The older I get the more I turn into Forrest Gump with my running. "I just felt like running" It's the best

A wonderful reminder for those of us who believe Bitcoin can create a better future. Ch. 28, The Screwtape Letters The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather. You see, it is so hard for these creatures to persevere. The routine of adversity, the gradual decay of youthful loves and youthful hopes, the quiet despair (hardly felt as pain) of ever overcoming the chronic temptations with which we have again and again defeated them, the drabness which we create in their lives and the inarticulate resentment with which we teach them to respond to it—all this provides admirable opportunities of wearing out a soul by attrition. If, on the other hand, the middle years prove prosperous, our position is even stronger. Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is 'finding his place in it', while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work, build up in him a sense of being really at home in earth, which is just what we want. You will notice that the young are generally less unwilling to die than the middle-aged and the old. The truth is that the Enemy (God), having oddly destined these mere animals to life in His own eternal world, has guarded them pretty effectively from the danger of feeling at home anywhere else. That is why we must often wish long life to our patients; seventy years is not a day too much for the difficult task of unravelling their souls from Heaven and building up a firm attachment to the earth. While they are young we find them always shooting off at a tangent. Even if we contrive to keep them ignorant of explicit religion, the incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry-the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon—are always blowing our whole structure away. They will not apply themselves steadily to worldly advancement, prudent connections, and the policy of safety first. So inveterate is their appetite for Heaven that our best method, at this stage, of attaching them to earth is to make them believe that earth can be turned into Heaven at some future date by politics or eugenics or 'science or psychology, or what not. Real worldliness is a work of time-assisted, of course, by pride, for we teach them to describe the creeping death as good sense or Maturity or Experience. Experience, in the peculiar sense we teach them to give it, is, by the by, a most useful word. A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where Virtue is concerned 'Experience is the mother of illusion'; but thanks to a change in Fashion, and also, of course, to the Historical Point of View, we have largely rendered this book useless.

Many are talking about inheritance of Bitcoin these days. What many aren’t talking about is that the commonly used inheritance solutions only convey possession NOT legal title. So your Bitcoin still gets to go through the public probate process 🙃. That’s no bueno.

GM

One life goal I have is to live a life that requires a dinner bell

Having access to this 20 mins from the house is truly a blessing

Recently got linen bed sheets and I can’t believe it took us this long to use them. So much better!

Is it not crazy that the rallying cry for pro-choice advocates is “my body, my choice”, which is the the complete inversion of what Christ promised us when he said “this is my body given for you”. Evil proves Christ as Lord. They can’t help but mock him.

Into your hands Lord, I commend my spirit.

Many problems arise from the fact that many people refuse to admit that humans are inherently religious beings. We all subscribe to doctrine and dogma even if it’s not formal.

The more I look at it, the more sense it's making to get some hosted miners up and running. Depending on your forward assumptions, mining can outperform buy & hold by a long shot. Also thinking through how an "infinite banking"-esque debt structure could be utilized for acquisition.

Have you ever noticed how much more healthy & alive plants & vegetation looks after it rains versus when you have to water it with sprinklers?

Man is it beautiful to start to see a vision come together

Who needs a sauna when you can run in the heat & humidity

Your financial advisor isn’t serving you as well as they should.

There is definitely something to this whole baking soda prior to a hard workout. Felt like I had unlimited energy during my intervals.

Increasingly convinced that most running shorts are a scam. Unless you’re running for a long time (1+ hrs) or it’s very humid/raining. I’ve been running in $15 cotton shorts for all my runs this summer and have yet to have negative side effects.

We’re going to be the first financial advising firm to adopt sovereign tools for clients. Self hosted & encrypted communication. Use our Bitcoin node instead of running your own. File share direct to device via Syncthing. Maybe even spin up a nostr relay specifically for clients for broader comms.

We know that God gives us free will and he does so through love (which he himself is) by the ascension of his son, Jesus Christ. Before ascending back to heaven, Jesus tells us that it is better for us that he should leave. Why is that? Because by ascending, he not only then can send his Holy Spirit down upon the apostles, which is now our inheritance, he then allows us to live by and in faith. If Jesus were to remain on earth then we would not live by faith. We would live by force. If God dwelt among us and that was known, all would eventually have no choice but to surrender to him. That is not free will, that is slavery. God does not desire us to be his slaves, but his sons. By ascending, he shows that he grants us free will to choose him and he does this because he loves us. You cannot love someone whom you force to love you, as that is not love. Love must be freely given & received. In the ascension Jesus gives us a glimpse of the essence of love. Once we, freely, make the choice to love God, he grants us an outpouring of his love via the Holy Spirit. It is better for us that this happens, instead of Christ being here, because him ascending back to heaven is the only way in which we are able to then live as Christ desires us to.

The most exciting thing about Bitcoin is that in can allow for life that is rightly ordered between leisure, useful work & useless work.