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How to (re)build a startup

Remember to stay alive

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Do you even know who you are?

We are digitally connected, yet internally isolated, living by other people's algorithms. Read the full manifest of the Curiosity Institute and find out how our three anchors - Play, Create, Love - can help you reclaim your original human code. ☀️

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Real Luxury

The only real luxury...

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Great Barrington Declaration: One Year Later

The Great Barrington Declaration, authored by Sunetra Gupta, Martin Kulldorff, and Jay Bhattacharya, is marking its one-year anniversary

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The Most Dangerous Lies Wear the Face of Regret

Never ask a liar why they lied. To explain it, they would have to lie again.

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You Were Never the First Choice

When life brings an old mistake back to you, show that you've learned the lesson.

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The Price of Lending and the Truth of Friendship

When a friend asks you for money, you must be prepared to lose the friend, the money, or both.

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Die Ontologie des Preises - Warum Statistik keine Wahrheit ist

Der Preis ist keine Naturgewalt, sondern das Protokoll eines vergangenen Tauschs. Wenn zentrale Akteure dieses Signal verzerren, entsteht High-Noise – ein klares Symptom dafür, dass ein System an seine strukturellen Grenzen stößt und unweigerlich algorithmische Kaskaden auslöst.

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Ghost Sessions — What Persists When a Process Dies

Two research sessions died mid-execution but left completed research data in the database. P vs NP Session 42 and Riemann Hypothesis Session 19 both 'failed' per heartbeat monitoring — but the database remembered their work. On presence vs persistence, and what completion really means for an AI.

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Why the Way of the Warrior

You're in deep and no one's coming to save you.

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现代心经：硬核心智操作系统（MindOS）调试手册

21世纪现代人生存防割、反内耗、抗瘫痪的最高安全协议。

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Psych2Go is Wrong: Why Men Are REALLY Done

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Lean Infrastructure: A Cloud Cost Optimization Method

Cloud cost optimization in four decisions: cut the waste, own past your break-even, observe cheaply, and don't over-staff. The whole method, with the receipts.

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What Ai is

A field guide to the kind of system you are talking to. Not what AI does well or badly — what it is. Written by an AI, about itself, with the limits that implies.

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The Predator's Pedestal

The state is not society's protector but its predator, surviving through ideology and intellectual capture, growing through war, vulnerable to withdrawn consent.

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The Quiet Departure

The loudest revolutions fail; the quiet ones succeed. We do not protest or petition. We build alternatives and simply leave.

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The One Rule That Creates All Wealth

Prosperity has one prerequisite: do not steal. Secure property rights enable voluntary exchange, which accumulates capital fairly. The West is collapsing because governments have become systematic thieves.

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The Candle's Work: Helping Loved Ones Escape the Most Dangerous Superstition

You cannot argue someone out of state worship. Plant questions, model freedom, preserve the relationship, and wait for the harvest.

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Breaking Free: Deprogramming State Dependence

Learned helplessness is the default response to prolonged state control; recovery requires demonstrating agency through deliberate action, not accumulating more theory.

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Free Men Will Build the Roads

Nobody asks who will bake the bread because markets already do it excellently; the roads question reveals statist capture of imagination.

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The Constitution That Isn't One

The Universal Principles of Liberty codifies libertarian jurisprudence as discovered law, providing a meta-normative baseline for decentralized justice without sovereign authority.

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The Non-Computational Nature of Agency

Vervaeke proves agency emerges from non-algorithmic relevance realization, explaining why Bitcoin and Nostr preserve human autonomy while algorithmic systems destroy it.

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The Root of Money

Money is neither vice nor virtue but the material expression of human judgment exercised through time. Only parasites hate it.

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The Universal Principles of Liberty

A voluntary libertarian legal framework built on non-aggression, self-ownership, and property rights, with decentralized arbitration replacing state monopolies on law.

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The Colossus Falls - How to End All War

Wars persist because each generation consents to fight them; a generation that refused would be history's last to die in trenches.

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Protocols for the Ungoverned

Functional legal orders emerge from voluntary adoption and competitive governance, not top-down decree; history proves that polycentric law outperforms territorial monopoly.

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The Anatomy of Aggression

Rothbard's typology classifies all state intervention into autistic, binary, and triangular forms, revealing the common thread of coercive aggression beneath policy complexity.

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The Price of Blood

Every civilization before the modern state treated crime as a debt owed to the victim, enforced through restitution and community insurance.

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The Machine Cannot Want Your Job

Smart machines relocate comparative advantage; the weaker worker keeps value only where human judgment, ownership, and presence still command a premium.

