Warning for anyone who is lucky enough to be in a position to retire or cut back to part time early. Do not wait. There is a vast world of experiences and opportunity beyond what your career can provide. And no, you will most likely never see age 95 or 100. Even if you did, the odds of you wanting to be alive at that age are even more slim. In the last few years, I have seen a disturbing number of mass media content (Ie propaganda) centered on “do you have enough money to retire if you live to be 95? 100?” etc. I’m combination with state level efforts to raise the retirement age, the goal appears to keep us generating yield for the masters until we die. Note, chronological life expectancy does not tell the whole story. What matters more is useful life expectancy. This is how long you can live independently and able to do the things you want to do. While chronological life expectancy has increased slightly over the last several decades (until Covid took a bite out of it), useful life expectancy has been much more difficult to assess and is pretty much not studied at all. Central to this is, is that it remains extremely challenging to perform academic research without financial support these days. This is entirely by design as sufficient funding can usually only come from industry now, which then sets the agenda and narrows the scope of any planned studies that could jeopardize the status quo. This is to say nothing about the fact that editorial narrow networks are always hard at work shaping whatever message is big brother approved. Academic institutions have been nearly fully captured by industry as have federal research funding sources like the NIH (to an even more striking degree). So please, do not fall for this trap. Do not sacrifice your functional years in your 40s or 50s for an employer when the promise is for shitty “trust me bro” years in your 80s or 90s. If you are in a position to get out or even just cut back to part time, do so. You will find an incredible world out there waiting for you. You may even find time to think for yourself which is the most dangerous and infectious thing a person can do these days. #grownostr #thinkdangerously

Please consider reading the book “Being wrong” by Kathryn Schulz. It’s very accessible and a fun read. Wish this was required reading in schools.

If given the choice to end their lives without pain or anxiety, what percentage of people do you think would still choose natural death? I know that this is a high percentage from professional experience, but I think about this often as it pertains to the general population. Personally, I am eternally grateful for having the knowledge and skills needed to easily and painlessly end my own life if I ever needed to. There is zero chance, if given the chance to plan it, that I will die naturally. Seems to me that this should be a basic human right though. A fear of pain and death is after all the most basic way in which we are controlled by our puppet masters. But it doesn’t have to be this way. #thinkdangerously #grownostr

Dangerous opinion: freedom means having choices. Having choices makes many humans anxious. As a result, many humans are willing to give up freedoms in exchange for someone else’s (false) certainty. You see this pattern most impressively in organized religion and politics. This also explains why it is unrealistic to expect Bitcoin to reach a wide audience on its freedom merits alone. Unless they are forced to use it, most humans are just “happier” under a Fiat standard. #thinkdangerously #getoffended

The ultimate luxury is being able to choose what you worry about. #grownostr

Exercise, read, travel, eat and drink well, write or make stuff, foster healthy relationships, live below your means, and spend time outside. Anything else? Aside from extravagant travel, this recipe for an impressively happy life is also remarkably accessible. Why do so many choose otherwise and opt for paths that lead to misery? Consumerism, vanity, and closed mindedness are epidemics in their own right. #grownostr

I think I have posted enough on here now about #bitcoin. Selfishly, because I want the Fiat price to drop, I will only post about other topics from now on. So on that note, happy stacking plebs, I wish you all the best. Please check out #childfree, #thinkdangerously, or #getoffended for some non Bitcoin related content that leverages the true power of #nostr, and our ability here to express beliefs outside the reach of our Fiat overlords.

The best part of #bitcoin is knowing that there will only ever be 21 million of them. This is so significant as to border on the incomprehensible. When you pair this with a DCA strategy, (and a visceral hatred of our fiat overlords) you gain absolute peace of mind.