💯 Healing often entails a complete inversion of perspective. It’s recognizing that we have been fine all along and that our sorrow was due to something we were inadvertently doing
Damn, nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg has gotten so good
A principle that stuck with me from my time at Google was a quote from co-founder Sergey Brin that “scarcity breeds clarity”, alluding to Google’s humble beginnings in a Menlo Park garage. Being confined to a small space and limited resources helped Brin and his co-founder Larry Page focus on the essential and thus build one of the most important products and businesses in history.
Today, clarity is hard to come by, both in the products and news stories we are exposed to and in our day-to-day interactions with colleagues and friends.
#Bitcoin proponents will claim that the current absence of clarity in our social, economic and political lives is largely due to… an absence of scarcity.
When money is not scarce but abundant, even the worst business ideas (the class of WeWork, Peloton, Snapchat, 23andMe etc.) can garner a lot of initial attention and make their founders very wealthy before inevitably returning to a more sober valuation. An abundance of bad ideas and businesses, funded through the dilution of all our purchasing power results in frustration from those who are not participating in the pipe dreams. And this frustration eventually overflows into outright hostility and political radicalization as the resulting inflation makes most poorer.
Only scarce money can return an economy back to clarity and sobriety. Scarce money, not subject to arbitrary government debasement, allows for unencumbered price discovery for economic goods.
#Bitcoin is the only scarce money currently in existence.
Maybe, just maybe, a #Bitcoin economy will end the myopia and blurriness of our current economic and social lives and will ensure that those who are playing crucial roles in our society (nurses, teachers, artists etc.) earn their fair share again.
(If you enjoyed this short read, I would really appreciate a like on my substack page: https://soirbleu.substack.com/p/scarcity-breeds-clarity)
This is big. Fidelity are now allocating to the Bitcoin ETF for their All-In-One Conservative ETF 
Dear nostr friends
I’ve started writing here on a daily basis: https://t.co/2BpYO5NUsS
There will be #Bitcoin content but also a lot of quick 1 minute thought provoking pieces on #meditation, #contemplation and a plethora of other topics.
Really appreciate any feedback/comments or even subs 🙂
This Zen koan is reaching you from 35,000 feet
Why my publication is called Soir Bleu
The paradoxical benefits of subtraction
A shocking number of people have used amphetamines at some point in their life to brute force something that they want while ignoring something that they may need
Halting of trading of a publicly listed companies is a Fiat phenomenon
I’ll call it here first: Sam Altman will turn out to be the SBF of AI. Gives off weird vibes
Alex Soros controls $25 billion and 50% of his vocabulary is the word “um.”
The other 50% is empty platitudes about “democracy”. https://v.nostr.build/eMnX.mp4
Shocking…
Good morning!
This is where we should be prepared for the greatest FUD yet as a lot of very powerful people realize this is not going away and yet they have no way of acquiring an amount that will preserve their relative wealth and power.
Spot ETF approved.
The reason Bitcoin is more important as a technology than AI is that we need Bitcoin to reinstate a functioning market in which AI can be put to work against the right objectives and products.
Right now the market is so distorted by Fiat money that AI could and will be put to very harmful ends.
I also think nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu made an important point here that is being made too rarely: We have mo idea what Bukele is actually doing wrt Bitcoin. He’s not being audited. Until El Salvador’s Bitcoin holdings are audited we should be very skeptical. nostr:note1yfh7hycy02l08a3hpjw9a7cpx027lxafy7gj3538nwpq66f8aj9serwq42
Been sending this note to friends nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx
If this Christmas you want to enrich someone with the gift of understanding the most important invention of our lifetime, listen to and share this interview which was captured in a plane cruising above the savannah of the country of Malawi 🇲🇼
Here are some key take-aways:
- The system we all live is a fraudulent system, where the government, central bank and those sitting closest to it are constantly stealing purchasing power from us
- This is happening at an increasing rate in the west but it is worst in 3rd world countries like Malawi, where people who live on fertile soil and who used to be self-sufficient have become slaves to the IMF and global dollar standard
- In a truly free market which none of us have ever experienced, prices for almost everything should go down every year due to technological progress, instead we have increasing inflation every year. The difference between technological progress and de facto inflation is a good measure for the amount of theft occurring in a system.
- We need to stop patronizing these people thinking they need our charity and empathy. They don’t need anything more than access to money which lets them store the fruits of their labor.
- Ongoing technological improvements in Bitcoin will make this easier and easier
- There are many grassroots Bitcoin developments in these countries, including villages that have access to electricity for the first time by just deploying a couple of Bitcoin miners that finance micro hydro power plants generating electricity from a nearby stream.
- Our societies are increasingly radicalized because people are being impoverished by the theft of inflation imposed on them by our central banks. None of the other technologies we’re building are going to matter unless we can stop crime, violence and radicalization created by inflation.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Gb3CvWUbAwfYw710MCMMK?si=232cra9uThK68u9pxAOIQA