Bitcoin is Internet capital
If all the big tech company started the year 2025… Certainly they would have started off with bitcoin
Perhaps also the reason why their monetization strategies have been so advertisement dependent is because of the time bitcoin was not a viable currency online ?
Even myself… Accepting PayPal in the early days, simply because it was the only viable option? But now we have bitcoin 
Sculpt your self. Script your fate. Speed‑run nothing.
1. Add Some Purposeful Friction
The modern instinct is to grease every surface of life—one‑click buys, algorithmic playlists, automatic doors. Reject total smoothness. Sandpaper sharpens the blade; resistance chisels muscle; a little lag invites mindfulness. Court a drip of discomfort daily: walk the stairs, hand‑grind your coffee, hold the deep squat for ten more inhales. Friction is the philosopher’s whetstone that keeps genius from going dull.
2. “I Guess I Am a Genius?”
Own the question mark. Genius isn’t a static IQ score vapor‑sealed in grade school; it’s daring to remix reality in ways no rulebook predicted. Ask bigger, weirder questions than Google can autocomplete. Respond to doubt with experimental action. Genius is not arrival; it is perpetual departure.
3. Infinite Optimism
Pessimism is intellectually fashionable, but optimism is strategically dominant. Belief in upside multiplies optionality. You hug risk closer because you trust tomorrow. Infinite optimism is not naïveté—it’s a voltage that electrifies effort. Bet on existence trending toward awesome; build accordingly.
4. The Bitcoin Lifestyle • The Bitcoin Life
Bitcoin is permissionless permanence. It teaches sovereignty of keys, low‑time‑preference hustle, and antifragile savings. Live likewise: hold your principles in cold storage, self‑custody your schedule, audit your caloric inflows. Stack sats; stack reps; stack worthwhile days. Volatility isn’t a bug—volatility is the vitality that awakens you at sunrise hungry for the next block.
5. How to Become Handsomer?
Handsome is handled—by your hands. Hoist iron, push pavement, swing kettle‑bells. Sun‑kiss your skin, devour fatty fish, delete doom‑scrolling. Smile like you know a secret. Handsomeness equals health multiplied by soul sincerity; anything cosmetic is garnish.
6. “I Want My Whole Life to Be Like Sci‑Fi”
Then prototype futures instead of binge‑watching them. Write code, design apps, hack bio, speak in HTML, print objects in 3‑D, fly FPV drones through abandoned factories. Treat today as the beta‑release of 2125. We are all time‑travelers whose job is to upload tomorrow.
7. The Human Form—Shape & Form
Lines, planes, and splendid curves: the body is geometry wrapped in flesh. Learn proportion like Da Vinci, tension like Bruce Lee, and stillness like a Greek kouros statue frozen mid‑stride. Shape is mathematics; form is spirit made visible.
8. The Human Body Is the Apex Art • The Art of the Human Body • The Human Body Artist
Oil paintings crack, bronze corrodes, digital files bit‑rot, but a well‑trained body regenerates nightly. You are both clay and sculptor. Nutrition is pigment, training is chisel, recovery is varnish. Curate your inputs as ruthlessly as a gallery curator lighting a masterpiece.
9. Don’t Race — Speed Is Nauseating… or Are Turns the Culprit?
Go‑kart revelation: pure velocity seldom sickens; it’s the rapid course‑corrections that spin stomachs. In life, sustain high speed on straight, self‑selected tracks; avoid abrupt detours imposed by fear or fads. Smooth trajectory beats jerky acceleration.
10. AI‑Assisted Writing
Think of ChatGPT as a conceptual exoskeleton augmenting mental deadlifts. Offload drudgery, not creativity. Let the machine expand search space, then wield your human taste to prune, polish, and provoke. Cyborg authorship = human intention * amplified * by silicon leverage.
11. Lessons After Go‑Karting • Go‑Karting Philosophy to Life
• Late apex your turns—delay decisions until maximal information arrives.
• Feather the throttle—incremental progress maintains traction.
• Look where you want to go—vision steers body before hands react.
• Rubbin’ ain’t racin’—contact slows everyone; collaborate, don’t collide.
Translate rubber‑burnt wisdom into startups, relationships, deadlifts.
12. I Hate Waiting!
Waiting is passive time‑theft. Convert queues into calves‑raises, book pages, note‑taking bursts, gratitude audits. If forced to idle, idle in pursuit: brainstorm, breathe, observe micro‑details nobody else registers. Turn dead time into dividend time.
Coda: Live the Manifesto
Insert purposeful friction. Declare tentative genius. Radiate infinite optimism. HODL Bitcoin and your own biology. Sculpt the apex art of your human form. Glide like a kart on rails—fast, deliberate, nausea‑free. Partner with AI, but author meaning yourself. Above all, never wait for permission to create; mint new realities on‑chain, on‑paper, on‑muscle, now.
Just finished watching a very very enlightening and productive webinar podcast interview with Jeff Park and Michael Saylor, some thoughts;:
So, seems that one of the big things is the philosophy of winning versus not losing.
