2025

When money is corrupted, life is corrupted. Fiat’s most profound effect on society is through its impact on time preference. By making saving harder, fiat raises time preference, shortens horizons,…

Fiat is not without advantages. While it undermines savings and stability, it excels in three areas: government finance, salability across space, and bank profitability. These features explain why fiat persists…

Fiat balances are not neutral “savings accounts” but negative, fragile, and revocable debt positions. The system incentivizes borrowing over saving, subsidizes debtors at savers’ expense, and erodes the very notion…

In fiat, lending = mining. New money is “issued” when licensed institutions create credit; physical cash merely converts digital balances to paper. The only durable brake isn’t code or chemistry—it’s…

A dispassionate “engineering study” of fiat: how the network functions, how money is actually created, and why central banks’ monopolies undermine savings, trade, and long-term growth. These four combined =…

How fiat began: not through deliberate design, but as a political workaround for insolvency and war financing. The “never-ending bank holiday” is the protocol installation of fiat. Outcome: Both sterling…

Course kickoff and framing for Dr. Saifedean Ammous’ The Fiat Standard: why study fiat as a technology, how it differs from Bitcoin, and how the course/book are structured. “Most fiat…

The Sermon on the Mount is so radical that if it were truly lived out at scale, 99% of the problems in modern life would be dismantled

What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. Today, we’re going to discuss why you should shoot everything in street photography. To photograph with no limits, what this means to me, and how…

A major new release for fans of Japanese photography is on the way. Daido Moriyama: Quartet brings together four of the most important photobooks that shaped Moriyama’s radical career, presented…

A growing collection of street photography guides, visual archives, and raw knowledge — all 100% open source. If this work brings you value, consider supporting with Bitcoin. A decade of…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Today, I wanted to share with you a spot I like to go to when I’m looking at photo books—the Free Library of Philadelphia. Check…

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Making progress with Ashtanga Yoga today! Marichyasana D (Marichi’s Pose D) is one of the most advanced and challenging seated twists in the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. It combines a…

“Practice, practice, practice — and all is coming.” Tristhāna (three points of focus): “Do your practice and all is coming.” Śrī K. Pattabhi Jois frames Aṣṭāṅga not merely as a…