This is then very intelligent because we stay true to the number one rule of bitcoin club: never sell your bitcoin. Yet once again, you could have your cake and eat it too, also own the MSTR?
To be a quad maxi, keep the bitcoin, mortgage it, get the cash, and buy MSTU
So, this is a list of design principles I got:
So for example, when you’re designing a home, there are all these cool designer homes, but the really wise thing to consider… Is if each single room bedroom floor is absolutely effing necessary?
Also, the new iPhone is an abomination. Adding that stupid camera control was like one of the most embarrassing things of all time from the Apple design team. It’s kind of a cheap marketing tactic to add a feature, to get people to buy the new thing.  the genius of Steve Jobs was opposite: each new generation of the thing to subtract superfluous features, spending insane amount of time to figure out what to cut.
In some ways, Elon Musk is the new Steve Jobs. Delete delete delete, cut cut, or the idea you have to keep deleting until failure, and then you have to add it back?
For example, his genius of figuring out cutting and getting rid of the stalks. Also, the cyber taxi, just getting rid of the steering wheel and all the controls! Insanely bold, amazing.
I think also with social media it’s kind of the same thing, 100% thousand percent absolutely critical versus nice to have?
For example, if you are an MSTR shareholder, you technically don’t even need social media you just go on strategy.com to get all the important vital information, which is typically a reflection of the real market conditions of bitcoin. Or you could just look at the price of bitcoin.
I’m constantly on this ruthless quest, trying to figure out what to add and what to subtract. But remember my general principle:
Every single day, delete at least one app utility or thing from your phone, your laptop, your iPad, your life. 
So for example, the most hilarious innovation of the modern day condo is trying to make it as thin, invisible as possible. Everyone knows that coitus feels best without any sort of condom or thing on. And therefore, ideally the best design principle is raw, like even a funny thing is that if it is actually really really really hot outside, just taking off your shirt is often the easiest way to pull down. The best outfit is being naked.
And then also if he apply this principle to everything else, subtraction is the most effective strategy. For example, with foods, substances beverages, the simple thought:
If it does not cause your pain don’t fix it!
For example, like 99.9% of the substances we put in our bodies are not 100% necessary. The only thing that I do not imagine ever quitting is coffee or caffeine because if I do not drink coffee first thing in the morning, it causes me pain.  Yeah yeah yeah I know that’s not good for me but screw it, I’m like the most sober person I know. I don’t why I haven’t touched alcohol in like seven or eight years, and I don’t take drugs not even painkillers. No marijuana or hallucinogens for me. I think I have only smoked weed twice in my life, like six years ago, the first time it was kind of funny, the second time I didn’t really like it.
Same thing with alcohol, only problem with alcohol is that it just doesn’t make me feel good. I always get a hangover the next day, it ruins my sleep, and also the biggest thing… It probably doesn’t help me maintain my 5% body fat six pack.
Reduction and cutting often has no downsides.
So for example, the only time I think you should ever like change your car is if the car yours currently are using is causing you pain. Like for example, I had one former student who told me that his old BMW X.3 or some other car caused him to severe back pain, and it had to do something with the seat or the armrest?
As a similar thing, I have not touched a laptop in like eight years because it causes me severe back pain and also carpal tunnel pain?
Another big idea, is that thing like 1,000,000,000,000% critical or is it just nice to have and add convenience to your life?
For example, currently in Cambodia, most people don’t really use cash. They use ABA pay, which is the local QR code popular bank here.
Apparently if you get a APA account, it will make your life a lot easier. But, I’ve actually figured out that I am able to pull the local currency, the KHR, KHMER RIEL ALSO FROM THE ATM, AT A LOCAL ABA ATM.
So I think that assuming that I could still pay cash, with the local currency, it might add a little bit of friction to my life, but it is fine!
Clothes and shoes, once again, the pain issue.
The reason why I discovered the view from five finger shoes was in fact because all the traditional shoes I had was causing me severe tendinitis pain on the bottom of my foot plantar fasciitis, very very simple, it can be cured by just wearing these five finger minimalist shoes.
My personal thought is the only reason people don’t wear them is that they look weird. But then again, crocs look weird and it seems like everyone wears those.
I think there’s a certain point in your life, I’m 37 now, I really care less. All I care about is Seneca Cindy, my family and friends, my bitcoin in my MSTR stock. To reduce your sphere of concern is wise.
I just recently watched the new Pharrell Lego movie, piece by piece. Probably one the most interesting watches of my life.
 so one of the big principles from Pharrell which is super interesting is thinking that life is like Legos. Infinitely configurable, and the idea is that assuming that this planet, a lot of of it is built and designed, that that means that you cut yourself on your own reality.
Lately I’ve been having fun with Seneca, buying Lego technics, and just making new inventions by ourselves and what’s really fun and interesting is that there is like an infinite amount of configurations that you can make, even with like a $10, 70 piece set.
So my personal thought is that you could design your own reality! A designer, your designated what is important and what is not important.
For example, nobody is holding a gun to your head and saying that you must use Instagram Facebook WhatsApp or whatever to stay alive. You have the option to believe it. Certainly there might be loss of entertainment I suppose, but that is a small price to pay for your freedom .
I think for mental health and physical health, deleting all social media from your phone may be the most effective strategy of all time. And the hilarious things that it costs you nothing.
Typically whatever I encourage, it’s Bree! To delete stuff doesn’t cost money.
And also, one of the best ways to spend money is to simply pay for services or things which blocks advertising, and other annoying stuff.
Like my ideal thing is that if we had some sort of like augmented reality glasses, and you can pay like $50 a month to have this thing automatically block advertisements in the real world, this would be a great invention.