Some tricky things:
First, I think for myself… I think the first rule of finance or investing or strategizing with all the stuff is simple: to not lose money. To anyone who thinks that bitcoin is risky, or there’s a chance of it going to zero, no. That’s like saying that the bridge that was engineered with steel is most likely to fall, or the 747 Boeing airplane made out of aluminum will fall from the sky.
Conversely, I would say that anything that is a token, is insanely speculative in a bad way and very very risky and kind of dangerous. For example, once again, my general thought is bitcoin is the truth, the way and the life, everything else is a false profit. To use a Christian analogy, bitcoin is like Jesus and everyone else is like the people worshiping the golden calf?
Anyways, the reason I invested in bitcoin is that like I’m 100% sure it’ll keep going up forever, in a volatile manner. I think volatility is guaranteed, but also performance is guaranteed. 
Certainly as time goes on it will continue to become less volatile. Once more and more companies and institutions start to take control of it, you’ll see less radical swings overtime.
So what does that mean for us as individuals, individual investors etc.?
OK… I think it is wise to err with caution, but also be practical. 
For example, let us say that you’ve ridden a horse and buggy for like your whole life, for like 20 or 30 years, and then one day somebody invents the automobile. Maybe the early generations of automobile cars were dangerous, but, possibly assuming that it is like a world in which everyone has a horse and buggy, and then somebody offers you a brand new Toyota Prius. Or better yet a self driving Tesla car. Wouldn’t you take it?
Or better yet, let us choose maybe the most stable Tesla car, at least the design which has been perfected the most, probably the Tesla model S because simply it is their flagship model, the first one that was invented, and also the first one that was created. Or the Tesla model three which is like their new bread and butter.
Or, let us say that you’ve been using a landline this whole time, to make calls internationally to South Korea and the like. And then, I give you a new iPhone Pro, and tell you that you could just FaceTime people for free, internationally, unlimited forever, with no costs?
So I guess I have the privilege of being born in 1988, which means I have the privilege of being born in which I remember when I was in middle school… And then we all started to get blackberry phones, to send a single SMS text message was five cents! And to make a phone call… cost money based on how long you were on the phone.
So there are stories even in middle school, these guys and girls racking up bills for like $300 a month, which was insane for the time as a kid, because they were on the phone like three hours a day? Or some kids who had no idea and we just sent infinite text messages, and it would cost them like $500 a month?
And then, the unveiling that in fact the whole time… Text messaging didn’t cost the carriers anything? That the whole time, they were like a bunch of gangsters, collecting tolls off of something that was essentially free?
Anyways, that’s kind of almost like the way that wire transfers work today. Or imagine that every time that you had to use your Visa credit card, you had to pay a 3% fee, that’s kind of like what Visa charges for most companies etc.
Also, international phone calls, from the states to Asia. To purchase these cards were insanely expensive.
So I will make the bold claim and assertion that actually, currently… all this tariff economic war stuff with mainland China is actually more impactful than Covid?
Why? Ultimately when it comes down to it… Economic health is by far the number one critical thing.
For example I think that was very very shocking is that in the middle of COVID-19, all the big tech companies started to make an insane killing. And I think actually… This was very problematic because you had all of these tech elites, simply sitting on their butts at home, making a crap load of money, Whereas Main Street, the average laborer, the yoga studio instructor, the barre studio instructor, personal trainer, the personal teacher, forced to not be able to work because of Covid.
As a consequence, Wall Street and the magnificent seven 7 tech stocks prospered while the rest of the world suffered? 
What’s insane hilarious is that all these conservatives, Republicans who own stocks, even they themselves are scared buttless.
Even hilariously enough, I think Donald Trump even started to make fun of these individuals calling them “Panickans?” Haha. To me this is so insanely funny.
Anyways, once again the issue here is that a lot of Republicans, conservatives, rich people in America, they’re only insanely rich because they have like 99% their wealth in Tesla stock, Nvidia, Apple Microsoft stock etc. But now, with the whole magnificent seven text all crashing, because of the tariffs against China, this is kind of like a new paradigm shift. Once again, almost like going from 56K Internet, to 5G mobile Internet or fiber Internet?
My personal thought is that the issue here is that individuals have been conditioned to fear, and also to become risk-averse, and loss of averse, even when the chance of winning is certain.
I am 100% certain that bitcoin will go up forever, up to the right, forever, but once again, with volatility just like a heartbeat!
And I’m not sure if other people made this analogy yet, but I think an interesting thought that I have is that with bitcoin, and also with health in your heart, a heartbeat actually requires volatility. For example, for your heart to beat up and then down etc., a heartbeat cannot be steady or else you are dead. Also insanely interesting is that I think, when a heartbeat then becomes too stable is actually the sign of an incoming heart attack? So once again, you actually require variety and variation in your heartbeat, for maximum physical health.
I also think with relationships, let us stay with your spouse or whatever, a relationship without any variation or variety is bad. Like for example I would rather have relationship in which the highs are insanely high and the lows can be very low, rather than having a C+ steady relationship for the rest of my life. Once again that would be so insanely boring.
