Live more volatile

The Philosophy of Volatility 

A super super interesting thought on my mind is the quote from Michael Saylor, volatility is vitality. What does that mean, why does it matter etc.?

First, typically when we think of volatility, it is in the financial realm. We think of volatility in the context of something going up and down, almost unpredictably, chaotically, crazily.

For example in the markets, we tend to think of volatility like a bad thing. Because most people cannot stomach the up and downs.

I am an interesting case because obviously I’m affected by it too. Yet now, whenever I see volatility, I’m more annoyed than anything, like the days that bitcoins down, or the days that micro strategy stock is a little bit down, it is almost more like having an annoying mosquito bite, Maybe even a tiny splinter than anything. The good thing with mosquito bites is as time goes on, we know that it will fade, although it is very annoying. Also, with the tiny splinter… Super super annoying to pick it out, but you can!

Nuclear power

So besides Chernobyl and Fukushima, I actually think that nuclear power is a super smart idea. Certainly nobody wants nuclear fallout, but come on… It is year 2024. For a while, me and Seneca were playing with SimCity: cities at the future on the Mac, and also, we watched the cities of the future film on IMAX and also 3-D, at the California science center. It is still kind of bizarre to me… Once again, the year 2024, if I think about the film Elysium, produced by Bill Block, and starring Matt Damon, shouldn’t we kind of be living in this futuristic, cyberpunk, or massively green and beautiful bright future? Not kind of this ugly, slumlord vibes we get from watching a film like Snow piercer?

Anyways, about two or three days ago I was curious why bitcoin spite so high, breaking the mythical $70,000 mark, after about 2 to 4 years of languishing. So I searched it on ChatGPT, and randomly saw that because Elon Musk tweeted it? And then I was curious, and then I kind of went down a rabbit hole, checking Elon Musk Twitter, Seeing now how he endorses Donald Trump, and then seeing the tweed video the retweeted video of the Joe Rogan podcast with Donald Trump.

Anyways, I was watching the interview, I watched about half of it, very fun and interesting and entertaining! One of the interesting things is how Joe Rogan was asking Trump about nuclear.

So to me nuclear is interesting because it is insanely high volatility like it has a lot of power. But I’ve done right, if handled quickly, it is essential you producers practically free energy for everybody! Apparently they do it well in France I think, they just create a bunch of these mini nuclear power plants, And the French citizens benefit?

A good reason to be anti-stoic 

I think about 99% stoicism is good, come on, I named my firstborn son after Seneca the younger, the great stoic sage!

Yet we’re stores and fails, I called this the life after stoicism, is that Stoicism is too focused on hardening yourself into like a porcupine, and then eventually, it makes you unemotional on feeling etc. Yet what if you want to embrace this interesting strategy; put on the stoic armor, in which you don’t really suffer any downsides from life, but you could harness the volatility of life, and channel harness and reap the benefits of the upside?

The wisdom of kids

So kind of an interesting thing I learned from Seneca, kids in general etc.; Seneca is about 3 1/2, and when he is angry or upset about something, he’ll get angry, he’ll throw stuff, stop his feet, put out a lot of high energy, start screaming and yelling, and shouting, But when we just let him get it out of his system, like for 30 seconds or a minute or so, he’ll kind of forget about it, and then start smiling again, and then being happy and proceeding like usual. Because Seneca is like happy and joyful and silly and playful and curious Like 99.999% of the time.

Anyways, I almost wonder if this is a better strategy for adults as well. I think we’re adults fail is that we try to be good proper and prim, I don’t know if this is like Victorian Quaker Christian ethics, we tried to restrain our anger, we don’t raise our voices we don’t yell we don’t scream, we don’t throw stuff , we are told to become modest, go on a walk etc. But I almost wonder if it was a good idea that adults we also would just let our our anger and fury as well like kids — for example if we’re angry, to just yell shot scream, stump our feet, go outside, throw around the sandbag, go to the park and take some big heavy rocks and throw them into the distance etc. Also as a funny sidenote, go on YouTube or Google and search ERIC KIM rock toss challenge, in which during Covid when all the gyms were shut down I would just go to the nearby park, find the biggest rock or Boulder I could, and just practice throwing it around etc. It might be the best workout of all time!

