A Developer’s Guide To Running A Bitcoin Full Node And Local Block Explorer The goal of this guide is set up a Bitcoin Node that is useful for tinkering with as a developer. If you complete this guide successfully, you’ll have a node that is in sync with the network, contains the full history of …
This book collects and curates Naval’s wisdom from Twitter, Podcasts, and Essays over the past decade and I loved it. Super distilled into 140 characters at a time this is like 100 proof alcohol with a wonderful hangover of ideas to fill the quiet mind. The wisdom of Naval Ravikant, created and edited by Eric …
https://www.microstrategy.com/en/bitcoin/documents/stone-ridge-2020-shareholder-letter Dear Fellow Shareholder, Shortly before the genius David Foster Wallace died, he delivered a college commencement speech that opens with a beautiful critique of our “default setting.” “There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, …
Biden’s fiscal stimulus plan could send the BTC price rocketing higher. https://cointelegraph.com/news/as-biden-preps-3t-stimulus-bitcoin-could-be-set-to-erupt
Its an unusual book – not the standard Autobiography as each chapter has one or more notes taken from his diaries, real raw unfiltered ideas from his mind onto the page. There is an overarching narrative of the timeline of his life to now. Would recommend for a fun read. “From the Academy Award®-winning actor, …
A Man Misunderstood A brilliant teacher recommended I explore the book called ‘The Prince’ by Machiavelli in 2001/2. This was in a debate about whether Tupac (yes, the rapper) was the best writer of modern prose. Having read the Prince and loved Machiavelli’s ideas I wanted to explore more. Michaels book gives one an understanding …
Anecdotes, there are some lines in this book that do land like a grenade but I couldn’t get into the books stride, the stories too short, too disparate – pick this one up if you are looking to be surprised by the prose but don’t expect to be transported to some far away land and …
Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls – David Sedaris Read More »
This one was given to me around Christmas time 2017 and it sat on the shelf for a while, I just couldn’t pick it up, things were probably too real and raw for me to sit through another dooms day monologue about the future of SA. The media does enough of this on its own. …
A time traveller’s guide to South Africa in 2030 – Frans Cronje Read More »
This book was a necessary read because of the culture of violence I experienced in South Africa, why, who, what, needed to be answered. I got some answers but not all. Hefty in both volume and messaging, this books chronicles our (human) proclivity for violence with some sobering ideas about how far we have come …
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity – Stephen Pinker Read More »
This book was personal for me, having spent so much time in Natal in my teens on famliy holidays, this book really brought home some of the things I had seen whilst on holiday whilst not really appreciting how difficult it was to exist on the dolphin coast. Read this if you want to learn …