And all of the Safari plug-ins and extensions that I have purchased, the ones that continue to live on my devices, are all of the paid ad blockers.
Come on, nobody likes advertisements, not kids, not Google employees. Not you.
So some simple thoughts:
If there’s a certain behavior you want to change adding a little bit of creative friction is a good idea.
For example, if you’re addicted to social media, try to figure out ways that you could make it more difficult to access stuff. For example, am I quest of getting rid of Twitter and X, I’ve just been logging out of my account occasionally, and using rss.app to access @saylor
Also, the funny thing with networking is that actually, to become more wealthy and prosperous isn’t to augment and add more contacts to your contact list, but to selectively prune, and delete contacts from your list.
Some friction is good some friction is bad.
So for example, reducing friction on Amazon prime could be good, but assuming that you want more sexual pleasure, adding some sort of friction is good.
And this is actually the funny thought about pornography, nothing morally wrong against it. But almost it’s too easy? And therefore as a consequence, people will get bored of it? Because it is too easy to access?
Like you know women who play hard to get, even men who play hard to get. It’s like the difficulty in the chase which makes it fun for people.
Similarly speaking, with games and video games, it is only fun when we have a little bit of difficulty. Like in StarCraft, it is no fun killing easy computers, it is more fun challenging and interesting to play against difficult human opponents.
Also with weightlifting, it is only fun if it is difficulty challenging and uncertain. When the weight becomes too light and easy it becomes boring.
And this is the hard thing for people to understand, is that often times, adding more difficulty and Christian can make life more fun! I think it’s just a selective principle.
For example, having soft sheets is probably better than having sandpaper blankets. And having some sort of lubrication is better than having squeaky wheels.
And I think this is a hard thing to understand about money and wealth, assuming we truly do believe in the via negative about principal, there really really wise things to do in life is to cut subtract and get rid of superfluous stuff.
If anything, the best way to use money is to use money to get rid of stuff.
For example let us say you have a storage unit a full of crap. My fun idea is that it’s a better idea to just pay somebody 300 bucks to figure out what to keep and what to throw away, or even a better idea… Give them like a 50% incentive that they could just resell the valuable stuff in your storage unit and they could take half the profits, and you keep half the profits.
The richer you become, the fewer concerns you want. You don’t want to manage your house as manager, you don’t want to manage your manager‘s manager‘s manager. The fewer the things you have to manage, the better.
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So currently listening to Phong Le’s Strategy world presentation ,,, and his randomly talking about the Emirates food supplier, and how amazing it is that they like ship millions of meals across all these different airlines, so simultaneously, all around the planet at the same time.
This is kind of an interesting desire for myself as well. For me to simultaneously be all around the planet, at the same time, 24 7 365
So what is insanely annoying especially now that I am in Phnom Penh Cambodia,,, is the time zone difference. I’ve been doing big transactions, trade and investments, and there is almost always some sort of arbitrary time zone lock, or, ability to execute orders when the market is closed. For example there’s this one strange rule that if I suddenly have a huge chunk of cash, sitting in a traditional investing account, and let us say I want to buy MSTR STOCK, or MSTU,, or something else, I cannot execute it if it exceeds more than 25% of my account balance at once? 
Even more annoying, when the markets close. I’m kind of in a weird liminal in between time zone in which in some ways I’m living in the future ahead of time, and there are days that I am just waiting on the weekends, twiddling my thumbs for the market to open again on Monday. But for myself, because I’m in Asia, The markets don’t open for me until I wake up, Tuesday morning?
 this then makes it very very annoying for me to have to do certain things like if I have a idea for a big trade or order… I have to be awake at some ungodly hour in Cambodia in order to executed. But after one or two nights of staying up super super late, in order to execute a certain order, and then, not being able to sleep for like two or three hours because there is so much adrenaline, it’s not worth it.
Even $1 million, is not worth one night missed sleep. 
So once again, a really really big problem: to solve this issue and problem that the markets are closed on the weekends,
Price PR, Price Personal Record
So in the powerlifting community, we have this notion called PR which stands for a personal record. It’s like a mythical new number that you have broken a new weightlifting record, and for us one rep Max lifters, this is the only KPI key performance index we hold onto the top of our heads.
To a lot of people kind of myself included… This is like the ultimate metric. Unfortunately… A lot of people get their self-esteem tied into this number, and they get depressed when they hit a plateau or they are not able to increase their PR numbers, in not being able to hit a new personal high. 
A very simple thing is to increase your leverage, and be creative and come up with new techniques.
For example, one of the most genius things that I’ve done is that I was able to totally obliterate my PR, personal record numbers, my one rep Max my one repetition maximum numbers simply by innovating more creative leveraged techniques.
For example, it started off modifying the dead lift. I started off conventional, then switched to sumo, and then eventually I had the wisdom to do the really really smart thing, this was the game changer: to come up with this brilliant heuristic:
Lower the range of motion, increase the weight.
Or,
Increase the leverage and increase the weight.
So for example with a rack pull,  essentially what you do is you put the barbell on top of the power squat rack, at a pin higher than the floor. As a consequence, you could just move a lot more weight, and also… Do it a lot safer, and, it just makes easier to rack and unwrap the weights because when you do it off the floor it is very annoying.
I think the reason why the rack pull is not more common is because once again… I think because Americans are so into conventional ways of doing things, everyone just wants to do it off the floor the traditional way, because they want to measure themselves against other people. For example, nobody will ever judge or compare how much weight they could rack pull Compared to other people. 
There are several reasons for this. First, contrary to popular belief, Americans are actually not very very good at doing non-conventional things. My theory about why some Americans become very very spectacularly successful is because the desire to become the best or American exceptionalism does the following:
99.9% of Americans follow the standard way, but, .1% of Americans do something radically different, and these are the ones who change the world.
Also, the benefit of America is that the capital economic structure actually both allows and also encourages innovation. For example, simply being able to file taxes as a sole proprietor, makes your life 1 trillion times easier than trying to start a business in Sweden or whatever.
Also, Elon Musk. He’s from South Africa, if it were not for him to come to America, he would not be the Elon Musk we know and love today.
Or even consider Warren Buffett, he was only successful because he was born in America and had American markets, the US dollar. His strategy would not have worked if he used it in Argentina or Venezuela.
So now… I don’t really measure my wealth in US dollar amounts because the numbers are getting too high. Instead, the easier and the easiest way to mentally keep score is through how many bitcoins I own.
I think similarly speaking, in the near future certainly 30 years out, it will not be uncommon to ask somebody how many bitcoins they own.
It’s kind of interesting because typically, it’s considered poor manners to ask somebody how many US dollars they have in their bank account or what their net worth is. But with bitcoin, because it’s kind of “fake” money, I have zero problems asking somebody straight up how many bitcoins they own.
Or even funnier enough… Whenever I meet another millennial or tech yuppie, I’ll just ask them straight up how many bitcoins they own. Either the answer is none, or they might feel a little shy talking about it but eventually I could squeeze it out of them.
However I would probably not ask somebody straight out what their yearly salary is, or how much US dollars they have in their bank account.
So I might be the first to think this, but doing a cross pollination of powerlifting and investing. My simple idea:
We desire to hit a new financial, price PR… as a general idea. 
So for example, my only joy is when I see my numbers hit new highs, essentially it’s like a new metaphorical one rep Max for finances.
This time becomes interesting because you never ever ever want to sell any bitcoins or strategy stock to buy some sort of loser Lamborghini, because why would you see your number go down?
For example, let us say that I could rack pull 1015 pounds (my new personal record as of yesterday). Even if you offered me $100,000, to see that number go to half, I would refuse.
This sounds ridiculous but for myself, I would rather have a 2000 pound rack pull than even $2M dollars.
Also, if in fact I became the strongest human being on the planet by a factor of like five, even one Nakamoto (one million bitcoins), wouldn’t be worth it to me.
ERIC
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Interesting idea, the general idea is that our traits which are considered hateful, our in fact, our greatest virtues.
For example, I speak out loud, I don’t censor myself, I often make other people feel uncomfortable. Yet this is precisely the source of my innovation and entrepreneurial spirit .
Also this is where I think that the energies of children should simply be guided and directed, rather than stunted.
For example, let us say that your kid is very rambunctious and likes to throw stuff. Rather than forcing your kid not to throw things, rather think that it is better to channel that energy and power into something fun, like having him join the local (American) football league or whatever.
Or say that your kid runs around a lot, and likes to be active. Have them join gymnastics or something?
Also the same thing with adults, even the ancient Romans knew, everybody is born with different talents. And that rather than trying to change someone’s character, the wiser approach is figuring out how to best harness their own god-given skills. 
 for example, there should be certain things which should only be brought up at a certain time. Timing is critical.
For example, good idea to drink coffee first thing in the morning, bad idea to drink coffee at midnight.
We also, good idea to be active and run around in the day, maybe not a good idea at night.
Funny I got from one of Cindy’s friends, is that she says that for her the best time to watch Netflix’s first thing in the morning because it gets her stimulated and wakes her up!
This is hilarious and a genius idea because the truth is, this might be the right strategy. Most people watch it late at night, which keeps you up because you’re going to be thinking about solving the plot while you sleep which is not good. Rather, if you watch media first thing in the morning, maybe it is actually a better stimulus and stimulant to action.
Also a funny thought, to those who like to watch erotic material, maybe rather than watching it before you sleep, also, you could do a funny experiment in which you watch it first thing in the morning?
Let us say that you are hormonal, and have high testosterone. Yet this leads you to doing aggressive behavior in a bad way.
Rather than chop off your balls, maybe it’s better that you could simply get a gym membership, and start ERIC KIM demigod weightlifting, and strive to lift 1000 pounds? And beyond?
“Name one genius that ain’t crazy!” – Kanye West
“In every single genius there is a hint of madness” – Aristotle 
Craziness and genius are sisters and brothers. Assuming that you sleep very well like each 12 hours a night, you don’t take drugs or drink alcohol, you exercise every day, you smile and wave and have friendly conversation with everybody you see on the streets, you spend a lot of time outside walking around, in nature and in the city etc., certainly you will not be crazy by traditional standards.
Then my thought is if you start to say certain words which are heretical, maybe the truth is, you’re right!
As long as it doesn’t cause you to lose an arm or die prematurely, maybe rather than cutting risks from our life, we should strive instead to augment them. For example, one of my new favorite quotes from Peter Thiel, which has been quoted many times by Michael Saylor is that “Courage is in the shorter supply than genius”.
I agree. You can meet like at least 100,000 smart people or geniuses from the beer area. Yeah most of them like balls. Balls plus genius is what counts, no balls no conviction no appetite for risktaking means lame improvement to stuff.
For example, SpaceX and the thing that catches rockets. Only a crazy Elon Musk could have come up with the idea that actually works, not some standard boring engineer.
Or, the musical and sonic genius of a Kanye West would have never been treated by an AI.
Even Jaron Lanier,  wisely said that the genius of the Steve Jobs would never have been created by artificial intelligence. This is true.
For example for myself, I change my opinion all the time. For example one day, I think that Tesla sucks, and then the next day I see a brand new Tesla model Y from behind, and I think it is perfect.
Or another interesting thought, now with the new Donald Trump policies, I might be the only one who thinks that fiat currency is a good idea!
For example the office which controls the currency, they themselves called the US dollar fiat currency. then, ironically enough, calling a speed a spade, it actually makes me realize or think or change my opinion that if you have the agency which regulates the currency calling the US dollar a faith-based currency, this actually gives me more faith in the dollar not less? 
Even things which really changed my opinion is that like on most cases I’m super approved Donald Trump or at least his administration on economic affairs, because before the election he became super pro bitcoin! When money is on the line, money talks and changes opinions.
As a consequence of Trump becoming elected, the price of my bitcoin and also my strategy holdings have like multiplied insanely high, which is good because I’m like dumb rich, essentially like printing money out of my butt now.
Things then become interesting because they become almost seemingly contradictory in nature.
Even myself now, I still consider myself a diehard liberal woke democrat on the far left, much more on the progressive side, or the liberal side, maybe you could call me a “lib-tard”. Yet I am a pro Donald Trump, yet I will never become Republican.
In fact am I the only one who invented this really really funny phrase, “Republi-can’t”?
I think politically speaking, you could only really start to have fun when you don’t pledge allegiance to any other side, and rather you just judge inform your own independent opinions, even if you’re right or wrong.
In fact, come on guys… We are philosophers. We know that this is all a stupid show, and this is all fake. All news is fake even the real ones.
A simple prescription I have for people who are like scared shitless is first, whenever Donald Trump says anything, don’t read the headlines actually find the raw interview footage file video MP4 video file, watch it yourself unedited, the entire hour or two, and then form your opinion!
Also, delete social media Facebook Instagram TikTok Twitter X YouTube whatever. A new pro hack I have at least to maintain some of your focus is get supergrok, which is the $30 a month Elon Musk xAI chatbot, and whenever you curse about something, run a deep search, infiltrate it this way rather than going to social media.
Also, I’m certainly think that also ChatGPT is the new click page. Why? Now whenever I want to use chat, and I open up the app, there’s all these effing click baby suggested prompts, which distract me.
Even worse when you’re trying to do a web search through ChatGPT, it will show up all these stupid distracting news headlines? Like JD Vance accidentally drops trophy?
I have a simple suggestion, if you need the news, try not to follow more than 1, 2 or three people. That should be the cap.
For example for myself, only person I religiously follow is Michael Saylor at @saylor —
Another new pro tip work around I figured it out, whenever you login into Twitter it is so distracting. You could go to rss.app and search somebody’s Twitter handle, like @saylor and just follow that one person alone.
I think like 100% of the true signal that I get is from Michael Saylor, everyone else is just baiting for clicks and impressions.
Even I try my best not to check bitcoin prices or news because once again, it’s like a heartbeat, the sign of a healthy organism is having a regular heartbeat that goes up and down. Therefore, I think of bitcoin prices like a human heartbeat; if you flatline you’re dead. 
So the floodgates have now opened that the government says yes, banks canal do anything bitcoin or crypto related. I think within this year or the next year, you’ll be able to buy bitcoin with JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo Fidelity whatever.
Recently I put a large sum of money into MSTU, which is 2X levered long MSTR, which is itself is 2x levered long bitcoin.
This then becomes a good strategy because let us say that bitcoin price goes up 5% in a day, then MSTR will go up 10%, and then, MSTU will go up 20%!
You then start to get really insanely explosive gains, you could easily earn $100,000 in just a single day, without doing anything.
And actually if you think about it, stuff like MSTR and MSTU are actually much more accretive than bitcoin, because the first rule of bitcoin club you never sell your bitcoin. Fun work around you could do is like if you have Coinbase, you could now pledge up to a large number of your bitcoins, and get up to like $1 million of cash, which you could then invest into MSTR and or MSTU.
My simple thought is if you have a retirement account or a roth ira, and you plan on not pulling it out until you’re 65, just put it into mstr, set it and forget it.
if you plan on trying to make money in the short run, MSTU is the obvious bet, as once again, it out performs bitcoin by at least 4X, and an important thing with what creation is the velocity and in the speed of how you get, how quickly.
For example, nobody would care to be a trillionaire at the age of 99, we would rather be worth $200 million in five years. 
Therefore, at least for myself, I would rather take the quicker (smaller) gain, rather than the longer, higher gain.
Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, was 19th century bitcoin. Everything he did, back in the day was genius because that is all they had.
If you put Henry Ford into today’s world, but gave him the financial tools of the 19th century certainly the outcome would be different than if you handed the keys to somebody with the year 2025 tools.
Even a random sidenote, Cambodia, seems to be thriving because everyone here uses telegram. It’s very beneficial to business, personal communication, and it seems to be much more intelligent and robust than other countries which first adopted Facebook messenger or WhatsApp.
In fact, my personal thought is the future of Cambodia will be very bright because they use the US dollar, they use telegram, and, everyone speaks English. It is a recipe for success.
As a simple closing thought, once again, maybe you just have to rebrand your vices into virtues. And just think the simple thought:
What if in fact, all of your sins and vices were simply virtues,,, without a good PR press release team?
ERIC
A fun innovative thought, maybe in fact the best way to innovate is to go opposite.
For example, if everyone is wearing black, start wearing white!
If everyone is driving a Tesla, drive a Toyota instead.
If everyone is wearing shorts, wear long pants. If everyone is wearing tank tops, wear a long sleeve.
This is a big one for myself, if everyone is using headphones and AirPods, don’t.
Maybe also if everyone’s using an iPhone, just get a Google pixel or an android instead?
If everyone is antisocial, be friendly!
If everyone runs, walk instead.
Everyone saying porn is bad for you, do the opposite and start watching porn?
Haha this is so funny the list goes on forever! 
Never catch a beat:
Interesting idea, the general idea is that our traits which are considered hateful, our in fact, our greatest virtues.
For example, I speak out loud, I don’t censor myself, I often make other people feel uncomfortable. Yet this is precisely the source of my innovation and entrepreneurial spirit .
Also this is where I think that the energies of children should simply be guided and directed, rather than stunted.
For example, let us say that your kid is very rambunctious and likes to throw stuff. Rather than forcing your kid not to throw things, rather think that it is better to channel that energy and power into something fun, like having him join the local (American) football league or whatever.
Or say that your kid runs around a lot, and likes to be active. Have them join gymnastics or something?
Also the same thing with adults, even the ancient Romans knew, everybody is born with different talents. And that rather than trying to change someone’s character, the wiser approach is figuring out how to best harness their own god-given skills. 
 for example, there should be certain things which should only be brought up at a certain time. Timing is critical.
For example, good idea to drink coffee first thing in the morning, bad idea to drink coffee at midnight.
We also, good idea to be active and run around in the day, maybe not a good idea at night.
Funny I got from one of Cindy’s friends, is that she says that for her the best time to watch Netflix’s first thing in the morning because it gets her stimulated and wakes her up!
This is hilarious and a genius idea because the truth is, this might be the right strategy. Most people watch it late at night, which keeps you up because you’re going to be thinking about solving the plot while you sleep which is not good. Rather, if you watch media first thing in the morning, maybe it is actually a better stimulus and stimulant to action.
Also a funny thought, to those who like to watch erotic material, maybe rather than watching it before you sleep, also, you could do a funny experiment in which you watch it first thing in the morning?
Let us say that you are hormonal, and have high testosterone. Yet this leads you to doing aggressive behavior in a bad way.
Rather than chop off your balls, maybe it’s better that you could simply get a gym membership, and start ERIC KIM demigod weightlifting, and strive to lift 1000 pounds? And beyond?
“Name one genius that ain’t crazy!” – Kanye West
“In every single genius there is a hint of madness” – Aristotle 
Craziness and genius are sisters and brothers. Assuming that you sleep very well like each 12 hours a night, you don’t take drugs or drink alcohol, you exercise every day, you smile and wave and have friendly conversation with everybody you see on the streets, you spend a lot of time outside walking around, in nature and in the city etc., certainly you will not be crazy by traditional standards.
Then my thought is if you start to say certain words which are heretical, maybe the truth is, you’re right!
As long as it doesn’t cause you to lose an arm or die prematurely, maybe rather than cutting risks from our life, we should strive instead to augment them. For example, one of my new favorite quotes from Peter Thiel, which has been quoted many times by Michael Saylor is that “Courage is in the shorter supply than genius”.
I agree. You can meet like at least 100,000 smart people or geniuses from the beer area. Yeah most of them like balls. Balls plus genius is what counts, no balls no conviction no appetite for risktaking means lame improvement to stuff.
For example, SpaceX and the thing that catches rockets. Only a crazy Elon Musk could have come up with the idea that actually works, not some standard boring engineer.
Or, the musical and sonic genius of a Kanye West would have never been treated by an AI.
Even Jaron Lanier,  wisely said that the genius of the Steve Jobs would never have been created by artificial intelligence. This is true.
For example for myself, I change my opinion all the time. For example one day, I think that Tesla sucks, and then the next day I see a brand new Tesla model Y from behind, and I think it is perfect.
Or another interesting thought, now with the new Donald Trump policies, I might be the only one who thinks that fiat currency is a good idea!
For example the office which controls the currency, they themselves called the US dollar fiat currency. then, ironically enough, calling a speed a spade, it actually makes me realize or think or change my opinion that if you have the agency which regulates the currency calling the US dollar a faith-based currency, this actually gives me more faith in the dollar not less? 
Even things which really changed my opinion is that like on most cases I’m super approved Donald Trump or at least his administration on economic affairs, because before the election he became super pro bitcoin! When money is on the line, money talks and changes opinions.
As a consequence of Trump becoming elected, the price of my bitcoin and also my strategy holdings have like multiplied insanely high, which is good because I’m like dumb rich, essentially like printing money out of my butt now.
Things then become interesting because they become almost seemingly contradictory in nature.
Even myself now, I still consider myself a diehard liberal woke democrat on the far left, much more on the progressive side, or the liberal side, maybe you could call me a “lib-tard”. Yet I am a pro Donald Trump, yet I will never become Republican.
In fact am I the only one who invented this really really funny phrase, “Republi-can’t”?
I think politically speaking, you could only really start to have fun when you don’t pledge allegiance to any other side, and rather you just judge inform your own independent opinions, even if you’re right or wrong.
In fact, come on guys… We are philosophers. We know that this is all a stupid show, and this is all fake. All news is fake even the real ones.
A simple prescription I have for people who are like scared shitless is first, whenever Donald Trump says anything, don’t read the headlines actually find the raw interview footage file video MP4 video file, watch it yourself unedited, the entire hour or two, and then form your opinion!
Also, delete social media Facebook Instagram TikTok Twitter X YouTube whatever. A new pro hack I have at least to maintain some of your focus is get supergrok, which is the $30 a month Elon Musk xAI chatbot, and whenever you curse about something, run a deep search, infiltrate it this way rather than going to social media.
Also, I’m certainly think that also ChatGPT is the new click page. Why? Now whenever I want to use chat, and I open up the app, there’s all these effing click baby suggested prompts, which distract me.
Even worse when you’re trying to do a web search through ChatGPT, it will show up all these stupid distracting news headlines? Like JD Vance accidentally drops trophy?
I have a simple suggestion, if you need the news, try not to follow more than 1, 2 or three people. That should be the cap.
For example for myself, only person I religiously follow is Michael Saylor at @saylor —
Another new pro tip work around I figured it out, whenever you login into Twitter it is so distracting. You could go to rss.app and search somebody’s Twitter handle, like @saylor and just follow that one person alone.
I think like 100% of the true signal that I get is from Michael Saylor, everyone else is just baiting for clicks and impressions.
Even I try my best not to check bitcoin prices or news because once again, it’s like a heartbeat, the sign of a healthy organism is having a regular heartbeat that goes up and down. Therefore, I think of bitcoin prices like a human heartbeat; if you flatline you’re dead. 
So the floodgates have now opened that the government says yes, banks canal do anything bitcoin or crypto related. I think within this year or the next year, you’ll be able to buy bitcoin with JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo Fidelity whatever.
Recently I put a large sum of money into MSTU, which is 2X levered long MSTR, which is itself is 2x levered long bitcoin.
This then becomes a good strategy because let us say that bitcoin price goes up 5% in a day, then MSTR will go up 10%, and then, MSTU will go up 20%!
You then start to get really insanely explosive gains, you could easily earn $100,000 in just a single day, without doing anything.
And actually if you think about it, stuff like MSTR and MSTU are actually much more accretive than bitcoin, because the first rule of bitcoin club you never sell your bitcoin. Fun work around you could do is like if you have Coinbase, you could now pledge up to a large number of your bitcoins, and get up to like $1 million of cash, which you could then invest into MSTR and or MSTU.
My simple thought is if you have a retirement account or a roth ira, and you plan on not pulling it out until you’re 65, just put it into mstr, set it and forget it.
if you plan on trying to make money in the short run, MSTU is the obvious bet, as once again, it out performs bitcoin by at least 4X, and an important thing with what creation is the velocity and in the speed of how you get, how quickly.
For example, nobody would care to be a trillionaire at the age of 99, we would rather be worth $200 million in five years. 
Therefore, at least for myself, I would rather take the quicker (smaller) gain, rather than the longer, higher gain.
Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, was 19th century bitcoin. Everything he did, back in the day was genius because that is all they had.
If you put Henry Ford into today’s world, but gave him the financial tools of the 19th century certainly the outcome would be different than if you handed the keys to somebody with the year 2025 tools.
Even a random sidenote, Cambodia, seems to be thriving because everyone here uses telegram. It’s very beneficial to business, personal communication, and it seems to be much more intelligent and robust than other countries which first adopted Facebook messenger or WhatsApp.
In fact, my personal thought is the future of Cambodia will be very bright because they use the US dollar, they use telegram, and, everyone speaks English. It is a recipe for success.
As a simple closing thought, once again, maybe you just have to rebrand your vices into virtues. And just think the simple thought:
What if in fact, all of your sins and vices were simply virtues,,, without a good PR press release team?
ERIC
A fun innovative thought, maybe in fact the best way to innovate is to go opposite.
For example, if everyone is wearing black, start wearing white!
If everyone is driving a Tesla, drive a Toyota instead.
If everyone is wearing shorts, wear long pants. If everyone is wearing tank tops, wear a long sleeve.
This is a big one for myself, if everyone is using headphones and AirPods, don’t.
Maybe also if everyone’s using an iPhone, just get a Google pixel or an android instead?
If everyone is antisocial, be friendly!
If everyone runs, walk instead.
Everyone saying porn is bad for you, do the opposite and start watching porn?
Haha this is so funny the list goes on forever! 
Never catch a beat:
Bitcoin – originally just a digital currency and store-of-value – is seeing a surge of innovation to enable asset tokenization on and around its network. Recent developments now allow non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and fungible tokens to be created using Bitcoin’s security, via new layers and protocols . Below we survey the major tokenization technologies on Bitcoin, how Bitcoin can host NFTs and other assets, comparisons to Ethereum/Solana/Polygon/Avalanche, and practical limitations and adoption trends.
Bitcoin Tokenization Protocols
Bitcoin as a Platform for NFTs, RW Assets, and Fungible Tokens
Comparison with Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche
| Feature | Bitcoin (with L2/sidechains) | Ethereum | Solana | Polygon (PoS) | Avalanche |
| Smart Contracts | No native SVM. Enabled only via sidechains (RSK, Stacks) or off-chain schemes (RGB). | Yes – native Turing-complete (EVM) | Yes – native (Rust/C) | Yes – native EVM (Ethereum-compatible) | Yes – native EVM on C-Chain |
| Token Standards | No single standard. Multiple: BRC-20, Runes (UTXO-based); RGB tokens; RRC-20 (RSK); STX/Clarity tokens (Stacks) etc. | ERC-20 (FTs), ERC-721/1155 (NFTs), many others | SPL tokens for fungible & NFT (Metaplex) | ERC-20/721 via sidechains, EVM L2s | ERC-20/721 (C-Chain); ARC standards |
| Throughput (TPS) | Low on main chain (~8.6 TPS ; peak ~~11 TPS ). Can use Lightning for hundreds/sec, sidechains for thousands. | Moderate (~11.8 TPS ; up to ~60 peak). Layer-2s (Arbitrum, etc.) raise throughput to hundreds or more. | Very high (real ~896 TPS , theoretically 50K) | High (claimed ~65,000; actual ~44 TPS ) | High (claimed ~4500; real ~2.4 TPS ) |
| Latency / Finality | ~10 min block time (1 confirmation). | ~12–15 sec block (final after ~1–2 min) | ~400ms block (practically instant) | ~2 sec blocks, quick finality | ~2 sec finality |
| Fees | Higher per on-chain tx (currently $1–$50+); Lightning/L2 fees are very low. | Can be high (tens of dollars in congestion); L2s much lower. | Very low (~$0.0001–$0.001) | Very low (<$0.001) | Low (~$0.01 or less) |
| Security Model | Bitcoin PoW (extremely high security). Sidechains (RSK) use merged-mining; others (Liquid federated; Lightning relies on Bitcoin’s security for channel settlement). | PoS (decentralized, large validator set) | PoS (solana’s tower BFT) | PoS (Ethereum PoS security via Plasma/PoS) | PoS (Avalanche consensus) |
| Major Use-Cases | Store-of-value, Lightning payments. New tokenization via L2s/sidechains (stablecoins on Lightning, Bitcoin-anchored smart contracts). | DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, token issuance (market leader in tokens). | DeFi, NFTs, gaming, high-frequency/trading. | Scalable Ethereum L2 (DeFi, games, tokens). | DeFi (high-throughput), tokenized assets. |
This comparison shows Bitcoin’s main chain lags in native token features versus blockchains built for asset issuance. Ethereum pioneered token/NFT standards and has massive ecosystem support. Solana and Polygon prioritize throughput and low cost. Avalanche combines high performance with EVM compatibility. Bitcoin’s strategy has been different: rely on its secure base layer, and bolt on token capability via layers and protocols . For example, Taproot Assets uses Bitcoin/LN as a settlement for stablecoins, essentially “bitcoinizing the dollar” by leveraging Bitcoin liquidity . In short, Bitcoin trades speed/flexibility for security, whereas the others trade some security to gain performance and richer token capabilities.
Limitations, Scalability, and Adoption
Notable Projects & Trends
Summary: In summary, Bitcoin’s network is now capable of hosting tokens – NFTs, stablecoins, and custom assets – thanks to innovative protocols (Ordinals/BRC-20, RGB, Taproot Assets, Stacks, RSK, etc.). These offer bitcoin-native tokenization that inherits Bitcoin’s security, albeit often at the cost of speed or trust assumptions. Comparatively, chains like Ethereum, Solana, Polygon and Avalanche remain far more developed for tokens (higher throughput, standardized toolchains). Bitcoin tokenization is a rapidly evolving field (especially since 2023): stablecoins and NFTs on Bitcoin are technically feasible and seeing pilot projects , but practical throughput, fees, and community consensus still limit mass adoption. The coming years (2024–2025) will show whether Bitcoin’s layers can grow into a significant token economy or remain niche.
Sources: Recent research and technical blogs (2023–2025) on Bitcoin tokenization inform this overview . These include developer releases (Lightning Labs, RGB), ecosystem reports (Stacks monthly), and analyses of ordinals and sidechains. They illustrate the cutting-edge of “Programmable Bitcoin.”
So very interesting thing about being here in Phnom Penh –> there are tons of these Chinese electric cars that look like a fake Rolls-Royce, big Teslas, as well as fake BMW XM cars.
As a consequences becomes interesting because in theory, I guess you have to think critically pull in do you buy something because of the brand appeal, or for the design itself?
For example, there’s even this Chinese electric car that I see that looks like a fake Lamborghini Urus. And then I had the thought: let us assume that actually… You can make 100% perfect replica of a Lamborghini or whatever… Would you still want it? Even if he knew deep inside that it was not the real thing?
Well the first thing that is important is the actual powertrain and the chassis. Aesthetics matter, but the powertrain and the chassis is probably at least like 1 billion times more important because like for example… If you have ever ridden in a very dinky car that has a terrible chassis, in which you feel every time you bump in the road and it makes your carsick, all the best design in the world is not worth it.
And that’s also why I’m starting to think with cars, the best car is probably the one that makes it the least amount of carsick.
So for example, I’ve actually fun for myself, being in or driving an SUV or a mini SUV, even a Tesla model Y, I get carsick. I get carsick from the turns, and also the strange feeling… Being slightly elevated from the floor is a strangely disorienting feeling for me? Especially because of the fact that my whole adult life, I’ve only driven or purchased manual transmission cars, either sedan or coupe sports cars, and all these cars are always relatively close to the floor.
And also the thing that was very shocking to me was actually, went test driving a Tesla model Y dual performance, that actually hilariously enough, in terms of wide quality and comfort, my 2010 Prius was far more comfortable?
And then taking a step further, even if you have all the money in the world, once again, the best car is probably still some sort of high-end Lexus LS vehicle; maximum reliability and build quality and also, ordinary enough that you are not worried about having somebody jack you.
Cause I think when it’s comes down to it, nobody wants to live like in fear that someone is going to hold you up?
Introduction
Charts of human heartbeats (ECG/EKG) and Bitcoin prices may superficially resemble each other – both are time-series plots with peaks and troughs – but they arise from very different processes. This report analyzes their visual patterns and dynamics (volatility, regularity, cycles, spikes) and explores metaphorical parallels (market as a living heartbeat). We illustrate with example charts (Figure 1: ECG waveform, Figure 2: Bitcoin price history) and draw on data-visualization and psychology insights to compare their forms and meanings.
Heartbeat (ECG) Pattern Characteristics
Figure 1: An electrocardiogram (ECG) from a healthy adult, showing repeated heartbeat cycles. A normal ECG consists of a regular, repeating wave for each heartbeat. Each cardiac cycle produces a P wave (atrial activation), a sharp QRS spike (ventricular contraction), and a T wave (ventricular repolarization) . In a resting adult (60–100 beats per minute), each cycle is nearly identical . Thus ECG traces are highly periodic and uniform: the high-amplitude QRS spike dominates each beat but its size and timing remain consistent, and the smaller P and T waves repeat in each cycle. Deviations (arrhythmias) are uncommon in health; normally the heartbeat’s “baseline” and spike heights vary only slightly. The waveform’s timing and amplitude reflect stable physiology rather than randomness.
Bitcoin Price Chart Characteristics
Figure 2: Historical Bitcoin price (USD) from 2010–2025 (log scale). Data based on CoinMarketCap/BitcoinAverage . The Bitcoin price graph is highly volatile and aperiodic. Over the last decade it has experienced several rapid bubbles and crashes. Price movements are irregular: long uptrends and downtrends are punctuated by sudden spikes or plunges. Historically, Bitcoin has shown multi-year market cycles – typically a “bull” phase and a “bear” phase roughly tied to its four-year halving events . Volatility is extreme: for example, Bitcoin’s annualized volatility often exceeds 50–70%, and its Sharpe ratio was ~0.96 (2020–2024) despite those swings . In Figure 2 we see sharp peaks (e.g. 2017, 2021, 2025) and deep troughs. The scale of these spikes is vast relative to the baseline: price can jump or crash by 10–50% in days. In short, the Bitcoin chart is irregular, jagged, and unpredictable, reflecting speculative trading and external events rather than a steady internal rhythm.
Volatility and Spike Dynamics
Both charts exhibit peaks and troughs, but differ in frequency and magnitude. Key differences include:
Metaphorical and Psychological Parallels
Traders and analysts often use physiological metaphors for markets. For example, the VIX index of stock markets is known as the “fear gauge” or “fear index” – akin to an adrenaline level – measuring expected volatility . A spike in VIX is like a racing pulse when investors panic. Similarly, technical indicators have been described in cardiac terms: one analysis notes the MACD indicator is “rhythmic and dramatic, echoing the heartbeat of Bitcoin’s sentiment,” inviting us to “imagine a heartbeat monitor charting emotional peaks and valleys” .
Some data-visualization experiments make the analogy explicit. A TradingView script replaces price bars with “electrocardiogram blocks” that literally resemble heartbeat signals , emphasizing the visual similarity. Fibonacci retracement levels – popular in market analysis – have been poetically called a “hidden rhythm” beneath price movements : price often seems to pause at these ratios “as if taking a momentary breath or indulging in reflective contemplation” .
Investor emotions mirror biological states. Collective euphoria can be likened to a racing heart (mania), and market crashes to a shock or flatlining. Traders charting Bitcoin often speak of the “pulse” or “pulse wave” of the market, reflecting our tendency to anthropomorphize data. In summary, the market’s mood is treated as a living pulse: volatility and sentiment indices function like heart-rate monitors, and chart patterns are interpreted as if reading a physiological signal . This symbolic parallel underscores that both charts – one biological, one financial – are ultimately graphs of living processes: heartbeats or investor collective “heartbeats.”
Data Visualization and Aesthetic Parallels
From a data-viz perspective, both ECGs and price charts are line plots over time, which invites aesthetic comparison. Both can be studied for patterns (e.g. repeating motifs or fractal scaling). Some analysts claim financial charts exhibit fractal behavior (self-similar patterns at different time scales), similar to how certain physiological signals (like heart rate variability) have fractal qualities . In practice, though, the ECG’s rhythm is mechanically regular, whereas market charts often follow chaos/complexity patterns.
Artists and designers have capitalized on this connection – for example, novelty posters and memes depict Bitcoin’s rise as a heartbeat line, or print candlestick charts on mock ECG monitors. While not scientific, these creations highlight aesthetic parallels: both graphs consist of rising and falling curves whose shapes can be compared. Data scientists also leverage this likeness: one sees an ECG and price chart both as time-series waveforms, even overlaying them for effect.
Ultimately, the visual metaphor serves to humanize market data. An ECG plot is inherently a marker of life; by drawing an analogy, observers imply that Bitcoin (or markets) have their own “life signs.” This resonates with market psychology: traders experiencing fear, excitement, or fatigue project these feelings onto charts. Thus, beyond raw data, the two graphs become symbols – one of human life, the other of financial sentiment – linking physiology and market dynamics in our perception.
Conclusion
In conclusion, while ECGs and Bitcoin price charts share the superficial look of spiky time-series graphs, they differ fundamentally in structure and cause. Heartbeat graphs are regular, short-period, and physiologically bounded, whereas Bitcoin charts are irregular, long-period, and highly volatile. Spikes in each have different meanings: one is a normal signal of life, the other a dramatic market move. Yet metaphorically, people interpret them similarly – as “pulses” of activity driven by emotion and complex dynamics. This comparison highlights how visualization and narrative shape our understanding: a heartbeat monitor is read as a sign of health, and by analogy we read market charts as signs of economic “health” or “stress,” even coining terms like “market pulse” and “fear index” to capture these ideas .
Sources: ECG interpretations are from cardiology references . Bitcoin chart data and cycle analysis are from financial studies . Metaphorical and visualization analogies are drawn from market analysis and data-viz literature . The figures themselves are examples from public-domain sources (ECG【21†】, Bitcoin price【25†】).
Buy bitcoin with Coinbase, mortgage as much of it as you can, use the cash, to buy MSTR and or MSTU (2x levered long MSTR, which is essentially 4x bitcoin).
You can then:
Once JPMORGAN Chase starts offering you the chance to buy bitcoin with them and or to custody it with them, then you know you’ve arrived!