Decent humans are capable of acknowledging the struggles of others. Others who are different from them, others who they disagree with. And this is pretty much the measure of adulthood. Are you capable of taking responsibility for your behavior and are you capable of acknowledging experiences and realities outside of yourself? ...have you realized that the world does not revolve around you?

Not your drive, not your files.

Why do so many extremist religious groups like for their followers to get married and have kids so young? Control. Here is the play book... demonize any kind of sexual activity outside of marriage, horny teenagers then can't wait to get married cuz they want to get laid! Demonize birth control, then people will get married at 16-17 and be parents before they even properly reach adulthood. Once you have children then you can't leave as you won't have the support group to care for them outside the community. Trapped. This is especially true for women who are in these groups generally much closer to their kids and there for much less likely to run off and leave them. It's using people's sexual and maternal instinct against them to trap them in a lifestyle before they have developed a full adult brain that can grasp the ramifications of what they are doing. Pretty evil. And this is also why I'm a big fan of people waiting until they are full adults fully capable of taking care of themselves and others before having kids.

We have this narrative that men only want young women and that they just aren’t attracted to older women and a man with options will always prefer a younger woman. But then we have the richest man in the world marrying a woman his age. We have this narrative that women only want men that are built like comic book superheros and that a woman with options will always chose the man with the biggest biceps. But then we have the existence of Pete Davidson. Maybe, people are actually pretty complex and attraction is an individual, and complex thing???

Submission is something that you beat someone into. Trust is earned. The red pill crew mistakes trust for submission. Sad and ugly. But they are right in that women want this... want to be able to trust. Being able to trust someone, someone who as earned your trust, is amazing for anyone in any kind of relationship, but trust is especially important for women in a sexual relationship with a man. Sex brings pregnancy and pregnancy is difficult and dangerous. Taking that risk with someone requires trust.

I did a thing. I flew to Mexico City to attend a FinTech conference and I joined a panel discussing digital assets... en espanol. I did public speaking in Spanish! I was appropriately terrified. But I think it went okay. I managed to say what I wanted to say and people seemed to understand me!

Ooo looky, I found an ABC 20/20 investigation from 1992 of the cult that I was born into 😳👀

The Bitcoin red pill crew is really out here giving us a bad name. We gotta fix this shit. They are the laughing stock en el resto del mundo.

You can't take the money with you. You can't take the Twitter followers with you. The only things you take with you are your character and the loving connections you build. You do not control the outcome of any situation. You can can influence the outcome, and that matters, but you can't control it. Don't focus on the outcome, focus on making choices you can be proud of. This idea is one that you'll find all around the world in religious texts, philosophical teachings, ancient wisdom, psychological theory, etc. It's pretty universal and whenever I get anxious or depressed it's because I've forgotten it.

I know that you can't change people. And when you have a person in your life who you wish was different, and they aren't, you have to just accept that they are the way that they are and it's not your responsibility to fix them. You have to do that or it will drive you crazy. All of this I know... But, how do you do that?

Public speaking is a strange task because it requires two different personalities. To do it well you need to prep like a type A obsessive bitch. And then the day of it's best to just have some wine and yolo it.

A good therapist will call you on your shit.

You ever do so much traveling that one day you wake up a bit disorientated in a hotel room and for 5-30 seconds you genuinely have no idea where in the world you are? You're just sitting there like "well, I don't know where here is, but looks fine! Let's go find out where I am and what I'm doing today, I hope it's somewhere fun!"

In a lot of ways men were taught to be socially dependent on their partners. The math on this ‘male loneliness epidemic’ isn’t mathing, but that’s cuz there is a twist. If people aren’t coupling then everyone is lonely, men and women alike and I know just as many single frustrated women as I do single frustrated men. So why are we so worried about the men? The difference is that women are taught to build and maintain social bonds, while men are often taught to ignore socialization and to rely on their female partner for the vast majority of their human connection needs. And this is probably the biggest factor in why men are much more likely to take themselves out at the end of a relationship. Social connection is a deep human need. Men have been trained to be socially dependent on their partners, and we need to change that.