5-2c2b0.1 Invest in what can't be easily disrupted

E.g., Zcash (read freedom technology invariants from Frank Braun)

Questions to ask:

1. Does it lead to more control over our own computing devices?
2. Does it improve software openness and correctness?
3. Does it allow us to communicate more privately and anonymously?
4. Does it allow us to transact more freely, money-wise?
5. Does it allow us to have nyms?
6. Does it allow us to transact more freely, in an unrestricted marketplace?
7. Does it give us more control over our physical environment?

Next:

• 5-2c2b0.2 You need resilience against volatility (i.e., Stoic robustness)

Related:

• 3-1c3c3a Realize that having invested time in something doesn’t make it good. There is no necessary correlation between the time you put in and its usefulness.

Remember: You are an asset too. And very special one at that.

Originally I meant this note for investing in non-tech companies. But after reading the Network State, I read this instead as ‘don’t invest in what can be easily distorted’ (that is, anything related to nation state and corporate network), and that the ledger of record can’t be easily disrupted.

• 3-1c1d You must build your own media distribution to avoid distortion for yourself and others