I don’t need my kids to be rich. I need them to be ungovernable. I need them to know how to think, not what to think. To question authority, not blindly submit to it. To build wealth that can’t be confiscated, diluted, or voted away by people who don’t have their best interests at heart. You can’t teach that in a system designed to produce compliance. So we opted out.

The financialization of bitcoin is a symptom of broken money.

Traditional portfolio theory tells you to own a little of everything: stocks, bonds, real estate, commodities. Sounds smart until you realize you’re diversified across different expressions of the same centralized system. When that system breaks, and it will, none of that diversification will save you. You’re not spreading risk. You’re concentrating it and then gaslit to think it’s safe.

The specialized degree is dead. Most people just don’t know it yet. Young people will no longer need specialized degrees in marketing, finance, or accounting etc, because the future will belong to people who can solve problems across any domain using AI as leverage. I’m watching this play out with my Gen Z employee @halstonvalencia. We’re using systems like @claudeai to 10x our output across marketing, research synthesis, strategic planning, workflow automation, and data analysis. We’re constantly learning, experimenting, and iterating because problem solving skills compound with AI, and the gap between those who adapt and those who don’t is widening FAST. Universities are selling credentials for a world that no longer exists. AI generalists who can think critically and solve problems across domains are the future.

The government doesn’t want you wealthy. It wants you comfortable enough to not revolt and desperate enough to keep working. That’s the sweet spot. Too poor and you’re a problem. Too rich and you’re independent. The entire system is designed to keep you in the middle: earning, spending, taxing, repeating. Financial sovereignty isn’t about getting rich. It’s about getting free.

The average American works January through April just to pay taxes. Then works until August to cover inflation. By the time they’re actually earning for themselves, half the year is gone. And we call this freedom. We’ve normalized a system where the majority of your labor goes to funding a government that devalues what’s left. If that doesn’t radicalize you, you’re not paying attention.

Bitcoin is more at risk today than ever before.

Every major religion has warnings about storing wealth in things that can be destroyed, stolen, or corrupted. Yet somehow we convinced ourselves that numbers in a bank account controlled by people we’ve never met is “safe.” Your savings account isn’t protected by deposit insurance, it’s protected by the full faith and credit of a government $38 trillion in debt. Read that again and tell me where the safety is.

My Clawdbot gives me a weekly report on Mondays about things it thinks I should know. This week: homeschool curriculum recommendations based on what my kids struggled with last week. We're not waiting for the future. We're building it at the kitchen table.

Homeschooling costs us convenience and social acceptance. Public school would cost us our kids’ formative years, their natural curiosity, and their ability to think independently. When you frame the trade off honestly, the choice becomes obvious.

Everytime you buy an ETF instead of bitcoin, you’re saying “hey, I care less about sovereignty.”

Self-custody isn’t paranoia, it’s ownership. If you need permission to access your wealth, you don’t own it. If someone can freeze your account, devalue your savings, or seize your assets, you’re not financially sovereign. You’re just temporarily allowed to hold what’s theirs. Not your keys, not your coins. It really is that simple.

My Clawdbot gives me a weekly report on Mondays about things it thinks I should know. Here's what it thinks caused the bitcoin crash this weekend 👇🏼 --- THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER This wasn't one event. Three forces hit simultaneously in thin weekend liquidity: 1. Geopolitical Shock — U.S.-Iran Escalation Military escalation reports hit Saturday. Classic risk-off. Bitcoin, being 24/7, became the "world's ATM" — sold first to cover losses. Same pattern as COVID and Liberation Day tariffs. 2. Hard Money Reset — Gold and Silver Got Wrecked Too Gold dropped 9% Friday to ~$4,900. Silver crashed 26% to $85. The Kevin Warsh Fed nomination sent the dollar surging, making dollar-priced assets too expensive for international buyers. Massive de-risking across ALL hard assets — not just bitcoin. 3. Liquidation Cascade $2.5B in leveraged longs liquidated in 24 hours. 200,000 traders blown out. Forced selling triggers lower prices triggers more forced selling. Liquidity never recovered after the Oct 10 crash, making thin weekend books even more fragile. --- How do you think it did?

Your dollars are losing value by design. Your kids are being indoctrinated (educated) by design. Both systems were built by people who don’t have your family’s best interests in mind. You can opt out of both. Most people won’t. And that’s your advantage.

My 9 year old asked me yesterday why we don't send them to regular school. I told him the truth: because I don't want strangers deciding what you're allowed to think. He said 'that makes sense.' Kids get it faster than adults.

Jesus is King. Happy Sunday :)

If my wife and I weren’t homeschooling our kids, the world would teach them to seek approval. My job is to teach them to seek truth. One makes them dependent on crowds. The other sets them up to succeed in a world that craves compliance. But I don’t want to raise people-pleasers.  I want to raise independent kids who can stand for truth, even if it means standing alone.

The best thing about running a business while raising four kids is they see the real version. The wins, the stress, the early mornings. They're not learning entrepreneurship from a textbook. They're watching it happen at the dinner table.

Homeschooling four kids isn't efficient. It's intentional. Efficiency optimizes for output. Intention optimizes for OUTCOME. This is why we do it.

That time @88_sats waxed me in 100F weather I am coming for you Jor.