Do I have to be disciplined around food to be considered a good bitcoiner or is staying humble and stacking sats enough regardless of how much I love cake, pizza, popcorn, chocolate, potato chips and tea and toast? #food

I have helped a few friends get off zero. Pat myself in the back. But I do still need to thread lightly. They are still not orange pilled. And I can easily be overwhelming and scare the shit out of them. I have learned the hard way that just because they got off zero it doesn’t mean they are ready to go deep down the rabbit hole yet and I scare them when I start talking g to them like they are a full fledged bride in bitcoin now.

There are two types of couples therapists. There’s honest ones, and there’s the rest. The honest couples therapist gets up in the morning and looks themself in the fucking mirror, and sets their standard. Sets their stall out, and says I’m going to get better. I’m going to get better. I’m going to get better. They don’t complain about the clients, or the internet connection, or the model. Or all these sorts of things. These are just peripheral things that weak couples therapists have always complained about. The dishonest couples therapist. If The couple are not getting the cycle, if they are not deescalating, if they are not surrendering to one narrative - it is on you. And we accept that, and we do something about it. We keep working on understanding them, loving them, reflecting the cycle more creatively, deeper, invest more of your own vulnerability. You do what it takes. It is a battle. Bare knuckle stuff. You must win the battle. You must win for the relationship. :) #relationships #couples therapy #marriage #relstionship advice Credit British and Irish lions speech by Jim telfer 1997 for inspiration

If you do a good job as a teacher all your students will take everything they can absorb from you, devouring your essence, and then throw away your carcass and disown your role in shaping opinions/career/success. 😭 A little tricky to have my wife do this with me, but c’est la vie. We are both couples therapists and have our own podcast at comeheretomepodcast.com This video here is an unedited little recording we did today on a family fun day as our kids are on fall break. #relationship #marriage #systemstheory #attachment theory. #bitcoinersdeservegoodrelationshipstoo

Living our best life. I love that this is what we say to each other here in Hawaii as a greeting, an expression of gratitude, appreciation, a reminder to be present and take in the beauty all around Pune us. I am as obsessed with outrigger canoeing as I am with Bitcoin. My poor wife must have been very bad in your past lives to end up with me! Although she does these early morning recreational paddles with me. It’s our Hawaii version of a romantic date.

I studied business and economics at trinity college Dublin back in the early 90s. Recently I asked a bunch of my former classmates, “what is the best way to buy bitcoin in Ireland?” Some helpful attempts to answer the question that I appreciated. But..one of my former classmates who has spent his entire career in stock portfolio management here in the US asked me about Bitcoin and told me about how skeptical he is. I risked the unwanted hijacking of our Group whatsapp chat by making a sober case for the values of bitcoin and my only ask was that he and others spend at least 10 hours to Really study it. What was frustrating from our conversation: He finished off our back and forth with, I am still not convinced. - well, duh! All I was suggesting is don’t dismiss bitcoin out of hand and tear yourself away from following Liverpool or man united for a few hours in the next few months! Ffs. But the thing that really stuck with me is what he wrote in regards to inflation: “The inflation protection ( from bitcoin) is a fallacy. Inflation doesn’t come from the currency you pay with. It comes from the price the seller charges. That will come from the cost of inputs, not how you pay.” And that’s when I realized these people are living in a curated dream world l. In high school and at trinity we were spoon fed Keynesian economics and this wizard of oz shit - it isn’t money printing that causes inflation- that is inconceivable! Almost all my friends in Ireland tell me bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. Just one that happens to be working. That’s when I realized I am completely wasting my breath! I don’t have the patience of Michael saylor and others. I will let them at it and they will get bitcoin at the price they deserve.

Bitcoin excites me on so many levels. But I am completely alone in my day to day life with my love for bitcoin. Everyone around me is deeply embedded in the fiat matrix and thinks I am just a bit touched. My wife is kind enough to let me share my excitement about bitcoin with her even though she has barely any idea what I am talking about. Bless her heart.

Ever wonder what it is like to watch a couple of couples therapists process their feelings and resolve betrayals? Here is our latest podcast episode, in which my wife and I process a rupture in our relationship that happened when our bond was in its infancy. #relationships #couplescounseling #marriagecounseling #psychotherapy #communicationskills

WTF has happened to music???? This video by Rick Beato is a thought-provoking exploration of modern music. Beato, perhaps unknowingly, provides a compelling description of what we, as Bitcoiners, would term “fiat music,” a concept that characterizes the current state of music. His insights are particularly noteworthy given his significant influence on YouTube.   In brief:  Services like Spotify ensure there is no scarcity of music and no need for proof of work/converting effort or actual work into monetary energy to buy music—Young people today have a high time preference for music due to having an almost infinite catalog available at all times. He gives examples from his childhood of how much thought and effort went into choosing an album to purchase. How sacred the time that one spent listening to music was. How what you bought was thus a big statement of who you were as a person. The technology available makes it too easy to produce music. The music industry is basically printing music, and quantity and ease of production are valued over quality. It costs too much to discover and manage a rock band compared to how little effort it takes to create a formulaic pop boy/girl band. :( I would love to see a top Bitcoin podcaster interview this guy. #fiatmusic #fiat #fiatfood.

