I always wonder how long the current thing will last, until the next current thing.

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A goalie I worked with this morning complained: “The coaches expect me to carry the team and be the best player on the ice, like, all the time.” Me: “Interesting. Do they have the same expectations for anyone else on the team?” Him: “No… that’s the problem. The high expectations always come back to me.” Me: “Would you rather be the one people rely on, or the one people don’t expect much from?” Goalie: “…Huh. I never thought about it that way.” Perspective is quite something.

Bitcoin podcasts haven’t gotten worse... it's our informational asymmetry that has collapsed. From my experience, in the early days, every podcast felt valuable. I was learning the protocol, monetary theory, politics, history, and new philosophy all at once. The knowledge gap was massive, and each podcast materially closed it. Now that those ideas are internalized, most Bitcoin podcasts feel stale. Not because the hosts are wrong or boring, but because they’re stuck looping the same first-principle arguments. What once felt profound now feels repetitive. This is the same arc I went through with the Joe Rogan Experience. At first, I listened to every podcast episode, never missing it. Eventually, the show didn’t change, but I did. Once the information stopped being novel or additive, the incentive to listen disappeared. Now I only tune in when there’s a genuinely interesting guest. Bitcoin podcasts are following the same trajectory. At this point for me, the highest leverage learning isn’t in rehashing Bitcoin fundamentals, but it’s in adjacent arenas where real asymmetry still exists. Right now, that’s Alberta separation and independence. An hour listening to constitutional lawyers and policy experts yields more new insight than ten hours of Bitcoiners reaffirming what I already know. Repetition is useful for onboarding newcomers. But for anyone past that phase, most Bitcoin media has become maintenance content, not discovery. And discovery is what actually compounds #2sats

Why are there so many OPs coming out of the closet this morning?

We don’t ask to be carried, We don’t ask to be saved. Just leave us our labour, And the ground that we’ve made. Let others rule by paper and pen We trust the work of women and men. #Alberta1st