I was hanging out today in the sort of upper east side erea. I think it’s kips bay. it was an interesting area with a lot of different people walking around. i went to a pizza shop to get a slice and just looked out the window at people.
walking down 23rd street. i had this feeling of quietness.
Not a sound, but like i could hear the silence of the space in which all the traffic and noise was inhabiting.
it was interesting. i was with another person so i couldn’t zone out, hehe…
I don't think we get a bubble crash anytime soon.
I believe that happens about 2030, and will be the event that kicks off phase 2 Angry Japanification, then we get the entitlement crisis...
I also think all the people fleeing to Gold might get rugged in the new digital economy. I don't own any gold. It's a relic of the past.
USA remains the global power by rugging all the BRICS gold hoarders...
That's why I call it phase 2 acute decompensation.
#bitcoin #reality
Warning: Once you see this monk's 3-minute demonstration on "how to stop thinking," you can't unsee it.
Ajahn Brahm says:
"Your mind never actually stops. It just fills every gap you fail to notice."
His demonstration works because he exploits something neuroscience has quietly confirmed for years that "the thinking mind cannot generate thought and pay full attention at the same time."
Attention and cognition compete for the same neural real estate. When one runs at full volume, the other goes quiet.
Most people never experience mental silence because they've never once given attention *anything* to fully occupy it with.
What Brahm does in those 3 minutes is deceptively simple.
He asks you to listen to the *gaps between his words*.
The silence between syllables. The pause between sentences. And the moment you shift your attention to those gaps, your internal narrator goes quiet.
The reason is you directed your awareness with such precision that it fully engaged your attention and left no room for extra commentary.
Meditation traditions have circled this insight for 2,500 years.
The Pali term for mental chatter is *prapañca.*
Transaltion: Conceptual proliferation.
One thought spawns another, which spawns three more, and within seconds you're rehearsing an argument from 2014.
Brahm's technique interrupts the mechanism at its source. You cannot proliferate thought while genuinely tracking silence, because silence has no content for the mind to grab onto and multiply.
This is why most meditation instruction fails people. They're told to "clear the mind," which is like being told not to think of a polar bear. The very act of trying activates the machinery it's supposed to silence. Brahm inverts the entire approach.
Instead of asking you to stop, he asks to divert your attention somewhere so refined to rest that stopping happens on its own, as a side effect.
There's a deeper reason this demonstration hits so hard.
Modern life has trained our nervous systems to treat silence as a threat that must be filled with a podcast, a scroll, a snack, a plan.
We've forgotten that silence is the medium consciousness actually rests in. Sound is the interruption. It's not the other way around.
Once you experience even 5 seconds of genuine internal quiet, your relationship with your own thoughts permanently shifts. You stop believing every mental voice is *you*. You start noticing there's a witness underneath the chatter that was never anxious to begin with.
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In uncertain times trying to time things is dumb.
You can build a good sort of entry and exit engine, but you'll always be off, and you can't actually predict it with certainty. You have to look for signals to unfold and still you can still get it wrong.
It's the same with models. Most you see aren't adaptive or self invalidating as data changes.
With Bitcoin and any other real asset. you're best to stay away from leverage and DCA.
For most people it's best to just DCA into assets...