Avoid people who are easily offended or want to police speech in a setting with friends. These people enjoy indulging themselves in recreational outrage, blaming others for the mismanagement of their own internal sanctity.
When you talk with these people, your brain creates its own compliance department. Every thought must pass inspection before becoming speech: Will this upset them? Should I rephrase? Better not say it at all?
This mental filtering is exhausting. That quarter-second pause before speaking—where you switch from open contemplation to defensive positioning—takes you out of the moment and drains energy that could be spent actually developing ideas.
Nobody likes dealing with compliance departments in business, so why tolerate them in your friendships? Good friends will create a safe space for sharing ideas, even when they disagree. The easily offended will force you to think less, accepting nothing except current mainstream opinions. The former leads to growth through constructive friction; the latter leads to stagnation through self-censorship.
and this is why my circle of friends keep getting smaller by the 'compliance' i had to deal with 🤪 https://wibtal.com/61?referrer=0x56C09cAF7A77d5d254dAe3438bB843A1FFd06aa2
Back with a new roundup of great writing over the past few weeks!
@bethanymarz writes about the fear that holds many people back from publishing their thoughts online and encourages people to embrace the act of publishing, not just to overcome fear, but to preserve human insight in an era increasingly shaped by AI-generated content. So if you’ve been waiting, now’s the time. Go ahead, type something into that tiny text box today. Push ‘publish.’ https://hardmodefirst.xyz/getting-up-the-guts-to-type-text-into-tiny-text-boxes-on-the-internet
@dberenzon dives deep into how cryptonetworks are revolutionizing payments by eliminating intermediaries, reducing costs, and enabling real-time, global transactions. As Patrick Collison alluded to, cryptorails are superconductors for payments, forming the substrate of a parallel financial system that offers faster settlement times, reduced fees, and seamless cross-border transactions. https://paragraph.xyz/@archetype/cryptorails-superconductors-for-payments
@jabran argues that traditional legal systems cannot effectively regulate the web3 ecosystem, suggesting instead hybrid smart contracts, decentralized arbitration, and self-regulation as possible solutions for a more structured and enforceable web3 legal framework. "For web3 to mature and function as a legitimate ecosystem, the phrase ‘code is law’ must evolve beyond a mere slogan." https://paragraph.xyz/@jabranthelawyer/web3-law-is-a-lie