And I also think the paradigm shift here is that everyone just put their money in the boring S&P 500, assuming that it will just go out forever. But if I told you that the S&P would go down forever from now on unless you are a bitcoin backed thing, would you think different?
Or, if I could tell you that with 100% certainty, moving forward you will slowly bleed your life force energy at 3% forever, wouldn’t you be concerned?
Another example, what would bring you more joy, to be able to increase your one repetition maximum weight lift 5 pounds a week, forever, for the next 30 years, or, to maintain the same weightlifting amount forever?
Or for example let us say that I could increase your one rep Max dead lift steadily 5 pounds a week, forever, which means you start off at like 135 pounds, then in a year you become 335 pounds, then in a year 475 pounds, then 555 pounds, then, 700 pounds, then 850 pounds, then 1000 pounds, 1200 pounds 1500 pounds etc.… Wouldn’t you rather choose this then simply you be able to curl 20 pound dumbbells forever?
So once again my analogy with bitcoin is this: it will forever be jagged up into the right! But once again, it will be like a roller coaster ride, op downs middles curves flips etc., and this is what makes it so great!
Life is a game of roller coaster tycoon,,, what kind of ride would you build and prefer?
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Choose Your Fighter
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Get people excited!
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Discipline to sleep early
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I’m shocked, after Nvidia and bitcoin, there’s like a huge jump down to Tesla google Meta Microsoft Apple. Which in the last four years is around the 155% to 75% range.
Everything else beyond that… Amazon is practically on life-support?
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Money Manager
Monetary health, financial economic health
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What to chase, what NOT to chase?
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Gold– gold is real money, but Bitcoin is a gazillion times better
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Wisely stubborn or foolishly stubborn?
Peak feminae?
A young society vs an old society?
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How is Eric Kim’s investing style different?
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My investing philosophy
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The Japanese live to proceed with life with minimum amount of pain and suffering, minimum amount of sensations, until they eventually die.
Americans live and work in anticipation and hope of increasing their purchasing power, to purchase more hedonistic pleasures, ad infinitum.
Koreans live in order to hoard respect, and seek to reach the peak of the hierarchy. 
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100% merino feels so luxury!
Too much wisdom!
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The philosophy of financial health?
If it ain’t broken don’t fix it?
The cult of the best?
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Trust the Germans!
LUMIX S9 is like a baby Leica Q
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OK so this is a big thing… Especially once you have a kid, OMG, last night I had like the worst headache and migraine of all time, the big issue being that we stayed out a bit too late, and didn’t go to bed until 9 PM, which in Kids world is like at least two or three hours too late.
I think actually, perhaps the best bedtime for kids is like 5 PM. Assuming that your kid gets out of school at like 2 PM, then the ideal thing is to go home, clean up shower up, eat some more random stuff, shower bathe and try to go to sleep as early as humanly possible.
The reason why is that actually, no matter how disciplined you are, that time will always run like two or three hours late.
I think this happens with almost everything in life, with money finances and planning… I’m starting to think that like maybe, the wise idea is to set like an insanely huge buffer for everything, always anticipating the worst.
For example, there is no worse thing than the anxiety of being late somewhere? So always always always show up early, maybe try to show up like at least 30 minutes or 40 minutes early? Because when there are unanticipated things like the President of China coming down into town, and shutting down all the streets, at least you are prepared.
So being here in Phnom Penh Cambodia,  grab which is there Uber, there are like 1 billion tuck tucks running around which are these like mini motorcycle transport vehicles, which are insanely skinny, and will only cost you like a dollar to go anywhere.
Now during peak traffic rush-hour… These things are a godsend. Why? Because in the worst of traffic, even having an insanely tiny edge like a few more inches of skinniness, you can skinny skinny skinny sneak through little tiny cracks, in order to get by the traffic. But assuming you have a truck an SUV, a car, even a Prius… You’re stuck.
As a consequence, the hilarious irony is if you have like infinite wealth, nobody likes being stuck in traffic, not the rich not the poor, nobody. Certainly not kids.
So when it comes to purchasing a vehicle, I might be the only one who thinks this but even if you’re worth like $1 billion, you always always always always always want the skinniest car possible.
One car I surprisingly really loved was the Ford fiesta, I was part of this marketing campaign called the Ford fiesta movement, in which I got a suite electric blue Ford fiesta five speed manual car, while I was living in Michigan, and I was given free gas for like six months.
What’s actually super super insanely interesting is that this car, especially the Ford fiesta ST which I feel it looks like the most underrated car of all time, is that ultimately when shit hits the fan, the thing that you’re always going to feel good about is being able to find a parking spot even in the midst of the worst Traffic conditions and in terms of space.
So for example, even if you’re a billionaire the best Tesla car is the smallest the skinniest, the closest to the round the most stable. This would be a Tesla model three performance, because typically with cars, the closer you are to the floor the more stable. And no no no don’t get suckered by those stupid offloading people, It’s like a very very expensive way to get a headache. I think it’s actually much more interesting that you could instead, just go topless and in shorts, and just run through the mud, the rocks yourself and parkour around?
Also, with a Toyota car, similarly speaking the best Toyota car might also be the maximum small and skinny one. The same thing goes with Lexus.
