Architecting the Future

One way to ensure things do not go off course is to secure an architecture. So, we will enforce some invariants on the system. We will use the term “invariant” to refer to the set of rules we want to enforce on the system. The idea is that if we can prove the system satisfies these invariants, we can be certain it will behave in a specific way. We should establish this invariant now, not later. The reason is that if we set it later, we don’t know when! So, it will be never when it can be later than any time! We will have to change the code to satisfy the invariant, and the later we set it, the harder it is to satisfy. So, not a second later—right now! ...

April 29, 2025 · evgnomon

The Suction and its succession

If there is no suction, there must be one. It doesn’t matter whether you care about it or not; it cares about you and takes everything you have, including yourself. This makes the suction a matter of life and death and also persistent. So, it is a suction for succession, and therefore, succession for suction. If there is no interest, there must be one. But what is that one? Couldn’t that be a misidentified suction and interest? And couldn’t that be a misidentified interest, a suction? What determines all the interest and/or suctions around us is ultimately in our benefit or just pushing us forward toward the ultimate suction and/or a means for succession of the ultimate suction. ...

April 22, 2025 · evgnomon

The Real Resurrection

Buying gold seems like a good idea for those who want to retire early, wherever they are. Even better with Bitcoin, as Bitcoin not only offers that for long-term holders but also raises the question of what to do after retirement. The main advantage of Bitcoin is that I can not only hold it but also directly engage with the Bitcoin network. I can run a node, I can mine wherever there is power, and build real relationships with others, regardless of the financial scale of that relationship! Consensual at a global distance. I can do all sorts of things that are not directly possible with gold as money without paying interest to a third party to come in a concentual and real relationship with others disregarding which identity is the maker and which identity is the taker. Such a relationship either have no identity or just one in the end disregarding the identities who come in the relationship. ...

April 13, 2025 · evgnomon