So I thought the other day; now that I live in LA, Culver City… Life is different now than I was living in the suburbs of Orange County, like a two minute drive to my local gym etc.
And also, the tricky thing is that with the winter months, things are also different.
I recall that in the early mornings, when I was living in the OC, I would just put on my daily gym attire, drive to the gym, immediately hit the hot sauna wore myself up. But now things are a little bit trickier now that when I wake up in the morning, sometimes ridiculously early, the apartment is still cold, not a super strong impetus for me to go outside. 
Also, now where I live, is practically like 100%, 100 out of 100 walkability score. Here in Culver City, I’m living a walker’s paradise!
Now the reason why this is so important is that I’m kind of finally starting to figure out how critical it is for me to change my mindset, my approach, my protocol.
Also, now that Cindy is a century working full-time, and more often than not my time is a little more limited, the way I approach fitness is obviously changing and must change.
Recent innovations I’m happy for is after making a ton of money off of Microstrategy, buying two 50kg calibrated steel plates, which is about 110 pounds a plate.  it has been super super fun and cool because even lifting it up to rack it unto the barbell is a workout in itself! Also, have the time I’m just walking around town with Seneca, this might be the most walking I’ve ever done in my life, and all his arm carry him, and I’ve been noticing that also, my biceps are becoming a lot more buff and impressive. Even to myself!
Switching up the protocol
Even another weird thing is that as of late, I find that going on my walks my morning walks I was actually more important than lifting weights? I suppose the way I am able to double dip is that I’m like almost always wearing my 60pound weight vest, All day every day. 
So first, with exercise and fitness, I guess it is critical for me to change my mindset, and also my protocol on what to do, why I do it etc.
Also, what I think is so paradigm shattering with bitcoin is that now that we are all sons of bitcoin (Michael Saylor, @saylor tweet), we also have to change and replace and recapitalize on bitcoin as our base, concrete, bedrock foundation.
For example, if you’re building cyber Manhattan for the 22nd century, you don’t build it on bedrock on the main island. If you’re going to build in cyberspace, you need a totally new protocol, a totally new paradigm mindset.
Stick shift?
Every single car that I have purchased in my adult life has always been a stick shift Manual transmission car, five speed. And also my pride is I have never spent more than $3000 USD on a car in my whole adult life and I’m 36 years old, and the first bitcoin blogger photographer street photography millionaire that I know. Maybe the only one in the universe that was self-made?
How do you know if your self-made or not? If you practically had a single mom, who waited tables, clean houses, worked as a cashier, and also had a dad who would gamble away the rent money, threatening your mom with physical violence, and also mental violence if she didn’t cough up the rent money.
Now consider how pernicious this is; the real critical issue here is that not only are you trying to fight to stay afloat, but you’re also actively having somebody unplugging the hot water bath water.
I think this is also something that people who don’t understand growing up in a family of economic peril; once again it’s not just having two hard-working parents, struggling to work to minimum wage jobs just to pay the rent and expenses and put food on table; no, it is one mom working full-time While having a father who did not work ever since you were two years old, while actively gambling away the rent money. Double bad.
2025
We live in a really bizarre time, and I bet you it’s going to just get more and more bizarre. Once Donald Trump takes office January 20, 2025… You’ll see a huge paradigm shift.
First, obviously this will be good for us bitcoiners because bitcoin is going to go through the roof! Just look at the riveting talk that ERIC Trump did at the bitcoin conference in Abu Dhabi, in essentially which he says that he is confident that bitcoin is going to get to $1 million a coin.
The reason why I feel like this is very very important to watch is that because he is a son of the incoming president, he will actually do everything in his power to make sure this manifested as a reality. 
Funny enough, I didn’t even know that Donald Trump had a son named Eric Trump, I guess all guys whose first name is ERIC our geniuses! And also ERIC Semler of similar scientific, another ERIC! And also another ERIC Balchanus, like one of the head ETF guys at Bloomberg, his name is also ERIC? We gotta make an ERIC squad! 
Why new protocols are so difficult
Once again, if you’ve been riding a horse and buggy whole life, and I pull up in a matte black cyber truck, what will be your reaction? Your mind will absolutely be blown, your jaw will drop, you’re going to think that the person in the cyber truck is like some sort of alien god. Even a fully rational person will probably drop on his knees, and start repenting for his sins whatever.