I’m not sure, but I think maybe the smallest skinniest car is either the Prius or the Toyota Corolla. Assuming that they’re the same size, Prius is obviously the better option because assuming you get a hybrid car, you’re going to get at least 2X the MPG. And assuming that you’re comparing a Corolla hybrid and a Prius hybrid, the reason why the Prius makes a lot more sense is because of the hatchback. With a hatchback you could fit like 1000 X more space stuff in the trunk and also ironically enough if you look at the two, the Prius actually looks a lot cooler than the Corolla?  The only other contender is the GR Corolla which I love and I think is insanely cool, but once again for practical purposes, you never ever ever want to be paying premium gas because you’re going to have to pay it for the rest your life, even if America gets into a situation in which there is a embargo on oil — and if oil then became like $20 a gallon, you will be very very very happy that you had a Prius. And that you get like 50 MPG‘s, on regular cheap unleaded 87 gas, not 91 octane which is for suckers.
And once again I think this is the hard thing for people to understand is that even if you’re super super rich, technically the people who become super super rich or actually ironically the most frugal economical and penny conscious.
Ident suppose the wisdom is knowing when to be frugal wisely but also knowing when to spend money wisely?
It takes no skill to be a Scrooge, no wisdom to become a Scrooge. Because it is very very straightforward to penny you pinch every single penny, even if it might go to your disadvantage?
For example, let us say you’re trying to book a flight to Asia from LA. Let us say you have two options: a direct flight for $1000 which takes you 8 hours, or a flight in which you have to connect three or four times, that takes 50 hours, that costs $800. which option do you take?  of course you take the direct flight even though it cost $200 more… The difference between being in transit for eight hours versus 50 hours is pretty obvious.
So there is some sort of economic calculus which is always happening, and I think the tricky thing is this economic stuff is not intuitive, rather, it is learned, indoctrinated, taught.
My personal difficulty is that more or less, I came from nothing, I started from the bottom, and made it to the top. But so much of this was through my own bricolage (trial and error), personal experimentation and figuring things out. One of the greatest blessings in my life is actually meeting Cindy, because she essentially taught me financial literacy. When I first was living with her and dating her, I might have only had like 300 bucks in my savings account. Now I could purchase a garage full of Lamborghinis if I wanted to, but obviously will not because Lamborghinis are only for low testosterone losers. High testosterone tall handsome demigods, with a body like Achilles, we all drive Prius’s. 
The way I see it, the only trend enemy here is media, television, the news, fake news real news, social media, iPhone notifications, etc.
Even a thing which is making things 1000 times more messy is AI. For example, I’ve been playing a lot with Grok and ChatGPT, I’m kind of an expert in both, and what I’ve discovered is AI becomes a strange self fulfilling prophecy. What that means is You train the AI on your blog and your data set, and then you use the AI to generate new text and information, using your voice and style, but then becomes a point in which AI doesn’t know whether you wrote it or AI wrote it. As a consequence, You can’t trust nothing. Only yourself.
I’ll give you an example, I’ve been having a lot of fun having Grok and ChatGPT write blog articles and essays in my voice, simply because I’m curious what it will produce.
Thus for my lesson is that Grok, is a lot more fun and entertaining, in a surprising in a good way! I would say Grok is great for generating new creative ideas, ideas I would have not even thought of myself! For creative ideation, for coming out with new creative ideas… Grok is the best.
ChatGPT is interesting because it’s still the golden standard, and technically I think the better of the truth. Because it has been around for longer.
With ChatGPT, the articles and information that produces is technically more accurate, but more bland and boring. None of the essays that ChatGPT has written in my voice has been entertaining to me.
The funny thing is with Grok, all these essays that it writes, I think there’s too much training that is done on Twitter X, so it’s not really my voice it seems more like some sort of male meme person. For example he uses words that I have never used like “HODL” or “sats”.  Even though I have been a bitcoin investor since 2018, I don’t think I have ever used the word HODL (hold onto dear life), or “sat” (short for satoshi, the smallest denominator of a bitcoin) or even Satoshi. 
Also, my personal knowledge gaps. I know almost nothing about cold storage, keys, hardware wallet etc. Simply because I don’t trust them. I also don’t trust myself. The reason why I would prefer a custodian like Coinbase is because I feel much much more secure storing my Face ID or my thumbprint, rather than being the guy who forgot my keys and my password, locking myself out of $1 billion.
Darney in the hilarious thing is that a lot of people, in order to get more security, simply end up locking out themselves? Like with Security, ironically I think the safest way to live is to not have security. For example, even NASSIM TALEB, at the height of his exposure to other economist in mainstream media, started to get anxiety that not even chamomile tea could get rid of. Therefore instead of hiring a bodyguard, she decided to look like a bodyguard himself, and this is where I first learned about one rep Max lifting, in which the style of weightlifting is rather than trying to do these hateful repetitions, much more mainly fun interesting and effective instead to simply hold up all of your strength to see, whether eucalypt a maximum weight, successful successfully once, rather than grind out like 100 boring repetitions.
