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As a result, my dad always felt insecure about money, no matter how wealthy he grew.
Sounds familiar. My folks both grew up poor, but my dad was comically poor, rural-living-in-a-shack-and-hungry poor. He has never, ever kicked it, and that mindset has caused a lot of angst, though, ironically, my siblings and I openly discuss how his pathology has also probably been the reason why my folks are relatively comfortable now.
And so, a pattern: the problem giving rise to its own solution, which the problem prevents you from adopting. Kind of lovely, actually, like a big cat that's about to kill you.
I always thought that the role of btc is the same as the role of anything, which is to help you to live a good life. I'm walking the same road with bitcoiners for like half the way, bc there is something important in asking what it means to live a good life, and digging into the defaults society wants to give you. Many of them do not hold up under scrutiny.
But two road diverge half-way through the wood, and I part ways at that point bc btc is not a fetish for me. Stacking is a tool. If my stash ever becomes life-changing in size, I'll treat it the same way I treat my table saw. I get that this will be easier said than done, for some, but I'm sure of my conclusion.
I don't want to miss the starting gun. It only goes off once.
I started my new job this week and I'm working hard to get up to speed and make a strong initial impression. Along with this, I'm cleaning up my sleeping/exercise habits and making more of an effort to take small breaks throughout the day and go outside + enjoy nature.
From a hobby/passion project perspective, I'm working with a friend on launching financial education courses that teach core financial concepts using first principles. Not financial advice, but rather detailed guides on key ideas & questions that we feel are especially relevant in 2023. We've noticed that formal education prioritizes information recall rather than comprehensive understanding, which does no one any favors when the topics can be as complex as those from the financial world.
One thing that always bothered me about public education was the implied but required acceptance of the lesson's conclusions and the minimal space and time to actively question them. A simplified example would be the following statement, "the Fed targets a 2% inflation rate because mild inflation is good for the economy."
Right from the get-go, students need to accept that the Fed knows what it's doing, the 2% inflation rate is rooted in some evidence or science, and inflation is good (which implies deflation is bad). When the most basic tenants of economic theory are assumed rather than justified, it's hard to reconcile what we experience on a daily basis with the material that we're told is effectively gospel.
So, my friend and I are looking to create content that teaches things differently and makes no bones about what should be passively assumed vs. what should be actively justified.
We're excited to get started and are taking the next few months to write the content and gameplan a launch.
I worry that a ricochet effect occurs off the lid and onto the seat. I wish more lids were only large enough to cover the hole. I suppose they would be more appropriately considered plugs or corks instead of lids if they were designed that way.
There were multiple reasons for us to decide to leave Ethereum.
We were frustrated with the community and the fact that everyone felt the need to create their own token. Not to mention that the jenga tower and the architecture of smart contracts creates a huge attack surface.
At the same time that this was happening, DLCs were becoming more mature, which meant it was finally possible to create financial contracts directly on Bitcoin. No shitcoins, no tokens, no BS.
So we asked ourselves, what's going to be around in 20 to 30 years? Ethereum, maybe, maybe not. But Bitcoin definitely is, and we want to build infrastructure for the long term.
Since then, we've gone Bitcoin-only, and have never looked back.
We also wrote a blog post regarding this: https://atomic.finance/blog/an-atomic-pivot/