Or, let us say that I drop you into the 1950s, and selling that you pull up with a brand new iPhone Pro, and you go to the head of Kodak and telling them that you came from the future and that this iPhone thing will totally disrupt their business. What would their reaction be?
Why photographers and digital photographers should intuitively understand bitcoin
We are all passionate about photography yet for a lot of us, we make our money elsewhere. But if you were like an investor in Kodak, and I came from the future and I told you that this thing would come along and totally destroy your business and you’ll go broke, unless you shift and embrace this new economic protocol and innovation, isn’t the wise thing to adopt the change? 
Even Peter Diamandis said “Bitcoin is digital photographyâ€. or, “bitcoin is the iPhoneâ€. 
You know this often tied phrase that a lot of these skinny fat bearded flannel wearing salty loser say “Humph! Everyone thinks that they’re a photographer now!†(Yes the truth is everyone is a guitar for now, and this is a good thing.)
I wonder if the same sentiment exist amongst acid fund managers “with bitcoin, everyone thinks that they’re an investor now!â€
I think all of us, if you’ve been following me since the beginning, don’t you know that we have all always been anti-establishment, anti-“the man“,– if so, shouldn’t you embrace bitcoin with open arms?
We the new goats!
I think the reason why paradigm shifts are so difficult to understand and embrace is that once again this is a big deal. For example, the paradigm shift of bitcoin is like if you suddenly came up to Michael Jordan, and told him that the whole time he’s been playing the game wrong, or that they totally changed the rules of the game, certainly wouldn’t he be confused, and upset?
Embracing the new is hard
One thing I learned from the ERIC Trump talk is that apparently, the protocol for email was around for like 25 years before anyone actually really decided to use it. And now for most of us, it might be the most critical way to communicate, and magically teleport messages all across the planet.
I think for so long we’ve been stuck in this kind of fatalist mindset about the whole banking system, financial system whatever; now that we are living the year 2024, the year 2025, come on… Why are the banks closed after like 5 PM Eastern time? And why are the traditional stock markets closed on Saturdays and Sundays, when we all have these super Ultramega computers that could take us to Mars and back?
Like let us consider you know the story when they say that apparently, the computers that got us to the moon were like half of the computing power of like a TI 84 calculator? Isn’t that the same error in which the operating protocols for the NASDAQ stock exchange were invented?
Also, during those times, America was the only center of the universe, Singapore wasn’t really on the global stage, nor Dubai or any of these other global super power nations. As a consequence, everything revolved either around New York Manhattan time, or London time. So being able to operate on the protocol of these random arbitrary American numbers were common.
Now that once again, we are a global planet, don’t we need some sort of global capital token that could instantaneously trade hands, 24 seven, 365, all day every day, with no delay no lag no friction, no annoying middleman?
the middle mans feel at risk? 
Let us say that your job is to manage other people’s money, and that your well-being and money comes from other people being dependent on you, your financial services etc., if that is the case, wouldn’t you be interested to have other people always be dependent on you?
You don’t need no middleman
I almost feel that middleman, are like the biggest parasites to society.
For example, kind of a low-key super greedy bad thing, in their early days of text messaging, SMS messaging, apparently it cost nothing for these huge telecommunications platforms to transfer and facilitate a text message exchange. Like it was already running on the same rails, and that to send a text message did not cost the carrier $.10 or whatever, it was free for them but they charged you an arm and a leg. 
Similarly speaking, do you remember in the early days of smart phones, you’re forced to sign some sort of arbitrary to your contract, before actually signing up for a phone plan? This was like some terrible mafioso thing.
I almost wonder, maybe, now, starting next year, people are finally starting to wake up to their senses and realize how traditional banking is such a scam.
Also other arbitrary things, like… You need to maintain a certain bank balance for the checking account to be free, and also these pernicious overdraft fees, late fees etc.? Do you remember like the early days of blockbuster?
Even apparently, when I was listening to an interview with ERIC Semler, when he met the executive a blockbuster and told him that Netflix was almost an existential threat to them… Most of these executives at Blockbuster just laughed directly in their faces, and told them to leave. Where is blockbuster today?
