i started working at the age of 11. and after 24 years of networking, socializing, hosting events, etc., here is my 2 cents: you worry less about what people think of you when you realize how seldom they do most people censor who they really are just out of a fear of being judged or disliked the truth is, nobody remembers every interaction, and nobody is thinking about you in their life after the day ends so please don't let your mind trick you into thinking that you are more important than you are to others go out there and be yourself.

- I only spend a small percent of my time in entertainment and mostly use my time to grind or earn new tech and knowledge. - I know that people are better than me on different edges so I'm open to socializing with excellent people - I diversify my portfolio in Tradfi &Crypto

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Great article on increasing solitude of our societies, in this case US but same probably in EU to a lesser extent: "Derek Thompson's essay "You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner" argues that Americans have largely stopped having people over. The headline stat comes from combining the old DDB Needham Life Style surveys Robert Putnam used in *Bowling Alone* with a new replication by Data For Progress. The share of Americans who host friends or family at home at least monthly fell from 42% in 1975 to 12% in 2026, roughly a 70% drop. Most other forms of socializing also fell by double digits over the last 30 years, including cards, bars, sporting events, and volunteering. The decline in hosting was steeper than the much-discussed drop in church attendance. He rules out two comforting explanations. People haven't just moved dinners to restaurants, since solo dining is rising and face-to-face socializing is down overall. They also haven't replaced parties with other social activities. Exercise and travel are up, but exercise is mostly solitary, and time spent at home has jumped sharply since the 2010s. His explanations: 1. Harried dual-earner households. As societies get richer, leisure starts to feel like work, and planning a dinner party is basically unpaid project management. Women historically ran the family social calendar. When they moved into paid work, men didn't take over that job. He admits this can't be the whole story, because total leisure time has actually increased. 2. Intensive parenting. Parents, especially fathers, now spend far more time with their kids, and that time comes out of evenings that used to go to hosting adults. 3. Shrinking friend networks. Close friendships are declining, most sharply among people without college degrees, so hosting is becoming a luxury good. People who never host skew toward independents and non-graduates. He speculates that weaker social ties may lead to weaker party attachment, rather than the other way around. 4. Home is too comfortable. Americans spent almost two extra hours a day at home between 2003 and 2022, much of it on screens and short-form video. His closing idea is a "Lump of Leisure" theory, a twist on the Lump of Labor fallacy. Technology hasn't made human work unnecessary, but it has made other people less necessary for fun. Social leisure turns out to be finite and easy to displace. He frames this as a coordination failure rather than a personal one: a dinner party requires schedules, cleaning, food, allergies, and the risk of a dull evening, while TikTok asks nothing of you. A footnote adds that if everyone gets a bit busier, the difficulty of coordinating a get-together rises multiplicatively, so small increases in individual busyness could produce large drops in socializing overall."

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The one sector governments left mostly alone delivered forty years of continuous price collapse and it destroyed the central planners' core argument in the process. A transistor that cost $7.50 in 1961 costs less than a millionth of a cent today. Your 2026 smartphone carries more computing power than a 1990 Cray supercomputer that cost $30 million. Storage, bandwidth, processing speed: every metric deflated while quality exploded. This is what markets do when the state steps back. Compare that to healthcare, education, and housing, three sectors drowning in subsidies, licensing regimes, and regulatory capture. Prices in all three outpaced inflation every decade since 1980. Government intervention reprices risk, blocks competition, and rewards incumbents for lobbying instead of innovating. The Federal Reserve spent those same forty years printing money and insisting deflation was catastrophic. Falling prices drive demand, not panic. Intel, Apple, and AMD competed ferociously, drove costs down, and generated trillions in real wealth. Nobody waited to buy a computer because prices might fall next year. Mises identified capital allocation as the economy's core problem: who decides where resources go? Entrepreneurs decided in tech, taking losses when wrong and profits when right. Bureaucrats decided in healthcare and education, socializing losses and mandating consumption. You live with the consequences of that distinction every single day, every time you renew your health insurance and watch the premium climb while your phone bill drops.

