The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
- Cicero, On Duties
Hi, I'm Brandon Lucas. I'm a software engineer working at Voltage on making sound money for the digital age better.
I'm starting this blog primarily for the following reasons:
- To think more clearly
- To learn more deeply, widely, and frequently
- To write things I don't see others writing that I wish someone had written
- To "be more peculiarly my own"
- To find interesting people
What will I find here?
My plan is to write articles on technical, historical, philosophical, or anything-else-I-find-interesting-ical topics. Shorter posts will be under /blog, longer posts under /articles, and interesting quotes I come across under /quotes.
I'm interested in Bitcoin, history, FOSS, biographies, psychology, privacy, philosophy, programming, and more. Using books as a vibe proxy for the blog, here are some that have had a big impact on me:
- The Open Society and its Enemies by Karl Popper
- The Life of Greece by Will Durant
- Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
- Extreme Privacy by Michael Bazzell
- The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg
- Mastering the Lightning Network by Andreas Antonopoulos
- Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song
- Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos
- John Adams by David McCullough
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
- Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
- Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
- A Confession by Lev Tolstoy
- Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To leave you with one more, again from Cicero:
[Gratitude] is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
I agree; Prima Gratia!