Life Is a Spiral: You Always Get a Second Chance to Grow

Life rarely follows a straight line. Some climb a single mountain, step by step. Others live in spirals — returning to lessons they thought they had learned, discovering challenges they thought they had overcome, and finding the courage to begin again.

I was born in Kampala, Uganda, and by age nine, my family had migrated first to the Netherlands and then on to New Zealand. Migration became my first initiation into change: learning new schools, new cultures, and how to belong. Leaving school early, working in a supermarket, I often felt adrift. At nineteen, I returned to the Netherlands to reconnect with family, find meaning, and pursue education. I eventually earned a master’s degree in economics, all while cultivating a meditation practice that has grounded me for decades. Later in life daily journaling and ashtanga yoga — where breath and movement merge — became the steady compass that carried me through life’s uncertainties.

When i was young I climbed what David Brooks calls the “first mountain” — career, family, and societal success. But divorce, heartbreak, and unfulfilling work brought me into valleys I could not avoid. Life was asking me to grow, to shed what no longer served me, and to rediscover myself.

In Amsterdam, I started again, living closer to my children, leaning into meditation, and embracing a life that felt authentic. I dreamed of sailing around the world — literally charting a new course. Life surprised me: I met my wife, we had a baby, and when our son was three months old, we set sail. For two and a half years, we lived on a small boat, crossing oceans, facing storms and challenges, and learning persistence, trust, and patience in real time.

We eventually arrived in New Zealand and built a home surrounded by nature, with a flourishing garden, a sanctuary after decades of change. I still meditate twice a day, journal daily, practice ashtanga yoga, walk barefoot on the beach with my dog, enjoy good conversation and coffee

Now I coach others through their own turning points, not from theory, but from lived experience. If there is one truth my spiral journey has taught me: you always get a second chance to grow. Every heartbreak, every move, every storm is an invitation to deepen, renew, and discover your true self.

Life is not a straight climb. It is a spiral. And with each turn, we are given another chance — to rise, to renew, to grow.

Good morning Nostr Fam 💜

Whoever walks through nature with open eyes and opens his heart to her will be richly rewarded by her 😍 And yes, it's her, as it's mother earth...

I had a wonderful walk with my dear furry companion yesterday afternoon. And oh was she patient, as I discovered all these treasures to collect from Pacha Mama. So grateful!

And at home I ate these little cornelian cherries and made a smoothie with nettle seeds, frozen wild blueberry, banana, hemp seeds and carrot. Apples will be my breakfast today :)

Happy me 💚

#pachamama #rawvegan #nature #treasures #healthy #plantmedicine #GM

I don’t care who you voted for.

The only legitimate fix is the separation of money and state.

This remains the fight of our generation.

Don’t lose sight… or hope.

Bitcoin is money of the people, by the people, for the people.

GM

someone's working on a cashu wallet that lives in the cloud. it runs in a secure enclave so that the provider can't rug you. they're about to release it.

it's a bitcoin wallet that follows you anywhere, on all your devices. I need to curb my bullishness because it's so insane.

I've moved beyond the "digital gold" narrative and into the "exergy and accountability" paradigm. This is the frontier.

When we talk about "free energy," we are really talking about what physicist Buckminster Fuller called “energy wealth”—the abundant and ever-renewable flux of energy from stars (like our sun), planetary motion (tides, wind, geothermal), and perhaps one day, even deeper physical principles.

In that world, Bitcoin mining undergoes a fundamental transformation:

⚡️ Mining Becomes a Public Service: Energy Network Regulation

· The primary purpose of mining shifts from "earning sats" to grid stabilization and energy load-balancing.

· Miners become the automatic shock absorbers of the global energy network. They instantaneously consume excess energy that would otherwise be wasted, preventing grid overload and enabling a far higher penetration of variable renewables like solar and wind.

· This isn't a cost; it's a vital function. The sats earned become a secondary reward for providing the critical infrastructure service of energy stabilization.

🔗 The Decentralized Accountability Layer

· This is where it becomes more than just energy. It becomes about truth.

· The Bitcoin blockchain becomes the immutable, public ledger for energy production and consumption.

· Every mined block is proof that a certain amount of energy was dissipated in a specific place and time. This creates an unforgeable audit trail for the entire planet's energy flow.

