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Has anyone noticed Black Friday deals are just last year’s regular prices? We’ve created a new retail strategy…20% markup throughout the year, then discount back to previous levels and call it a doorbuster. Inflation backing slowly out of the room hoping nobody notices.

The U.S. Constitution was designed for a republic that no longer exists.

Thinking of starting a mini interview series with Nostr people because understanding each other = collective intelligence upgrade. Quick videos, unfiltered takes, maximum signal. Who wants in? And whose brain should I pick? You can nominate yourself if you’re willing…

Every crisis becomes an opportunity for the government to increase its extraction of your wealth. This is why we Bitcoin

The digital age has given us a new confusion where we think follower counts equal power. But authority doesn’t come from announcing you have it or collecting people who click a button. Real authority flows from legitimate sources, whether divine mandate, institutional office, or respect earned through years of demonstrated wisdom. The influencer who mistakes his platform for something more has misunderstood what he possesses. He has volume and reach, but these are morally neutral tools that amplify whatever is already there in the man himself. A follower count gives you exposure, and exposure cuts both ways. More eyes mean more witnesses to your character, which either confirms your virtue or accelerates your unmasking. The man of genuine substance grows more credible under scrutiny. The fraud crumbles in proportion to the attention he receives. This is why time remains the great revealer. The influencer whose impact evaporates with his relevance was never really influential. He was just loud when people happened to be listening. True influence works differently. It shapes how people think, adjusts their moral understanding, and reorients their grasp of reality. You can’t manufacture this through metrics. It only emerges from a life lived with enough integrity that others recognize something worth emulating, something true enough to reorganize their lives around. The crowd applauds today and condemns tomorrow because crowds respond to performance. But the man who has actually influenced someone has created something more durable. He has transferred wisdom or virtue in a way that lasts regardless of whether the masses noticed. The question isn’t how many people follow you. It’s whether you’re worth following. And only time can answer that.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Those who control which questions get asked control the boundaries of possible futures. This is why established powers prefer workers to askers. Workers accept the problem set as given, askers potentially delegitimize the entire game. When authority figures define the problems, they also define the solution space. “How do we make this system 10% more efficient?” is a very different question than “Should this system exist at all?” The first empowers workers and leaves power structures intact. The second opens Pandora’s box. The good asker is thus often politically homeless. They’re too disruptive for conservatives who defend existing structures, but too undisciplined for revolutionaries who’ve already decided which questions matter. The asker’s commitment is to the question itself, not to predetermined answers, and this makes them unreliable as ideological soldiers. Every political movement eventually reaches a point where it stops asking and starts answering, codifying its uncertainties into certainties. At that moment, it begins preferring workers over askers. The most powerful form of control isn’t forcing people to accept your answers. It’s getting them to accept your questions as the only questions worth asking. The asker threatens power not through opposition but through reframing. They don’t fight your answers, they question your questions. And once people start asking different questions, your entire edifice of answers becomes irrelevant. You haven’t been defeated, you’ve been made obsolete. The future belongs to whoever can protect the space for asking, not as a permanent state, but as a recurring rhythm: ask, then work. Build, then question what you built. The moment you stop asking is the moment you calcify.

Everyone loves growth until it demands change. Be the person who changes anyway

The parallel economy isn’t a fringe experiment, it’s a necessity born from clarity. When you recognize that legacy systems treat human beings as extractable resources rather than sovereign individuals, you stop asking permission to build alternatives.

Gm. One of my favorite things about Bitcoin is the community. Most communities are dead. They talk about “networking” like it’s a chore, schedule months in advance, and still flake. Bitcoin? We just do things. I don’t have time for meetups right now, but I do have time to hop online with two solid dudes I’ve never met in person, talk Bitcoin, Nostr, and life, and build something real. Show me another community where strangers will run a live stream together on a random morning because why the hell not. You can’t, because they’re all waiting for permission. We’re not. Join us this morning for our first live stream. Because while they’re still planning, we’ll already streaming.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @AndersL @Sam Magner 9AM PST.

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Nostr Group Call #1

First call to figure things out.

Conspiracy theorists aren’t crazy. They were just early adopters of a worldview the rest of us would be forced to accept later, one data breach, one whistleblower, one declassified document at a time. The tinfoil hat was never fashion. It was prophecy wearing aluminum foil because that’s all it could afford.

Nostr is so quiet today that I heard a thought echo. I looked around and asked, “Who said that?” Only one thing answered… What was it?

We’ve conditioned an entire generation to wait. Wait for acceptance letters, wait for someone else to validate their readiness, wait for permission to be productive. Meanwhile, the distance between “student” and “contributor” has never been wider, and the anxiety has never been higher. But every functional household is already a small enterprise. Budgeting is financial modeling. Meal planning is operations and logistics. Home repairs are problem solving under constraints. These aren’t just chores. They’re the fundamental patterns that underpin every business operation. The question isn’t whether young people are capable of workforce level thinking. It’s whether we’re capable of recognizing that the kitchen table can teach what the lecture hall often can’t. Accountability, resource management, the satisfaction of delivering value to people who depend on you. Start before the resume exists. Start before the job application. Start by making competence, not compliance, the currency of trust in your home. Let them fail small now so they don’t collapse under the weight of their first real responsibility later. Prepare your children to run their own business, and employment becomes a choice rather than a necessity.