"The ideal of your soul, the thing that it yearns for, is not more knowledge. It is not interested in comparison, nor winning, nor light, nor ownership, nor even happiness. The ideal of your soul is space, expansion, and immensity, and the one thing it needs more than anything else is to be free to expand, to reach out and to embrace the infinite. Why? Because your soul is infinity itself. It has no restrictions or limitations — it resists being fenced in — and when you attempt to contain it with rules and obligations, it is miserable." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

Yesterday I was feeling kind of anxious and irritable at the end of the day and dragged my grumpy ass and giant surfboard into the ocean anyway. Ended up having one of the most fun sessions in an amazing sunset. I realized the ocean doesn't have room for a bad attitude, you just gotta get in it.

Why has chronic pain become a public health epidemic even though physically, we've never been better off?

The control grid isn't a conspiracy. It's a pattern built on incentives: surveillance, AI, media, and money, all training you to behave within approved bounds. Your nervous system knows before your mind does. Here's how to opt out →

Digital Vitality

The control grid isn't a conspiracy. It's a pattern. Here's how to opt out.

I want to tell you a story about my own personal awakening. For most of my adult life, I thought something was fundamentally wrong with me. I was ...

Running outside=the pinnacle of human movement. The kids just call it play. Doing my best to be more kid-like @primal

Bamboo is fascinating. I heard it flowers simulataneously accross the globe

Dip with the girls

Aliens make the best fruit

Have you ever wondered how to verify the 21M supply cap for yourself (not just listen to a podcast about it) but aren't sure where to start? You constantly hear Bitcoin is open-source and anyone can verify it but will you? I've got something for you:

Bitcoin Verification Lab 🔬

People in Bitcoin say "don't trust, verify" like it's a bumper sticker. But unless you're a developer, how many of us have actually verified anything about Bitcoin's most important claims or even know what github is? I hadn't, honestly. So I built a lab for both of us. It's a fun interactive site that walks you through the claims — the 21M supply cap (it's in the code, you can read it), immutability (you get to try to hack the chain and watch it fail), the seed-phrase math (2048^12 is a number with 39 digits), the difficulty adjustment (drag a slider and watch the network re-balance itself), and more. No tech background needed. It's built so a kid could use it — and so a skeptic can't weasel out of the evidence. Every experiment includes a "verify with AI" prompt, because the whole point is teaching you to check things yourself — including this site. The future isn't trusting the right people. It's not needing to. Let me know what you think!

Bitcoin Verification Lab 🔬

I think Bitcoin has ruined my perception on home ownership in the traditional sense: Getting a home "loan" means greenlighting the banks to legally counterfit some money and you agree to pay interest on dollars that didn't exist before. Then you get to pay a lifetime subscription to the state to "own" the property or else forfeit it over. And the reason why the home price was so high in the first place was because of the introduction of 30yr mortgages - the "market" pushed the price up because sellers know buyers have subsidised purchasing power. Fiat world really is clown world.

Went whale watching today except instead of watching whales I mostly puked off the side of the boat and happened to catch a few glimpses of a humpback momma and her baby. Walking on land and and a cold agua de coco never felt so good.

The goal isn't less technology — it's a better relationship with technology. Less screen time so we can be outside. Less distraction so we can create, learn, and build. Less surveillance so we can think freely. More time with family. More time in nature. More time being human. That's what digital vitality means to me so I built a free email course for anyone to transform their digital life from the ground up:

Digital Vitality

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Bull runs are especially fun if you: - understand bitcoin is money, and the most superior form to ever exist - have a farmers market in your neighborhood where every merchant has been orange pilled and gleefully accepts your sats - you've built the conviction to buy BTC at the bottom (or any price) Purchasing power loading.... Viva la @Bitcoin Jungle. Viva la Bitcoin.

