Bitcoin and a copy of King Lear?

NEW EPISODE with Brian drops tomorrow. Subscribe so you don’t miss it!

Had 6 hearings today, but came home to my wife, my children, and a fresh delivery. Grateful.

This is awesome

There’s a character in DeLillo’s Libra that describes the Kennedy assassination as “an aberration in the heartland of the real.” I can’t stop thinking about that sentence.

The cathartic magic of lifting weights is that it makes the weight outside of the gym easier to carry. More important than ever.

Gm, you should subscribe to/follow

Hard to overstate just how much legacy social media and “the algorithm” have contributed to our current cultural climate and accelerated basically every increasingly endemic negative thing. It’s a metastasizing cancer.

Much to my dismay, I’ve had some friends and some family respond to Charlie Kirk’s death by suggesting the country is somehow better off without him. And to those on the internet saying similar things: No. This country was built upon a set of ideas and ideals. These comprise "America." With no shared principles to bind us together we are not a nation. We are merely a divided, atomized group of individuals. Our bedrock principles make us a nation. And one of those principles, inscribed and imbued into every founding document and flowing like a river through two centuries of jurisprudence, is freedom of speech. The belief that open debate in a marketplace of ideas is healthy, generative, and cleansing. That it's table stakes for any credible conception of citizenry. This unequivocally means and requires the airing of ideas you may disagree with, that you may even detest. Recall and internalize that actual hate speech, with only narrow exceptions, is protected by the First Amendment. Recall National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie; Brandenburg v. Ohio; Texas v. Johnson; Tinker v. Des Moines; Snyder v. Phelps, etc. The marketplace of ideas is much richer when opposing and diverse views are effectively (and nonviolently) articulated. The richer the marketplace of ideas, the healthier the society. This is a fundamentally American ideal. If you believe someone deserves violence or death for their speech or their expressed political views, that is a fundamentally un-American belief. The American thing to do, if you disagree with Charlie Kirk's speech or views is to compete with it, meet it and challenge it with speech and ideas of your own. Nonviolently. If we, as a country, accept the implied proposition that we are not strong enough or intellectually equipped enough to coexist with words and ideas that we don't personally like in the public square, then we are absolutely cooked. The speech at issue in the Brandenburg case was absolutely abhorrent. The worst of the worst. Nazis marching in the Skokie, IL case. Detestable. But those ideas, hateful as they were and are, have not prevailed in the marketplace. Better ideas did. The danger is in chilling or suppressing opposing views. When ideas are manipulated like the money supply, when they don't get a public airing, when they're curated top-down, when their case to the public is dictated and not argued, this is what sows division, discontent, and violence. There is no need to preface condolences with qualifying preambles about his ideas. No man should be killed for his ideas. Full stop.

🙋‍♂️