What I'm Focused on Now

Updated January 13, 2023

Themes: Bitcoin, markets, monetary policy & history, resiliency, censorship-resistance

Doing

• Expanding access to the network and asset by helping others build on Bitcoin as an advisor to startups in Lightning, social commerce, and media
• Investing more time and energy in the growing Nashville Bitcoin community as part of Bitcoin Park
• Preparing my family for an uncertain year ahead and bracing for impact as the US runs headlong into recession

Learning

• Multiple facets of Bitcoin mining, including hardware design, power grids and markets, and economics
• The emerging nostr protocol and application ecosystem as an alternative to centralized social media and messaging
• The history of monetary policy and central banking

Reading

I keep a handful of books on the go—a few non-fiction and a sci-fi selection for nighttime reading, when my infant toddler permits.

• The Fiat Standard
• Mastering the Lightning Network
• The Mandibles

Listening

My podcast selection is Bitcoin-heavy, mixed with macro economic trends and privacy, and delivered via the Lightning-powered Fountain app. And always new music.

• Bitcoin Audible
• Closing the Loop
• The Bitcoin Standard Podcast
• The Kevin Rooke Show
• My “Best of 2022” playlist

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Inspired by Derek Sivers’ now page project