Serial-Entrepreneur | Founding Member @twiredao | Nerd | #Biohacker & #Blockchain Enthusiast

Joined January 2012
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Maximilian Moehring retweeted
That's because this dude doesn't know what education is. He speaks of growing wheat, herding sheep, riding a horse, and so on, but in the era of these skills, this was the kind of education given to slaves. Only a slave, a person who was owned as property, and used as a machine for a task, could be expected to do one task for his whole life. A gentleman, or even a freeman of the lower classes, was not a machine for labor, but a person who could be expected to act in his own interests, and thus would need to do many different things throughout his life, depending on what served his goals at the time. And he would need to be able to independently learn these tasks, rather than needing to be taught them in childhood. Therefore if a boy was to formally educated, that might include some of gentleman's skills (riding, fighting with a sword, the management of finances), but his education was centered around what education really meant: A fundamental grounding in how to live and thrive as an independent and free-willed person. Thus, he was taught the seven liberal arts of classical antiquity: - Arithmetic - Geometry - Music - Astronomy - Grammar - Logic - Rhetoric These were not trade skills in the sense that they did not enable the performance of any particular trade or task, but that wasn't the point. The point was that they taught the young gentleman how to think and learn. By contrast, modern government schools were founded to train clerks and factory workers at public expense... a servant class with the specific skills necessary to be useful workers, but not the general education to be independent or question their betters? Have you noticed which two of these arts are utterly absent from a modern government-school "education"? That's right, logic and rhetoric. Logic is how to arrive at true conclusions from known facts. Rhetoric is how to persuade. A servant educated in logic might notice that the things he is being told are false. A servant educated in rhetoric might notice the techniques that are being used to persuade him to act in the rulers' interests instead of his own. If you conceive of your children's education as training in career skills, whether that be growing rice or programming a computer, you are preparing them to be slaves, not free men. If you properly prepare them to be free men, what skills will be lucrative or useful twenty years from now is irrelevant, because they will be prepared to learn them. In my opinion, the seven liberal arts of the modern world are: - Logic: how to derive truth from known facts - Statistics: how to understand the implications of data - Rhetoric: how to persuade, and spot persuasion tactics - Research: how to gather information on an unknown subject - (Practical) Psychology: how to discern and understand the true motives of others - Investment: how to manage and grow existing assets - Agency: how to make decisions about what course to pursue, and proactively take action to pursue it. Notice that you didn't learn any of these things in school, even if you went to a so-called "liberal arts" college. Instead, they taught you things about mitochondria and calculus and symbolism in Jon Steinbeck novels where a boy has a dog, and the dog dies. That's because liberal arts, whether you define them as I have, or slightly differently, are the arts of the master, the arts that make one a master, and therefore not be taught in a school for slaves. Worry less about which "career skills" AI will take over, and more about whether you are training to be, and training your kids to be, high-agency, perceptive, self-motivated people who can navigate an unknowable future with an adaptable mind.
Yuval Noah Harari: we have no idea what to teach young people that will still be relevant in 20 years
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Maximilian Moehring retweeted
23 Feb 2023
The @bankless newsletter has all of the details (and bear and bull takes) on @Coinbase’s New OP Stack-based rollup — BASE 🔵 newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/…

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Maximilian Moehring retweeted
There is very little information or photographs of John J. Ray, III, the new CEO of FTX overseeing its bankruptcy. The only photograph of him incorrectly used online actually belongs to a massage therapist named John Joseph Ray.🤦‍♂️John must be good at his job. h/t @depression2019
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#crypto deserves better, keep building. #dontbeaclown
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Maximilian Moehring retweeted
30 Aug 2022
This is what I imagine the metaverse being like
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This is proof of my account ownership and participation in @AevosProtocol Escaping the matrix is nigh ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆ 0020505
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16 Jun 2022
Me waiting for ETH to fall below $1000 so I can invest my $37
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You do realize if you accumulate now, by next bull run you'll be able to sell under long term capital gains tax right?
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30 May 2022
Crypto Break up song = 📄🤲
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28 May 2022
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I’ve got a great name for $LUNA 2.0. Terra-Ble
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Maximilian Moehring retweeted
25 May 2022
Alle Infos zu dem NFT drop von Michelle gibt es hier cro.timeless.investments/ 🧡
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24 May 2022
All you need to know about DAOs with @Totenfluch, @benjaminlatsko, @nickstracke_, @m2_mo3
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With @twiredao we‘re building a time token. An exchange of time and value of a builder‘s creation (in that time) to help builders participate in the success of their work done for others. Anyone out there that knows others with that approach?
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99% of web3 is such BS, but 1% is so beautiful
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Calling it now: the break-out moment for DAOs will be when one DAO launches a killer product/service that ships to non-crypto-natives Forbes headline: “____ was built by a DAO. Here’s what your company can learn from them.” Shipping *outside* web3 will be our moment
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Maximilian Moehring retweeted
18 May 2022
1/ Our upgraded version of Messari Governor is LIVE! The latest iteration includes 2 new features to complement the current proposal aggregator: Directory of 800 DAOs Directory of 350 DAO tools The largest database of DAOs & tools to date. 🧵 messari.io/governor/overview…
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Maximilian Moehring retweeted
1 May 2022
To learn web3, you must change how you think. Here are 22 videos that UPGRADE your thinking (and your life):
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