WTF has happened to music????? This video by Rick Beato is a thought-provoking exploration of modern music. Beato, perhaps unknowingly, provides a compelling description of what we, as Bitcoiners, would term “fiat music,” a concept that characterizes the current state of music. His insights are particularly noteworthy given his significant influence on YouTube.   In brief:  Services like Spotify ensure there is no scarcity of music and no need for proof of work/converting effort or actual work into monetary energy to buy music—Young people today have a high time preference for music due to having an almost infinite catalog available at all times. He gives examples from his own childhood of how much thought and effort went into choosing an album to purchase. How sacred the time that one spent listening to music was. How what you bought was thus a big statement of who you were as a person. The technology available makes it too easy to produce music. The music industry is basically printing music, and quantity and ease of production are valued over quality. It costs too much to discover and manage a rock band compared to how little effort it takes to create a formulaic pop boy/girl band. :( I would love to see a top Bitcoin podcaster interview this guy. #fiatfoods #fiatmusic #music

@Sergio thanks for the prompt to #asknostr I am a us citizen. Am I incurring a taxable event every time I zap someone? Can someone help me wrap my head around how I make the mental transition from stacking and hodling only to now making taxable micro payments in bitcoin/lightning? Thanks! #asknostr

I am excited to be here and to be part of such an amazing community. I am a couples therapist by day and a Bitcoin treasury reserve manager for my family by night. :) My Bitcoin journey is similar to most. A couple of differences: I worked as a stockbroker for major wirehouses in the 90s in San Francisco. So, I had already been at the center of many opportunities to get in on big life-changing opportunities early. Still, I took the consensus trade and talked myself out of opportunities right under my nose. I thought San Francisco house prices were too expensive when I was in my early 20s. I was making a ridiculous amount of money for someone that young. I used to have a Debt is Slavery sticker on my fridge. Doh! I was convinced that Google IPO was too expensive, so I didn't buy it even though they were my client while I was a corporate client group director at Citibank. Amazon didn't make any money, so of course, I didn't buy it. The nice thing about getting it wrong over and over and becoming aware of it is that it primed me to be ready for the next time the opportunity arose where the herd couldn't get it, and those brave enough to buy and hold would inherit the earth! I almost fucked up with bitcoin too. When I tried to buy some in 2012, I needed to get off the couch to get my ID and verify my identity. That was too big an ask, so I didn't buy any. Arrgh! In 2017, I thought I was a genius trading Bitcoin. My wife asked me if I was sure I wanted to stay a therapist when I could make so much money every day. Yep, I know everyone is a genius in a bull market. I fell for that, too. Another big difference from most people's journey is I studied economics at Trinity College Dublin. I didn't even know I had been brainwashed. I was a lefty European-San Francisco progressive through and through. I had no idea I had been ideologically captured. Shout outs to @Robert Breedlove and @Lyn Alden for helping me to get edumecated. I was outraged by the 2008 financial crisis and the banks' bailouts, and I was an active participant in Occupy Wall Street. In 2009, I wish I had found the Bitcoin white paper rather than the Occupy Movement! Needless to say, Bitcoin has changed my life and how I understand economics. Discovering Austrian economics and libertarian philosophy through my Bitcoin journey has profoundly changed me. Today, I am blessed to live life inspired by a Bitcoin mindset: I own my business, my house, and Bitcoin. That is all. Shout out to @Michael Saylor and @jack mallers for inspiring me. I make sure I am a net producer and live within my means. Shout out to @preston for making me feel like I was going crazy by integrating the importance of continuing to give more value than I extract. Changed my whole mindset about what it means to retire, etc., These days, I dream of providing my wisdom and skills as a couples therapist and relationship expert to Bitcoiners. Bitcoiners are people, too, goddammit! For the last 14 years, I have primarily served as a relationship expert to Silicon Valley's movers and shakers. I had to be good at something—couples therapy is my area of mastery/competence! And I love it. So, I am here for bitcoiners who could do with help figuring out how to make love and relationships work. Good luck trying to implement your right to divine individual sovereignty in your relationship! I am also shifting my focus to giving my expertise and wisdom to my local community here in Hawaii. Spending the dollars I earn from the mainland here is not enough. I have to do more to help people here in Oahu. Shout out to @Peter McCormack; what you do in Bedford is inspiring. My big crazy dream is to educate local Hawaii residents who have been priced out of paradise about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the equivalent of the 21st-century version of 18th-century Hawaii, Manhattan, and Miami Beach property. Hawaiians could buy Bitcoin right now from under the noses of the elites that took their sovereignty from them, hold the Bitcoin for a decade, and be in a position to get their land back or keep their Bitcoin forever. If anyone here in Hawaii has ideas on how to spread this idea to the local community, please let me know. A long introduction - but this is like my own coming out as a Bitcoiner - so I am primarily writing this for myself. If it is too long, I respect your right to keep scrolling. ;) Mahalo! Figs #introductions

I spent yesterday afternoon orange pilling my neighbors at our neighborhood block party. I wore my bitcoin halving equation shirt and I was blown away by how many people asked me about it. I felt like Michael saylor repeating myself so much that I was letting out sighs a couple of hours in to the party. My wife was in shock. I usually have to be dragged along and I was chatting with everyone. She told me I knew you came to work this party when I saw you arrive with that t-shirt on.

I can’t quite wrap my head around zapping people for posts, podcasts, etc., Taking on a taxable event every time I tip seems in opposition to the transition I made from 2017 me- trading bitcoin, eth, ltc, xrp and god knows what else to 2020-21 me- “oh shit I get this bitcoin thing…finally”. I am selling everything else l, setting up multisig and only holding bitcoin. To 2023-24 me- what can I do to make sure I never sell my bitcoin…ever! #zaps #nostr #bitcoin