If you value your children over your spouse, that is a recipe for disaster.

Buying back your time is a high intelligence move.

But buying back your time takes money/currency strictly speaking.

Another excellent option is "creating" back your time. How does this work?

One option my wife and I use is writing and publishing books. This is an act of creativity and intelligence.

Each new high quality book we create and publish and sell on Amazon and Nostr buys us back our time, because then our book products are working for us, giving us "time autonomy." Time autonomy being the system that separates a person from the need to trade time for money.

What I'm describing is mainly a personal shift in values. Do I value time more than money, or like many people, do I value money more than time?

If you or I decides to consistently value time over money, or even more powerfully, meaning over money, then WHY I seek money changes, and I can start creating and selling books or products or houses or whatever works for ones personality type, and that gives a person more time autonomy until such point that the income from creating and selling surpasses one's expenses, enabling though not obligating that person to stop trading their time for money.

Then time/meaning autonomy has been achieved.

Therefore, if you can, absolutely buy back your time. But if that isn't really a financial option right now, you may want to consider creating back your time in a way that works for you, personally. My wife nostr:nprofile1qqs88rmcwwkzcm9hwq0rz5rpdt7gysmekyetgea6t2zzn4vkftcmzdspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsdyx09m and I are both creating back our time and buying back our time. And both are working for us.

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I've decided to create my own Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Just like the U.S. government and Peter Schiff, I'm developing a budget-neutral strategy for acquiring my bitcoin at no incremental cost. Phase one of my strategy is inviting contributions to my budget.

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Mostly Korean. 재미있어요!

Why, Seek first to grok then to be groked?

Because if you don't grok the vernacular/language your target audience uses, then you can't make yourself and your message comprehensible to them, which means you can't influence or lead them.

However, if you seek first to grok, then to be groked, then you will acquire your target audience language and vernacular, you can channel your desired message to them using their words, then they are far more likely to comprehend your message and intent, and be influenced.

Which dramatically increase the probability you will achieve your desired outcome.

The meta in this is great 😂

Bitcoin is for everyone, even the United States government. Actually, all the governments. It incentivizes them to implement better quality governence.

What did we win on? The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve coming from the White House?

Here's comment 3.

Don't hate God, because you came from God.

If you hate God, you're hating yourself too.

Therefore, if you love God you're loving yourself.

Bought an alternator to replace the one that broke down yesterday.

Pulled the old alternator. Easy enough.

Put the new alternator into place, but the big hinge bolt wouldn't thread. Tried, tried, and tried to get it to thread to no avail.

Pulled the new alternator out twice. Second time, checked whether the housing bolt holes were aligned. Nope! And I'd just bought it. Refurbished in Mexico it said.

Removed plastic cover, loosened four thin and long bolts holding the housing together. Wound up hitting one half of the housing with a hammer until the bolt holes lined up, but not too hard!

Reassembled it, put it in place, and bam! The hinge bolt slide right through and threaded easy.

Finished installing alternator and tightened alternator belt. Hooked positive batter lead back up. Started up and NO DASH BATTERY LIGHT. Solved, thank God.

But, ugh, looked and tire I got patched yesterday was low. I refilled it again.

Finally, got to St. George, Utah. Um...stunning! Red rocks and towering, snow covered mountains. And the drive from Las Vegas to here, driving through epic mountain and nature scapes.

In short, adventures galore!

If you find a wife like mine, you have an amazing and affirming woman.

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Meaning is harder than matter.

There are two major personality types, on a gradient.

There are Sensors who understand the world through their senses, what they can touch, see, taste, etc. They tend to strongly prefer non-abstract, concrete language, so they would prefer calling Bitcoin "digital gold." Peer to peer e-cash system won't make sense to them because they can't see it or touch it.

Then there are Intuitives who are far more comfortable with the abstract and conceptual dimension and language along those lines. A description of Bitcoin as "Peer to peer e-cash" rapidly makes sense to them even though it's not a system that anyone can touch or see in a physical domain.

This is why gold bugs like Peter Schiff struggle so much with Bitcoin. Peter Schiff's unchangeable psychological temperament is Sensor. Since they can't touch Bitcoin, but they can touch gold, and they would gravitate towards gold, since it works kinesthetically in the moment, spacially.

The major distinction between Bitcoiners and goldbugs is the domain of their psyche's that they trust and are more sensitive to, whether Sensory, or Intuitive.

So if the government says Bitcoin is digital gold, even though we know that's not fundamentally true, try to cut them some slack because they may be doing their best to communicate in a way that Sensors are more familiar and comfortable with that will help them get on board.

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That dude needs help.

Socialism is the the poverty mentality, plus the envy mentality, plus the victim and coercion mentality.

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Started a trip from Kingman, Arizona to St. George Utah.

Walked outside to start packing. Flat tire.

Ugh. Okay, I filled the tire.

Drive to Safeway to get cash back. Bought Pringles but no option given to get cash back.

Tried another purchase at a different station, to no avail.

Went to Chase Bank to get cash. Paid $6 to get $20. Oh boy!

Thankfully, made it to the cheap local tire shop that only takes cash. They repaired the flat and we got on the road.

I look down, and something catches my eye. The battery icon is on in my dash.

Made it not quite halfway to St. George Utah, and limped our van into an auto parts store.

Ordered an alternator that will arrive tomorrow.

I didn't plan on today's adventures in car repair, but my wife and I are fine and healthy. Thank God. The adventure is still fun.

First step to getting what you want:

Ask for it directly, using no indirectness.

Well done!