Submission is something that you beat someone into. Trust is earned. The red pill crew mistakes trust for submission. Sad and ugly. But they are right in that women want this... want to be able to trust. Being able to trust someone, someone who as earned your trust, is amazing for anyone in any kind of relationship, but trust is especially important for women in a sexual relationship with a man. Sex brings pregnancy and pregnancy is difficult and dangerous. Taking that risk with someone requires trust.

I did a thing. I flew to Mexico City to attend a FinTech conference and I joined a panel discussing digital assets... en espanol. I did public speaking in Spanish! I was appropriately terrified. But I think it went okay. I managed to say what I wanted to say and people seemed to understand me!

Ooo looky, I found an ABC 20/20 investigation from 1992 of the cult that I was born into 😳👀

The Bitcoin red pill crew is really out here giving us a bad name. We gotta fix this shit. They are the laughing stock en el resto del mundo.

You can't take the money with you. You can't take the Twitter followers with you. The only things you take with you are your character and the loving connections you build. You do not control the outcome of any situation. You can can influence the outcome, and that matters, but you can't control it. Don't focus on the outcome, focus on making choices you can be proud of. This idea is one that you'll find all around the world in religious texts, philosophical teachings, ancient wisdom, psychological theory, etc. It's pretty universal and whenever I get anxious or depressed it's because I've forgotten it.

I know that you can't change people. And when you have a person in your life who you wish was different, and they aren't, you have to just accept that they are the way that they are and it's not your responsibility to fix them. You have to do that or it will drive you crazy. All of this I know... But, how do you do that?

Public speaking is a strange task because it requires two different personalities. To do it well you need to prep like a type A obsessive bitch. And then the day of it's best to just have some wine and yolo it.

A good therapist will call you on your shit.

You ever do so much traveling that one day you wake up a bit disorientated in a hotel room and for 5-30 seconds you genuinely have no idea where in the world you are? You're just sitting there like "well, I don't know where here is, but looks fine! Let's go find out where I am and what I'm doing today, I hope it's somewhere fun!"

In a lot of ways men were taught to be socially dependent on their partners. The math on this ‘male loneliness epidemic’ isn’t mathing, but that’s cuz there is a twist. If people aren’t coupling then everyone is lonely, men and women alike and I know just as many single frustrated women as I do single frustrated men. So why are we so worried about the men? The difference is that women are taught to build and maintain social bonds, while men are often taught to ignore socialization and to rely on their female partner for the vast majority of their human connection needs. And this is probably the biggest factor in why men are much more likely to take themselves out at the end of a relationship. Social connection is a deep human need. Men have been trained to be socially dependent on their partners, and we need to change that.

I've been watching Severance (I'm only on episode 5, no spoilers!) and it's really messing with my head! I'm having dreams about it every night. There is the obvious mystery of Lumon Industries, but also it brings up a shit ton of other questions. To what extent are you your memories? Perhaps there are a lot of parallels between incarnating on Earth and becoming a severed worker. Even if you don't remember something, to what extent does an experience imprint on your body and subconscious? How much does the narrative you tell yourself about your life dictate your behavior? ...I'm not sure I should watch this! lol It's really messing with me!

I don't have that much respect for Madonna, but, she did make one of my all time fav songs, The Power of Goodbye. Perhaps it was intended to be a song about the ending of a romantic relationship, but it's a song that really applies to the ending of any relationship, and I've been in a phase of my life where I am clearing out unhealthy relationships of all sorts. The song has been on repeat.

Intelligence isn't as important as we think it is. Courage matters more.