A civilization that abandons the sanctity of honest labor, legitimizes fraud, and consigns its children to the chains of perpetual monetary debasement, forfeits its right to endure.
#Bitcoin
#nostr
i need that meme of the astronauts.
philosophy always drives, it never rides
always has, always will
“intellectuals” as a class are dying
but philosophy is waking up
it’s like an optical illusion that looks different from which angle u view it.
the moral philosophy has primacy over the economics, like the gear u peddle vs the gear being driven on a bike.
understanding an uncomfortable truth gives me more hope than any comforting half truth or outright lie.
economics is a rake.
philosophy is a shovel.
orange pilling requires digging.
i’m writing a backhoe
Back in Vancouver and glad to see The Big Print delivered. I was lucky enough to read the draft and it is excellent. Congrats to my good friend and all around amazing human being nostr:npub1d3f4m9dgvkdjxn26pqzsxn6lpfn78sxwllxyt8mp76q0a9zyyjlswhr4xv in getting this out. Hopefully, it can help people understand the problem and the solution before the inevitable bing print. 
I’m almost done with the draft of my book: a moral sword for the masses.
If you’re someone who wants to get in great shape, just know that once you lock in and have a plan it is so surprisingly easy. If I can do this, anyone can 💪
*This post is a composition of knowledge I’ve gained from working with a top tier fitness coach. I paid, so you don’t have to.
I’ll share the steps and recipe that I’ve followed over the past 6 months to build muscle and drop 45lb while working a physical labour job, maintaining a social life, having a healthy relationship & running a business. This is going to be pretty extensive, so buckle up!
Mindset - You have to really want it, and you have to be willing to change your habits. This change is gradual, this change follows action. That being said- if you want it, take a step forward.
Time - You have to understand your time preference. From experience, short term thinking is a losing duel in this arena. You can make life changing progress within a couple months, but the goal is to stay in the best shape possible, which is an endless goal. This is very doable and the next steps pave the path for it.
Training - Key in on training sustainability and efficiency. I personally do not spend more than 3.5 hours at the gym per week. I prefer to focus on recovery because both my full time job and side hustle/business are currently labour intensive.
Finding Maintenance - This step should be an ongoing step, from the beginning of your journey- find a rough estimate for your maintenance calories (using this calculator https://www.calculator.net/tdee-calculator.html ), shoot for that amount of calories daily and track how your body weight responds meticulously. Finding maintenance- this will likely take around 2 months. Knowing your maintenance gives you your home base. We’ll get back to nutrition in a bit.
*Note: Contrary to popular belief, you can, and do, build muscle at maintenance as long as your muscles have adequate stimuli and recovery. This makes maintenance all the more important.
My Training Protocol:
The minimum effective dose for muscular maintenance is only 1 set to failure per week, per muscle group this is a crutch if you ever have an off week- which we all do once in a while. For growth you only need to aim for 2 sets. That being said, an upper/lower split 2x per week or a full body split 3x per week or EOD seems to be a sweet spot.
- I train full body 3 times per week
- Per session, I roughly do 1 exercise per muscle group, per plane (Ie. 1 set of pec flies, 1 set of chest press)
- 1-2 warm up sets at 1-3 reps to feel the weight.
- I push to land at failure between 4-8 reps on all working sets
- 3 Minute breaks going into the working set
- If you have a lagging muscle group, feel free to add 1 set to that exercise per session
Here’s my routine that gets repeated and stays unchanged. I don’t change it because the goal is ALWAYS to progress in the chosen exercises session after session- either with reps or weight. This is the feedback we want & need to see.
1. Chest press machine
2. Pec fly
3. Reverse pec fly
4. Deep shoulder press machine
5. Kelso shrugs
6. Wide grip lat pulldown
7. Unilateral neutral grip row
8. Unilateral cable pushdowns (tricep)
9. Unilateral dumbbell preacher curls
10. Leg press calf raise
11. Single leg leg press
12. Quad extension
13. Hamstring curl
8000 Steps daily
My coach also happens to be a web developer and has an app that is the equivalent of MyFitnessPal except it’s for tracking exercise progression. It’s extremely useful for compiling workouts and following progress. It’s called ‘Tracked - Strength Training’
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/tracked-strength-training/id6450913418
Diet Protocol:
This is the part where most of us slip up, that is completely fine. To avoid slip up’s our best option is to simplify the approach.
Our aim is to track maintenance for longer periods of time because lifestyle creeps in- sometimes we splurge on weekends or enjoy a few drinks.
If you’re at 2500 calories a day, let’s say you go out to drink twice per month and your weight stays the same, this means your actual maintenance is likely 2650 or 2700, but your lifestyle allows for 2500 daily, so eat at 2500 daily. This creates flexibility and doesn’t feel so restrictive. Your averages prove this theory and you can easily go into a meaningful weight loss phase by knowing your actual maintenance, once again without having to give up your social life.
The downside to this is that it takes time to find that sweet spot- once you do however, you can have both. Understanding this, let’s proceed.
We’re going to follow these principles to keep things simple.
