Сanaries in a coal mine

Нора Бейтсон, дочь Грегори Бейтсона:

[...] I want to honor those already in the throes. Many people are breaking now, emotionally, physically, financially, ecologically and culturally. Like canaries in a coal mine, they are showing us the dis-integration of our current systems.

The pain is systemic, making it hard to identify, and to treat with any singular causality or strategy. Nothing fits in the boxes anymore. Those of us that are pulled from our daily tasks to tend to this pain are syncing to another rhythm. Leaving the pattern of 5 year plans and career development is what must be done to nurture, and to mourn, to revive and to reconstruct. The alternative is inhumane. My father used to ask: "What makes a civilization worth saving?"

In coming decades no one will care how much money or fame or bitcoin or social media contacts any of us had... the only thing that will matter is how willing we have been to learn.

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"Pretty much every article you read about bitcoin in the mainstream press ends up in the same place. You may not hear it until the seventh or eighth paragraph, but eventually you’ll be told that the whole thing is nothing more than a modern day "tulip bubble." The more creative types will also throw around the South Sea or Mississippi Bubble. You get the point. The consensus among the very smart experts is unanimous: bitcoin is clearly and indisputably a gigantic bubble that’s set to burst. I’ve been hearing this since the early days of getting involved in the space back in 2012. But I’m not convinced.

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Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) is a former commodities analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein and former oil analyst in the Equity Research Department at Lehman Brothers.