Stanislaw Baranski

I recently joined Dani’s podcast for a conversation about love, relationships, and personal growth.

Our understanding of humanity is far from a complete picture.

The 11th edition of the Zero Knowledge Summit took place in Athens on April 10th, 2024, at the Eugenides Planetarium.

My notes What do I want to get out of the book?

A few years ago, if someone had told me I’d go on an Erasmus, I would’ve ignored them at best.

My notes Writing paper step by step Fleeting notes.

My notes A great book about Distributed Systems.

My notes My thinking is as bad as [[Rodion Raskolnikov]].

I always considered dancing stupid.

Have you ever wondered what causes two people to meet each other and feel an instant vibe?

Feelings are the unconditional source of truth.

Revenue is a measure of objective usefulness to people.

My notes Our first endeavors are purely instinctive, promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined.

My notes We can't say that our past is the only source of our future, because it would mean determinism. in Adlerian psychology, we don't focus on previous causes but rather on future goals.

Optimising life can be represented as an optimisation function over your time spend on all areas of your life.

Having no opinions is hiding.

Virtue and happiness, diligence and luckiness, self-reliance and freedom, openness and wisdom, doubt and novelty, courage and longevity, ignorance and rebellion, understanding and appreciation, change and growth, usefulness and wealth, commitment and conf…

My notes The book is written in a neat and succinct way which I love.

No one value what you value.

My notes If you lack a grand goal in living, you lack a coherent philosophy of life.

When we want to brag about our wealth, we buy expensive items, lease cars, spend more than we earn.

Cryptocurrencies are hard to understand because they sit at the intersection of topics that are hard to understand by themselves — the banking system, cryptography, and game theory.

We were beaten by our parents and humiliated by our teachers for not executing commands.

We tend to think that formalization and theories are unnecessary or even harmful as they try to constrain nature, which is (and should be) unconstrained1.

My notes "When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you" When I screw something up, and no one tells me anything, that means they don't care about me.

Making a profitable app is the Holy Grail of the 21st century.

My notes At first, I thought that the book is about extremes, and the author's intention is to convince readers that no "way of life" is superior to another.

It was somewhere five o’clock in the morning.

People often say, “I don’t know what people see in this,” thinking they are naive.

Blind signature is a cryptographic scheme, which allows for a signature creation on an encrypted message that is also valid on the decrypted message.

Blockchain technology has become popular mainly because of its openness, neutrality, censorship-resistant, and permissionless.

Although I had never smoked cigarettes before, I got interested in e-cigarettes.

My notes “Whatever excites you, go do it.

My notes Ideas are worthless unless executed.

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