Better Human - Sept 19
How to find Truth
Dear Fellow Human,
I’ve been spending most of my days thinking about The Better Human Company.
My plan is to bring products together with purpose so we can give people a chance to do good while showing other companies and entrepreneurs that direct impact work and capitalism can be the perfect match if done the right way.
A big part of this project that I’ve come to through intense discussion and thinking is a focus on history and deep investigative research focused on getting to the truth of important events of the past and today.
In a world mired with propaganda, censorship, and information overload, people need trusted sources of information that are unbiased, unfiltered, uncancelable, and un-funded-by-a-shadowy-elite. They need Truth.
Unfortunately, most people don’t have the time or wherewithal to go deep enough to find Truth. So they default to accepting whatever is “normal.” The problem is, normal is sick, unaware, and lacking in meaning.
Truth is the only way to take control of your destiny. Period.
So the plan is to build a massive archive of important historical events, the truth about the US government and its countless usurpations, and all the other BS that props up the broken status quo.
It wasn’t until 2020 that I considered history one of the most important subjects for the modern human.
We are also looking to partner with artists to create custom works focused on a cause to raise funds and awareness through an economic model that benefits all parties involved. I’m hoping something like that can be huge so that more influencers, brands, and individuals start thinking about ways to do well through doing good.
I still believe that most people want to help others and make the world a better place.
They just don’t know how.
And worse, social media and the myriad amount of demand placed upon our attention is causing us all to become xenophobic narcissists. (I highly recommend this chat between Lex Fridman and Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality and Social Media—if you do watch, ignore his comment about Bitcoin being owned by few. He doens’t fully understand why that doesn’t matter.)
Stay tuned here for the updates. I’ll be sharing developments here each week.
And as always, thank you for supporting this newsletter!
-Colin
Bitcoin and Freedom
You may not care about Bitcoin the financial asset/money, but you may care about Bitcoin the most important tool for freedom the world has ever seen. Literally, ever.
Without Bitcoin, I'd have a much bleaker view of the future and all the upcoming pain that’s coming.
Bitcoin is our best chance—maybe only chance—at changing the world from the bottom up by giving those under oppressive regimes and broken governments the power to control their financial sovereignty.
Most people are ignoring this use case or have yet to realize this potential.
Here are some resources to dig into:
The Bitcoin Standard Podcast: Government Funding of Science with Terence Kealey
This is a great podcast about the issues with government funding of science.
The Iraq war was about oil and the petrodollar and nothing else
Shamefully, the Iraq War will cost the US $6 trillion dollars by the time we’re actually done paying all our bills—despite the fact that it’s highly questionable whether Iraq was ever even a serious national security issue. However, our country undeniably faces a serious national security issue today—in fact, I’d call it a full blown crisis. Nearly 7,500 Americans will die in the next 24 hours from cancer, heart disease, diabetes, aging, and other issues. And the same amount of people will die tomorrow and the day after.
1 in 10 don’t get a chance at life
In the poorest countries of the world, though, more than 10 percent of children never make it to the age of five because of a lack of food and medicine. Teenagers in those countries could count themselves lucky to have survived.
America at war…. almost always
However, others persuasively argue that America has been at war 93 percent of the time since the US Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776—so it’s been with us from the beginning.
Daily
Nearly 7,500 Americans will die in the next 24 hours from cancer, heart disease, diabetes, aging, and other issues. And the same amount of people will die tomorrow and the day after.
Source: Upgrading America, Zoltan Istvan
The Petrodollars Film
Everything is about money, power, and control.
Because that is human nature.
I’m working on a larger piece to cover this, but in the meantime, you should watch this short documentary.
A Principle of Better Human
Iconoclastic thinking
adjective
characterized by attack on cherished beliefs or institutions.
"a fresh, even an iconoclastic, influence could work wonders"
In a world mired by distraction, agenda, propaganda, censorship, the ONLY WAY TO FIND TRUTH IS TO THINK FOR YOURSELF.
Every mainstream idea today is infected by agenda.
To get to Truth, you have to go back and deep.
Back to history to understand how things came to be since that is often the most critical information or figuring out why something exists the way it does today.
Deep into the basics of first principles of a topic or idea to see where the assumptions are baked into our current understanding.
If you do both, you see how most of the narrative today is flawed at best and downright dangerous in its deception at worst.
Science and government funding is one of those examples. Few know how science works and what is science and what is not.
They also often have blind faith that scientists and science know what's best, even though the history of both is riddled with ideas/practices that have killed millions (maybe billions). The same is true of doctors and the history of medicine. It's frigging scary when you look into it. A great book I'm currently reading on the topic is Dissolving Illusions.
Weekly Better Human Shows
The Better Human Podcast is now a 10ish-minute daily show. Short and to the point, one big idea each day to help you become a Better Human.
Watch on YouTube or listen via your favorite podcast app: iTunes, Google, Spotify
🎙 What is moral hazard?
Money is energy. It creates opportunity and gives its holder the ability to act on their ideas and mobilize others on those ideas. Safe to say, how we manage this sort of asset is pretty important. Tune in to find out how frugality and smart money management can revolutionize your life, starting today.
🎙 If you can't change your mind, you're doomed
Most people don’t know what the only universal constant is.
I’ve asked many people this question on podcasts, and they usually struggle to answer it, not sure what I’m looking for.
But it is a law of nature: nothing is fixed.
Since nothing is static, change is the only constant.
🎙 Stop abusing yourself
Really. Stop.
Your relationship with yourself sucks.
How Inflation Robs Humanity
Here’s a short talk I gave recently that I really want you to watch.
At the end of the talk, I introduced the result of my Tuesday epiphany: The Better Human Company. I have a ton of ideas, and I’m still sorting through them, but stay tuned for more updates.
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I’ve always known that minerals matter, but it wasn’t until I tested myself that I was able to see exactly what I needed.
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"ignore his comment about Bitcoin being owned by few" - can you further explain while the whales don't matter? Thanks.