1. Find and maintain maintenance to start
2. Hit 1 gram of protein per body weight
3. Carb + protein based meals are eaten around exercise windows, or periods of laborious work. Ex.) Before and after the gym
4. Fat + protein based meals are eaten at all other times. Ex.) breakfast and nightly snack (if you eat breakfast)
5. Carbs kept on the lower end on off days
6. Micronutrients - Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium are the big ones that I lean on.
Get comfortable with this approach while training, and when it’s time to shed the pounds, drop your maintenance by 5000 calories, bring steps up from 8000 to10,000 per day and just stay consistent.
That’s literally it.
Once weight loss has slowed, (usually about the 2-3 month mark) feel free to add 2, 20 minute light cardio sessions per week, I prefer elliptical because it’s very low impact.
Track your body weight as feedback, but stay more focused on how you look, and how you feel.
To come off, taper off of cardio, bring steps back down to 8000 if need be, give it a month and then hop back into finding your new maintenance at your new body weight, when you’re happy or when you need it.
Repeat as needed
If you made it this far, I commend you, you deserve to change your life and I hope that this post can help you. Just remember that these steps don’t take place over night.
Only focus on what you can control today & take action. Sprinkle the rest in over the duration of your journey.
Play the long game, it’s far more rewarding and I think everyone on Nostr understands this.
DMs are open to questions 🤙
get it
we are just thinking about money at different levels
i do not want more complicated words.
maybe clumsy was the wrong choice of words.
economics is a rake
philosophy is a shovel
when we orange pill, we are asking people to dig.
I’m writing my book to give a back-hoe to the masses.
I love Lyn’s book, im not taking anything away from her work, she does a great job raking leafs, but she is not a philosopher, and it pains my heart seeing people work really hard with the wrong tool for the job.
i appreciate the conversation.
i actually went back to acouple parts of my book to over emphasize these points because they are so important.
🫡 thx again for pushing on our ideas with me. it’s great exercise
money is not simply an economic object.
it’s a social kind, meaning it takes two people exchanging value through an object to create the concept of money itself.
without people, there is no money.
money, like all things in reality, is hylomorphic: both
that’s why “the money is NOT broken”
it’s only broken if ur analysis is focused on the objective aspect of money and not its true nature.
money is a tool, a tool being used to control, and it’s fulfilling its working
the pure economic analysis is useful but only so far as it doesn’t address the complete problem
#Bitcoin
good and bad are moral terms
broken and fixed are neutral terms.
a car can be broken and repaired - sterile, those words speak nothing of motive
what you do with the car does and that’s what makes it moral.
our money drives from point a to b
that’s not “broken”
it’s the running over pedestrians part that we hate.
it’s absurd to say “oh no, that car driving over people is broken, we need to fix that car”
fix the car fix the world
yet that is exactly what we are doing with money
“broken” removes the human part from the equation
I understand what you are getting at.
i get the economic points.
shells worked, until harder money beat it. they didn’t break, u can still use it as money, it’s just not as good.
fiat is being exchanged everyday for real goods and services, it functions as money quite well. but the catch is it also is an instrument of control.
that’s not broken money
if what we mean by “broken” is really replaced by something better, then then that applies to everything and means nothing.
the point is a myopic economic analysis of money is clumsy at best and naive at worst.
it won’t cut it.
that will not orange pill the masses
we can peddle as fast as we can in 1st gear and won’t get very far.
need higher moral gears to make the machine work.
thre entire “broken” rhetoric aims at a true directions, but is philoophically sophomoric.
it’s not a personal slight or attack, it’s just true.
if we use clumsy obtuse language, it’s no surprise it doesn’t cut through to the normal people who need bitcoin the most
shitcoining is morally identical to central banking.
same extractive game
put simple, the money is a broken economic tool, but a working tool of coerced extraction: ie enslavement
money is a tool, and now it’s a tool that has been deliberately fashioned to control and economically enslave.
it is successfully achieving its end.
we would never say a car that drives from point A to B is broken, so why do we do it for money?
because we only look at money economically, and not morally.
i get the rhetoric, but it makes a category error. “broken money, fixing the money” assumes a utilitarian framework. it makes sense if u approach the situation as primarily economic, but that’s wrong. morality drives the economics, in my book, i lay out why the money isn’t broken, it’s working all too well.
are shackles “broken” because they bind you? nah
we are naive if we attribute ignorance to our bondage
he was still lecturing even after genesis block.
he was talking about ideal and asymptotic ideal money early 2000s, and C++ was what he programmed in, so he could have been working in it for years prior to white paper
but even if he “isn’t satoshi” it doesn’t matter, someone took lessons from his entire life’s work
or ever. fucking dweeb
#Bitcoin strips away the illusion of moral neutrality.
#nostr
#asknostr Hits the nail, yes?
For my money, John Nash.
He was extremely effeminate, so that fits with your woman theory.
Whoever Satoshi was/is/are, someone took John Nash’s entire life’s work. From the nobel prize winning game theory, to crypto, to C++, to his lectures in asymptomaticly ideal money at princeton, etc etc and put it in Bitcoin.
either himself or someone who followed his life’s work.