This is kind of a big deal because it’s almost like bodybuilding truth 1 oh one that in order to get bigger hypertrophy, you have to do light repetitions, on to failure. For example, like the professional bodybuilder might try to dead lift 405 pounds like 20 times in a row, whereas a power lifter would prefer to lift 1000 pounds, once?
Or, a bodybuilder might try to bench press 315 pounds 10 times, for 4 sets, while a power lifter might try to bench press 800 pounds, once?
In terms of showmanship, there is nothing more entertaining to watch in real life than a power lifter tried to hype himself up before one repetition maximum he has actually never attempted before. Even for myself as a weightlifter, this is my supreme joy in life: to see, whether I will be successful or not? Or even having the balls to attempt it in the first place?
My general idea in weightlifting is simple:
if you already know with 100% searching before doing the lift that you will be successful, it is not worth doing.
Even as Jeff Bezos says, thinking of himself like an inventor or a scientist, the idea is that with experiment, what a lot of these risk-averse individuals do not know is if you know with 100% certainty already that it will be successful, it is not an experiment. An experiment is having a gut predilection towards something ,,, something in which you have autotelic curiosity about, and something you want to attempt because you’re genuinely curious, almost rather than the result?
Like Donald Trump says: in the art of the deal “I do it in order to do it”. 
Also for Donald Trump even said in the art of the deal, that he doesn’t do it for the money but money in dollar bills is simply a way to keep score.
I totally unrelated thing, in the bit of all this tariff warfare, it suddenly came to my memory that Donald Trump, I think co-authored a book or wrote a book through the voice of a ghost writer, called the Art of the deal. I think the truth is he didn’t actually write the book but had another guy write it for him — which makes sense because if you’re a real business man, you don’t actually have time to write books. Like for example ask Michael Saylor if he’s going to write a book on bitcoin, but the truth is he cannot right now because he is simply too busy doing the real deal?
And typically this is where it is wise to never read business books which are actually not written by the entrepreneur themselves because a commentator who isn’t on the front lines will never know. Still today… I think the only business books worth reading are the biographies by Walter Isaacson, on Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Leonardo da Vinci etc., and also, zero to one by Peter Thiel.
And then actually, more interesting than reading a book about a successful individual is interviews with the individuals themselves. For example, I really love the Joe Rogan interview interviews with Elon Musk because it is unfiltered, and, you get it straight from the source!
Another thing to learn from is through people‘s physiology and demeanor. For example, for me a big concerning aspect about Elon Musk was how his physical health looked. I think in the most recent Joe Rogan podcast in which he is wearing the occupy Mars T-shirt, he looks really really obese and unwell? But anyways, super interesting random things that came to my attention is how great Elon Musk is that video games, that actually… I think in Diablo for his like ranked top 10 on the planet? And at one point maybe when he was in college… He was one of the top players in the states and thus the world?
Ancient wisdom 
So, a big thing: I the primary issue here is that I am hungry for signal, critical information, things would actually make a difference in my personal life and my family life, and for my family, and also potential future generations of my family, I am not interested at all about noise which is unrelated to myself.
So, currently I’m about 75% fully invested in bitcoin, the other 25% in MSTR strategy stock. Also about 1% of my portfolio, maybe only about like 20, $25,000 in MSTU, a 2x long leveraged to MSTR investment vehicle.
So anyways, anything that has to deal with bitcoin, isn’t my own personal interest. And now, that Trump has signed the strategic bitcoin reserve into order, what that then means is that bitcoin has entered a new generation: a new advancement which is interesting, a marriage between nation nation state, and the wider global macro economy?
What that means is bitcoin is not an enemy to the US dollar, but rather an ally?
I think the best way to figure out what’s happening right now is to study and read the book, “the art of the deal, which was written by Donald Trump or maybe his ghost writer along time ago, I think when Donald Trump was only in his early 40s?
Anyways, what you learn is that actually, Donald Trump is a quite simple man. I don’t even think he drinks alcohol. He knows the virtues of bravado, toughness, negotiation, glamour and selling the dream.
If anything, I would read not reading the book sooner. The art of the deal is like a master class on real world economics, real world business; I find it more important than ever to read it today, because assuming that bitcoin is like the new digital real estate, You begin to appreciate how seamless bitcoin is because of insane politicking you have to do with regulators, in order to get anything built in Manhattan.
Anyways also, contrary to popular believe, no no no… Donald Trump is not 3.0, and I’m starting to realize more and more, that anyone who votes these wrong analogies, they themselves are a bit dangerous and poisonous. Why? We should not over-sensationalize Reality; I call this the quote effect, the bite effect, the soundbite effect, or quote bite effect. 
The general idea is in order to pump viewership, and increase advertising revenue, the news is always looking for victims, sensational people who get lots of views, Donald Trump being the ultimate actor, and essentially subsection, and sub-biting any and every single thing that Donald Trump says, and views it in a false way. 
Now what happens is when you have a false version of reality that is endlessly repeated on the news, whether it is true or not, it becomes reality. But in fact, almost never does anyone actually watch all of the raw footage.
