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Hello friends, We are just drying off from last night's typhoon Noul here in Hong Kong. It was 3rd closest typhoon to hit Hong Kong this century...but otherwise uneventful. Below, please find my writings from the past week. I hope you enjoy them! Yours, Larry Ben Thompson
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Hi friends! Long time no write! Now that AI is taking over the world, it seems more important than ever for us (you included!) to write regularly so that we do not find ourselves among the Write-Nots. In accordance with my AI policy for this blog/newsletter, all writing
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Hi sailing friends! You're receiving this email because you were part of my one time sailing blog "sailingsula.com". As many of you no doubt already know, I sold Sula in the summer of 2023 to a very kind and loving new owner. As of now,
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Hi friends! I've finished week 3 of my month long writing challenge and am well into the final week. Below, find the new posts since my last email. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the one about Stacks being the Paypal Mafia of bitcoin was by far the most popular and generated
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Hi friends! We are wrapping up week two of my month-long daily writing challenge. Posts from Day 4 through Day 13 are linked below. If you missed the first four posts, you can find them here in the previous email. I feel like I'm really getting into
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Hi friends! Long time no email! Like many, I suffer from long-form post-anxiety..that is to say when I'm writing a long-form post, I'll feel anxious before posting it. Thoughts like "it's not good enough, people won't like
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Hi friends! I wanted to share some recent posts with you. I went to the Lightning conference held in Vietnam a couple weeks ago and wrote up a summary of my thoughts and takeaways: Thoughts on LightningCon Vietnam 2023Conference takeaways on Lightning UX, payment rails, routing and more!Larry SalibraLarry
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Hello all! Here in Hong Kong, Whatsapp has been king since beginning of the mobile messaging wars. About a year ago there was a big uptake in Signal for various reasons. In the past few months I've started seeing Hong Kong friends drop off Signal. I wrote a
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Hello! It's been a while since I've wrote you. Like many others, life for me has changed a lot during the pandemic. More on those changes in the future. Here in Hong Kong, we were spared the worst of the pandemic at the price of being
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Hi friends! Life as nomad has always been a precarious existence. After all, when you have no home, that makes you...homeless? I think Covid-19 has killed the digital nomad as we know it. Here are some lessons that will help you find the home you crave while satisfying
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Hi lockdown friends! I hope this email finds you and your family healthy and coronavirus-free. In March, frustrated by the government misinformation friends and family in the US and Europe were being bombarded with about masks, I started a campaign to normalize mask wearing: 😷 https://wearafuckingmask.com/ It went
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Long time no see faithful subscribers! Happy Chinese New Year! Since we last talked, a lot has happened. I joined Blockstack full time and the past year we reached a lot of milestones. We shipped a developer preview of our platform for decentralized apps, raised a series A, completed a