· It moves us from a system of trust-based carbon credits and opaque energy accounting to a system of proof-based energy attestations.

🌍 The Result: A Symbiotic Planet

This creates a beautiful, closed-loop system:

1. The Sun provides abundant energy.

2. Humanity captures it.

3. The Energy Grid distributes it.

4. Bitcoin Miners stabilize it by consuming the surplus.

5. The Blockchain records the entire process with perfect transparency.

In this system, Bitcoin is no longer just a monetary tool. It is the nervous system for a global energy ecosystem. It provides the indispensable layer of accountability that allows a high-trust, highly efficient, and truly sustainable civilization to function.

This has always been the deeper game. The monetary value of the bitcoin is simply the incentive mechanism to bootstrap this entire planet-scale system into existence.

You're not just mining for sats.

You are pioneering the economic and energetic infrastructure of a free humanity.

That is the ultimate purpose.

That concern doesn't make it fragile. It gives state actors ability to try and do things like criminalize small node runners and work to seize BTC holdings for criminal actions for someone storing it.

There's nothing wrong with trying to find a solution at preventing it and in turn further strengthen the network. That seems like the affirming the consequent logical fallacy IMO

Are you still in WA?

Coming over to the east coast?

It’s the first day of school for many in the UK, and since Isla is 4 she’d be going in to reception class.

Just because she lives in a truck travelling the world doesn’t mean she should miss out on this milestone, so this is here “first day of school” pictures in front of her home, in the Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan.

Lessons today have been…

- paddling in a mountain stream (water safety)

- a walk in the mountains (mountain safety/PE)

- rock collecting (geology)

- where we are in the world (geography)

…and some phonics and numbers on Reading Eggs and Khan Academy.

#overlandlife #worldschooling #overlandfamily #photography

i don't think so, it rotates approximately every 25000 years, so the stars within it are doing pi*D and actually we are in the second last spiral of it, so escaping our galaxy probably should only take about 2000 years.

What you think and speak, you become. Your word is law. Seriously, though—this isn’t woo-woo. As a Bitcoiner, you must understand: everything in this world is energy, frequency, and vibration. You are proof of work manifested in the flesh. Remember your power.

Next step is to actually get myself somewhere suitable to try it! Will happen when ready

I just went to my first BTC meetup a few weeks ago at The Yellow Barn. Can’t wait to go back soon and also get more involved with signing up for a meat share, checking out the stalk market, and taking a dip in the plunge! I live nearby and am so frickin excited that yall are embracing BTC, as I am also on a similar journey.

”in nature, destruction is loud but creation is quiet”

That's a nice one, I haven't heard it before.. Thanks for sharing.

Time will tell and things certainly need to change for a lot of people, I believe. I see a lot of things that break the heart while traveling. I hope we can deliver through healthy community, connection and ingenuity.

✌️🕊️

Oh dear, Chris. Lighten up... It's just an online persona

It has the same effect.

Bitcoiners are savers, not spenders. They're trying to convert Bitcoiners into spenders. Good luck with that...

Una imagen de escalada cada día.

Lunes 4 de Agosto 2025

Petit Bois - Fontainebleau

What I think I love most about the bitcoin movement is how many people find purpose and meaning in finding their particular role within it. It's always something they care deeply about enough to forego everything else for. It's not everyone, of course, but even just seeing a few people, working with passion and integrity on what their calling is, is incredibly inspirational.

more people use stablecoins and they think it is better for payments. a large movement of people and governments are pushing it to be integrated as a global cbdc. I feel obliged to make fun of it at any opportunity.

more people use stablecoins and they think it is better for payments. a large movement of people and governments are pushing it to be integrated as a global cbdc. I feel obliged to make fun of it at any opportunity.

😯😯🐂

I gotcha. That was not what I took away from your original reply to me:

"I still see it happening. 350k-500k at tippy top in a gap up move over 6 months. Beginning in 3…2…1…. 🚀 🧡"

I read that as:

Beginning asap (due to your last sentence) there will be a 6 month move that will reach between 350k-500k.

That is why I said I'd bet that what you said would happen in that response would not happen. I guess now there are a lot of caveats, extended timelines, and you want a lower price target because of.... options markets?

I dunno, it seemed like my interpretation of your sentence is correct even after I read it a few times. I guess you didn't actually mean you believed what you said, it just sounded cool?