So one of the really fast things I learned from Michael Saylor in his last interview with Natalie Brunell at the end what is what was misconception about him; and he said, the greatest misconception was that Michael Saylor was a traitor, but the reality is… He’s an engineer.

What is the difference? Well the general difference is that an engineer, do you think about things first principles, use stare deeply and analyze deeply into the true nature of things, and what that then means is you understand the true nature of things.

Then I guess, I kinda do think like an engineer, carte blanche principles.

For example, so much of this modern day BS about almost everything, seems to be mostly a social problem. Sociology, maybe could also be understand as the sociology of engineering, also social engineering?

what does it mean to think like an engineer?

So once again, if you understand Leonardo da Vinci like the Golden standard of an engineer, somebody who is part curious, partially playful, kind of like imagine a big kid on steroids; infinite curiosity about everything. Maybe also… I’m like the next Leonardo da Vinci, but a lot richer And far more jacked?

Even the problem of a Leonard da Vinci, I still think he got his patronage from the Medici’s? Which means that he was not financially independent; and the truth is ultimately, without personal financial independence, you cannot really really have 100% true freedom and power. 

Bitcoin as solidified happiness

I might be the first to thought this; what is bitcoin? To me it is like solidified happiness. If you took all this economic power energy joy and happiness, and you could solidify it into a thing, to me that would be a bitcoin.

For example, every time I see my bitcoin balance swell, and become greater, it brings a huge smile to my face, a huge voyage grin to my face, whatever scenario.

And then also then the thing is… The bitcoin is like almost kind of imaginary. Like doesn’t really exist anywhere in the physical realm, it only exists in cyberspace, your mind.

So for example, if I want to prove to you my bitcoin balance I can just take out my phone or iPad and prove it to you immediately… So I guess this is the cool thoughts; now that I’m super fucking rich and powerful and godlike glorious, I could just walk into any sort of Lamborghini or Ferrari or Porsche dealership, and just automatically assume and demand a test drive!

And also the extreme joy, I could just handle and touch everything, and fuck with stuff, like I own it. Because I do.

How and why?

So once again, I think the hardest thing to think like an engineer is that at least for myself, I majored in sociology, always thought the engineering was like two math heavy, and was about following the rules.

However, if you really think about real engineering, like building a bridge or making planes fly etc.… It is 100% rooted in physics and reality.

The hard thing with ethics philosophy, as well as opinions, politics, sociology ethics etc. is that they are not focused on reality. Or nature.

So for example, the fucking insanity of somehow allowing 12-year-old kids, have access to puberty blockers, hormone inhibitors, hormone amplifiers, etc.… At such a young age? Mother nature does not produce steroids or estrogen in pill or injection format naturally.

Nature?

The tricky thing is when people talk about nature… Like what is it that people really are talking about? Are they talking about like human nature, our DNA, our primordial being and nature? Or are we talking about like trees and stuff? Not really sure.

Anyways, first principles first principles thinking.

So the first line of things is kind of do like a hard reformat of the past and prior knowledge, and think things totally carte blanche, blank slate, white slate, black canvas, right now. Like if you just wiped the tablet clean, tabula rasa — how would you do things, right now, in the year 2024?

For example… I’m a huge fan of stick shift, the upsides of gasoline etc., and hybrid cars and Priuses, but the real truth is, if you somehow erased all the cars on the planet, today, and you somehow had to create automobiles and vehicles for all 8 billion of us right now… How would it and how should it look like? It would probably be like all self driving Teslas, obviously electric cars.

I think the biggest problem about petroleum cars are tailpipe admissions. If you have ever been in local LA traffic or the 405 or the 10 during peak rush-hour when you see a car with that converter on, and you have your windows down and that insanely fucking toxic tailpipe chemicals are going straight into your lungs, You will actually know first hand, that the truth is this is obviously bad for your health. And the health of your kid and family and society.

For example, imagine like you have a 1960s Camaro, without a catalytic converter. Would you allow it to run idle, in your garage with all the windows closed, with the tailpipe directly in the throat of your four-year-old child?

Obviously not!

So I think there are some simple practical things;

First, tailpipe emissions are obviously 1 trillion times bad.

Second, assuming that we all have nuclear vision or whatever, then electricity should practically be free. Then, Teslas and electric cars makes sense.

Third also assuming that the Tesla super charging network is growing like a virus, the obvious thing thing is that it will continue to grow at an exponential rate.

For example, it is very difficult to structurally build a gasoline station somewhere, but the only reason we keep using it is that it is already there, fast and convenient and cheap.

But once again, if you started a totally brand new society in the middle of the desert, obviously it would probably be centered around electric cars and electric vehicles, as the upside of building a Tesla supercharger is very easy, Far easier than building anything else.

Romanticism of the past is for weaklings

Are you a demigod or a weakling? Simple bifurcation.