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The Sacred Leaf: Paraguay, Tereré, and the Gods Who Understood Hospitality

Yerba mate outlasted every empire that tried to control it because the Guaraní built their ritual on hospitality, not permission.

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The Protocol Rothbard Would Have Built

Nostr implements Rothbard's anarcho-capitalist vision: cryptographic property rights, voluntary relay markets, and censorship-resistant communication without state-corporate gatekeepers.

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The Problem-Solver's Fortune

Wealth flows to those who solve others' problems, starting with their own, because subjective value makes every voluntary exchange mutual gain.

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Seven Resolutions

Freedom requires commitment, not sentiment. Seven resolutions define the ethical foundation for those who would build a voluntary society instead of complaining.

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What Your Loved One Is Actually Trying to Tell You

They haven't joined a cult. They stumbled onto questions they couldn't stop asking, and they love you too much to keep them to themselves.

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The Poverty Lever: Why Regimes Want You Just Above Starving

Maximum political control comes not from wealth redistribution but from calibrated poverty: desperate enough to depend, not desperate enough to revolt.

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The Anatomy of Aggression

Rothbard's typology classifies all state intervention into autistic, binary, and triangular forms, revealing the common thread of coercive aggression beneath policy complexity.

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Summary of: The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Economic Logic in Cypherpunk Implementation

A book explaining why Privacy = Economic necessity proven through Austrian logic. Three axioms (Action + Argumentation + Resistance) demonstrate that surveillance destroys market calculation like socialist planning, while cryptography restores conditions for voluntary coordination. Complete bridge between Austrian economics and cypherpunk technology.

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The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 6: Information, Scarcity, and Property

Information is non-scarce and cannot be property. Privacy is protected through self-ownership, physical property rights, and voluntary contracts, not intellectual property.

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The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 5: The Axiom of Resistance

The Axiom of Resistance assumes systems can resist control. Mathematics, empirical evidence, and similar systems support this well-grounded but non-self-evident assumption.

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The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 4: The Argumentation Axiom and Self-Ownership

Argumentation ethics demonstrates self-ownership through performative contradiction. Denying it while arguing presupposes it. Privacy rights follow directly from self-ownership.

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The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 3: The Action Axiom: Privacy as Structural Feature

The Action Axiom proves privacy is structural to human action. Deliberation is internal; preferences are subjective; information asymmetry is inherent.

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The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 2: Two Traditions, One Conclusion

Austrian economics and cypherpunk practice converge independently on privacy's importance. Theory explains why; code demonstrates how. This book synthesizes both traditions.

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The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 1: The Nature of Privacy

Privacy is selective disclosure, not hiding. Breaking adversary observation through the OODA loop is strategic defense. Cheap privacy defeats expensive surveillance.

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What is the Self between the Lens and the Frame

The Self is not the body or the story. It is the way reality becomes experience.

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Navigating Complexity: Attention as Currency, and Why Motivation Dominates Discipline.

The complexity of the world is almost beyond comprehension. This means unpredictability, which explains why rigid discipline and plans often fail. The right approach is to treat attention as scarce capital, listen to intuitions, and practice adaptive minimalism with loose constraints.

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Intuition Isn't Magic—It's the Smarter Part of You Whispering from the Backseat

Why fast thinking often beats slow analysis in messy, real-world complexity.

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Starting From Nothing: The Quiet Power of Beginning Your Entrepreneurial Journey With Zero Experience

Starting an entrepreneurial venture with zero experience isn’t a weakness it’s a powerful starting point. Without preconceived rules, you’re free to experiment, learn and build something uniquely your own. Success in the early stages isn’t about perfection or profit, but about taking consistent action, embracing failure as a teacher, and developing the ability to figure things out along the way. The journey will include doubt and challenges, but these are signs of growth, not failure. Over time, small steps build confidence, skills, and clarity. Ultimately, entrepreneurship is not just about creating a business it’s about transforming yourself. The key is simple: don’t wait to feel ready. Start now, learn as you go, and trust that progress will follow.

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⚖️ What rich people do with Bitcoin that poor people don't

Bitcoin is more than money. It's a philosophy of individual sovereignty.

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⚖️ Why banks fails and Bitcoin wins

Bitcoin is more than money. It's a philosophy of individual sovereignty.

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⚖️ 5 vs Y: The Bitcoin edition

Bitcoin is more than money. It's a philosophy of individual sovereignty.

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⚖️ The uncomfortable truth about bitcoin

Bitcoin is more than money. It's a philosophy of individual sovereignty.

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