A little bird told me that we have some climate activists on #Nostr. This is for them...

Went to the ER last night because the pain was unbearable

Went to the ER last night because the pain was unbearable

So pumped!! Just got mine special delivery, Thanks Ben!! Just have to decide when to try it…also looking for suitable sunny shelf storage location. lol

Passing a Kidney stone

Too much soda and beer

It’s my fault

I’m an idiot

But damn it hurts

A couple more with Lawrence...

Well, I'll try to post more videos. I hope I don't bore everyone. lol.

Got a gig in Phoenix on Thursday. You close?

If I had a sat for every time I heard someone say:

"Oooh yeah my friend told me about [INSERT CONSPIRACY] before, but I thought they were crazy. What do you think about it? Tell me more!"

This is why planting seeds matters.

The vast majority of the time, you will be the person hitting someone's mental brick wall, and it seems like zero progress is being made toward helping them reach the truth.

But for the average human brain, it's all about QUANTITY OF TOUCHPOINTS.

Don't get discouraged when people don't believe you right away; that's all part of the process.

Keep softly, lovingly, and consistently spreading seeds of truth to your loved ones.

You can't see them yet, but those saplings of awakening are growing in the back of their minds, just waiting for the "click" moment 🧠🌱

Elon/Trump break up is 🔥

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

Bitcoin only is the goal. I like the way you think

I thought wine was supposed to get more valuable with age.

Everything in my cellar is losing value fast.

Even as the bottles improve with age and each vintage gets more scarce, they lose value.

Bitcoin is eating my lunch.

Just in the last month, my wine is down 26% and I don't see this stopping any time soon.

Once I understood this dynamic, that my wine is going to be devalued in bitcoin terms forever, I had two choices:

1) Reinvest back into my business to grow faster than bitcoin.

2) Sell wine for bitcoin and let that grow for me

In some ways I'm lucky that scaling up a winery is so hard. I age red wine for 2 years before I sell it and there's no real way to speed that process up. How could I possibly justify an attempt to outgrow bitcoin? My choice was easy.

For CPG businesses that cycle inventory faster, the decision isn’t as clear.

How do you make the case for bitcoin to someone beating its historical CAGR by reinvesting into their business? They're killing it, but long term, do they really expect to outpace bitcoin?

The pressure to scale constantly disappeared when I realized I didn’t have to grow just to survive. Just putting some of your sales in bitcoin lets it do a lot of the growing for you.

Growth is a fine goal, but chasing it just to stay afloat wears entrepreneurs down. They trade sleep, family-time, and sanity in the hopes that they can keep up.

Bitcoin can carry the growth pressure so you don't have to. Build the business you actually want, and let bitcoin carry the rest.

The best pillows are filled with natural silk. Buckweat is 2nd. Wool, 3rd.

#Peatstr

Cheers sir. We're gonna win

How will Bitcoin scale as a medium of exchange?

If it’s so good, won’t everyone just save it and spend their dollars instead? That’s the classic argument.

This is absolutely happening and will continue for a while. That view only sees one side of the transaction: the consumer.

At the beginning, just as only the most committed Bitcoiners will spend it, only the best businesses will be able to demand Bitcoin. As those two ends of the spectrum grow, people who want to spend dollars and save Bitcoin will start to run out of options. Especially for quality goods.

This transition starts with shop owners upcharging for fiat. At first, it will look like today’s cash vs credit pricing, simply covering card fees. As Bitcoin becomes more obvious, that spread will grow.

Adoption will take time. Not every producer will switch quickly. The ones who do will outcompete. They will escape margin decay from fiat debasement. They will not need to cut corners. Good money chases quality goods, and these businesses will be positioned to thrive.

High-quality producers steer the next marginal transaction. Over time, they will steer it toward Bitcoin.

If a business wants to earn the hardest money, they will have to produce a top-quality good. Just like if a consumer wants a top-quality good, they will increasingly have to pay with Bitcoin.

Orange pilling the world begins at the margins.

There are two sides to every transaction. The margins are on both ends.

Has it been solved yet?

Use Bitcoin: it’s money