The Future of This Show (Episode 100)
Ideas to take with you.
- 01
A body of work compounds the way ideas compound – each episode opens the door to the next, and the record itself becomes the artifact that outlasts any single argument.
- 02
Adoption is not an event but a lowering of thresholds; most of the work happens invisibly, before anyone can see the action spring from it.
- 03
The distinction between true Bitcoin and captured Bitcoin matters more than price action, because the captured version will carry the pitfalls of the system it was meant to replace.
- 04
Deflation is only catastrophic to a debt-based system; within human activity it is natural, and any monetary system that honors it must look structurally different from the one we inhabit.
- 05
Trust, reputation, and verifiable price signals are candidates to govern coordination at scale – whether they actually can is the open question the broader transition is testing.
