Dean Patrick

Dean Patrick

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Becoming Stupid: Finding Joy and Meaning in Life and Work

“All happiness this mortal life affords is joy experienced through creative efforts.” — Bo Yin Ra, The Book on Happiness.

May 3, 2024

Becoming Stupid: Finding Joy and Meaning in Life and Work

May 3, 2024

All Heart Attacks Are Preventable: A Conversation with Rosanne Warmerdam — CEO of Healthblocks

Dean: So just talk to me about your background and where you grew up, what your family was like. Let’s go back to the very beginning.

Jul 5, 2022

Meeting Vitalik and the Web 3.0 Vision

“Every ambitious person’s life in America as far as I can tell is a complex, often irreconcilable interplay between greed and idealism.”

Dec 20, 2021

Dec 20, 2021

On addiction

There are lots of reasons people become addicts. The one most often described by the media, or witnessed by the average person first hand…

Dec 19, 2021

The Emperor [money, governments, art] has no clothes

How crypto reveals the absurdity of everything.

Jul 2, 2021

The Emperor [money, governments, art] has no clothes

Jul 2, 2021

Spectator Transcendence: Response to Kerry Howley’s Th

Thrown is wide-ranging and fiercely cerebral, spanning metaphysical transcendence, masculinity, MMA, and the American Dream. Readers…

Feb 8, 2021

Spectator Transcendence: Response to Kerry Howley’s Th

Feb 8, 2021

Published in
The Startup

Why Should I Care About Privacy? I Have Nothing to Hide.

“Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you having to hide is like saying you don’t care about free speech because you have…

Oct 28, 2020

Why Should I Care About Privacy? I Have Nothing to Hide.

Oct 28, 2020

Hamlet Loves Decentralization

“What a piece of work is a man!” cries Hamlet as he laments Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s savage double-cross. They morph from Hamlet’s…

Oct 26, 2020

Oct 26, 2020

Published in
The Capital

To Understand Bitcoin, Close Your Eyes and Imagine Eternal Life

Note: I published an early, less fleshed post on similar themes here. But I’ve added enough new content to warrant a separate post.

Sep 26, 2020

To Understand Bitcoin, Close Your Eyes and Imagine Eternal Life

Sep 26, 2020

Published in
The Startup

Bitcoin Is the Currency of the Gods

Discounting is the single most important idea in all of finance and possibly Economics. It’s the idea that Money (cash) is less valuable…

Jun 6, 2020

Jun 6, 2020

Becoming Stupid: Finding Joy and Meaning in Life and Work

“All happiness this mortal life affords is joy experienced through creative efforts.” — Bo Yin Ra, The Book on Happiness.

All Heart Attacks Are Preventable: A Conversation with Rosanne Warmerdam — CEO of Healthblocks

Dean: So just talk to me about your background and where you grew up, what your family was like. Let’s go back to the very beginning.

Meeting Vitalik and the Web 3.0 Vision

“Every ambitious person’s life in America as far as I can tell is a complex, often irreconcilable interplay between greed and idealism.”

On addiction

There are lots of reasons people become addicts. The one most often described by the media, or witnessed by the average person first hand…

The Emperor [money, governments, art] has no clothes

How crypto reveals the absurdity of everything.

Spectator Transcendence: Response to Kerry Howley’s Th

Thrown​ is wide-ranging and fiercely cerebral, spanning metaphysical transcendence, masculinity, MMA, and the American Dream. Readers…

Why Should I Care About Privacy? I Have Nothing to Hide.

“Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you having to hide is like saying you don’t care about free speech because you have…

Hamlet Loves Decentralization

“What a piece of work is a man!” cries Hamlet as he laments Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s savage double-cross. They morph from Hamlet’s…

To Understand Bitcoin, Close Your Eyes and Imagine Eternal Life

Note: I published an early, less fleshed post on similar themes here. But I’ve added enough new content to warrant a separate post.

Bitcoin Is the Currency of the Gods

Discounting is the single most important idea in all of finance and possibly Economics. It’s the idea that Money (cash) is less valuable…

Thrown is wide-ranging and fiercely cerebral, spanning metaphysical transcendence, masculinity, MMA, and the American Dream. Readers…