Oddbean new post about login | logout Caught up with a buddy this week whose roommate was mining in 2011. He sold it all and blew it on all the trappings life has to offer. He was in super early, but never understood it. He had to get it at the price he deserved with the rest of us. Almost all of us have a story of hearing about it 10 or more years ago. The information was always there, we just didn’t do the research. It’s worth internalizing.
I regret nothing. Its gonna take me years till im rich. If healthy I will get there one day. I want to retire before im very old, so I try to stack as much as I can. I dont see a better plan. Sometimes I stack less, I want to live also. Learning new skills in case this thing fails. If it doesn’t, great. Its been hell of a journey
I’m with you man. I’m fortunate enough to make a good living, have a wife onboard, and having a family on the way, I’ll take another 5 years or so of work and the ability to walk away over 25 years of dread on a hamster wheel never knowing if I’ll have enough to make it later in life. Could I have been done now if I took that 4 figures in BTC in 2014 instead of dollars, probably. But I’d have blown it when it 2x’d and probably gone into full BTC derangement syndrome.