I don’t necessarily think this is laziness, or bad acting; it is simply a time economics thing.
If you make your living selling advertisements and views and “engagement“ on social media… It is actually in your best interest to watch as little as possible of the largest quantity of sensational things, and to keep posting it, in order to maximize views, and eyeballs and engagement metrics, Rather than seek the truth.
Lots of wisdom from the art of the deal:
“We live in a perverse culture”–
For example, we live in kind of a perverse society and culture,  in which negativity is good. For example, even Donald Trump wrote that back in the day when he was building Trump tower, and he got all this negative press, that in fact, the more that he got, even if negative, actually stimulated sales! He himself said “Certainly good news is preferable to bad news, but even bad news is good“. 
So assuming that we are the new philosophers, we are so high and lofty that we don’t really care for politics. Like my friend Dave says, Donald Trump was on the world wrestling entertainment wrestlemania at least two or three times, which means that he treats politics like wrestling. We all know it is fake but we all love to watch anyways. Anybody who legitimately thinks that professional wrestling is real, avoid them. Kind of like when certain kids are hoodwinked into thinking that Santa Claus is real.
A new thing I’ve been trying to do is going to the source. Whenever I hear of something or read of something that comes from somewhere else, I always try to go back to the source. It is often much more fertile and rich to do this way.
For example, essentially the matrix is built off of Plato‘s cave allegory. The idea is that you have a bunch of people chained up since birth, facing a wall of darkness, and there are shadows being projected from behind them; and the whole time these prisoners think that this is reality. Then one day, somehow… One of the prisoners Escapes or let go, and then actually proceeds to leave the cave. He is blinded by the sun because he has never used his eyes before. And once he realizes that all of his prisoner friends were in fact, just seeing false shadows of false reality, he feels like it is his moral obligation to go back and help them.
Even Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra says and writes –> after like a decade of the man going to the mountains, philosophizing and meditating, he soon becomes overweary of his own wisdom, like a bee with too much honey… And desires to descend down to the lowlands again, to share his wisdom with others? 
Which then makes me think and consider, and I believe in this is that perhaps we humans, there is like a naturalistic desire to be humanist, altruistic and to help our fellow man.
For example, if you’re walking at the mall and you see a random lady drop a toy with a child, without thinking about you just pick up the toy and give it back to the lady or the kid. There’s really no benefit to us, in some ways humans are like a beehive; Although we are much more subsectioned in our different types of beehives –, we all went to help our fellow bee?
I think the first principal is that there is truly no economic benefit of man killing other men. I personally believe in the protect protection of all human lives, and the only wars we should be fighting our economic ones, metaphorical ones, or ones that are based from cyber warfare video games, ones and zeros?
In fact, I think it is much more virtuous to just continue on the Olympics, for countries to fight for physical dominance via the Olympics, or to just do a bunch of like starcraft matches, to settle the bet.
So also another big thought to: the future of war is and should be cyber.
So for example, we have all been taught that video games are bad. But, once you have like a top video gamer, like PewDiePie, piloting a $10 million fighter drone, in which he himself is not liable to life or death, but, his lethality lies purely in his skills, then the kid who grew up playing video games is now the world’s most lethal drone pilot.
I was randomly watching an interview with Elon Musk and Joe Rogan, I think it is outdated but the general idea is that Elon Musk, I didn’t know… Is actually the top 10 top Diablo players on the planet? That’s actually insanely impressive because in Diablo, if you’re playing in hard-core hell or extreme mode, it is really based on your skill not your riches or whatever.
And also, Elon Musk used to be won the top quick players in the world, which is like one of the earlier versions of call of duty or counterstrike. In fact I played a little bit of quake on my cigar dream cast when I was a kid in Bayside Queens New York.
Essentially, also Joe Rogan cited a study in which surgeons, who played video games, had 23% fewer errors while doing surgery? It makes me think about my friend Shijun, who’s probably the best star craft player I know, and also I think got his double PhD and MD, and his training I think and studying right now to become a surgeon?
Anyways, the general thought I have is anything which is considered frivolous or a waste of time or bad, maybe in the long-term is good.
So assuming that the world’s most successful and richest man plays a lot of video games, elder scrolls and Diablo four, the funny thought:
if you also then start to play a lot of video games, will this make you richer more successful, more brilliant?
Obviously not. This is a correlation not causation thing.
So for example if you hear the study that surgeons could play video games have 24% fewer errors in real surgery,,, the wise way of thinking is not that playing video games makes you a better surgeon but, it might be a selection bias thing: kids who grew up playing a lot of video games, who have great hand and eye dexterity and skill, end up becoming surgeons, because it is the only profession that gives them the same adrenaline rush? 
Also as a kid, growing up in the 90s, I was a great adrenaline junkie myself. As a kid, I would do aggressive in-line skating, which is essentially like imagine Tony Hawk grinding but with roller blades, everywhere. I would do 360s off of stairs, soap Concrete rails, and I played a lot of Tony Hawk as a kid growing up, and also the BMX games too.