Forking off life's default path. First stop: El Salvador

In light of the recent CC attacks, I feel like we need to audit Stevia Leaf. I don't trust anything now, not even plants, and that shit is in everything now! In all seriousness though, these hacks have been super unnerving. As I am relatively new to the bitcoin space I have been trying to learn as much as possible and continue to improve my skills. The protocol is a beacon of hope in a world where money is so fundamentally corrupted and controlled. I could have easily gotten an mk4 for my first HWW and set up single sig no passphrase and started stacking there. Thats what I did with my first one I just happened to go with a different manufacturer. Then I later added additional layers of security as I started to learn more about best practices and then did end up getting an mk5 recently which is now a nice purple paper weight. I feel for anyone who lost money, and I think the issues are just getting started. Even if funds are moved, and your seed is compromised, now transaction histories will be available. Watchman Privacy noted this in their recent podcast. A lot of respect for those guys. Self-custody is the ultimate responsibility and if anything, these events have gotten me more fired up about improving and leaning into truly FOSS projects like @SeedSigner. Since leaving my last job, I've been helping people switch to Linux Mint and Graphene OS as well as getting people started with bitcoin wallets and custody and plan to lean more into this in the coming months as I continue to learn and gain skills. Currently I'm finishing up a free email course to help people reset their digital lives with a focus on understanding how tech affects our nervous system, digital minimalism, and switching to freedom technologies. Personally, the last few months have been rough for myself and my family even before all this. Experiencing loss, sorting out living situations, and transitioning careers. I've never felt this level of uncertainty but at the same time I have a lot of optimism for my family, freedom technology, and humanity. Over the next three months I will be posting up in Costa Rica with a stop in El Salvador on the way. Two thriving bitcoin circular economies. People actually using bitcoin as money. I'm super excited to have this opportunity. In a way, it is a chance to start over, to give myself and my family an opportunity to build a life where we are self-reliant and thriving. A life based on nature, healthy living, meaningful work, and freedom tech. Onward.

In light of the recent CC attacks, I feel like we need to audit Stevia Leaf. I don't trust anything now, not even plants, and that shit is in everything now! In all seriousness though, these hacks have been super unnerving. As I am relatively new to the bitcoin space I have been trying to learn as much as possible and continue to improve my skills. The protocol is a beacon of hope in a world where money is so fundamentally corrupted and controlled. I could have easily gotten an mk4 for my first HWW and set up single sig no passphrase and started stacking there. Thats what I did with my first one I just happened to go with a different manufacturer. Then I later added additional layers of security as I started to learn more about best practices and then did end up getting an mk5 recently which is now a nice purple paper weight. I feel for anyone who lost money, and I think the issues are just getting started. Even if funds are moved, and your seed is compromised, now transaction histories will be available. Watchman Privacy noted this in their recent podcast. A lot of respect for those guys. Self-custody is the ultimate responsibility and if anything, these events have gotten me more fired up about improving and leaning into truly FOSS projects like @SeedSigner. Since leaving my last job, I've been helping people switch to Linux Mint and Graphene OS as well as getting people started with bitcoin wallets and custody and plan to lean more into this in the coming months as I continue to learn and gain skills. Currently I'm finishing up a free email course to help people reset their digital lives with a focus on understanding how tech affects our nervous system, digital minimalism, and switching to freedom technologies. Personally, the last few months have been rough for myself and my family even before all this. Experiencing loss, sorting out living situations, and transitioning careers. I've never felt this level of uncertainty but at the same time I have a lot of optimism for my family, freedom technology, and humanity. Over the next three months I will be posting up in Costa Rica with a stop in El Salvador on the way. Two thriving bitcoin circular economies. People actually using bitcoin as money. I'm super excited to have this opportunity. In a way, it is a chance to start over, to give myself and my family an opportunity to build a life where we are self-reliant and thriving. A life based on nature, healthy living, meaningful work, and freedom tech. Onward.

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My daughter took me to a tree stump where she insisted her slug friend named rock n roll would be hanging out. Sure enough, rock n roll was there. #sluglife

Sunlight before screens