people who cant control themselves always try to control others.

The Illusion of the Messiah

What’s intriguing is how this expectation of a messiah—whether consciously or subconsciously—can keep people locked in a state of dependency, hoping for an external force to solve their problems. It’s a collective surrender of responsibility, in a sense, with the belief that someone 'greater' than themselves will provide the answers. This can even manifest in political or economic systems, where people look to a leader or a system to fix the issues they face, rather than realizing the power might already lie within their own ability to break free from the cycle.

Here is a photograph of me almost touching a large cactus circa 2020.

Hope everyone is having a great Saturday 🤙

this is hilarious nostr:note1ynv5u4r8crlvrjzgl5kz3svs643djj8a8q4jt4kgunav6euze5aqx7nx5u

Resist cultural engineering.

The irony lies in this: The collective, with their labor, time, and energy, can withdraw it all in the mere breath of a moment—a whisper in the wind. And just like that, all the so-called 'unstoppable' forces crumble, for true power lies not in one man's reach, but in the unshakable will of those who choose where their energy flows.

My dad is somewhat of a prepper. He grows all his own food, produces all his own. Electricity and is off the water grid..

His argument against Bitcoin is always EMPs shutting down the electricity grid and the conversation, kind of just stops there because yeah, sure, if the electricity goes, no one is going to be using Bitcoin. Duh.

I think bitcoiners tend to be this interesting niche of Optimistic Preppers. We see the world going to shit, but like a young girl with a crush on a fuckboi, we "say I can fix him."

Best tips for buying back your time in 2025?

When you figure out that this is an image of the healthiest food you can eat, all of your health problems start to improve...

GM 🌞

GM #nostr family. ☕

After ~11 years of three full-time careers (RIA, physician, fund manager), today is Day 1 of just one FT job (fund manager).

2025 should be lit.

The possibilities are endless and exciting... especially in the rapidly growing #FreedomTech space.

Onwards. ⚡

A lot of people have heard my moped story, but heres the math on it.

In 2016 I needed $5,000 to pay my wife’s master’s school tuition.

I didn’t have $5,000 cash at the time, but I did have bitcoin.

Bitcoin was trading at roughly $500, so I would have had to sell 10 bitcoin in order to pay the tuition.

I didn’t want to do that so I sold my car instead for $5,500.

I took $500 of that and bought a shitty moped and used the rest to pay my wife’s tuition.

So I rode the moped around the rest of the year and everyone made fun of me. Usually I play this part of the story up, but tbh it didn’t bother me. The people making fun of me were poorer than I was, they didn’t understand bitcoin or the market or even basic budgeting.

When people would make fun of me I would tell them why I was doing what I was doing. Then I would start peppering them with questions about their financial life.

“Oh so you financed your refrigerator? You’re still paying that off huh?”

“You have a timeshare you’ve never been to? How’d you get talked into that?”

People would generally go from laughing at me riding the moped to feeling shell shocked by me popping their bubble of comfortable delusion.

Still I drove the moped and everyone thought I was being weird and ridiculous and silly etc…

At 100k that decision was worth a million dollars.

At a million it will have been worth 10 million.

And at 10 million it will have been a nine figure decision.

100 million dollars.

I only rode the stupid moped for 8 months.

Ask yourself? Would you face 8 months of sacrifice and ridicule for 10 million in the future?

Because there are things you could be doing today that would generate that for future you.

My advice is to have your own moped moment.

Do something a little weird/cringe/out there in order to stack more sats and then check in on the sats in 10-15 years.

I think you’re going to be happy with the results.

The threat of censorship returning to Twitter/X is going to create another wave of adoption for #Nostr.

I don't see how it isn't better to do both.

Both implement and use your own upgrade to prove your commitment AND continue to go through normal process until core implement it too.