SPENT THE EVENING RUNNING AROUND THE BALLPARK.

GOOD MORNING. 🫡

When I was 18 my grandfather was put on hospice care.

I was in college about two hours away.

So I would take the train out and visit with him as often as I could during those final few months.

One day it snowed. The first snow of the winter. I took a photo of it and came in the house to show him.

He was laying in his hospital bed staring out the window.

“Illinois… the armpit of the nation” he said.

I could tell he was reflecting on his life and regretting many of his choices.

Layer that night he grabbed me by the arm and said…

“you know Hodl, out there are a couple of guys on a beach somewhere with pretty girls sitting in their laps… and the only difference between us and them is that they have balls.”

I never forgot it. The message was clear.

I’m old and dying. It’s too late for me, but not for you kid. Be a goddamn man in this life. Have some balls.

A few years later I put everything I had into bitcoin.

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When you finally start to improve yourself you’re going to make the people around you deeply uncomfortable.

Because up to this point you’ve had an unspoken agreement to be losers together.

You start winning?

“Hey man that wasn’t part of our deal?”

You become a mirror.

A mirror that people don’t like looking in.

Because it reflects their choices back at them in opposition to yours.

You’re gonna have to go it alone.

None of those people from the past are coming with.

Not a single one.

Chevron Deference is dead. The Administrative State just took a massive blow. So incredibly bullish right now.

Fuck the debate, let’s bring back duels.

There are these people out there…

- husband is tall/decent looking

- wife is a solid 7/8

- 2 to 3 children

- 115-125 IQ

- kids go to private/charter school

- house costs 1.1 million

- work in healthcare/law/finance/biz

- highly conservative in private

- politically reserved in public

- low to medium alcohol dependency

- love to gossip about others

- kids are smart, excel in school

- church on Easter/Christmas

- hobbies are travel/sports

- power consumers of most goods

- low risk takers

- slightly above average in all categories, far above average in none

And they run our society.

This church took 632 years to build.

Heinrich Heine explained: "Men in those days had convictions; we moderns have opinions. And it needs more than opinions to build a Gothic cathedral."

Bitcoin is our cathedral.

Bedford is the top citadel at the moment.

I don’t make the rules.