What’s necessary? Food, shelter, meaningful work, deep relationships, children, some sense of purpose larger than yourself, physical tiredness that produces real sleep.
The Amish achieve this with 18th century technology, most struggle to achieve it with smartphones and ChatGPT
Don’t try to entertain your way through life. Make real things.
Creation and consumption can be balanced but creation will bring more fulfillment.
For most of human history we didn’t need money. We do now based on how we’ve grown society and civilization. The best money is bitcoin. These are simply facts.
On the other side of the coin, when you put time and energy into your local economy you create less and less dependence on the need for money because barter and trust increase and facilitate trade.
Focus on your craft. Invest locally. Save surplus in the best money available.
Wages are flexible to the downside
Prices are sticky to the upside
Monetary expansion masks gains in efficiency
Bitcoin fixes this.
Agency thrives in shorter distances.
Plant a seed, watch it grow.
Take rough cut lumber, work it by hand into useable stock.
Direct cause and effect empowers. This is what we teach our children.
This is what it means to be sovereign and have freedom in your life. Money is only a tool. Don’t worship it, just use it to get closer to real work (farming, crafting, building, art)
Levels of the game:
1. Survival — Basic needs, fear-driven finite play.
2. Success — Accumulation, status, ego wins (most stop here).
3. Freedom — Quota met, sovereignty, surplus offered.
4. Beauty — Every act unfolds wholeness (art, land, relationships).
5. Recognition — Infinite seen; relative played as offering, no separate self.
6. Transmission — Living presence awakens others without effort.
Freedom is the ability to respond to situations appropriately.
Our environment directly shapes how we feel and our ability to exercise the agency needed to be free.
Don’t forget you are capable of incredible beauty. Your intuition is much more accurate then you think and the more work you do to cultivate it and react only trains it further.
Ai was built off of this principle. Use your own abilities to your advantage.
Ebony and Ivory
Rosemary and thyme still going strong despite the freezing temps
Proof of Work
Order emerges when energy is allowed to flow freely through a system
Bitcoin keys are pure entropy. They are random, vast, and unknowable.
Yet they unlock absolute truth
Sound familiar?
Relative: Entropy protects against prediction/control. Ownership becomes OBJECTIVE
Absolute: Massive randomness - no local cause - points to undivided wholeness
Money is flow of energy in motion, never a place to rest.
“When I have X I’ll be safe/free/happy”
Everyone’s X is vastly different. It also can change unpredictability like the weather.
The ego believes it can control the flow and to an extent in the relative game it “can” via discipline, heuristics, and optimization.
But forecasting is partial at best. Changing conditions make precision impossible.
More people are ready to wake up than you think. Live the way you know how and the direction your heart and intuition take you. The form will remember
Couple of reasons why more people don’t understand bitcoin:
- it’s complex, new and abstract
- most lack monetary/economic background
- media focuses on price/speculation
- cognitive bias favors fiat because it’s familiar
- volatility scares casual users
- education gap persists despite adoption
You are early. Don’t worry
Spending = money for expenses without currency risk (cash)
Savings = asset you are willing to hold for a minimum of 4 years that can’t be debased (bitcoin)
Investing = trying to outperform your savings
Make sure you know the difference and choose your investments wisely
