Of all the challenges you meet today and throughout your life, no matter how successful or burnt down to the ground it devastated you... "to bear it nobly is good fortuna". #photography #philosophy #mindfulness #marcusaurelius

Talk about paying extra to maintain inflation, sheeesh! 😵‍💫 #money

Remember, we are just passing through... #photography #mindfulness

"If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise" (William Blake) How do I know I am the wise? Or the fool? Or round and round I go being both? Living without memory, never gets boring. Living without predicting never gets anxiety (paraphrasing Alan Watts). So then the fool is also the wise? Fool or wise, it does not change who we are... just how we move. #photography #philosophy #mindfulness #alanwatts

The praise that comes from others are a signal of how aligned you are with their values. If you do not admire their values, then give no value to their praise, let them fall to your feet, for if you do, you will find yourself giving competition of their values with yours. This is why we must seek to understand what other people value to understand what they praise. #photography #philosophy #mindfulness

#Bitcoin winter coming up? It doesn't matter. Just plan for it. For years our ancestors learned to expect winter and prepare for it. They became experts and even found ways to enjoy it. You will too. You know what they didn't do? Sell their hardest asset, like their land, because of it. And they couldn't grow anything in the winter... but you can. You have it easier. Stay humble and stack sats. Spring follows the winter. #photography #mindfulness #finances

An effect I'm seeing in some of living on the #bitcoin standard is the effect of recapturing time freedom. Time to reflect and thus, time to make changes incentivized to make the most of that time. But when you have it, you find that to live that time in a healthy way to preserve not only more of the years of your life, but access to a higher quality, which may actually contradict the purpose which you started out buying bitcoin for. @Jeff Booth says it more eloquently, but I'll try to describe it what I'm noticing. Consider this... Most might think being rich is the capacity to buy things, which originally, that made sense to facilitate the ability to capture more time, like an agricultural tool to cut down on calorie use and reduce time to achieve one's plantation goal. The issue was access to enough food to survive. Enough harvested calories to make it, enough stored energy to ensure stability. In essence, create a positive net growth of energy, and have it preseve that energy into time. But what happens when you get there? That goal was just for one layer of long term longevity success. Many stay on that train. They reached the station but are stuck in survival mode. They don't hop off to build the next layer towards that long, healthy and happy life we deeply seek. They promised themselves that they would never go hungry again, giving self-hope to make it through the tough times. I will eat whatever I want when I finally have enough money! I will reward myself with that supercar! Turning a tool into the goal. Imagine having so much money that you can indeed buy any food, as much as you want, but now knowing that it isn't healthy to do so. Who wants to fast for health reasons, or going hungry sometimes to not over eat, working through self-control thoughts, negating delicious foods as others eat it in front of you, with a million in bitcoin sitting in your cold wallet? More money, if you have not built first the character rrady to handle it, may actually put you into more poverty. More money will not stop the challenges you will have, but they can help you to focus on better things you couldn't while you tried to solve your personal energy preservation. It's still good news, for it frees you from the challenges you were born with, and with that freedom, you get to choose the challenges you think are worthy of your time. #Photography #mindfulness #philosophy

You are not your thoughts. #photography #mindfulness #philosophy

#Nostr is like water... It seeks the low level which human beings abhor. It endures free speech so that those without a voice, can be heard. Nostr does not go along with the pattern, which corresponds to the confusion, rather it is like #bitcoin which mimicks nature. It's like an organism, with no controlling center, ever changing. #philosophy #dao #alanwatts #marcusaurelius

What does this tell you about our laws and morality? #philosophy #fineprint

Great little tune, especially for coding or studying...