I have a theory that retirement accounts are a huge harm to local communities because it traps investment wealth in public markets for decades rather than letting people who have wealth to otherwise invest in real estate and businesses locally with immediate tax benefits to improve their community.

GM! At a different park than usual with the kids and there are people on broomsticks running around playing a surprisingly competitive game of quidditch in the athletic field.

GM! It's fires in the morning season!

Putting this out into the universe because as a real estate guy you realize there are more opportunities out there than people to compete with and cities need entrepreneurs doing this work so it’s win-win for all of us. Disclaimer: This is a thought exercise that in no way constitutes financial or tax advice. Thesis: Bitcoiners care about their local community and want to improve it in a way that doesn’t jeopardize their stack. Some may find that for other reasons they need to sell a portion of their stack and recognize capital gains. In the US, there is a tax structure for individuals to take capital gains and push them into physical real estate located within Opportunity Zones. In many communities, the downtown area is within an opportunity zone. By holding assets in the Fund for 10 years the individuals can recognize the step-up on a basis and sell the properties with a dramatically diminished tax liability.

I love this time of year when the morning light plays on the painting. GM all. Work on building up your community wherever you are today.

GM prisms in windows leave the best surprises on your wall.

GM all! Something something following rules.

Neenah, WI is probably important to more people than realize it. Look at your surroundings, who made that thing you rely on every day?

Neenah Foundry - Wikipedia

GM all, when the glass is half empty, sometimes there's a good surprise waiting for you at the bottom.

GM all, Granola has been made. 12C rolled oats 1/2C syrup 4-5T cinnamon 2t vanilla 2T brown sugar 4-5c chopped nuts (pecans, walnuts, almond) 1C coconut Oven 275° stir every 5 for 20 minutes

They don't make glass block like they used to. GM all!

As someone who used to be responsible for trying to improve public infrastructure and has seen just how expensive and long it can take to just do a full concrete curb bumpout and pedestrian island project even at a high need location like by a park or elementary school, I love seeing these examples of doing the quickest, most cost-effective solutions like in this short. As local communities are increasingly forced to find new solutions to solving public infrastructure issues, projects that are a. quick to build, b. cost-effective to implement to solve one small local problem and c. are financially within local reach without incurring significant debt should be the default before the big project that seeks State or Federal funds and a large capital bond, should be prioritized because if you can't afford to build it as a community, how can you expect your future neighbors to maintain and rebuild it later.

Headphones on, give yourself the full 12 minutes to just breath and absorb the sounds and images.

After years of growing the pear trees are finally going to produce fruit for us. Plant something in your garden for the future you to enjoy.

The sun shines on a serene place. GM all!

Sometimes the scale of what our ancestors built for us to remember are hard for us to comprehend. Not only should we strive to be the next generation of caretakers but also remember that this is what we are building for a generation far beyond our own children.

Sometimes you just want to stand on the table.

My fiat life revolves around real estate consulting and working with developer's looking to build things (apartments, industrial buildings, shopping centers, etc.). Even when they get returns that are great by conventional measures, I'm constantly thinking "Why don't they just buy 600BTC, stick it in cold storage for the same 10yr hold and get like 9x the return with no risk or effort instead of a dramatically lower return from this highly speculative over-leveraged financialized real estate product that only works because I can get them a financial incentive." I really don't think people are ready for how BTC is going to break real estate.