Agency thrives in shorter distances.
Plant a seed, watch it grow.
Take rough cut lumber, work it by hand into useable stock.
Direct cause and effect empowers. This is what we teach our children.
This is what it means to be sovereign and have freedom in your life. Money is only a tool. Don’t worship it, just use it to get closer to real work (farming, crafting, building, art)
Levels of the game:
1. Survival — Basic needs, fear-driven finite play.
2. Success — Accumulation, status, ego wins (most stop here).
3. Freedom — Quota met, sovereignty, surplus offered.
4. Beauty — Every act unfolds wholeness (art, land, relationships).
5. Recognition — Infinite seen; relative played as offering, no separate self.
6. Transmission — Living presence awakens others without effort.
Freedom is the ability to respond to situations appropriately.
Our environment directly shapes how we feel and our ability to exercise the agency needed to be free.
Don’t forget you are capable of incredible beauty. Your intuition is much more accurate then you think and the more work you do to cultivate it and react only trains it further.
Ai was built off of this principle. Use your own abilities to your advantage.
Ebony and Ivory
Rosemary and thyme still going strong despite the freezing temps
Proof of Work
Order emerges when energy is allowed to flow freely through a system
Bitcoin keys are pure entropy. They are random, vast, and unknowable.
Yet they unlock absolute truth
Sound familiar?
Relative: Entropy protects against prediction/control. Ownership becomes OBJECTIVE
Absolute: Massive randomness - no local cause - points to undivided wholeness
Money is flow of energy in motion, never a place to rest.
“When I have X I’ll be safe/free/happy”
Everyone’s X is vastly different. It also can change unpredictability like the weather.
The ego believes it can control the flow and to an extent in the relative game it “can” via discipline, heuristics, and optimization.
But forecasting is partial at best. Changing conditions make precision impossible.
More people are ready to wake up than you think. Live the way you know how and the direction your heart and intuition take you. The form will remember
Couple of reasons why more people don’t understand bitcoin:
- it’s complex, new and abstract
- most lack monetary/economic background
- media focuses on price/speculation
- cognitive bias favors fiat because it’s familiar
- volatility scares casual users
- education gap persists despite adoption
You are early. Don’t worry
Spending = money for expenses without currency risk (cash)
Savings = asset you are willing to hold for a minimum of 4 years that can’t be debased (bitcoin)
Investing = trying to outperform your savings
Make sure you know the difference and choose your investments wisely
Truth is not information, it is lived.
As a woodworker you have to know that you’ll never make anything as beautiful as the tree. Your work is only an offering as an attempt to respect the incredible design of nature.
The infinite isn’t learned from screens.
It’s recognized in the pause after watching.
Thriving is childishly simple:
- Eat real food
- Move your body
- Get sunlight
- Sleep deeply
- Love fiercely
- Work until you have enough
- Give away your surplus
- Speak truth
- Accept what comes
What is not simple is the courage to live it in a world whose entire identity depends on you not living it.
The knowledge has always been free and open source and accessible to everyone.
If you value freedom then this is your list. If something is preventing any of these then you know where the work needs to be done.
The courage required is not to do anything heroic. It is simply to stop believing the programming and start living the obvious.
The rest is entertainment
