Being a kind and patient father has been the thing that has made me more kind and patient in the rest of my life.

Steady lads, deploying capital. Just took out another loan to buy #Bitcoin. $100k by the end of week.

I have been inspired with the perfect Final Boss for a video game... 2 parents both sick with a stomach virus and covid vs 1 toddler who feels perfectly fine, full of energy, and laughs at the idea of rest 😅

I can say from firsthand experience that it is possible to beat 😤

Current vibes are quite similar to September 2016 and September 2020.

Just an observation. I don’t make the rules.

Nostr is about replying. Engaging in conversations. Building your social graph.

There is no algo to spoon feed you. Effort is rewarded.

You may not like it, but accept it.

More the first. And not because I have wealth but because of the mere perception. “If this guy knows this stuff he must have gotten in with Satoshi”. I’m a strong second amendment respecter but I’d rather not exercise the right to its fullest.

Is there a price at which you will greatly reduce or stop speaking publicly about bitcoin?

GOOD NEWS!!

I just received another email announcement...

For the third month this year (March, May, and July 2024), my small friends and family hedge fund "has been featured in BarclayHedge's Monthly performance rankings. Vailshire Partners, LP has ranked number 1 in the Multi-Strategy category."

#1 for multi-strategy hedge funds... in the world! (According to BarclayHedge data.)

I can take very little credit for this astonishing accomplishment, of course, as my fund is powered primarily by #bitcoin and bitcoin proxies.

Eventually, Wall Street (like Vailshire) will embrace a Bitcoin standard... willingly or unwillingly.

Welcome to the Warren.

A few Normie friends joined, saw the horrid uncensored chaos that is the global feed and quit immediately. If you aren’t a decentralization, privacy, or BTC maxi before joining it’s a really jarring transition that will immediately repel a lot of normies.

They sleep from 7:30-7:30.

I've gotten 9 hours of sleep two nights in a row and I feel like I can take over the world.

What I'm watching... 👀

#Nasdaq stocks ( $QQQ ) in the US have absolutely crushed it relative to most other equities over the past five years, rising a whopping +158% in US dollar terms!

However, they have actually decreased -55% in real (neutral energy money) terms over that same time period.

Understand that how you measure your life is extremely important and relevant for a better future.

False weights, measures, and money--like government fiat currencies--give you a distorted and misleading picture.

#Bitcoin is better money for a better world.

The simple act of starting your day with a long walk, preferably with a dog, can change your life.

I’m hearing more from my friend about the world of influencers.

13 of the 15 girls on the hen do this weekend were fitness influencers or similar.

Here’s my takeaways.

🎙️ No one cares about deplatforming or censorship. No one spoke of Twitter / Brazil over the weekend.

💀 Gyms in london have influence hours where you can film without bothering other normal gym goers.

🏃‍♂️ running is cool again but you have to have a big bum too. It’s kind of unobtainable. Classic.

💉 everyone has had some “tweakment” done. Baby Botox or botox, lip filler, minor boob job, profilo (smooths your skin), lazer treatments, veneers etc. it’s SO normalised among young women, apparently.

💇‍♀️ hair extensions are less cool. No one has them anymore.

🥘 all but one of them has suffered from an eating disorder.

The anorexia or bulimia or any other number of things I hadn’t heard of before had of course affected their periods.

One of them had been told by a doctor when she was 16 that she wouldn’t be able to conceive. So sad.

So she never used protection with her partner of 7 years and this summer she fell pregnant… awesome right?

Well maybe. don’t forget she and her partner had always prepared for a childless life.

🥾 they went on a hike on Saturday morning. The hike took 2 hours. Taking photos as part of the hike?

ALSO TWO HOURS 💀

💰 it’s not enough to have 200k instagram followers + affiliates and sponsors.

You need to have a business like a “sustainable” swimwear brand or vegan cookbook / online coaching. Basically you have to treat your audience as a customer base.

Funny story. One girl had created a load of Tupperware brand.

But oops. She messed up because people stopped buying from her coz the products actually lasted. So they bought one for life and she couldn’t keep monetising her audience.

Fucking hilarious.

🍷 it was a Hen Do and the usual thing to do as a Brit is to get shitfaced. lol sorry it’s just British things.

The Saturday night they had a few drinks courtesy of the investment banker in the note below, but these girls had smoothies and yoga and breath work and were worried about bad photos or giving off the wrong impression to their followers.

What are they, the QUEEN OF ENGLAND??

🏠 the villa they stayed in had 800 followers on IG at the start of the weekend. Today it has 2,500 because of their tags and content. Wild.

👰‍♂️ the bride spent the Sunday morning alone in her room drafting posts about the hen do weekend because she had a new deal starting on the Monday and she couldn’t overlap the hen do content with the sponsored content.

⛓️‍💥

To sum up. Would’ve been super interesting to be a fly on the wall over this weekend but influencing SUCKS.

The model is retardio and to succeed in the world of influencing, your mental health takes a big hit and you effectively HAVE to become an unbearable diva.

And yes bitcoin fixes a lot of this.

But Nostr fixes A LOT more.

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For everyone who says they don’t work out because it’s hard to get to the gym, this is your final boss:

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