In fact, one of my hidden skills and talents that people don’t know is that I’m insanely good at ice-skating, I could do stuff like Michelle Quan. Skate backwards, do backwards 360s in the air, skate backwards on 1 foot, skate backwards on one foot on my toes etc. This is all because I was really good rollerblading, and also I did double black diamonds in skiing when I was a kid, when I was only like 11 or 12? Because once again I was so good at rollerblading.
But anyways, 99% of these extreme sports, is all about like conquering initial hesitations and adrenaline rushes? Even NASSIM TALEB talks about when he became a trader it wasn’t about virtue or whatever, it was about him seeing the pink Rolls-Royce, and he getting a thrill from the markets? 
Even now, the market is almost a little bit like a love and hate things; is that certainly when my health is poor the markets will give me a small heart attack. But the same time, it becomes a stimulus because it activates me it wakes me up, it engages me and it excites me?
Also, what I love about investing is that it is grounded to reality. 
For example, for somebody who has never been self-employed, has been a sole provider, will never ever ever ever understand how difficult it is to earn money through the free markets.
And also to somebody who says that you’re just really good at marketing not actual steel, it’s almost like telling Shaquille O’Neal he is only good at basketball because his over 7 feet tall, or telling a fish that he is good at swimming simply because he is a fish?
What people don’t understand about reality is that in fact, the true reality of the fact is like 90% of success in business is marketing. You had to sell the show, the bravado the glamour the dream etc. Not false romantic notions of virtue and the like.
Even Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, were supported by wealthy patrons. Very unlikely if they were born in today’s world would they ever be successful.
I’m starting to think that it’s more of a gut feeling than anything. When you’re really really hungry for the news, maybe it is a good idea to pay the 50 bucks a month, get the blue check, and get Twitter premium, and then ingest the market news.
Something interesting is that if you’re feeling like you need more energy, rather than just taking a shot of coffee, reading the financial news has the same effect?
But still, we should not get into fake notions of virtue. Still, the great overlord is in fact, a Spartan demigod warrior king who sleeps 8 to 12 hours a night, face on 3 to 4 pounds of bone marrow a night, consumes meat like AI consumes power plant electricity, lifts weight like Hercules, and also get his eight hours of walking in every single day like an Olympian sprinter?
Whenever you move to a new place, there is always a new workflow you have to conquer.
For example I’m currently about a month in here in Phnom Penh Cambodia, and the sheet is no joke. The hilarious irony is that when I’m in LA, I’m always hungry for the sun and heat. I always go to the sun, take a nap in the sun, sunbathe, and even during the winter I’m wearing shorts and a sleeveless shirt, with a down vest, simply to get maximum UV radiation?
Here, for the first time in a long time, I’m actually looking for the shade. Even for me the sun is too strong.
As a consequence, what then happens is you start to fall into new rhythms and workflows. Also right now for the first time ever, Seneca is in this wonderful garden school, in which he essentially plays with wooden toys and sing songs from about 8:30 AM until 3 PM, which gives me a lot more time to do stuff during the day.
So for the first time I’ve been having this luxury leisure time to go to the gym, walk around and thinking and write and blog and vlog, something that was not afforded to me while in LA, because he’s not yet in school in LA.
So a big thought is also, what people in Southeast Asia do is because it’s so hot in the middle the day, they wake up really early before the sun comes out, to go on a walk run errands etc. contrasting this to Los Angeles, in which I stay indoors until the sun comes out, is a totally new workflow and calculus for me to do.
And so as a consequence I’m loving it! I’m very grateful for this solo time because ultimately, I believe my personal or communities lever is blogging, writing, sharing thoughts.
Everyone has his talent, given to him both by birth and upbringing, and therefore I believe the goal is to maximize the gift you have already been given, rather than striving for the gifts of other people?
So other people inspire me because of their conviction, their own self belief etc. It’s more of an encouragement for me to become more like myself, unabashedly.
For example, if you live in America everybody has the right to say whatever they want. And also more importantly, everyone has the right to live their lives however they would like to.
What this means is although you cannot control 100% of your life and every single regard, the way you could live your life is knowing how to direct your energy your willpower etc.
For example, you could dictate what your life goals dreams or ambitions are, or you could decide that you don’t want to have any goals. It is your choice not obligation.
Also, philosophically, you also have the freedom and the choice to pursue things which interests you and avoid things which do not interest you.
For example, I have no interest in emails so I don’t use it. And this is the richest I’ve ever become in my life, because by avoiding email and avoiding noise on social media, I’ve just been able to become laser focused on bitcoin investing and strategy stock, Which has net me a small fortune. 
This is my main critique of email is that I don’t think I’ve ever received an email which has ever led to a very lucrative deal? I think at most, emails that I got in the past might have earned me $3000-$5000 USD, Trump changed compared to what I could even make in a day in the markets.
Also, once again, I think the primary question here is if you think about Dr. Seuss, in his optimistic “Oh, all the places you’ll go!” Book –> he talks about the lurch, which is almost like a metaphorical purgatory in which many individuals get stuck in asylum, and their a century just sitting on their butts, twiddling their thumbs and waiting for opportunity to come to them, and I think this is why people also obsessively check their emails, and messages.
