GM! ☀️ ☕️

Lovely good morning freaks and geeks!

gm 🥱☕️☀️

Is there such a thing as one of anything?

A lot of people have heard my moped story, but heres the math on it.

In 2016 I needed $5,000 to pay my wife’s master’s school tuition.

I didn’t have $5,000 cash at the time, but I did have bitcoin.

Bitcoin was trading at roughly $500, so I would have had to sell 10 bitcoin in order to pay the tuition.

I didn’t want to do that so I sold my car instead for $5,500.

I took $500 of that and bought a shitty moped and used the rest to pay my wife’s tuition.

So I rode the moped around the rest of the year and everyone made fun of me. Usually I play this part of the story up, but tbh it didn’t bother me. The people making fun of me were poorer than I was, they didn’t understand bitcoin or the market or even basic budgeting.

When people would make fun of me I would tell them why I was doing what I was doing. Then I would start peppering them with questions about their financial life.

“Oh so you financed your refrigerator? You’re still paying that off huh?”

“You have a timeshare you’ve never been to? How’d you get talked into that?”

People would generally go from laughing at me riding the moped to feeling shell shocked by me popping their bubble of comfortable delusion.

Still I drove the moped and everyone thought I was being weird and ridiculous and silly etc…

At 100k that decision was worth a million dollars.

At a million it will have been worth 10 million.

And at 10 million it will have been a nine figure decision.

100 million dollars.

I only rode the stupid moped for 8 months.

Ask yourself? Would you face 8 months of sacrifice and ridicule for 10 million in the future?

Because there are things you could be doing today that would generate that for future you.

My advice is to have your own moped moment.

Do something a little weird/cringe/out there in order to stack more sats and then check in on the sats in 10-15 years.

I think you’re going to be happy with the results.

GM

Throughout 2025 I’m going to keep posting exclusive content here on Nostr.

I would say it’s my New Year’s resolution but that implies difficulty or effort, whereas this is just something I like doing. Feels right.

I think I need to get myself a Porsche 🤣🤣🤣

GM! 🫡☕️🥃☕️🥃☕️🚀🔥

It is freezing in London 🥶

Shower, reading then sleep

Goodnight 🫂

Navigating around for some time now from a massive iceberg the size of a tiny US State that broke off from an even bigger one called, A23a.

Time is an unusual concept in the Antarctic region. The sun never really sets in the summer in some parts but when it does, it is absolutely glourious.

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 🤙🏻💜🫂

Entering the fiat mines after 13 days off hits hard.

GM☕️ How are you today? 🫂💜 How is the new 2025 year treating you? 😂🥂

#plebchain

This is where the Suez Canal meets the Mediterranean Sea.

Canal on the right, sea on the left. By extension, it’s also the coastal boundary between Africa and Asia.

Anyway, gm.

GM #nostr

Back at it 🙄

#coffeechain

Do people still use kanban boards?

Ooo is Dune any good? I’ve been hesitant to pick it up cos I watched the film was I was a kid and it was confusing 😭 I might give it a go though. ‘A brief history of intelligence’ sounds brilliant, exactly the type of book I’m looking to add to my list, just added it to my Amazon basket 🙏🏽🫂❤️‍🔥

You might want to check out ‘behave’ by Robert Sapolsky’, ‘tales from both sides of the brain’ by Director Michael S Gazzaniga and ‘how to change your mind’ by Michael Pollan

I haven’t read them yet but they’re on my list, they sound fantastic.

I wanna finish ‘Sherlock Holmes’, ‘the man who walked through walls’, ‘accessory to war’, ‘death by black hole’, ‘the silk roads’, ‘theogony and works and days’

So so so many books 🫂 do you have a list?

At least half way to the White Continent.

#notdeadyet

Also Happy New Year and a Happy Birthday to me. Ciao! 👋🏻 Will likely see icebergs in about 36 hours or so.