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I watched my second child crawl for the first time today, and I’m grateful I was there to see it. I’m also grateful that I get to spend a ton of time with my kids every day.
But even with that, there are stretches where the weeks just melt into each other. You get busy, fall into routine, and suddenly realize how easy it is to waste the free time you actually have.
Seneca wrote about this nearly 2,000 years ago:
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.”
“Life is long if you know how to use it.”
I think part of using it well is making sure your life doesn’t become one long blur. Doing new things. Creating memories. Giving each week something that separates it from the one before it.
We guard our money carefully, but give away our time like it is unlimited.
It isn’t.
The tragedy isn’t that life is short. It’s looking back and realizing how much of it we spent distracted, busy, or waiting to actually live.
Anyway, happy Thursday.
i’m fully convinced AI + robotics will unleash the greatest aesthetic renaissance human civilization has ever seen
the cost of building beautiful things is about to collapse
we just need to care about beauty again.
In trading and investing your early objective is not to make as much money as possible. It is to stay alive, develop repeatable behavior, identify where you genuinely possess an advantage, and become capable of changing before the market forces you to.
There are a handful of things you can do to give yourself the best chance at making money.
To name a few:
Stop trying to outsmart the crowd buying sympathy plays, buy the leaders.
Only scan for names that are already trending positively again, stop trying to front run a turn on things that just sit at the low of your screen.
Names that recently made new highs after long consolidations tend to make more highs.
Journal every single trade, find the common sins, find the trade you are the best at taking and remove all others.
Wayne Rooney blasts Thomas Tuchel after England’s World Cup semi-final defeat to Argentina.
🗣️ “I’m absolutely furious because England didn’t lose this game due to a lack of talent they lost it because they stopped believing in themselves. And that falls on the manager. Thomas Tuchel got it badly wrong.”
“You’re one goal away from a World Cup final and instead of finishing Argentina off, you retreat, defend your own box and invite Lionel Messi to dictate the game. Against the greatest player of all time, that’s football suicide. You don’t survive against Messi by giving him more of the ball—you bury the game before he buries you.”
“I couldn’t believe what I was watching from the touchline. England looked terrified. Every substitution, every tactical change screamed fear instead of ambition. This England team is packed with players who dominate for the biggest clubs in Europe, yet they were told to play like underdogs protecting a miracle.”
“The moment England stopped pressing and stopped attacking, the game was over. Argentina sensed weakness, Messi smelled blood, and world-class teams punish fear without mercy. You cannot hand players like Messi that much control and expect to survive.”
“I feel sorry for the players because they’ll carry this pain forever, but the truth is they were put in a position where they were reacting instead of playing. That’s not the England we’ve been building. That’s not how World Cup winners behave.”
“This wasn’t one bad decision or one unlucky moment. This was a complete tactical collapse. England had one foot in the World Cup final and let it slip because the manager chose caution over courage.”
“When you have a generation this talented, failure hurts even more. This squad should have been preparing for a World Cup final. Instead, they’ll be left asking one question for the rest of their lives what if we’d kept attacking?”
$BTC movement has been pretty clean from a technical perspective.
Standard sequence of breakdown, consolidation, bearish retest and back down since $106K
This recent low has shown a bit more strength, specifically in structure. No clean follow through on the breakdown is nice.
Needs more time to form a bottom and I wouldn't put on risk unless we close the daily above $67.2K
If we get a test of the weekly level around $54-55K, that's a good blind buy the first time.
I don't usually factor in too many headline news because:
1. A lot of them are just click-bait (noise)
2. The only ones that have consistently moved price and sentiment is Saylor and Trump-Iran news.
3. Hard to gauge influence to any of the headlines
General Perspective:
The goal is to make life-changing money. Most of you are not going to notice a difference in the trajectory of that goal by catching Bitcoin a few % higher.
Waiting for a new uptrend to form and then bidding choice ALTs is a more probable strategy to go from zero-to-hero.
However, that needs patience but since we lack that, there's the abundant amount of scam memes that can separate us from our money in the meantime.
For anyone whose been around for more than 1-2 cycles… the plan right now is something like:
- Remember how Bitcoin/Crypto generally trades and feels in a bull market
- Trade when the above happens
- Opening new swing shorts at current prices feels uncomfy so we avoid