Words do not do this justice, so just watch it. Thank you Arnold

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#TheMasters weekend... so let’s have another look at my favourite golf shot ever... from this day in 2005...

I've started reading "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" by Richard Hamming and it's like mainlining intelligence, enthusiasm, and, dare I say it, meaning! Every page makes me think of something new I want to do or write. This is the last paragraph of the introduction.

In the past, when national leaders wanted to gain independence from US foreign policy, they often followed a *communist* approach. Now, they may follow a *Bitcoin* approach. Think about that.

Can you imagine telling your kids one day that you didn't stand up for a technology that empowered individual rights and freedoms and set the world on a path to abundance, so that you could gain or keep more control? I can't, and that is why #Bitcoin

This map potentially shows one of the world’s longest uninterrupted walks from Cape Town, South Africa to Magadan, Russia: a distance of 22,387km (13,910 miles). Google Maps estimates it would take 4,492 hours to walk it or 187 days of non-stop walking brilliantmaps.com/longest-walk/

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." - Franz Kafka

Satoshi Nakamoto should be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.

They've reached the point where they can't even put a patient with Covid-19 who develops kidney failure on to a machine because firstly, the machines aren't available and secondly, someone with kidney failure almost likely will not survive.

Access to electricity in Africa

"Just like a low resting heart rate is the byproduct of intense exercise, low anxiety is the byproduct of intense self-examination." - Naval Ravikant Naval

Seeing the US leave Afghanistan and the Western backed government collapse is another clear benchmark of the new era. The war on terror that shaped politics when I was coming into politicial awareness 2001-2012 is now irrelevant. That war was the last echo of the 20th century.

In the last 5 years the price of #Bitcoin has increased 100x

Never tire of seeing this: For Diego Armando Maradona, even in death, life is life. Footballing immortality.

You're here because you know something. You can't explain, but you feel it-you've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world, you don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. Do you know what I'm talking about?

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gm Co-writing a piece in The Economist with Chris Dixon, my favorite and most-cited tech writer, seems like the perfect way to announce that I’m joining a16z Crypto as an advisor.

These words should be heard far and wide….

The 21st century doesn’t belong to China, the United States, or Silicon Valley. It belongs to the internet. buff.ly/3oJPKOU