Totally agree @jack

You might be lying more than is healthy for you.

Most people think lying is harmless, just social grease or a shortcut through conflict.

I used to think that too.

But the real damage caused by lying isn’t moral. It’s structural. It’s what it does to your internal model of reality.

To be a convincing liar you have to believe your own stories. And the moment you start believing them, you compromise the part of your mind that knows what’s real. That internal compass, the one that helps you navigate the world and navigate yourself, begins to distort. Hannah Arendt warned that when lies replace truth, our ability to orient ourselves collapses. That’s the real danger.

Lying feels like control, but over time it becomes the opposite. You create a false world, and then that false world starts controlling you.

If you’ve been lying long enough, you’ve already split yourself in two: the part of you that knows the truth and the part of you performing the lie. Carl Jung would say the performer becomes a shadow self you start living inside. And if you inhabit that character long enough, you confuse their desires for your own. Eventually the performance becomes the identity, and your entire life bends around maintaining it.

The prescription is simple, but brutal. Tell the truth again.

But be warned. Truth is expensive. David Foster Wallace said the truth will set you free, but not until it is finished with you.

Telling the truth means killing the false self, and that death is painful because you’ve been identifying with that character for years. You’ve invested in them. You’ve protected them. You’ve let them run your life.

Worse, many of your relationships have bonded not with you, but with the liar, with the persona. And when you kill that persona, people will grieve it. Some will resent you. Some will leave. Some will tell you you’re not yourself anymore without realizing they never actually knew you in the first place.

People love the lie. It’s easier to love. Cleaner. More convenient.

When you start telling the truth, don’t expect applause. Expect resistance. Expect disappointment. Expect people to prefer the mask you wore over the face you’re finally revealing.

But if you stay the course, something else happens.

The world becomes solid again.

Your mind aligns with reality.

Your inner compass recalibrates.

And you stop living as a character in a story you never meant to write.

You come back to yourself.

Just finished a great breathworks course with 5 honeybadgers. There's now even more energy in the Bitcoin network!

Let me know if you're keen for the next one.

looking for a good name for cashu L2 based on payment channels.

No breath, no life. That’s obvious. But …

Know breath, know life - that is less obvious to people (yet equally true).

Yes, just as whether you are breathing defines whether you are alive

How you are breathing defines how you life

You can be eating right, exercising right, even meditating regularly. But if you have not learnt how to optimize your own breathing, you have not yet learnt how to optimize life itself.

I was fortunate enough to discover this by accident at age 30. A friend suggested I went along to a breathing course. Like a smart-alec I thought “I already know how to breathe, what’s the point?” but I went anyway out of curiosity.

What followed showed me that I knew how to breathe to survive, but not to thrive. And as a result, I was needlessly living with a lot of more stresses and a lot less freedom than I could have been

I was so amazed by the difference I felt, I decided then I wanted to teach it to others, so they didn’t have to wait as long as I did to find out how to optimize the conditions for life itself.

If you’re curious (you're a Bitcoiner, of course you are!) to find out more firsthand, the next step is DYOR. No, not by reading a book: by experiencing it.

Your breath is an asset that everyone can self-custody without permission. But it does initially take a little training to use it optimally.

So DYOR step entails coming along to an intro session which I’m running (online) this Friday 7pm PDT.

You’ll pick up a simple technique you can use to calm the mind during the day, more knowledge about the breath, and clear next steps if you want to deepen the extent to which you optimize your breath and therefore your life.

Anyone can come. Just drop me a message or comment below.

I will then send you the link, and you can get started in applying this to your life.

Long post (TL;DR being on the left in the wake of Charlie’s assassination, and my thoughts on the only path forward)

Thank you to my friend nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgpvemhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33wf6xcutrvyu8ydnpw4ukzae4dc6ksvmvx56ryvnyd568xunex4j85en9v56rvwfkveck2wrnxeckwatyddenwer2w3n8x0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2qg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0f7rplw for being a sounding board. He and I don’t agree on everything, but I’ve found such a kinship with him over the years (as one of the first more public Bitcoiners I met who was super welcoming to me), he’s a good person and loves our country, and I have been talking with him about my own complex feelings around Charlie’s death and recent events.

It’s time for the moderate, left of center liberals to actually lead the way and the future of the Democratic Party. It’s time to be courageous and say what needs to be said.

They constitute a majority of voices, but the party, media, and good faith liberals are constantly hijacked and ridiculed by the hypocritical extreme, radical left.

The left that antagonize progressives and center left as being “liberal” and not “true leftists.”

Damn straight. Moderate liberals are exactly what the democrats need to lead on a platform of inclusion, American values, democracy and liberal values, and a place for everyone — not a place that welcomes extreme views, violence and violent rhetoric, shitting on American values, wealth, entrepreneurship, and bullshit purity contests and virtue signaling. A platform that says we’re proud to be American, and we can live together in peace and harmony and my fellow Americans are not my enemy.

And this needs to be said - the leftists, those applauding Charlie’s death — are not just a minority voice on the left/democratic side. They have been growing, and recruiting. They also openly, consistently profess their hate for America and fellow Americans. When do we on the center left say enough is enough?

It’s not too late to combat this, deescalate, and pull people back to the same, center left position and move forward. We need to stop being complacent and captured by this segment of the extreme left (who many don’t even vote democrat anyway because no one passes their purity contest!)

And if you’re on the left — for just one second, try not to whataboutism about the right. This is a post to you — I’ve critiqued the extreme right many times. This isn’t about them right now. It’s about you, it’s about me, and it’s about answering the call if we can actually do this and rise above and do what we need to do.

We cannot move forward as a movement, as a Democratic Party, etc, without this intervention and soul searching. It could very well destroy America. It’s time to be morally courageous and do the right thing, and stop being the knee to those on the far left who would rather see our country and fellow Americans destroyed (or assassinated) anyway.

I for one will fight for American liberal values and a safer country for my daughter to grow up in and be proud of 🇺🇸

You’re going to suffer.

That’s non negotiable.

But are you willing to suffer?

That shift can make all the difference in how you handle what’s in front of you.

Even better do you love your suffering?

Is it the necessary price to fulfill your destiny?

If it is, congrats. You’ve figure out life.

Learn to love your suffering and every scar will be a reminder about life you were brave enough to lead.

Or reject your suffering and suffer anyway in pointless agony for nothing.

Choice is pretty clear.

Ox or Laurelhurst market for dinner. If it’s the latter, grab me a few pounds of blood sausage.

selling bitcoin to buy msty for “passive income” is retarded

selling bitcoin to buy msty for “passive income” is retarded

Treating a dog like a human baby is a sign of a culture in steep decay.

OK Nostr, I'm 100% BTC now & 100% off Coinbase!

Going forward, the best strategy is just to keep stacking and never look back??

People really used to say bitcoin will go to a million when cheeseburgers cost $10,000 and other stupid shit along those lines.

We’re 10x away from a million.

You really think cheeseburgers are gonna cost 10k when we hit it?

I doubt it.

Bulls would be better.

IYKYK

Polymarket :

Will nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle become the owner of the Chicago Bears by 2040?

#Bitcoin

No.

Although I remain confident that my peak price guess will be wrong.