Political views can be expensive. When what you want to be true diverges from what is true, you'll make bad life decisions. - Naval Ravikant

At the very least, I do not want my sense of self to continue to develop and strengthen as I get older. I want it to be weaker & more muted so I can be more in present everyday reality, accept nature & the world for what it is, & appreciate it very much as a child would.

Socially, we’re told, “Go work out. Go look good.” That’s a multi-player competitive game. Other people can see if I’m doing a good job or not. We’re told, “Go make money. Go buy a big house.” Again, external multiplayer competitive game. Training yourself to be happy is completely internal. There is no external progress, no external validation. You’re competing against yourself — it is a single-player game.

Blockchains will eventually decentralize every piece of cloud infrastructure - identity, DNS, storage, hosting. Encrypted URLs everywhere.