I was somewhere around Union station on the edge of downtown when the gin began to take hold. I remember making it to the station but forgot how I got there. My phone had no battery and I'm directionally challenged, yet I somehow made it where I needed to be.

Feed RushilDecentralization has no distinguished leader. Blockchains offer ways for data to be verified via consensus. Each transaction involves an agreement among the group of computers on the network. The breakthrough is that it requires no human oversight to validate any activity. Once the rules are established, it gets executed

People are bad at predicting the future. We under or overestimate things. Much worse, we under or overthink. The irony of seeing where things go; is never knowing where it's headed. Uncertainty like finance, romance, education or parties are unavoidable. With some preparation and a bit of luck, you may

“I don’t think we’ve even seen the tip of the iceberg…I think the potential of what the internet is going to do to society, both good and bad, is unimaginable. I think we’re actually on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying.”––David BowieWhat the Bitcoin

TikTok's popularity comes from its ability to recycle old content into newer memes. They explicitly make it easy for users to remix anyone's content on the app. They keep users engaged by making it dead simple to grab any element from another TikTok and incorporate it into a new TikTok.

Knowledge is the furthest truth we have, in an endless pool of guessesGuesses become knowledge when conflicting ideas win and have yet to be disprovedExperiments are needed to find new guesses to go against today's knowledgeCultures evolve from a collection of such experiments, which eventually turn into mainstream knowledgeIs knowledge

Once World War II ended, America and the rest of the victors agreed to a newly designed monetary system. After 1945, foreign central banks held their currency to become parts of the dollar, redeemable for gold stored in America. This was the start of a monetary experiment that failed in

“We make constant use of formulas, symbols, and rules whose meaning we do not understand and through the use of which we avail ourselves of the assistance of knowledge which individually we do not possess. We have developed these practices and institutions by building upon habits and institutions which have

I'm using these blogs to get back into the habit of non-trivial writing. It's tough because I'm reading way too much and distilling far too little. This newsletter will be an attempt to put some ideas I've been reading into words: Ideas are information that’s stored in a person’

"A principal is an owner; an agent is an employee""If you want something done, do it yourself" is a phrase that captures the relationship between a Principal and its Agent. The principal is responsible for coordinating tasks for an agent, while the agent is responsible for delivering said task:

There's a scene in Alice and Wonderland with a hookah-smoking caterpillar: His catch-phrase to Alice goes: "Who. Are. You?" To which Alice responds, "Oh dear everything is so confusing." The caterpillar blows out his solution: "Recite."It's a phrase to help remember memories as intended. Accept moments as they come

When you chalk it up, life is a collection of 'could've beens'. I could've checked in my flight the night before departure, but waited to do it at the airport instead. I could've left for the airport early, but arrived 30 minutes before take-off. At this point, it's too late

Addictive personalities work the same way drugs bring pleasure: good if done right, bad if used to mask insecurity, and deadly when there's never enough. These blogs will be put aside for some practical stuff this new year. Like dropping acid. arrivederci, -rushil

It's like a project manager without a nuanced understanding of software. Their skills are sending emails and scheduling meetings. The developer is the one that ends up building the project through technical know-how. To think linguistically means to have no idea how anything actually works. You're intellectually or creatively incapable

Gm Pal, I've been getting street-cred on Twitter so I haven't been consistent with the newsletters. Upcoming newsletters will be bits and pieces of an essay I'm writing on DAOs (exclusive to your eyes only -.-). Let me know what you think since we're basically pen pals and all.

Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is rushil. x to the y z. you can tell that's me cuz of my big noseI write explanations for people curious about things that I’m curious about. Right now, those curiosities lie in crypto and daily living. You might ask why

Seeing through our eyes and thinking from our minds is how we interpret situations. We can't do that from another person's point of view. This makes it difficult to read the room, especially when you lack social cues. When engaging with people, everything happening in the moment is your side

Dopamine is linked closer to motivation than it is to pleasure. It's about anticipation for "what's next" rather than satisfaction from "what's happening". The chase instead of the reward. The question of "what's next?" triggers dopamine release into our system. That injected dope converts into motivation and spent on what

Paranoia is you thinking that people are out to get you. Side-effects of being paranoid is not being vulnerable to people who care. You get good at deflecting, making it about others rather than yourself. I know this because I deflect in the way that I write. The first few

Deflecting is an art and we're all Picasso. Not because we're great at lying, we just don't know the truth ourselves: The physicist Richard Feynman once said that "you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool." It's common to find ourselves in situations where we're

Sméagol became Gollum after his attachment to the One Ring: He became deformed and twisted by body and mind because of his affection for his precious. Attachments aren't bad, but it's the context that matters. Addiction is our justifications getting louder while priorities become silent. Example: ^It takes one to

I was supposed to go skydiving today, but it didn’t happen. Luck presented itself in the form of clouds instead (what can you do?). My immediate thoughts when waking up this morning were of the Latin phrase ‘Memento Mori’: “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what

Talking is easy because small talk is static. It has a structure where words feel automatic or rehearsed. Conversations are dynamic, long, and random. There's no rehearsed answer, just people making it up through improv. That's tough to do because you need to be attentive to improvise. A lot of

“Web3 is a more intelligent version of the internet, built on the principle of decentralization. If you’re not familiar with decentralization, try thinking of it simply as the ability of a group to function without reliance on a central authority. Banks, governments, and businesses are all examples of centralized

Sisamnes was a corrupt judge who accepted a bribe and gave an unjust verdict. Once his king found out, he had Sisamnes arrested. The punishment? A slow and painful death by flaying his skin alive. The skin would then be used as a seat cover for his son to sit