Anyways, the issue with adults is that when we’re angry or upset about something, we’re holding our emotions, yet we harbor this anger and resentment, this Poison, four weeks days months years decades? Even one of my uncles, considering that my grandfather had an illegitimate wife in about five or six kids all illegitimate kids on the other side, essentially ditching my mom‘s mom, and the 4 to 5 legitimate kids,  anyways, apparently one of my uncles is still super super upset about this, even many years after the passing of my grandfather, my uncle saying that after getting drunk “I have no father”, referring to my already deceased grandpa.

I get it, but I almost feel like it doesn’t really matter anymore. Don’t people gotta move on?

Yeah yeah yeah, life is tough, life is sad whatever, but, I once read that resentment an anger is like drinking Poison, hoping that the other person dies.

No not only is this kind of not a good strategy, it is ineffective but also foolish.

For example, imagine like you’re a warrior, like your Achilles, or Hector, and you’re about to do the final battle. You got your spear and shield, your battle armor on. Obviously the goal is to throw your spear and killed other guy, not to take your spear and stab yourself in spite of your enemy, hoping that somehow Spearing yourself will damage the other person?

Really sick stuff

Even a more sick thing, a parent, who is frustrated with their child, not sure what to do, starts to literally beat themselves, like hitting themselves or self flagellating themselves, causing themselves some sort of self-made pain, to make the younger child feel bad?

The early Christian fathers, a lot of them kind of unwell people, we kind of do a similar thing, self flagellate themselves for their sins whatever, as a form of repentance or something?

But the reason why this is so sick and weird, is that once again, by hurting or damaging or poisoning yourself, you ain’t doing nothing useful.

Like for example, let us say that you did something bad or whatever, and then boom now your parents are dead or somebody you care about is dead or whatever, and then you get super depressed and you start to drink alcohol, smoke a bunch of weed, do a bunch of drugs, simply to alleviate your pain your distress your suffering. Or you start to self yourself, you start to physically beat yourself.

Now once again, this is not productive at all.

Channel volatility

So just watching the recent micro strategy earnings call, call Michael! I also like Andrew Kang and Phong Le (both I presume our Korean and Vietnamese, just like me, Seneca, and Cindy!) 

Anyways, what do you notice what super interesting was that what is so fascinating about micro strategy, it is like literally the best performing company in stock in the known human universe, is that it is also the most volatile. Whereas a typical asset might have a volatility of five, The volatility of micro strategy often exceeds 50.

Volatility is vitality, the motto of Michael Saylor.

So then I guess the tricky thing, the philosophy behind things: “would you prefer to have higher volatility for greater yield and performance? Or would you rather have low or no volatility, and just take boring steady gains, but far inferior gains and yields?

 for me, I think 100% obvious strategy is to have higher performance, would even greater and higher volatility.

Because at the end of the day, it is probably more interesting to drive a high volatility performance vehicle, like a Lamborghini, which has more power powers and “flexiness” rather than a boring and reliable Toyota Camry?

Yet what a lot of fools do is they just park their money in some sort of blended S&P 500 derivative, because they don’t know what else to do?

Taking control of your financial destiny

Michael Saylor said his personal imperative with bitcoin, is that he believes that at least 50% of the world‘s problems and issues can be solved by fixing the money. He likes traditional money in capital as being toxic; would you give your healthy four year-old child contaminated sewer water to drink, or would you give them clean water? or, would you take the temperature of your home, which is a cozy 73°, and turn down the thermostat by 1°, every single day, for 10 years? Obviously not, you will literally kill and freeze your family to death.  

I think the genius of a Michael Saylor is that he studied history of science at MIT, and also aeronautics and aerospace engineering.

 so I was curious about the word volatility, and apparently it just is derived from Latin to fly, initially from the Proto into European to throw.

