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Read The Nerd Reich.

Money or economy is a social construct. The laws of physics and nature are, ehm kinda constant.

Eternal growth on a finite planet isn't exactly feasible and the planet is getting a mild fever as we speak. It'll recover, but it'll remove the symbiotic beings once they've turned into parasites.

And freedom in America is kinda joke these days at least anywhere else in the world : - )

The situation is the same on the other side of the pond. Money, power and algorithmic manipulation power have concentrated enough, that the premise of democracy can be ditched.

Read Gil Duran's The Nerd Reich for an update on the current situation, where tech has replaced democracy.

Or search THN for The Nerd Reich or tech fascism topics and see that most of the topics are flagged here for no reason.

That leads us to BJ Fogg's Persuasive Design Lab at Stanford and the addictive software design.

Tobacco industry owners figured out their time's out and bought food stock and put their addiction department to design food to be addictive.

Where should we head next?

Or search "nerd reich" or "tech fascism" here to see the instantly flagged topics.

It gets flagged here instantly so your duty to read this.

Try searching "tech fascism" or "nerd reich" and almost every topic is flagged.

Nerd Reich describes the Y Combinator connection nicely.

Highly recommend and can't see a bigger root cause for the current human predicament.

Not in aviation anymore, but luckily that practice seems to be forgotten now?

I did this on purpose this spring.

I had a shitty winter in terms of endurance and was pretty much starting from the gutter in February. Spring and early summer we're stressful so I did mostly Z1/LSD cycling in the form of extended commuting from work to home. Nothing excessive though as stress was plentiful.

The estimated fitness or the Garmin estimate didn't budge much.

Once vacation started I kept this on for few weeks to recover and after that added few harder sessions in a two week period. Few weeks after this I felt the change and Garmin also estimated 6 mil's of added VO2MAX in a week.

Don't care about the metrics, but the added QOL from this and now I hopefully have a structure for the coming winter not to lose as much of this as the previous.

Here's a nice summary. Haven't read the book yet though it's on my list.