There are only two bitcoin journeys.
1. Bitcoin destroys you and you rise like a phoenix 🐦🔥 from the ashes.
2. Bitcoin destroys you and you never recover.
Which one you choose is entirely up to you.
I think it’s still the case yeah. It’s easier than ever before but that doesn’t mean it’s become easy. It just went from really really really hard. Near impossible hard to regular hard lol
Reconnected with an old friend.
Ask him if he’s dating anyone, he tells me it’s hard when you live at home with your parents.
This man is 36 years old.
She does have a lot of insecurities. The way it came up was back when my father was dying, my aunt and I left hospice care for an hour or so to get some dinner. On the drive back we had a rather heavy conversation about my childhood. Then she dropped that line on me.
Ngl it fucked me up for a few days there, but shortly after my father’s death I realized something. I am the sole author of my story. She doesn’t get a say and neither does anyone else. I changed my twitter handle to American hodl a few months later. The rest is history.
Personally I’m not seeking retribution on her or anyone and I hope her life is going well even though I don’t want to be a part of it anymore.
For me it’s just about getting out from under all that bs
John Steinbeck once said, that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Have all of these in the house. Something about cooking in animal fat too that I’ve noticed is it signals hunger/fullness to your brain much more than pufa/seed oil.
My wife has a much older half sister.
They’ve always had an estranged relationship.
One time they were having friction and the half sister was going to send her a letter to express how she felt about things.
I had met this woman a few times and was always nice and cordial to her, even going out of my way for her and her daughter to take them to the airport, buy dinner or tickets etc…
The letter arrives and before my wife opens it we go for a small walk and I tell her to try her best to reconcile because family is family etc…
Finally my wife opens the letter and half the letter is complaining about me lol
Pure projection, lots of things about me that aren’t even true. Mainly she was jealous about our marriage and the fact that my wife is a stay at home mom.
I was like this crazy bitch lol no wonder nobody in the family likes her.
At that point I told my wife I wasn’t going to give her any advice and she can have whatever relationship she wants.
They haven’t spoken since.
The point of the story is this, you never know who is sticking up for you when you aren’t around.
Try not to burn bridges unless you absolutely have to.
I actually had a friend say to me, “how much more money do you need?”
This dude is childless and lives off his parents lol
What he doesn’t understand is this…
How much more do I need for me? Nothing.
But when you have a family, people depend on you.
I have four kids.
What if they have four kids?
Including my wife that’s 21 people I’m responsible for.
What if I’m the only person in the family who ever figures out anything substantial?
Looking back that appears to be the case.
Everyone before me was some garden variety European peasant.
There’s no royalty in my blood.
Why would I assume it would be any different going forward?
Nah man, it’s me.
Just me.
I’m the only one.
And people are depending on me.
How much more money do I need?
Enough for everybody.
Poverty is very simply just having the wrong ideas in your head.
You can replace the ideas and lift yourself out of poverty.
The problem is most people don’t know, don’t care and don’t care to know.
I’m only directing this at privileged westerners, but that said people make their way to areas of the world with more opportunities and freedom all the time and make something of themselves. Where there’s a will there’s a way.
One of the best things my parents ever did for me was refuse to put me on speed. My adhd made me a bad student but I gave me a great life. Still sucks around tax time though lol 😂 trade offs…
The “H” is the main superpower.
If I find something interesting or exciting it’s very easy for me to lock in on it for long stretches of time. I’m also able to do a lot of work under tight time constraints. I seem to rise to the occasion in pressure situations where others may falter. I’m very creative and intuitive. Charisma and energy. Good in conversation etc…
There’s a long list actually.
But none of these things kick in if my attention isn’t captured. So I can’t turn it on. It just comes on by itself and only for things I’m called towards.
I have these two mining stocks that I just keep buying more of.
So far they’ve been lagging against other miners as a group, but I’m convicted and believe strongly in the leadership of both companies.
Posting now for posterity, so I can claim victory when they print.
$GRDI & $CBTTF
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