Cryptocurrency - It's Like Animal Farm

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The promise of crypto was this sort of decentralized, untraceable now it's just like these centralized companies that create their own stupid coins and services. It really is like what you were saying, it's like animal farm. At first it's this new thing that's going to li revolutionize and reform and all thet like corruption will be but by the end, you can't tell human from pig. Weo hercule. Long we were not that er when we n the other.

David and Tamler lose themselves in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s (pr. ‘chick sent me high’) classic paper on the concept of flow. We talk about the features of flow activities – loss of ego, the merging of your awareness with the activity, and autotelic (not what you think) enjoyment. What makes flow activities so rewarding? Do you need to develop skills over many years to experience them? Do easy and natural social interactions count as flow?

Plus as men of pure virtue, we call an audible and choose not to make fun of a recent paper (with a student as lead author). Instead we pilot a not fully formed idea: “Substack Starters." Now that the economy is tanking, do we have any heterodox beliefs that might lead to profitable Substacks?