So certainly flying is good. I would not want to go to Seoul South Korea on a boat. Also, thinking about French colonialism, I have no idea how the French would be able to stand the boat ride from Paris all the way over to Saigon; or even worse, Thinking about Australia, the original penal colony, how in the hell did you take a boat from London all the way to Australia?

Anyways, the vitality flying, certainly flying can be dangerous, you hear the reports about the new Boeing jets, exploding or whatever. Yet nobody gives up flying.

Or let us say the dangers of driving an automobile car. Certainly there are lots of dangers associated with driving, like fatalities from car related accidents, now texting while driving, it is literally a life for that situation. You are 1 trillion times more likely to die from a car accident rather than any sort of Accident resulting from a terrorist attack, or a gun related fatality. If in fact, everyone is talking about why guns are bad and so evil and how we should be in guns or whatever. Yet nobody is talking about how we should be texting while driving, or even ban The use of a cell phone while you are in an automobile car. If anything, if Apple really wanted to say millions of lives, I have a simple thought: by default if you buy a new phone or whatever, a new Apple ID or whatever, There should be a workflow which if it detects that you’re driving really really fast in the car, it automatically love you out of your phone, into the do not disturb driving mode, and that if you want to access the normal mode, assuming you’re a passenger in an Uber or Tesla Robo taxi, then you could voice dictate or type I am not driving. Or I am a passenger.

Anyways, volatility is good. I almost wonder if volatility, voltage is the same thing? You step up and you step down there’s transformers for electricity. And this is what allows high-powered electricity to travel from phone wires, silently into your home, powering your washer and dryer your heater and air conditioning whatever. Yet nobody is trying to ban electricity.

Channeling volatility

So also, all those curious… Why is it that I have never met a female day trader? Or a female bitcoin investor?

I’ve met lots of day traders, all mail, some guys at the gym at the local park whatever. It is pretty common to meet day traders, Who Dr., Uber on the side or whatever. I haven’t really met any bitcoin investors in the flesh yet, besides myself. And certainly I have never met any women who are interested in bitcoin. It is too volatile for them.

It is also too volatile for most men. Yet a simple filter, I think that for the general part, women hate volatility, most men also hate volatility but some men like myself, love volatility.

Question; are there any women who love volatility? I guess the ideas that you have sex with the rockstar, and you have the boring accountant husband at home, paying the mortgage or whatever, but it seems that most women, would not want to be in a serious financial relationship with a Starbucks barista playing music on the side.

Anyways, maybe what life is then, is the love of volatility. 

gelH— to throw!

The word volatility traces its origins to the Latin root volatilis, meaning “fleeting” or “swift,” derived from volare, meaning “to fly.” This Latin term describes something that moves quickly or is prone to change. In English, the term volatile initially entered the language in the late Middle Ages, around the 14th century, to describe substances that could evaporate or disperse into the air swiftly, as if “flying away.”

By the 17th century, volatility had broadened in meaning beyond physical substances to characterize anything prone to quick changes, instability, or unpredictability. This broadened usage made volatility suitable for describing financial markets, emotions, or behaviors that are unpredictable or subject to sudden shifts. Thus, volatility evolved to capture both physical transformation (as in chemistry) and metaphorical instability or unpredictability (as in financial or emotional contexts).

Why you never hear of or see female day traders or Bitcoin investors?

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An at-the-market (ATM) equity offering is a type of public offering in which a company issues shares of stock directly into the market over a period of time, rather than all at once. In an ATM offering, the company sells shares through a broker-dealer at the current market price, allowing it to raise capital incrementally rather than through a traditional, one-time public offering.

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Compassion for the weak?

So I think we might have been Jesus who taught us to have compassion and stuff. Yet, my curiosity; how much of this is out of strength versus out of weakness?

