When I first started making meaningful money in trading it felt terrible.
I had to let go of fake self help beliefs, moralistic infatuations about money, addiction to struggle, learn to really step into the unknown and let go of linear thinking.
I was clouded by questions, guilt, shame, disbelief…
Shouldn’t hard work deserve more money - then how can clicking a button , auto TP set, enjoy your day deserve money?
How can I work 4 jobs, and earn so little by comparison?
Why did I watch family members die because they couldn’t afford heating or food healthcare when you can just click a button and print money like governments?
Why do people on corporate get promotions for being pub pals not actual performance?
I also felt stupid.
Stupid for working so many hours to earn no little when I could click a button and make a salary in a weekend.
Almost like I needed to justify my ignorance.
I spent so many years trying things and failing, working so many hours, read so many books, did so many courses and yet was blind for so long.
This source of income was always there waiting.
But I believed the self help books - you just have to build a million dollar business or millionaire sales guy as some super extrovert,
or
save, penny pinch, never buy lunch or coffee, never go on holiday, work every hour you have- never see your family or spend money going out with friends and put it all into S&P500 then in 50 years you can retire and in your old age life will be worth living.
What about “money is from giving value”…
Where is the value is kicking a ball into a net vs jobs that save lives,
Where’s the value in clicking buttons on perps or options?
Where’s the value in selling a Pokémon card for €400k?
On and on…
I had to re-evaluate my beliefs,
Upgrade my spiritual awareness around money,
Upgrade my ability to receive not just give,
Study what “value” actually means,
Upgrade my self image and standards of self care.
I learned how to walk a path less path, to lean not on my own understanding.
I learned my life was a reflection of my limited consciousness.
I humbled myself to learn the more I can know nothing
The more I can receive and experience everything.
The way to gain control over my life and dreams was to surrender control to an infinite intelligence that wants to fulfil far bigger dreams through me.
The reason I could never solve those sticky problem is because you can’t solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created it.
As I grow my money beliefs evolve with me, and so do he self imposed subconscious limitations.
Life is a multiplayer game where it is also just you vs you.
Forever learning how to get out of our own way, in new ways,
Learning to love and embrace different sides of ourselves we used to avoid.
A lot of young men today are deeply concerned, and rightly so, about the civilizational-level problems we are facing.
But here is the issue. You cannot implement solutions at the civilizational level if you cannot solve those problems at the individual level first.
The rule is simple. The lower the level, and the closer the problem is to you, the easier it is to solve. As you move higher, problems become more complex, require more people, and depend on cooperation from individuals who may not want the problem solved. The skill required increases at each level.
The typical pattern of success follows a clear path. You solve the problem for yourself. Then you solve it for your friends and family. Then for your community. At that point, you have developed real competence.
Only then are you in a position to operate at a national level or beyond.
You have to do the work first. You have to demonstrate that the solution works in your own life and in the lives of others before you can scale it.
Random Easter white pill
I really do believe that viewing social networks as extraction systems is -EV and seeing them as ecosystems of growth is +EV. While the extractor views the world as a resource to be consumed, the gardener lives for the health of the soil.
And when you make yourself genuinely useful, you become a vital organ of the network. Because you contribute to the system's vitality, the system naturally coordinates to ensure your success.
In an infinite game, the most efficient strategy is iterated cooperation. When you feed utility into the system, the system recognizes you and updates its internal map to route opportunities toward you.
@TylerDurden I've been at it 3 weeks and it has only given me more to do, more to organise and less time for the things I want to be doing. On the plus side I haven't had this much fun on a PC since I discovered torrents. Also it cured my chart addiction & overtrading, best month in 3 years
@bradmillscan https://t.co/1vBwMw9pfT has grok 4.1 fast & grok code fast 1, along with Opus 4.6, codex, minimax, deepseek & others. You have to buy a shitcoin for inference but it's once off, you don't have to keep buying. 1 diem = $1 /day usage. I think it's great. Many fully private models
Some Bitcoin truths:
Bitcoin is not for everyone, but it is available to anyone.
Bitcoin will affect everyone.
Bitcoin self custody is not hard.
Bitcoin self custody responsibility is for the few. Most people don't want freedom, they just want a better cell.
There are not enough UTXOs for everyone.
There is not enough block space to "be Visa".
L2+ will resolve most throughput issues by behaving more like IOUs.
"Holding" Bitcoin is not possible for poor people, because poor ppl can't save thus can't buffer handle volatility.
Stable coins are great for poor ppl because it's more free from capital controls than fiat.
Stable coins are great for everyone who needs "stable" unit of account with less capital controls.
Most people need credit, bitcoin is not credit.
Businesses need credit, specially trade credit, bitcoin is not credit.
Free banking is both useful and will always exist, specially on a bitcoin standard.
Volatile units of account struggle to be medium of exchange for small payments when given alternatives.
Shitcoins will always exist.
There is no single Bitcoin community; there are tribes that share the same love (or hate) for Bitcoin.
There are no bail outs in bitcoin.
People you don't like will hold Bitcoin.
People you don't like will do very well holding Bitcoin.
There is always someone who matter more than you to bitcoin.
Most people who hold Bitcoin can't affect Bitcoin.
There are no analogs to Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is a brand-new asset class.
Bitcoin will never do what people think it will do.
We don't know where Bitcoin will go.
Bitcoin FUD will always exist.
Bitcoin sour grapes will always exist.
We know the fiat system is in controlled demolition.
Bitcoin self-custody is for the few.
Suits will have paper Bitcoin.
Paper bitcoin is unavoidable.
Leveraged bitcoin is unavailable.
Just because you don't like a bitcoin use, doesn't mean you can stop it.
Some will see Bitcoin as religion.
Some will see Bitcoin as math.
Some will see Bitcoin as toxic.
Some will see Bitcoin as the solution.
But at the end, the honey badger doesn't care.
Bitcoin price is an important signal that most can't understand.
Bitcoin has no realistic alternatives.
Bitcoin is decentralized, non-inflationary, permissionless, salable, divisible, and transportable.
Bitcoin must be ultra conservative with new features.
Bitcoin savior complex is ego poison.
Bitcoin is designed to ignore individual preferences.
Bitcoiners are splitting and fighting internally is annoying but integral part of the process.
You just arrived and you can't fix bitcoin.
No other bitcoin participant owes you anything, specially their attention.
Bitcoin devs don't control bitcoin.
Bitcoin miners don't control bitcoin.
Bitcoin holders don't control bitcoin.
Bitcoin is very rough consensus.
Bitcoin is designed for your selfishness to secure the network.
Without healthy and sufficient decentralized self-custody, Bitcoin goes to zero.
All sides in Bitcoin debates are wrong until they become the longest chain.
Bitcoin is designed to win, not to fight.
Bitcoin monetizes mutually assured destruction.
Bitcoin is the most important tool of peace in our generation.
Bitcoin is the only fair and self-verifiable monetary system.
Bitcoin bridges trust gaps with a trustless network.
Bitcoin will always be less efficient the centralized systems.
Investing in Bitcoin is using Bitcoin.
Holding bitcoin is using bitcoin.
Bitcoin allows opting out of the legacy financial system.
Bitcoin is generational wealth, there will only be 21m
Given its history, the most consistently successful strategy has been to buy bitcoin, put in your COLDCARD, STFU, have patience.