So my personal understanding is that the reason why people seek refuge in the past is that it is an act of cowardice, only pussies are romantics.

I thought about this for a long time but what is it in fact, the history of the word “romance, and why do they call it “romantic”? 

Thank God for ChatGPT. They said you talked about how the notion was “romanz”– essentially it were works that are created in the romance language languages, like Italian Spanish French etc. Anything that was not Latin.

But the problem about this movement is that it emphasized concepts and ideas that were quite degenerate in nature. For example, over excessive feelings, I think the medieval literature of knightly chivalry etc. to be “gallant”– even the Vietnamese have a term “gallant”– like when you’re opening a door for a woman to get out of a taxi, just like a knight who takes off his robe to cover a puddle to let a woman walk across it?

People don’t really give it a second thought…  everyone assumes that to be romantic is a good thing? Like somehow this fucking insane idea I spent six months of your salary to buy your fiancé a diamond wedding ring, which is just a fake commodity. My greatest pride is that for my engagement ring to Cindy only spent like 300 bucks on a really beautiful purple tinted cubic zirconia diamond, super smart.

And also wore the wise; if you’re planning on getting married or engaged or whatever… Never spend more than $300 on a wedding ring.

The gift of bitcoin?

Bitcoin is like your new cyber estate. The other day I saw a new funny Zen Wabisabi minimalist hipster house, one of those really cool new three-story teepees they build on a small plot of land listed for $4.4 million. And this is for like a super tiny plot of land, even on a square block, you can feel like 30 of these houses on it.

So assuming that bitcoin is like digital real estate, or digital property, and there are only like 21 million of them on the planet forever, and also whenever you’re on the 405 driving during peak rush-hour, you might see like 21 million cars on the road. And how many humans live in Los Angeles? Like 100 million?

anyways, like imagine that I was a genie and I waved a magic wand and I told you that there would only be our 21 million single family homes, on the whole planet, forever. And there would never ever ever be more single-family homes ever produced. Wouldn’t you want to nab one, for a super steal of a price, only $100,000?

Think about the price of a bitcoin vs a home

My thought is obviously you need the utility of somewhere to live, and this is where paying rent is like a quadrillion times smarter than buying real estate a single-family home, property, a condo etc.

A lot of people have this foolish idea; I’m gonna buy like a condo or a single-family home or whatever for two reasons: first, utility value like a place to live. Second, as an “investment”. However the reason why this is not good is that if you really want to maximize your investment, it is super simple you just buy bitcoin! It’s going to go up forever until it hits $55 million a bitcoin, and then probably $105 million a bitcoin etc. 

I was watching CNBC a video retweet by Michael Saylor, showing that now as of today bitcoins options trading is live! And literally everyone has their jaws dropped, everyone is like confused and befuddled, shock and all, everyone has no idea what to think. Even I’m shocked? Even I’m confused! A very good sign.

this is not even funny anymore

So if you watch traditional news, the Telly etc, what do you see? Apple Apple Apple, Nvidia Nvidia Nvidia, Tesla Tesla Tesla, etc.

Why don’t you see microstrategy? MSTR, which is pretty much nuclear at this point. It is literally like the hottest stock on the planet, maybe the whole human universe?

$320,000 to $860,000

 Like it is kind of insane… I just converted all of our Roth IRA and our traditional retirement accounts, IRA, etc., and some random spare cash we had lying around all into MicroStrategy, just like three months ago, in September, when the stock was like only $140 or 130 a share. Now, it is going ballistic; $499 @ share, and I’m not gonna be shocked when you see MicroStrategy at $10,000 or even $20,000, $30,000, $40,000 or even $50,000 a share!

Why? 

It is simple, it is a brand new carte blanche, a totally brand new, perfectly engineered company. If you created a totally brand new company in the year 2024, assuming that next year January 2025 is going to be year one of institutional acceptance of bitcoin, And assuming that we have this phenomenally glorious red wave, which means we have a full pro bitcoin Senate house president etc., and everyone is going all in on bitcoin! My personal thought is the next four years, assuming that you put all your wealth into bitcoin and or MSTR microstrategy stock, I will not be surprised to see your wealth 50X from here. 

Why? Once again, bitcoin is the first perfectly engineered money and capital digital capital.

Up until now, the US dollar, field currency was kind of like the least bad thing that we could make of, if you read The Fist Standard by Saifedean, you actually see that was really good for the period of time in which we needed it. Because for ordinary transactions, walking around with gold bars and or gold coins was not really practical. And especially for international trade, fiat currency the banking Swift system was mostly useful.

But now that we have tether, circle and the like; you actually see a lot of Chinese corporations, I saw a lot last summer in Cambodia, even mainland Chinese companies are using tether for payments instead of the Chinese yuan, etc.

Michael Saylor has an idea that we should have tether relocate her headquarters to America, and if this is the case, … this would be very good for America and everybody.

what is “crypto”?