OK - I'm not a fan of the "dumbass" descriptor, but still appreciated this piece by Jesse Myers. For me, I "grew up" investing primarily in equities...and then always insisted on carrying debt for as short a time as possible (so no credit card debt and pay mortgage as fast as possible).

When people talked to me about #bitcoin in 2012, I disregarded it and knew that my long-term, buy-and-hold equities strategy would work like it historically does. And after 30 years, it allowed me to semi-retire as an analytics consultant and do a passion career (tennis teaching pro).

Then I developed a distrust in our healthcare/nutrition/food systems and realized it was all captured. I did an n=1 experiment with my own health and the transformation was astounding.

I heard Saifedean and Breedlove on two different CarnivoreMD podcasts and awakened to the possibility "wait, if they were lying about food/nutrition, maybe they are lying about finance/economics".

So it took developing a distrust in one system to send me down the bitcoin/economics rabbit hole.