This is post 2 of a 3-part series, revisiting what appealed most to me about crypto circa 2021. Trying to un-jumble some thoughts circling around my head
Here is an interesting and sobering read on hedonic adaptation.
I grew up in Houston, Texas, in the 80s and 90s[^1]. TOday, I hear younger Americans snark about how other parts of the world don't use air conditioning. As if being able to boil the earth's atmosphere, for an additional 10c of cost on an Uber ride, was our birthright.
Sorry not sorry. Sweat, followed by a shower, will clean your pores and lead to healthier skin and a normal-functioning autonomic nervous system. Water is a renewable resource forever; while coal, oil, and natural gas are just dead dinosaur bones the earth has spent millions of years to deliver to us as a one-time windfall in our course of civilizational development.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, and drove up the cost of winter heating in Germany and continental Europe, lots of older folk pointed out that t...