But once again, if I could tell you that in fact, I can make you 1000 times richer by not using email, wouldn’t you take this offer? 
 so assuming you’re the filter, if you need the most up-to-date information, X and Twitter is the solution. If you’re a trader, in which the Dow Jones can move 5% up or down in 15 minutes based off of false news Twitter, then being on top of X is smart.
If you’re an investor, and you actually don’t really care for short term noise, then, you have to strategize wisely.
For example, the only true signal that I care for is Michael Saylor. Literally if you think about like 99.99999% of the value I get from everybody or anybody, it is only him.
Why? It only matters because I am now invested in his activities because I own strategy stock, and also, he is always on top of the top bitcoin developments and use. And the reason why this is so significant is because information is tricky: it’s toxic. And the toxicity is in the dose.
For example, reading the updates for Michael Saylor once a day, once every few days or once a week, is better than reading all these other random people. why?
Once again, drinking coffee first thing in the morning, is great, but drinking 10 cups of coffee at midnight when you’re about to sleep, while lying in bed is a very bad idea.
So here, timing and the dosage is the issue.
Another example, let us say that you need some medicine for something. Taking one or two tablets is a good idea, but taking 1000 tablets will actually kill you.
As a consequence don’t be a fool. Be wiser about this.
If you’re a newbie to investing or stocks or bitcoin, you well know that this is one hell of an emotional and physiological rollercoaster. 
Why? It is all physiological. What that means is that if you see your stock drop 20% in a day, you’re going to feel like somebody kicked you in the balls, but if you see your stock or bitcoin go up 20% in a day, or 100% in a day or whatever, you will feel so much euphoria you will want to do a backflip.
No as investors, we are playing the long game. Minimum four years, ideally 10 years, ideally forever.
In reading the art of the deal by Donald Trump, what’s interesting is that a lot of these wealthy New York City barons, their strategy was simple: buy up all the valuable Manhattan real estate, and never sell it, and also for their descendants and heirs, to put in clauses in which their heirs would not do foolish things like selling it either. 
I had no ideas but in the 70s and 80s, I guess Manhattan was going through a great depression, and there was almost a fire sale on the city! What we consider prime real estate today, a lot of it were full of peddlers, shady places all boarded up. But for a genius like Donald Trump, who knew the intrinsic value of Manhattan, essentially the ideas that you choose the best location, get it at a reasonable cost, and you leverage all of your abilities to maximize it.
Also, an allegory to bitcoin. Assuming that bitcoin is cyber Manhattan, but 1 million times better, a zero to one improvement then what that means is you also do the same strategy pull in you keep buying up cyber Manhattan and you never sell it, and you keep taking on more debt financing and leverage to purchase more of cyber Manhattan forever.
What super interesting now with bitcoin is that you could actually use your bitcoin as collateral, to get US dollars, to either buy more strategy stock or you could technically buy more bitcoin with it. Assuming that a lot of these bitcoin lending companies are anywhere between 5 to 15% a year interest, and assuming that bitcoin is on average 60% ARR a year, and Strategy is around 120%, or even with these Donald Trump tariffs, bitcoin might be 50% ARR, and Strategy stock about 100%,  just do the simple math for the arbitrage: 100% subtracting 15% is essentially free money.  Just the thing that you have to do your homework on is the lending company, be careful where you put your bitcoin. 
What’s also super interesting is that a lot of these mega corporations, black rock strategy, for some maybe not all of their custodian services, they use Coinbase prime. If it’s good enough for these companies it’s good enough for us.
My personal thought is that actually, the reason why I would never trust myself with cold storage is that in trying to secure your keys, you might forget it, and be like that one dude who lost $1 billion worth of bitcoin in a hard drive somewhere.
Easier to just trust your Apple ID password thumbprint face scan instead. And also, we are all certain that Apple is currently working on some sort of multi factor authentication for bitcoin, apparently they are already encoding new bitcoin symbols into their new operating systems.
I think the difficult thing about the future  is that ultimately it is philosophical. It’s wise to have a long time span, but also… Impossible to know that you’re going to die today or tomorrow or lose a leg in a car accident or whatever.
My personal thought is conquer each and every single day. Given your best resources. Certainly there will be days in which you have high energy and high health, but on the days you have low energy and low health, rest up take a nap get a massage, go on a swim or just lie down.
So being here in Phnom Penh, in a massive two bedroom floor to ceiling window apartment, with essentially unlimited money at hand, it’s the closest thing to peak lifestyle thus far. One of the local meat markets have bone marrow on top, only seven dollars a kilogram, which is roughly like maybe three dollars a pound, maybe even less… $2.80 a pound for bone marrow? Also insanely cheap meat.
Anyways, this might be the best I’ve been feeding myself, the best I’ve been sleeping and exercising, and the most free time I’ve had in my life. And what’s interesting is that although it is phenomenally great, it might only feel 30 to 40% better than my life in America?
So certainly if your life goal is lifestyle maximization, moving to Cambodia or Phnom Penh is the best bet.  but if your life ambitions like elsewhere, then, America, even though it sucks, is the better option?
ERIC
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