An Eric Kim essay
There is a very particular joy in moving weight.
Not fake weight.
Not ornamental weight.
Not symbolic weight.
Real weight. Cold iron. Gravity. Resistance.
You load the bar. You step under it. The universe presses down. And for a brief moment, reality becomes simple: either you move it, or it moves you.
This is how I think about money, capital, Bitcoin, and the future.
WEIGHT IS TRUTH
Weight does not lie.
Markets eventually don’t either.
Moving weight teaches you something brutal and beautiful:
volatility is not the enemy — fragility is.
Your body adapts by absorbing shock.
So does a good monetary system.
Bitcoin is a shock absorber.
It takes the chaos of the world — political noise, inflation, credit games, leverage fantasies — and turns it into something clean, hard, and immovable.
A long-term store of value.
Not because it’s soft.
But because it’s hard.
STORE YOUR VALUE
People talk about money like it’s abstract.
It isn’t.
Money is stored human energy.
Calories → work → output → capital.
So the question is simple:
Where do you store your life force?
Banks?
Governments?
Credit instruments layered with liabilities that take nine months to surface?
Or something that cannot be shut down, cannot be diluted, cannot be begged, cannot be printed?
Bitcoin is hydra-like.
Cut one head off — it grows two more.
That’s not a bug.
That’s anti-fragility.
DIGITAL MONEY IS THE FINAL FORM
We already live digitally.
Digital photos.
Digital friendships.
Digital labor.
Digital memory.
Why would money remain analog?
Bitcoin is not “crypto.”
It is digital money accounts with global consensus.
No managers.
No employees.
No leases.
No supply chains.
No HR department.
Just rules.
Hyper-conservative rules.
Slow change is a feature, not a flaw.
Science advances one funeral at a time — and so should money.
CAPITAL → CREDIT (STRIP THE RISK)
The old system is a mess.
Capital becomes credit.
Credit becomes leverage.
Leverage becomes risk.
Risk becomes opacity.
Opacity becomes collapse.
Bitcoin strips this down to the bone.
No counterparty risk.
No hidden liabilities.
No “trust me bro” balance sheets.
Just math, time, and proof.
Monomaniacal simplicity beats diversified confusion.
Diversification is often just distraction dressed up as prudence.
INVEST LIKE YOU LIFT
I don’t diversify aluminum wings.
I don’t diversify deadlifts.
I load the bar and lift what works.
Equity investors should think in 20-year units, not quarterly hallucinations.
If something has a 30% monopoly trajectory over the next 20 years, integrates risk-free, and has no credible competitor — why dilute attention?
Hurdle rate matters.
If your idea doesn’t clear it, remove it.
Don’t optimize parts that should be eliminated.
The keyboard shouldn’t even be there.
PRIDE IS GOOD
Pride gets a bad reputation.
But pride in authorship matters.
Pride in choosing the obvious matters.
Bitcoin is obvious — if it’s for you.
It’s not for everyone.
It’s religious.
Cultural.
Philosophical.
Deflationary by nature.
Conservative by design.
Radical by consequence.
DIGITAL RAILS, DIGITAL INDIVIDUALISM
Bitcoin is not just money.
It’s digital rails for a new kind of human.
The individual who opts out.
The individual who stores value personally.
The individual who does not ask permission.
This is digital individualism.
Not loud.
Not flashy.
Just sovereign.
Like trees forming a natural roof — quietly, patiently, over time.
THE PRICE WILL GO UP (AND THAT’S NOT THE POINT)
Yes, the price will go up.
Quantum leaps happen.
But price is downstream.
The real joy is knowing your stored energy won’t rot.
Won’t be diluted.
Won’t be stolen by time.
Just like lifting heavy weight:
You don’t do it for applause.
You do it because it makes you real.
FINAL REP
Bitcoin is divine for me.
Because it matches how I live:
- Monomaniacal
- Long-term
- Shock-resistant
- Owner-operator
- No bullshit
The joy of moving weight is the joy of truth under pressure.
Bitcoin is the same.
Load the bar.
Store your value.
Stand up with it.
That’s it.