You can’t afford to leave the 9-5 or take aggressive calculated risks.
Why?
Because of your 6% mortgage, financed car, and credit card debt.
Invisible shackles.
Brick by brick bro, don’t cheat the grind, don’t try to skip the struggle, don’t try to speed it up, don’t look for short cuts, embrace the highs and the lows, you gonna need to learn all those lessons so when you get to where you’re going, you don’t fumble the opportunity
Somewhere down the road you realize that playing the long game turns into playing the easy game. Take the “long term or nothing” approach and watch how much easier the game of life becomes
Gentle reminder that you don’t have to be the smartest, the strongest, or the most attractive person to capture wealth the next 10+ years, you just have to understand the moment and execute on it
If you aren’t wealthy why would you offer advice about wealth to wealthy people?
Just take your own advice if you think it’s correct, your life will be evidence instead of just yappin
What we repeatedly say begins to reveal what we repeatedly carry.
And that’s what makes speech so interesting. It isn’t just communication. It’s exposure.
The tongue doesn’t create what is in the heart. It reveals it.
If I want to know what I truly value, what I truly fear, what I truly believe, sometimes I don’t need to look any further than the words I use when I’m not paying attention.
If every disagreement turns into a need to wound, maybe the tongue is only reporting what the heart has not dealt with yet.
I think that is why watching your words matters.
Not just so you sound better to others.
So you can hear yourself clearly.
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What’s unusual about Bitcoin is that the information is available to everyone at the same price: free.
Nobody is hiding it behind a paywall. Nobody is charging admission to understand it.
The white paper and code is public.
There are thousands of hours of discussions, books, podcasts, debates, and lectures are sitting there waiting to be explored.
Yet most people never do.
That makes me wonder if the real cost of knowledge was never money.
Maybe the real cost has always been attention.
Maybe that’s why valuable information remains valuable even when it’s free. Most people won’t pay with their focus. They won’t sit with an idea long enough to let it challenge what they already believe.
Bitcoin is a strange example of this.
The barrier isn’t access, it is curiosity.
The information and opportunity is open source.
The question is whether people are willing to do the work of understanding something before the rest of the world agrees with it.
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Life is not something that happens to us. It is something we answer for. We accept the weight of our choices and the consequences that follow. We don't outsource responsibility for our future. We own it.
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Bitcoin in October 2021: $62k. Bitcoin today: $62k.
If that makes you feel like you wasted four years, you were never paying attention.
The price didn’t move. The world did. Empires printed trillions. Currencies bled out. The cost of everything you need climbed while the thing built to outlast all of it sat still and waited for you.
You are being handed the hardest asset humanity has ever created at the same price it traded for at its all time high. Read that again. The market is offering you a four year head start and calling it a discount.
The people crying about flat price are measuring the wrong thing. Bitcoin doesn’t owe you a number on a screen. It offers you an exit. A way out of a game rigged to make you poorer the longer you hold the money everyone else uses.
This is not a dip. This is a door.
The ones who get it are not asking when it goes up. They are asking how much they can take off the table before everyone else remembers what this is. Quietly. Patiently. While the impatient sell their future to feel something today.
Five years from now there will be two kinds of people. The ones who saw $62k as a curse, and the ones who saw it as the last open window.
Which one are you becoming.
bitcoin:native
CPI is just a metric to boil frogs.
It’s literally crowd control…
The real inflation rate is tied to the rate of monetary expansion (~7-8% annually)
If society knew that, we’d have riots
Even still, more people are becoming aware of this because energy bills, groceries, restaurants, gas and all of the important things that people buy have skyrocketed
The dollar has actually lost ~50% of its buying power since 2019
You can work as hard as you want and AI can give us as many productivity gains as you can think of, but all of that will never outrun the money printer
The money printer sets your hours no matter how productive society is
Bitcoin does and will fix this
With a fixed supply and nowhere to dilute the money, everyone sees those productivity gains in the form of lower prices
Deflation is only bad for a system designed to debase its participants
Deflation is the natural state of a free market. We deserve prices falling as we get better at doing stuff