Jack Dorsey on the 12 habits that will make you a better leader Jack reads the following from The Score Takes Care of Itself by former 49ers coach Bill Walsh: 1. Be yourself. “You must be the best version of yourself that you can be... If you’re faking it, you’ll be found out.” 2. Be committed to excellence. “At all times, in all ways, your focus must be on doing things at the highest possible level.” 3. Be positive. “There is a constructive place for censure and highlighting negative aspects of a situation, but too often it is done simply to vent and creates a barrier between you and others.” 4. Be prepared. “Good luck is a product of good planning.” 5. Be detail-oriented. “Organizational excellence evolves from the perfection of details relevant to performance and production.” 6. Be organized. “You must think clearly with a disciplined mind, especially in regard to the most efficient and productive use of time and resources.” 7. Be accountable. “Excuse making is contagious. Answerability starts with you. If you make excuses so will those around you.” 8. Be near-sighted and far-sighted. “Keep everything in perspective while simultaneously concentrating fully on the task at hand… All efforts and plans should be considered not only in terms of short-run effect, but also in terms of how they impact the organization long term.” 9. Be fair. “I believe your value system is as important to success as your expertise… Be clear in your own mind as to what you stand for. And then stand up for it.” 10. Be firm. “I would not budge one inch on my core values, standards, and principles.” 11. Be flexible. “Consistency is crucial, but you must be quick to adjust to new challenges that defy the old solutions.” 12. Believe in yourself. “To a large degree, a leader must ‘sell’ himself to the team. This is impossible unless you exhibit self-confidence.” 13. Be a leader (bonus). “You must know where you’re going and how you intend to get there... You must be able to inspire and motivate through teaching people how to execute their jobs at the highest level. You must care about people and help those people care about one another and the team’s goals. And you must never second-guess yourself on decisions you make with integrity, intelligence, and a team-first attitude.” Jack also walks through the 10 things leaders SHOULD NOT do: 1. Exhibit patience, paralyzing patience. 2. Engage in delegating—massive delegating—or conversely, engage in too little delegating. 3. Act in a tedious, overly cautious manner. 4. Become best buddies with certain employees. 5. Spend excessive amounts of time socializing with superiors or subordinates. 6. Fail to continue hard-nosed performance evaluations of longtime—”tenured”—staff members, the ones most likely to go on cruise control, to relax. 7. Fail to actively participate in efforts to appraise and acquire new hires. 8. Trust others to carry out your fundamental duties. 9. Find ways to get out from under the responsibilities of your position, to move accountability from yourself to others—the blame game. 10. Promote an organizational environment that is comfortable and laid-back in the misbelief that the workplace should be fun, lighthearted, and free from appropriate levels of tension and urgency. And lastly, he shares six points from how General Patton ran his army during World War I: 1. Remember that praise is more valuable than blame 2. Use every means before and after combat to tell troops what they’re going to do and what they have done 3. Discipline is based on pride in the profession of arms, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence 4. Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice 5. General officers must be seen in the front line during action 6. There’s a tendency for the chain of command to overload junior officers by excessive requirements in the way of training and reports Source: @ycombinator (Oct 2013)

We just wrapped up Week 2 of our "Family Gap Year" and the meltdowns have begun. Here's the update: 1. I'm a bidet snob I harshly judge every establishment based on the angle, temperature control, fan settings and cannot imagine going back to the old way. 2. We got a great 2 month rental Our first Airbnb was tiny (but in Hiroo, a neighborhood that felt like the West Village). We were climbing over each other, sharing rooms, no counter space/drawers/ closets and only 3 hangers total. We're now in a WeWork-style apt (Nishi Shinjuku) which has less soul, but a couch! Unfortunately, there's no dryer. And they only provided towels for residents over the age of 18. 3. We're figuring out the quirks It took a lot of research to get the girls subway card. I finally found a gym (paid for 3 months, will only use 2). Both of our cell phones work. What's missing? Western breakfasts. I know, I'm trying to not be American here, but goddang I want an egg sandwich, some almond butter and my daughter wants Cheerios. 4. Homeschooling is hard Duh. My eldest is doing web-based (Laurel Springs). The volume of work is high and even though she's super organized, it's pretty overwhelming to pace (the frontier). It's been VERY hard with our youngest, where we're leading the charge. It's not that the concepts are hard, but she is highly emotional, lives her life with burst-y energy, and probably will likely be allergic to to-do lists her entire life (like my wife). I also misjudged that my kids don't learn like me. They cannot look at a series of 50 tasks and just sit there without moving until they're done. Last topic on school. Is the goal to tread water academically? Do better than if we had stayed in the public school system? Or just not focus as much and trust that if we're behind when we get back, it won't be the end of the world. (My mind knows the answer, my Tiger upbringing won't accept it). 5. How much do I want to work? I've been drinking from the firehose with LaTour since Jan 2025. It turns out when you jack up your prices AND tell prospects that you have limited capacity, demand goes up. My hours are 5am-9am for calls and 7-9pm. There's 2-6 hour of non-call work I'd like to do, but a lot of it is optional. Same question here applies - what's the goal? Is treading water a bad thing? Once again, mind knows... body won't agree.) 6. The meltdowns We had our first stretch of meltdowns. School is overwhelming. I miss my friends. I want to watch more iPad. Can we buy more Sonny Angels? Admittedly, this is insanely disorienting - especially for the kids. I sense that my eldest is really scared about the changing social girl dynamics and what happens when she gets back. The other challenge is that at any point of the day one of the four of us wants to do something different. One kid is locked in for school. Wife wants to exercise. I need to get out of the house. Little one's hungry. I trust we'll figure this out (and others who have done this have said "good luck finding any sort of a routine). 7. Feels like Covid Like a covid pod, where we can do stuff, but only talk to one another. There's a ton of RadReaders out here but that only solves 1/4 of the equation. (We travel as a wolfpack.) I know we could look up meetup[dot]com and FB groups, but we have a preteen girl. We'll get there. 8. Everyone feels very close My eldest started holding my hand again. She cuddles as we watch Barca highlights on my phone. This NEVER happened at home, she was always socializing or in school activities. We also eat dinner together every night (which was max 2x back in LA). And amidst all the beautiful chaos, she turned to her mom and said: "I'm really having a good time."