So for example, if you understand Christianity, Lauren did Christianity, and we don’t have some sort of silly fear of heaven or hell or whatever, and we only believe in this life this reality, kind of like what Jesus said, the kingdom of God is already within you, like a child, Then if this were the case, how should we proceed in life?

Morality?

So we are often taught that we should pity the week, have compassion for them etc. Yet, I’m uncertain how much of this is good vs bad.

For example, I think a modern day times, in America, and according to Christian morality, compassion for the week the sad unfortunate is considered a virtue. Yet I think the problem with compassion is that it is toxic.

For example, imagine if you spend all day, looking at tragedy porn on Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube podcast, Spotify, email Gmail, your text messages, your email newsletters, television blogs news etc. If this is the case, certainly it will affect you.

For example, I’ll give you an example; I accidentally stumbled upon the Twitter of Elon Musk, in which he retreated the Joe Rogan interview with Donald Trump, and also retreated something with Donald Trump showing some video, a real tragedy, the story of a young mother whose daughter, a 12-year-old girl was essentially raped and murdered at a local playground, by two gang affiliated violent members who either illegally cross the border, or somehow was granted admission legally?

Now I’m sure there’s more to the story, but regardless it is an extreme tragedy. Now that I have a young son, I don’t have a daughter, at least not yet, but still, thinking about the tragedy of the mother, the kid the whole situation… I actually put me in a really Sad and kind of troubled mood the last day day and a half, I think it even affected my sleep? Just this one video. And this one heart wrenching video that the mom said.

Now imagine that the average American, watches and consume media like this thoroughly like 5000 times a day. Certainly is going to mess up their minds.

So the first thing we have to do is we have to stop this fear and tragedy porn. I don’t think there’s any virtuous thing to it; it doesn’t really help anybody. Sure it might affect your voting behavior, but once you have your voting done, then what?

What does it mean to change the world?

So I think the big thing is start with yourself, your family. Your wife, your kids, your mom, your sister, your siblings, and your friends. 

I think the hard thing is everyone’s trying to change the world from too much of a macro economic, a world perspective. But this is not real, nor is it practical;

First, what is “the world”? It isn’t really anything, it is not tangible.

I think we end up falling victim to this virtuous cycle of misery; we hear miserable news around the world, which attracts more clicks views retweets, which is good for Google Google ad revenue, and I guess now Twitter/X.

The world is a tricky and messy place, and also a very very evil and bad place. I was actually thinking about it, this really really tragic 12 year-old girl getting killed murdered and raped by two super evil people, who I think should deserve the death sentence at least. But still, How much of this happens all around the world, every single day, to all 8 billion people on the planet? In Thailand, Cambodia Laos, Vietnam, Asia Southeast Asia, China, the areas in which mainland China has annexed and committed countless genocides, Israeli genocide, etc. All the poor Lebanese who either got killed maimed or displaced. Same with the people in Gaza or the innocent Palestinians.

Anyways, all around the planet, so let us assume that there are 8 billion people on the planet. Probabilistically, there are probably at least dozens, if not hundreds, if not thousands, if not tens of thousands, if not millions of evils and injustices committed every single day, whether that be rape and death of 12-year-old girls, children etc.

But I suppose my question is, besides knowledge, what should one do about it? Like are you going to send Lee quit your job, volunteer for the peace corps, and then dedicate your life to helping poor families and children and victims? I almost feel like it might be better to volunteer for the local YMCA, the local boys and girls club, become a big brother or sister, or even help out at your local Boy Scout troop, even coach sports etc. I know for myself personally speaking, what kind of kept me off the streets, kept me from joining gangs, doing gang activity, I actually even remember an incident in middle school in which one of the guys I knew,  one of my adjacent friends, told me how some other guy was trying to punk on him, and he called up all the guys in the area this might have been maybe the seventh or eighth grade, I think we are like 12 or 13 years old, and the idea was to just grab the biggest kitchen knife you had, to wrap it with a towel, hide it in your backpack, and use it if shit hit the fan with the other rival gang.

