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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 beloved children, There are moments that define the course of history. Not because they shock us, but because they reveal the battlefield. The creation of Bitcoin was one such moment. It showed the world that an individual could challenge the entire financial order. But more than that, it showed what one man could do…
As time relentlessly marches on, the future’s divergence from the past becomes inevitable. Previous generations could shape their lives using lessons from the past, which encompassed knowledge about people, nations, currencies, relationships, and a spectrum of emotions. The astute saved time by identifying what to relearn and then explored new territories. However, the less insightful…
Brahma Vidya – Science of the Absolute / Knowledge of Brahman / Dao There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will; neither path nor achievement; This is the final truth. I have no birth, no death, and no duties; I’ve never done anything, either good or bad. I’m purely Brahman, beyond all…
You are a lucky man, you get to piss away your daddy’s torture, on parties, and hookers, who quite honestly, serve a greater utility to society than you. They identify each other through plumage. We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the…
Knowledge isn’t power. Intelligent action is power. We stand on the backs of giants – We speak languages we didn’t invent, and travel on roads we didn’t pave. So too are most of the thoughts we have handed down to us, without needing to invent them ourselves. If you want to have a good time…
Ancient Cynicism vs. Modern cynicism. – The two are different, thus when referring to ancient Cynicism, scholars would capitalize a capital “C”. A modern cynic is generally an individual who thinks pessimistically about human beings and existence in general. Life for the modern cynic would be better if it never happened at all. An ancient…
She had not known that she was cold until she was no longer cold. Change was what made knowledge possible. A lie became the truth when enough people had reasons to pretend it was true. So much of learning, decided Théra, consisted of forgetting how much you already knew. The world is infinite, but the…
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.”…
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,…
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