2 days left in 2025…

What 2025 goals are you working on completing during the final hours of this year?

Thanks for the suggested I defo will

Conrad Martens "View of the Heads, Port Jackson" 1853 #Martens

no one tells you about how much you vacuum when you’re a parent. I feel like I vacuum every hour no joke. thank god for cordless Dysons.

There was a conspiracy theory that the McRib is actually human flesh, because it was reintroduced around the same time that all of those homeless people vanished from the West Coast never to be seen again.

After Covid I can understand people believing these kind of Little Shop of Horrors scenarios.

Mass-migration is a topic that triggers

Given I was born in the UK, but now live in Australia, I am a migrant

I met and married an Australian citizen

Indeed I am now a citizen of Australia

So it would be fair to say that I am a advocate for migration

But what’s interesting is the volume ie “mass” part of this current trend, policy, debate

Plus the way it’s sold to the public, it’s a “good” thing, the “right” thing

But was it voted for?

Look at the sheer volume of migrants

Australia, UK, being my 2 major places of interest, but throughout Europe you see it

It’s hardly a surprise it’s so disruptive

Is it by design? If so, who and why?

It’s a great book. The fact the idea of a saeculum has been around since Roman times is so interesting

Puts a lot more power behind the concept of why “history rhymes”

Been a big week for me

Podcast is going to take a re-vamped format going forward

The traction I was hoping for has not materialised

I didn’t have a strong enough business plan, almost non-existent

The costs can not be justified at this stage

A lesson in poor planning, self-delusion, and the ever-present behavioural loops I am deeply conditioned into

What was supposed to be a passion project, was morphed into a “huge business opportunity” to seek external validation

I have a fear of admitting I don’t work

A fear of others judgement

Bitcoin has changed my life, I no longer have to sell my time, so the time I do use has to be justified

But if you don’t need “make money” right now, why spend time and energy doing that?

Especially when the real work, my day job, is on home-schooling my 3 kids, my humanistic work, the inter-generational healing I am persuing

My father worked himself to an early death

His father did the same

I don’t have to, yet here I am repeating that pattern

And my wife would say she’s seen me do this on a loop every 6 to 12 months for the last decade

Face your fear

Embrace failure

I got this one wrong, I’ve over invested at an early stage, and my psychological pre-disposition (likely inherited as a previous generations trauma), has once again taken hold

I am trying to not judge

To act with ease, kindness, and grace

And I note the irony of even posting publicly about this

But somehow I want to

The more I can own up to my own failings, the more I can focus on being happier in my own skin

You don’t need to run a successful business to value yourself

You don’t need to have a series of societally acceptable labels to value yourself

You don’t need to make decisions to please people that are around you to value yourself

Some more work to do some no doubt

Have an amazing day to whomever might have read this

Good vibes

Ps - will take some time to think through what format of podcast will serve me, my health, my wife, and my kids

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#Bitcoin exchange balance totals just hit their lowest level since 2018.

A move from 125k to 110k is so un-interesting

Normal day for a Bitcoiner in HODL mode

It’s almost funny

All these people freaking out

It shows you how many have no idea what they’ve actually purchased

Bitcoin in self-custody is a superpower

But the ones scared haven’t utilised that feature

Likely don’t realise it’s possible

Or been sold the lie they aren’t capable of it, lack the responsibility to be their own bank

BTC Treasury co, ETF, exchange, they’re all derivatives

Take responsibility for your wealth, yes daunting, but sooooo much more chilled on the other side of that learning curve

I just tune out

Focus on what you want to create

Allow it to become reality

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yes I know that is what is implied/said about the grand and distant future of Bitcoin. “We are so early”.

I am saying it’s interesting and disappointing that the Human Rights Foundation only talks about helping poor people in developing nations. I have yet to see or hear someone discuss how Bitcoin can help America’s working poor.

Basically, if you are a #pleb who is #hodl ing and #stackingsats then that just means that you are most likely middle class.

mayyybe upper class.

Not if you’re in the oligarch class, or the working poor class.

how does Bitcoin heal the world if it can’t benefit poor people in the USA?

🇺🇸 Bitcoin is not a structural solution to poverty… it’s a parallel money system, not a redistributive one. (systemic economic problems like wage stagnation, healthcare costs…class inequalities)

It’s a beautiful day to smoke meats.