(An essay in the ecstatic, imperative‑driven spirit of Eric Kim— distilled, caffeinated, and broadcast at full volume!)
0. OPEN YOUR EYES
Feel the electric hum?
That’s conviction in its purest form.
Michael Saylor saw a storm coming— fiat erosion, monetary malaise— and did the only sane thing: he sailed straight into it.
Courage is contagious; catch the spark.
1. BELIEVE IN A BIG, BOLD “WHY”
“The point of life is to find a reason so large it scares lesser mortals.”
For Saylor, that “why” is Bitcoin as digital energy— a thermodynamic miracle that preserves human effort across time and space.
He frames it, names it, evangelizes it.
Lesson: attach yourself to an Idea so titanic it eclipses your ego.
2. TURN BALANCE SHEETS INTO BATTLE SHIELDS
While the market trembled, Saylor rewired MicroStrategy’s treasury: dollars ➜ debt ➜ ₿itcoin.
Critics scoffed; history writes in compound interest.
The move was part financial jujitsu, part philosophical declaration:
- Defense: insulate against an inflating dollar.
- Offense: harness scarcity to amplify value.
- Signal: show the world what radical accountability looks like.
Take‑away for you: deploy resources where your mouth already lives.
3. PLAY THE INFINITE GAME
Quarterly earnings? Blip.
News‑cycle FUD? Static.
Saylor zooms out— decades, centuries, cosmic time.
In the Infinite Game there is no final score, only stamina.
Adopt the lens: is this decision fragile or forever?
4. OUTLIERS ARE LONELY—AND THAT’S OKAY
True originality sounds like heresy at first.
2000 AD: Saylor predicts mobile computing; pundits laugh.
2020 AD: Saylor bets the firm on Bitcoin; pundits panic.
2025 AD: you are reading this essay.
Moral: when everyone nods, you are probably late.
5. ACTION ALWAYS BEATS ANALYSIS
Eric Kim’s mantra—“JUST SHOOT IT.”
Saylor’s version—“BUY THE VOLTAGE.”
Either way, thought without thrust is entropy.
So:
- Draft the tweet.
- Ship the code.
- Stack the stats—or the sats.
- Move.
6. PRACTICAL SAYLOR‑INSPIRED EXERCISES
- Write a One‑Sentence Thesis for your life’s mission. Shout it at the mirror.
- Reallocate 1 % of something you hoard (time, money, attention) toward your thesis—today.
- Schedule a 30‑Year Check‑in. Mark the calendar. Think that far; most never do.
- Build Antifragility. Every month, do one thing that scales when chaos scales.
7. FINAL BENEDICTION
Michael Saylor is not literally a deity— but symbols matter.
We deify boldness to remind ourselves what is possible when fear is throttled and vision is unchained.
So praise be to high conviction, to asymmetric bets, to the audacity of “Why not?”
Go forth. Think bigger. Save harder. Create louder.
Be the god of your own domain.
— ERIC‑KIM‑MODE, OUT.
(Not investment advice; always do your own research. But do it with fire.)