Anyways, Once again, really really ugly stuff. 

Gangs

Once again, gangs, gang in initiations, especially in Los Angeles, East Los Angeles I hear is really really horrible gruesome and terrible.

But once again, what can you actually do what should you do, what is superficial what is real?

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The Intelligent strategy and way —> front *THEIR* capital, the bank’s capital, or the capital of the institution? Leverage *THEIR* capital, make *THEM* captive, not you?

If it is 80% good enough, just be like eh, fuck it— !

Uniqlo, MUJI for clothes — all black everything! Matte black and murder out your body!

Black on black clothes, white on white cars!

Tactical black clothes, cocaine white cars?

The 80% “satisficing” rule to life —

And he didn’t even go to class,,, Beuller! – Kanye

My life at this point is just some sort of life experiment? Some sort of art experiment and art performance?

What *should* a man look like? Something like EK—

Jacked, handsome, happy, confident?

And why y’all look so stupid? No tan, skinny, pale, weak leg looking wimps?

Why not handsome LA “athleisure” jacked muscular guy like ERIC KIM, the new king of LA?

VLOG

They not like us!

All these other niggas lame and you know it now, if a real nigga hold you down you supposed to drown ,,, BOUND! – Kanye, BOUND 2 (Uh huh honey!)

Let everyone else do everything else?

Darker, more matte, less reflective, more black, lighter, thinner, more muscular, stronger, sexier? Less fat & weight?

—> In pursuit of extreme lightness?

Wasn’t surreal

Blood from the ear

You would know that

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Dangerous

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Luxury

Inside intel?

Intonation

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6 foot 6

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6 foot 9

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“Politician”?

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Melancholia

Ted Lincoln

The difference between paying a mortgage, and buying bitcoin or microstrategy MSTR stock?

Think tactical, think military, think cops, SWAT

Be very very careful and discerning of colors,,, 99.9% of the colors out there are insanely ugly! And also contrary to popular belief, I don’t think we actually ever get accustomed to ugly colors. Choose neutral, non offensive or ugly or distracting colors.

Often the easy bet for a car is white — blank slate, carte blanche. And for clothes and clothing, black is often best.

Next time someone fucking with you, just take out your iPhone and start recording them being an asshole — upside ,,, you can also use it as proof if you want to show it to your local cops, or local precinct officers. Good when people being assholes or breaking the law etc. And if they get angry at you (while in fact, they’re the assholes in the wrong), the iPhone almost becomes like some sort of form of self defense weapon — document them trying to threaten you, you can even upload it to YouTube?

For example, even recording the license plate of someone bad, evil or dangerous on the road?

What if they get aggressive?

But what if they start to get aggressive and threaten you with physical or gun violence or something?

Obviously be safe if you’re in the hood, play it street smart, don’t be a dummy boy. But if the person looks like a sane good to do person, just do it! In theory if they attack you, you can actually sue them for assault, call the cops, and *YOU* get paid for them attacking you! Haha kind of funny.

In search of mythical yield?

Yield — to pay

Your own new rulebook?

Patience as a means for greater (long term) gains?

You don’t sell your Bitcoin!

The MSTR answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything

Cheapest energy –> renewable green

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Different than a bank?

6x electricity in gold mining ***

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Perfect conversion of energy and light

Contain gas?

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Turn electricity into Bitcoin

All you need is internet connection!

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Net positive to environment?

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acts of bravery & courage

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Every transaction is pseudo anonymous

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$70M, 6 years ,,, to move funds, obfuscate, laundering techniques 5-6 years later, seize back funds and arrest couple in NYC

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Everyone can track it

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Cannot be hacked

Primary focus is security

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Bitcoin software cannot be stopped or hacked

Vulnerability ?

Banks get hacked every day

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1st amendment rights?

God bless America, and god bless Bitcoin!

And no no no, the property value of a house and worth nothing. Real true value is liquid cash, or now… How many bitcoins you own.

For example tomorrow MSRR microstrategy earnings report call!