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This is a living archive of my thoughts, experiences, and hard-earned insights, drawn from an unusual life. Here you’ll find reflections on the food I’ve eaten, the things I’ve bought, the people I’ve encountered, the places I’ve seen, the books I’ve read, the quotes I’ve kept, and the trends I’ve spotted and capitalized on.
I write this for you, my children, those already here and those yet to come. Daddy loves you more than words can hold. I want each of you to live lives you’re proud of. This is my thinking, in my own voice, left here for you to explore. I hope one day it proves useful.
If, by some unlikely chance, I’m gone before I can guide you in person, let this stand as a poor substitute. But in the more likely case that I’m still here, let this serve as an intellectual archive, a record that I held these convictions long before you were born. May that give weight to my words, and credibility to the wisdom I hope to pass on to you.
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my fake laugh is even better than my real one, and nine-tenths of being popular is the ability to jolly the menials along. The world is changing, moving beneath our feet. We are in a war, children of the Red March, though you may not see it yet, may not feel it. We are in…
Her voice was like a portrait of her soul: wild as a fire, sharp as shattered glass, sweet and clean as clover I am the center of creation. In doing this, let us pass over innumerable boring stories: the rise and fall of empires, sagas of heroism, ballads of tragic love. I have stolen princesses…
The past can’t hurt you anymore unless you let it. Beneath this mask there is more than flesh, Beneath this mask, there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. There are no coincidences, only the illusion of coincidences. We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail.…
We need a great rebirth of the heroic in our world. Every sector of human society, wherever that may be on the planet, seems to be slipping into unconscious chaos. – Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover, The 19th-century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said that “Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds.”…
Post this 2020 halvening miners will cease to be the biggest sellers of Bitcoin. It’ll be the dawn of the crypto exchange as the leading seller. The biggest sell pressure on Bitcoin will soon be from exchanges selling their BTC fees collected into fiat. You can think of exchanges as tax agents on traders. That…
Eat to live, don’t live to eat Isn’t it funny that great restaurants always serve you something weird and absurd like seaweed-foam-on-a-cracker. I think that they don’t have the balls to compete on the food that people could legitimately compare. If you order the seaweed-foam-on-a-cracker, how do you know whether they were done properly or…
If you want to fly, just drop everything that weighs you down Anytime someone tells you a price prediction without a time frame, you tell them to fuck off. Is the worst firmly behind us? Did the cruel winds of crypto winter finally die down, giving way to inevitable triumph of crypto spring? Are we…
Friedrich Nietzsche believed himself to be a philosophical physician. One of his missions in life was to help others understand the sickness into which modern society was falling and to offer a cure to the poison of a corrupted value system. “To be a physician here to be inexorable here, to wield the knife here…
Nietzsche thought that the universe was the manifestation of an underlying force that he called the will to power. “This world is the will to power – and nothing besides!”, he proclaimed. Nietzsche characterized the will to power, the basic underlying essence of the universe, as “an insatiable desire to manifest power”. In this lecture,…
“I call an animal, a species, an individual corrupt, when it loses its instincts, when it chooses when it prefers, what is harmful to it.” Throughout much of history, humans have perceived themselves as superior to all other creatures. Myths of our divine origin and our place at the crown of creation are found in…
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