baeed34e6fd.jpg

2024-08-19 15:41:43 GMT

@npub1n5r…0ngn: Smart people, capable people, don't let themselves be pigeonholed into one definition.
That is a disease of credentialism because we created this university system, and now you have to go to university and get a degree in something. Then people ask, "What is your expertise? What is your credential?" That's a question dumb people ask. Smart people don't ask that. Smart people don't need to know your credentials. They just talk to you for five minutes, and they figure out if you know what you're talking about or not.
A really good person, a so-called natural philosopher, can be good at any branch of anything. Nature has no boundaries. Nature has no concept of mathematics versus physics versus chemistry. It is all one thing. Anyone who's either meditated, done psychedelics, or read enough books, they figure that out: it's all one thing.
When you find one thing, it connects to the next thing, connects to the next thing, connects to the next thing. And true creativity jumps boundaries. It can go from anywhere to anywhere. It doesn't have to follow a path of interconnections in between. https://video.nostr.build/4023e124aa461d9ce610b60989495eda68773a51cb604512d519dfa22e3f2e68.mp4

2024-08-16 12:07:32 GMT

This is how I’m gonna explain my work to my family now https://image.nostr.build/c4d3aa377c49029414649f3086d8148a1d1add66f7b62bf387c54ac7948bc65e.jpg

2024-08-16 11:42:07 GMT

Nostr is to social media what Bitcoin is to banks.

2024-08-08 16:06:21 GMT

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.”
— Jacob Bronowski

2024-08-08 16:06:06 GMT

The argument for restricting social media for children is analogous to cutting their legs as soon as they learn how to walk.

2024-08-02 23:36:48 GMT

Max Keiser: I've always said that Bitcoin has no top, because fiat money has no bottom.
There's no backing for fiat money. It's just paper. And I think a couple of things we're going to see happening.
Number one: People will no longer accept fiat money for Bitcoin. So you're going to try to buy Bitcoin with your fiat money, and no one will take your fiat money. No one will take dollars at all.
So that will be a moment of panic. They’ll be like, "What? It's like, no, here's a million dollars. Here's $10 million. I want one Bitcoin." Like, "No. No way, amigo. We don't want that shit. It's worthless."
So that's going to be panic. Then people are going to have to trade in other stuff for Bitcoin, like gold, or their house, right? And then people are going to be panicked, and they shouldn't be panicked, because the world we live in now is a fake world that's been created with the hologram of fiat money. https://video.nostr.build/ece2c87470fcdd43575f1f6b26cc8089d4203a5cf377526a173bd60c513ca232.mp4

2024-08-02 22:36:14 GMT

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2024-08-02 18:10:54 GMT

Chanting “End the Fed” with Ron Paul at Mises U https://video.nostr.build/f888985bbc7742e4103094514ee6546408cbf7539185ba061cf2e81ab678d8f9.mp4

2024-08-01 21:16:11 GMT

Virtue signaling can earn you social approval, but it cannot earn you any objective merit, and it isn’t a substitute for an argument.

2024-08-01 21:15:48 GMT

In a free market, wealth inequality is good for the poor.
For example, airlines offer First, Business, and Economy classes to charge different prices for different (and unequal) levels of comfort and service.
Those who purchase higher-priced tickets for extra comfort help cover the fixed costs of the airline, enabling it to offer more affordable prices for economy seats.
If the government were to mandate that airlines only offer economy class tickets, airlines would not be able to segment the market effectively.
They might need to increase the price of economy tickets to cover costs, especially if they can’t charge premium prices to other passengers.
This would limit accessibility for budget-conscious travelers, reducing overall consumer satisfaction, and potentially leading to less efficient use of airline capacity.
So, inequality is not the problem. In fact, it may be beneficial for the poor.

2024-07-31 19:22:57 GMT

“DEI is a pervasive system of legalized racial discrimination.”
— Wanjiru Njoya at #MisesU https://image.nostr.build/04ae91d94ae0a8de3f06cf361c576d7d706a54754071e17979bb3c05e148f8fc.jpg

2024-07-31 19:21:58 GMT

“Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses... The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned or, at least, adds something new to it.”
— Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy

2024-07-30 15:45:37 GMT

Peter Thiel: Maybe you should think of wokeness as hyper Christianity. https://video.nostr.build/f6c092869a38e8debb68eb279920d36f685714f2ea37968e5bbcf0ad7a96d36b.mp4

2024-07-30 00:53:22 GMT

¡AFUERA! https://image.nostr.build/524a3c27c460e59dc07ab2063ec8fbc91f8c017802002572106768a44adcefee.jpg

2024-07-30 00:33:01 GMT

Gossiping with Per Bylund in between lectures at #MisesU 😁 https://image.nostr.build/a43ff876768e72e28eb56d114bda3922e18462b682e05a2c50803dd919bd16e6.jpg

2024-07-30 00:32:14 GMT

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2024-07-29 22:58:49 GMT

Just bought some books from the Mises Store with #bitcoin, thanks to your zaps! https://image.nostr.build/6e7435e53712525879b9dcbc8abb184e0ea7a2c918685829137fe6cf2175c7b4.jpg

2024-07-29 22:51:10 GMT

You Are The Carbon They Want To Reduce https://image.nostr.build/ba5ccd5b92a9f72ae9d1da5e0f3f82ef564718624e2e1393e43b593004da83dc.jpg

2024-07-29 22:26:12 GMT

I just bought some books from the Mises Store with BTC, thanks to your zaps!

2024-07-29 02:32:17 GMT

Renato Moicano spotted at Mises Store https://image.nostr.build/78077deeae1e23abfbaa9878ac1e1d9a6fee3b1568f08caccf6592c522731860.jpg

2024-07-29 02:28:39 GMT

Thank you Mises Institute! https://image.nostr.build/22e0655e220619ab8fcc221e56bb27d3565e27f9c152e8686011e3a058f9d24a.jpg