Bimoo

Bless this airport hotel and the room they had available.

Also bless Korean KFC (idk how it’s possible that their chicken is better than in the US but feels true).

Game changer for an 8 hour layover on a 32 hour journey home.

Goodbye Devcon! What an incredible event. Met so many amazing and friendly people and didn’t die of heat stroke or get hit by any motor vehicles.

Now to take the 30 hour flight back home…that begins at 1:30am 🫠

Seneca would have hated it here.

Pre World Computer Day coffee, then headed to @dabit3’s builder breakfast.

Hope to see some of you there!

https://lemonade.social/e/8wnredl9

Heading to DSS soon (say hi if you’re here!), but first re-reading some Seneca, thanks to @phil’s excellent Silicon Valley Canon course, may it be remembered forever and ever.

“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, and which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty. Live immediately.” —Seneca

Hanging out at the Near x Protocol Labs co-working space for a bit. Come say hi! https://lu.ma/NEARProtocolLabsOpenCoworkingDay?pk=g-AbE0y71eEgtiDb4

The people of Farcaster are the absolute best anywhere, change my mind.

Any tips for getting a couple of tickets to DevCon? Turns out I’m going, apparently.

And I’m hearing things are more central to the event itself at DevCon? Aka not a good idea to go without a ticket just for side events?

Silicon Valley Canon, Day One:
(This is from yesterday’s reading because I am 100% /slowcore-hq)

I find this collection of scientists and their backstories fascinating. To have grown up in a small Hungarian village, watching your parents create opportunity through their own efforts—and then to watch as that society crumbles, or worse, to be Jewish and watch it crumble on top of you and everyone you love.

I also find myself jealous of them, in a weird way. I’m so hungry for knowledge, to have intellectual rigor foisted on me so I can see what my mind is capable of. I want to be surrounded by incredible teachers, and the opportunity to test myself and discover new things.

Nothing is holding me back from giving it to myself. Maybe this class is the beginning of my hermit scholar era 💅

Thank you @phil! I am so impressed with the care and intelligence you’ve put into this curriculum, and incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this.

Hello, hello, hi.

Today we announced that Zellic and Code4rena are joining forces.

Personally, I'm pretty excited about this. Working with Luna and Jazzy and their incredible team has already been an amazing experience. I'm thrilled to be aligned with researchers so focused and excellent at advancing security outcomes in the space.

Another benefit: maybe now that the acquisition is done, I'll get to cast more 😅

Thanks to everyone who has been super-supportive and understanding of my slow response times (especially @phil for single-handedly making the /books channel epic along with everything else he does) AND ALSO those who continue to talk to me even though my banger casts have been few and far between (honestly will leave that to @christin and @cameron from now on anyway)

And if you have any questions about the acquisition, feel free to DM! I like 1:1 chats :)

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So honored we got to help secure Moxie at @code4rena and be a part of history 🫡

Keep thinking about Rilke’s words on fame. Be grateful, friends, that no one knows you.

lol seems accurate

Picnic-chan's bwain is all fuzzy-wuzzy from decaf, but she still wuvs her meetings uwu~ Even if they make her want to cwy sometimes >_<

“But we, when moved by deep feeling, evaporate”

Feeling the evaporative nature of all things, beautiful and terrible, this morning

Also, be sure to read to the end; the payoff is breathtaking

From The Selected Works of Rainier Marie Rilke

Opportunity is calling

—

“Stop!” I cried imploringly to my god-like mind. “This is madness.” It was offering me the opportunity to Save the World Through Degeneracy.

—The Confederacy of Dunces, John K. Toole

Actual photo of my kids when I text them from Brussels, forgetting it’s 3am there

Christening this “To The Lighthouse” in honor of the great Virginia Woolf

“she had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!”

Gorgeous exhibition

I’ve never wanted to live in a place so overrun with weeds and chaos this much in my life

Me when I’m reaching higher

I’ve been doing decaf since January. Today I had to take my parents to the airport before 5am, so I allowed myself the caffeine life for one day.

I forgot how much caffeine inspires gratitude in me. Gushing about the whole world in my heart this morning

FARCASTER YOU ARE BRILLIANTLY ALIVE TODAY

Most beautiful giveaway on Farcaster right now 🫶

Got an Omarsdottir book of poetry in Reykjavik and the dedication feels prescient today.

“We watch the fires of destruction, of desire, and of ambition, and wonder what we can risk, and what we might gain.”

Thinking about the soul’s journey today, and the role of imagination in seeing beyond the hills we’re currently climbing

(Thank you, Fernando Pessoa, and your Book of Disquiet)

Got to participate in the OP/Base SEAL wargames retro today. Inspired by how both teams handled a live incident simulation.

Some of my notes (honestly also useful for LIFE)

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