I almost feel like this is going to happen to everything. Everything is going to be disrupted, whether we like it or not. The intelligent strategy is to accept embrace and integrate these new protocols.
For example, obviously the Internet as we know it today is already running the planet. Imagine if 20 years ago your company did not embrace the Internet, where would you be today?
What is bitcoin?
, Bitcoin is like the new Internet, except in some ways it is far more valuable because it actually deals with money. Why is this so important? The reason why this is so important is that money is actually more important than technology, or money might be the most important technology. 
For example, let me give you example; obviously I love ChatGPT and AI, but I could live without it. Things will be less optimal, but still, I could live life without ChatGPT. But could you live life without money? No.
And honestly at this point, you need the Internet. If you don’t have access to Wi-Fi, at home, at the local coffee shop, if you don’t have 4G or 5G cellular data on your phone, you’re absolutely screwed.
How was wolverine made?
This is an interesting analogy, I think the way that they made wolverine is that they replaced his entire skeleton with adamantine steel. A very painful process. But this made him invincible pretty much.
They call him weapon X.
Maybe the process of bitcoin is like the same thing, if somebody took out your whole exoskeleton your bones everything your ligaments, and you’re forced to replace it with some sort of new add a man times steel, even if it did make you immortal, certainly you would not like the process very much because it will be excruciatingly painful.
Who doesn’t want to live forever?
Everyone must die, you must die. But if I could promise you immortality, in 100 perfect health and vigor and happiness and joy, wouldn’t you take it? Probably.
Bitcoin is like heaven on earth?
So what is the difference between bitcoin and every other asset? Bitcoin will last forever like 100,000 years, 1 million years, 100 million years etc. You’re shabby real estate might last 30, 40 years?
Think long
Apparently Jeff Bezos invested in this thing called like the 100,000 year clock, which will apparently run and work for like 100,000 years. And the reason why this is a critical thing is that course is us to think about the long-term.
Even the reason why I think Jeff Bezos might be one of the most underrated entrepreneurs of all time is that he really really really played the long game with Amazon, pretty much projecting the dominance of Amazon, over the course of 20-30 years. 
So in the early days of Amazon, when Jeff Bezos was still transporting books to the local post office in his Honda accord, and I came from the future and I told you that one day, he in Amazon would send you run the planet, what would you have told me? You would’ve probably laughed in my face.
Or, that Apple, in the early days of Apple, like when they’ll still Wozniak and Steve Jobs in their garage building Apple two computer computers that once again, they would be like a $3 trillion company, what would you have said to me? You would’ve thought I was a fool!
But then again, once again, to think about the future, 20 or 30 years is not only difficult, but requires grand creativity, almost like a detachment from modern reality. If you are too stuck in the present, you’ll never become anything grand.
buy big become big
I was reading some newspaper article or television thing about how after the bitcoin boom, like the number of bitcoin millionaires, or people with over X amount of bitcoin in their wallet has exploded.
What are my bitcoin price projections? Considering that we’re going to have non-Trump the first bitcoin president, and his blood son, ERIC Trump in his left ear, we’re definitely going to see the bitcoin act pass, the senator Cynthia Lummis act, in which America will probably purchase at least 1 million bitcoins. If and when this happens, you’re definitely going to see a mad rush and explosion in the value of bitcoin.
Why? Like Michael Saylor said, if you were an evil genius, and you were America, the smart strategy is to sell all of your gold and demonetized and deepen the capital assets of your enemy, Russia and China, and all the other BRICS nations, because then, assuming if America owns like 25% of the bitcoin network, then suddenly you get this insanely phenomenal best trade of all time:
- You essentially demonetize “debank†the assets of China Russia etc., which still stores a lot of their wealth in gold.
- You get a free trade, you don’t have to print more US dollars to purchase more bitcoins, you just use already existing gold reserves.
- You essentially make your country, America, the center of the economic planet, your conquer cyberspace, which is the next frontier, and you essentially control it forever.
- You then back the US dollar stable coin with your bitcoin reserves, and then you make the US dollar coin the dominant coin of the planet.
Isn’t this obvious?
What is the American ethos?
Bet big, dominate, control it all!
ERIC