Kill your anxiety by taking action. Do more, worry less.

I read this talk first on the Internet of Money (volume 2 or 3), and was fascinated by the idea of infrastructure inversion. Cars couldn't reach mass adoption without proper roads. We built roads that would suit the cars, we didn't put the cars on the muddy roads. Leave those out for the horses... Andreas saw it 10 years ago. We're still seeing it play out today. Likely still another 5 to 20 years before clear infrastructure inversion, where the new system no longer cares for the old system. Keep your fiat and banking rails, keep your muddy roads and horses... we're moving forward.

What if you live your life running favors for your friends and family around you? You mow the lawn in exchange for breakfast and coffee. You wash the car in exchange for lunch. Math and physics tutoring in exchange for dinner. You drive your friends to and from places in exchange for staying in their guesthouse… You get the point. My question is: Do you have to pay the government taxes for the “income” your earn?

Can you imagine how silly we’re gonna look to future generations when the whole world is $300Trillion in debt? Just a bunch of gamblers owing each other money and countries borrowing from their future…

I just realized most people born today may never experience watching a screen say “Loading…” Meanwhile my entire childhood I learned patience while waiting for games to load on my brothers ps2, movies to load on streaming websites… or better yet Youtube videos!!!

You can starve laziness by taking action. You can fuel ambition by taking action. Focus on planting the seeds. You’ll know when it’s time to harvest.

What’s the most shocking discovery you learned while diving into the bitcoin rabbit hole?

1 year ago I started reading the bitcoin standard. I had a stable income and no urge to “invest” my savings. It took a few months and 100+ hours of studying before I decided to get rid of my 401k/roth whatever they call it and put it into the best monetary tool humans have discovered. 5 weeks ago I was laid off from my corporate job. The stable income is gone, but my savings have appreciated. More importantly, they’re not deteriorating by the day. While I’m hustling to make ends meet, the humble stash in my savings helps me continue to prioritize the future. Low time preference mindset. Yes I’m looking for a job, but I’m no longer desperate for employment. I don’t want your job if it’s going to put me in a mental cage. If you don’t value what I bring to the table, I don’t need your paycheck.

If Anthony Bourdain was alive today, he’d be a bitcoiner.

Changing your mind is a skill. Requires effort, practice, trial and error, and more importantly, willingness to be wrong. Don’t be surprised that most people aren’t changing their mind on the fiat system. It’s hard to admit being wrong. It’s the first step to being right however. #StudyBitcoin

Notice how billions are the new millions? We’re talking about billions of dollars like they’re sunflower seeds… There was a time where an NBA superstar signing a multi million $ contract was a massive deal. Now if you make $10M a year you’re likely not a starter in most teams. Same with soccer/football and all the major sports… On the smaller scale, you can ball out at chipotle double steak and extra guac, for less than $12. You were ballin! Today, you’d be lucky if your bill is less than $10-$12. The slow bleeding is happening in front of our eyes.

The deeper you go down the rabbit hole, the clearer the picture gets. There is no fixing a system running on $37 Trillion of debt.

The common people of Rome (plebs) were aware of a major shift happening for multiple decades before their eyes, and yet most were still clinging to the eternal glory of Rome. Rewatching Gladiator and its sequel will make that even clearer. The fall of Rome is marked at 476 AD, while the events in Gladiator are some ~300years earlier, around 180 AD.