With a tip from @noKYC ⚡︎, I got #amethyst connected to my @Alby account via Nostr Wallet Connect, and it's awesome!

Ok, I'm completely changing my workout routine this week. Been doing a volume approach for the past six years, and now I think I may have had it wrong this whole time, which is why I haven't made gains for years, and seem to lose strength the harder I try. I watched this Mike Mentzer seminar laying out the logic of heavy duty training, and I'm obsessed. Can't stop thinking about it and diving down this rabbit hole. At this point I don't have anything to lose by giving it a solid try for the next several months to see how it goes. Seminar: My new routine for the next few months will basically be this: My initial metrics to gauge success: 1. Am I stronger every workout? 2. Am I more full of energy throughout the day? Silly to think I've been stuck in a rut for so long, probably due to overtraining and under-recovering, so hopefully I can start seeing some gainz again!

People are using this video to argue for term limits. I disagree. Term limits presupposes a functioning system that just needs some tweaking to optimize. This video is strong evidence that "democracy" and "representation" don't function as advertised. The idea of "representation" is much better in theory than in practice. People "voted" for this guy.

Bitcoin is a protocol, so conversation A and B are the same. Conversation A Me: Bitcoin is awesome. It's going to help humanity. Friend: You're just saying that because you want to be rich. Conversation B Me: The internet is awesome. It's going to help humanity. Friend: You're just saying that because you want to be rich.

"Modern products are custom made to suit our greed and grasping. They are exactly tailored to deceive us with their appearances. As I see it, however, the bigger problem is the gullibility of our mind. That is what really leaves us vulnerable to the deceptive allure of things. In other words, we ourselves are the bigger problem." - His Holiness the 17th Karmapa

Global markets are waiting for Jerome Powell to announce what he's decided the supply of money will be. The prices of everything in the world will be affected. Do you see how silly this is? Imagine home builders waiting for Tim Taylor (Home Improvement) to decide how many inches are in a foot before they ordered lumber. We can build homes because the measuring tapes aren't changing. We can launch satellites because Newton discovered the gravitational constant. Constants offer a solid foundation to build upon. Bitcoin is the first monetary constant. 21 million coins issued on a predictable schedule, regardless of demand. And it's a big deal. As the central bankers wildly swerve between inflation and deflation, humanity will organize around a predictable monetary constant. And in the process, we'll unlock a new level of economic achievement that makes today look like the dark ages.

Time flies. You're the pilot.

Bitcoin isn't the crazy experiment here. The dollar is. Giving a select class of people total control over the money is crazy. Bitcoin is digital cash that enforces the same rules for everybody. No insiders, no outsiders, just users of incorruptible, unstoppable digital cash. The true value of this idea will not stop spreading until every one on earth knows it in their bones.

Rose Island on Netflix is such a great movie about Bitcoin.

The tendency of authoritarian control to swoop in, pass judgement, and impose their "solutions" to save the weak from themselves is such a destructive paradigm. (Important to note that we always have to be aware of our own tendencies as parents to be the destructive authoritarians in our child's life to save them from themselves.) #plebparenting

If you understand Bitcoin, you're pumped when the price goes down. That's because you know Bitcoin's price will go up forever, and this is your chance to stack a few extra sats. Pretty soon the window to exchange fiat for Bitcoin will close because nobody will want fiat. Fiat will be less desirable than toilet paper because it is a corrupted ledger that has already failed. It's just that not everybody has realized this yet.

Today the dollar turns 52 years old. On August 15, 1971, President Nixon created the current monetary experiment that we take for granted today. During his official announcement, Nixon promised “Your dollar will be worth just as much tomorrow as it is today.” Since then the dollar has lost 98% of its value compared to my grandma's house ($29k to $1.39m). If the dollar held its value (no inflation), then the price of my grandma's home would most likely have gone down since 1971 as the materials have deteriorated, new technology has made new homes more appealing, and expanding infrastructure has made new areas attractive to live in in ways that they weren't attractive before. The dollar is a young experiment, and it's clearly failing as inflation causes home prices to rise faster than wages. It's an unsustainable system by design.

The Great Dollar Ponzi Scheme. A Ponzi scheme is a form of fraud where there is nothing of value being produced, but instead the illusion of profits is created by paying yields from the money that comes flowing in from later investors. The scheme collapses once the flow of later investors starts drying up. The dollar system is a literal Ponzi scheme that doesn't generate anything of value, yet currently promises to pay 5.5% yield. Where does the money come from to pay this yield? The Fed prints it, which devalues the existing dollars. So the Fed pays out yields by extracting value from anyone who is saving in dollars. Dollar savers are the investors in the great dollar Ponzi scheme. A currency unit like the dollar only has value if people want to save it. Hyperinflation ensues once nobody wants to save a particular currency. Instead of saving, they spend as fast as they can for whatever else they can get. That's hyperinflation. If you know how the US bond market works, you'll know that falling rates have created extraordinary profits for early investors. Now riding rates are exposing the ruse. Falling rates can't last forever. The flow of later-stage investors is starting to dry up.

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The entire world operates on a system of trade that gives one class of people the power to create money. Imagine the problems this would create! This is why the wealth divide increases. This is why PhDs quit productive jobs to instead go work on Wall Street where money is printed through leverage and losses are bailed out with printing. The incentives are completely broken where the whole world finds itself playing a game where people compete to control the money printer rather than to produce value. Hate the game, not the players. Fix the game by using Bitcoin.

Is there some sort of shib 💩 coin marketing campaign going on that's pushing all these ridiculous shib price headlines at me?

A scammer just with a very convincing script. Be careful out there, the attacks are getting more elaborate. On a related note, I'm reading the Tao Te Ching right now, which begs the question, how would a master who is full of love and non-dualistic judgement reply in a text to a scammer? It was a fun exercise to think through. Here's what I sent: "May restless fear plague your nights until you find justice. May the destructive misery that you rain down on others return on your head to teach you to never scam again. And may joy and prosperity be yours when you turn your energy from preying on others to serving them." Any masters out there with suggestions?