Harsh reality:
Nobody cares about YOUR craft.
Except you.
Everyone else cares about how your product will profit their lives.
No one needs you to be
Artisan coder
Artisan writer
Artisan architect
You need that.
So do your hobbies in your spare time, make money by being useful.
Money is a constraint set. The constraints determine the outcome.
This is the single most important idea in monetary economics, and it is the one most often buried under ideology, sentimentality, and confusion.
Gold is hard to dig out of the ground, hard to counterfeit, hard to transport across oceans. These are constraints, and for five thousand years they produced a particular kind of economic behavior: careful investment, patient accumulation, and a natural resistance to the concentration of monetary power.
Fiat currency is easy to produce, easy to expand, and easy to direct toward those closest to its source. These are different constraints, and they produce a different kind of economic behavior — the kind we live under now.
Bitcoin is hard to compute. That is its constraint. And the economic behavior it produces is something we are only beginning to understand.
Bitcoin does not guarantee prosperity, but fiat guarantees poverty.
If dead men can HODL, then what are you doing that they cannot?
Every time.
Fiat is poof of work.
Everyone dreams of a bitcoin standard overnight.
Reality: true change takes decades. The play: build products, solve problems, create businesses that generate real cash flow, using bitcoin as a tool for monetary sovereignty.
Delayed gratification, generational impact.
You and your future self are always negotiating. Eat all your fish now or stash some to build a net? Every choice is a trade. Praxeology 101: Life is relentless barter, even when you’re alone.
Taxes aren't just numbers
They're scheduled theft
Every apple taken from the farmer is an apple tree that never grows
Society loses what could have been
The damage is invisible but massive and irreparable
Research the broken window fallacy, and you will soon realize what the state really took from us. The future we never got to experience.
Market balance drives competitive individuals into cooperation. We call these "collectives" companies.
Behind the “power of the masses” is always the individual's pursuit of self-interest.
In collectivism, the driving force is stealing. Know the difference.
Capital is just time stored up for later. The more you save, the less you need to give up tomorrow. Lose capital by theft or tax, and see your dreams shrink fast. You can't build anything if someone's snatching your bricks.
Everyone talks about time preference, but nobody admits: it's never zero. We all want our reward sooner, not later. Delay is just a tradeoff. Kids want candy now. Adults, perhaps later, but never never. Sooner is always preferred; any delay of gratification is explained by the desire to attain even better outcomes by doing so.
Psychedelics are the least dangerous substance for individuals, but the most dangerous for governments.
Think about it.
3 steps before any human action:
- Uneasiness hits
- Imagination fires: what if things were better?
- Belief: THIS move might fix it
No unease, no action.
Saving your money is a deliberate act.
Inaction is sometimes the most powerful action.
The heaviest price you pay is all the roads you didn't take.
Opportunity cost is an overlooked yet crucial metric in human action.
Sometimes, the price you pay by foregoing an alternative future matters a lot more than the cost of executing your action.
Formal education is an excellent example of this:
What could you have achieved if you followed your dreams instead of taking the road of compliance?
It is easy to analyze what happened and impossible to examine what never happened.
1. Rai Stones was a database (Micronesia)
2. Quipu Knots was a database (South America)
3. Hawala is a database. (Islamicate)
4. Kula Rings was a database (Melanesia)
5. Clay Tokens was a database (Mesopotamia)
6. Caribou Credits was a database (Sub-Arctic)
7. Seal Share System was a database (Greenland)
8. Palembang Tin-Ingots was a database (Indonesia)
9. Yukaghir hunting-credit was a database (Siberia)
10. Pigeon-Post Tally was a database (Mediterranean)
11. Aboriginal Message Stik was a database (Australia)
12. Bridewealth & Cattle Ledgers is a database (Africa)
13. Ortoq Bullion Network was a database (Cent. Asia)
14. Ottoman Defter Register was a database (Balkans)
15. Knife Money Registries was a database (China)
16. Mnemonic Tallies was a database (Scandinavia)
17. Wampum Belts was a database (North America)
18. Cacao-Ledger was a database (Mesoamerica)
19. Shroff Networks was a database (India)
20. Tally Sticks was a database (England)
21. Bitcoin is an immutable database (Global)
The State of Affairs
Nvidia investing in Nokia. My take:
