🦾 American City Life = 💸
Melius Humano,
I saw this online recently, and it perfectly sums up my growing frustration with American city life:
"The dollar buys a higher quality of life everywhere except inside of the USA. The government continues to debase the purchasing power of the dollar, and it's fascinating to see how citizens don't realize what's happening."
Then I did some basic math.
Our yearly housing expense is the equivalent of a full-time yearly salary for some.
And that's just a home in Austin with Internet and utilities.
Not to mention food, insurance, and everything else.
🤯 Complete insanity.
The dollars we earn in the states buy a better standard of living everywhere, BUT INSIDE THE STATES.
And it didn't have to be this way. Inflation is not a given or necessary. It's just something that politicians can't resist because it's like an unlimited bank account. Why wouldn't they keep spending to garner votes? They are getting rich through the process anyway. Who cares about the long-term implications?
This is why I'm a Bitcoiner: I believe it is unjust to steal from others, whether that's debasement or robbing at gunpoint.
Theft is theft is theft.
All those billions we send to other countries—who pays for that?
Many people think the government pays for it.
The government doesn't pay for anything.
They take citizen's money through force (threat of violence) and debasement (money printing) and spend it elsewhere.
The state doesn't produce anything. It only redistributes the labor of others. It is a monopoly that steals, kills, and enslaves others, directed by individuals who have no financial or physical skin in the game as they direct others to do the actual work.
We've all grown up with a big government, so it's hard to consider the alternative: a very small, limited government (or even better, no government at all).
It took me years to realize what the state really is. It took 2020. It took the money printing and the insane asset bubble that ensued. It took reading a lot of history. It took Bitcoin to open my eyes to a possible exit.
We will likely move this year. I don't know where or for how long, but the fact that I can earn dollars from anywhere is a massive opportunity I can no longer ignore. I'll be sharing more in the coming months.
The simplest life hack
⌨️ Productivity → If you’re working and you have notifications going, you’re not.
💪 Health: The bones in your feet don't fully develop until adulthood. Childhood is the best time to encourage a barefoot habit. Shoes cause many health issues, including back pain, corns, and other abnormalities in body and foot development.
📽 Movie: In the dining room scene in Django Unchained., DiCaprio cut his hand on broken glass during the sixth take. The cameras kept rolling, and it ended up in the movie.
📽 Movie: I couldn’t pick one, so here goes: The 50 Most Underrated Films of All Time
🦾 How to be dangerous → Learn how to use a firearm. You don’t have to like this tool, but you most definitely should know how to use it. It might be used on you one day.
🍳 Get basic cooking tools…. it makes cooking SO MUCH EASIER. Start with a fish turner, a sheet pan with wire rack, a sharp knife, and a cutting board.
COOK YOUR FOOD
Cook your food at home.
Use whole, real ingredients.
Processed foods, even if they are gluten-free, like cassava flour chips, are loaded with toxins. They are industrialized foods.
These foods are not good for you.
The key to longevity is a diet of whole, REAL FOODS cooked at home.
Restaurant food is bathed in seed oils.
The only way to control what goes into your body is to control what goes into your body.
Learn a few basic cooking techniques, like oven roasting, pan-seraing, and slow cooking.
Then get a 12-inch cast iron pan and at least one good knife.
Finally, try a new recipe each day. It could be a homemade pesto or chimichurri sauce, a one-pot dish or a casserole loaded with quality ingredients.
The key is to develop the habit of cooking your meals yourself.
It will change your life.
Some easy recipes I’ve found recently:
Marinated eggs are one of the greatest kitchen hacks I’ve ever seen.
Free Audiobooks on Youtube
There are countless free audiobooks on YouTube.
A literal treasure trove of free information that can change your life.
But only if you use it to change your life.
My Notion work routine system
One problem with Notion is recurring tasks and reminders. Setting up is possible, but it takes a few clicks.
I solved this by creating cards that "repeat" each day. What I do is move all of the TOMORROW cards (including any one-time tasks I put in there) to the TODAY area at the start of each work day.
Then, once I complete those items, they go to the archive, or TOMORROW if they are repeating cards.
It’s been working really well so far.
1 million seconds is 12 days
1 billion seconds is 31.7 years
Swan Bitcoin is back in Texas!
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