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Reading Secrets of the Temple led Dave to Jeff Snider's work. He thinks the Eurodollar market shapes the economy more than Fed rates do.
another thing I've learned from from the book, which led me to, to Jeffrey Schneider, back to him and yeah, researching his material is about the Euro dollar market.
Life tipsLearn colloquialisms when learning a language
When you learn a second language, the colloquialisms are what you want most, because they help you sound native.
when you're learning a second language, the thing that you want to know the most is the is the colloquialisms in the other language you want because that helps you sound native.
Life tipsListen to podcasts at 1x speed (no silence trimming)
Dave used to listen to everything sped up with silence trimming and noticed he was irritable with his family after commutes. Switching back to normal speed felt slow for a few days, then reset his brain and improved his conversations.
I noticed I would get home from like a commute somewhere, I would get home and I had been listening to this for let's say, 30 minutes. And I would be irritable with the people in the house.
Life tipsGet to know a community before pitching it
After his first Bitcoin meetup, Dave planned to spend a few weeks getting to know people before offering a talk on podcasting and value-for-value.
So I figured I figured what I do is I just get to know people for a while and then I'm done. And then a few weeks I'd say hey, I can do a presentation on podcasting.
Dave and his wife Melissa worked out a strategy for gifts to his coworkers: price it so they don't feel they have to give one back. Not too high, not too low. Her example: a bottle of wine that's obviously not a nice one, noticeably under $15.
But but you have to be strategic in order to make it where they don't think they have to give you one back. So it's like the dollar amount can be too high can be too low.
Dave recommends Balance of Satoshis, a JavaScript command-line tool for Lightning node management. Its accounting function pulls your node's transactions for a time period and can resolve them to fiat, producing a CSV for bookkeeping.
balance Satoshi is, it's a it's a it's a, it's written in JavaScript. But it's a command line tool to let you pull all of your transactions. It does a lot of stuff. I mean, it's like a Swiss Army knife of lightning Node Management.
SoftwareBreez (podcast player in the Lightning wallet)
Dave's daily driver is Castamatic, but he opens Breez a few times a week to see what's trending in value-for-value. Breez only shows value-enabled podcasts, so it's a focused discovery tool for that world.
the value of breeze to me is that it only shows value enabled podcasts. It does not show anything else.
Dave calls Dave Winer's 'Rules for Standards-Makers' the bible of Podcasting 2.0 and its open standards work. Rule one is that interop is all that matters, so users are free to move and products compete on performance, features and price rather than lock-in. Another rule: software matters more than formats.
It is the Bible that we live by within podcasting 2.0 and the namespace development and all the open standard development that we do here at this project.
Not in the audio. The transcript renders the author as 'behave wonder'; the essay is Dave Winer's 'Rules for standards-makers' (scripting.com), as identified in other episodes.
For developers dabbling in value for value without a strong Bitcoin background, Dave recommends a two-part What Bitcoin Did episode on Lightning. It explains why Lightning had to exist, why the block size wasn't increased, and the politics and history of Bitcoin.
I highly recommend that to anybody who is like wanting to get into any of the developers that are deterred dabbling with this stuff, and don't feel very strong in their knowledge of Bitcoin. That was a fantastic primer,
Dave spent months on an audiobook that strings together every Malcolm X speech that survives on audio. He calls it enlightening and eye-opening, and it shaped his later points about free speech and moderation.
I've got this audio book that's basically just a collection of all of his speeches, they did this. They can they could ever be found on audio just all run together. And I'm about halfway through it
Whenever a big event hits, one of Dave's favorite habits is a Google search limited to the New York Times and to results before a certain year. Searching 'freedom of speech ACLU' turned up 1989 articles on campus speech codes, a reminder that today's fights aren't new.
one of my favorite things to do anytime there's a big sort of event like this, is to go and do a Google search for you do site colon, ny times.com. And then you get before colon a certain
OtherBack to Work (podcast, Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin)
Dave tells Dan Benjamin that the first show he heard him on, Back to Work with Merlin Mann, was the podcast that made him stop listening at one-and-a-half speed.
the back to work podcast is the podcast that made me stop listening to podcasts at one and a half speed
Life tipsDon't keep code in Dropbox-style sync folders
After Sync.com started scattering conflict copies through his code folders and it took about a day to untangle the API and documentation repos, Dave warns developers: however convenient it is for working across machines, don't keep code in a folder tied to a sync service like Dropbox.
here's just a word to the wise, do not keep your code, no matter how attractive this may sound, do not keep your code in a folder tied to a sync service, like