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In the haze, the horizons of distant peaks braided together. The nature writer Robert MacFarlane observes, in his book “Landmarks,” that a Scottish painter once described this phenomenon to him as landskein. “Skein” can mean either a coil of yarn or a flock of birds flying in a V formation. Landskein, a neologism, uses both, knitting the V’s of mountaintops together. Each time I saw the jagged, braided horizon, I thought about how happy I was to know the word.
The New Luxury Vacation: Being Dumped in the Middle of Nowhere
newyorker.com
As the mops dwindle, the sociopaths loot whatever value is left, and move on to the next exploit. They leave behind only wreckage: devastated geeks who still have no idea what happened to their wonderful New Thing and the wonderful friendships they formed around it.
Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths in Subculture Evolution | Meaningness
meaningness.com
A key lesson of crypto is: A bunch of people can get together online and make their community have economic value, and then capture that value for themselves. If you explain the mechanism for that, it sounds even worse.
The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
bloomberg.com
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