We Never See Nothing

Mallardshead: If you look directionally at our human past, you’ll notice a dominant recurring theme with complexity, which is this: you’ll notice the greatest inventions and ideas of all time were stupefyingly simple: fire, the wheel, the compass, pasteurization, printing press, electricity, Uber, etcetera. Things so simple that most people laughed, were too smart for, seeing right through their artless folly. How can for example, simply heating something save millions of lives and give onto the study of microbe science as Luis Pasteur discovered with pasteurization? Why is that a world altering discovery? Humans have a tendency to go out looking for complexity, and this I believe is called complexity bias, which sounds unique, in that the majority of cognitive biases exist to save mental energy, but really it is, in fact, another mental shortcut, one that makes me quite confident that bitcoin the network has exploited unrecognized simplicities, the telltale sign of technological treasure.

Harvard CS: Ok, I’m listening.

Conclusion:

This orange ? will be one of my finest moments (still work to do), because the highest rung I’ve gotten so far is a Director of Philanthropy at a mid-size charity some of you might know. This CS is a rung above that because of what she represents. There’s not much higher to climb though, because beyond this would be fortune 1000 territory and Peter Schiff. Finna leave those balls for the designated hitters.

P.S.

I also believe self-custody has turned into a complexity bias. It’s gotten ridiculous. Dabbling in Shamir Secrets, SeedXor, multisig schemes, substitution cyphers, FediMint, STOP! So ridiculous we now have this full-blown L1 fork called BIP119 that promises to fix it once and for all. STOP! Memorize your damn seed and back it up.