by rosswcalvin | Jun 20, 2023 | Bitcoin, Prometheism
“In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.” -Marx We live in the midst of a dangerously false dialectic, funneled into choosing between alternatives that are in fact fundamentally...
by rosswcalvin | May 25, 2023 | Bitcoin, Investment
Bitcoin mining is capital intensive. However, capital allocation approaches driven by a direct comparison between the higher average total cost of mining vs. lower average total cost of traditional software development reflect incorrect thinking about the respective...
by rosswcalvin | May 3, 2023 | Geopolitics
On the verge of history’s first wave of globalization, Victorian imperialists venturing into foreign and undiscovered countries had to maintain an ever-deeper connection to the ways of the motherland. The temptations of the opium to wash away the grueling and the...
by rosswcalvin | Apr 18, 2023 | Prometheism
One of the astonishing aspects of the work of Joseph Conrad is that he writes with such awareness of both inward dialogue and discourse between people, and by extension, of towns and civilization, with such familiarity that they convey a certain civility and...
by rosswcalvin | Mar 3, 2023 | Bitcoin
“This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression, and with all this yet to die.” -Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death There is a joy in running in...
