WILCO
Wilco

"The more mature a person, the more who they are, what they do and their values are owed to their self editing and own thought processes, rather than the context from which they were born into"
Alain De Botton

2025-02-04 17:01:59 UTC

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I didn't doubt you for a minute, Troy.
p.s they're very natural-looking these days 🙊

2025-02-04 10:10:07 UTC

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It's trying to tell you to take a trip to Turkey

2025-02-03 18:14:47 UTC

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That's a wise dog right there

2025-02-03 16:30:56 UTC

I think there should be a tracker on here that shows you the live fiat number of all the zaps you've ever sent on Nostr.
It's going to be wild in 2030 to see the insane amount of dollars I sent to some stranger on the Internet for them saying "GM ☀️"
#nostr #bitcoin

2025-02-02 13:07:37 UTC

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Bitcoin is for criminals

2025-01-30 14:10:11 UTC

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I'm with you on this

2025-01-30 13:53:05 UTC

@npub1qqv…cn3w "for most people, retirement means go sit on a beach for the rest of your life. For me retirement is retiring from things you don't want to do anymore"
This.
I feel like #bitcoin has put me within a few months or years of achieving just that. Tick tock, next block.

2025-01-25 17:56:38 UTC

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The reputation you have with yourself is the most important.
If you keep breaking promises to yourself, you become someone who doesn't trust themselves.

2025-01-11 08:10:58 UTC

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Not having a family does not age well.

2024-10-29 05:54:47 UTC

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thanks man 🤜🏻🤛🏻

2024-10-28 19:50:13 UTC

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I've been on the fence with one of these for a while.
I wouldn't say I was a 'hot sleeper', but am really intrigued by their 'it gives you an hour's more sleep a night's claim.
I do have a 3yo and a 8mo keeping me awake at night so maybe it'd just be rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.

2024-10-18 18:09:12 UTC

People that tell themselves they're not into #bitcoin for Number Go Up are almost as deluded as people who tell themselves their brain works best at night.

2024-10-16 19:49:24 UTC

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I'd honestly plump lower.
it's staggering the amount of people I meet that don't seem to have any introspection, or any curiosity about anything.
They're just happy to watch their favourite sitcom, drink a bottle of wine each night, and play the lottery..

2024-10-16 17:03:07 UTC

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Congratulations!
it's a wild ride.

2024-10-16 17:01:57 UTC

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Just need them to allow my UK salary to get paid into my account, and I'm totally fine with fiat banks.

2024-10-16 16:59:11 UTC

Your kindle library is like a window into your mind.
Should you ever peer through my window, you see a slightly contrarian, money-hungry individual who's plagued by the shortness of life.
And I'm not sure it's a good thing.

2024-10-15 16:49:14 UTC

If you don't turn off notifications on your phone, you're a psychopath in my book.

2024-10-15 16:09:41 UTC

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I've been thinking so much about this lately.
Great interview with Derek Sivers where he talks about it...
https://youtu.be/6FFik54kzek?si=YPUMPVdecHi0t4Jr

2024-10-15 16:05:15 UTC

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Before my son turns 1yo: "this parenting thing is horrible. I don't get what all the fuss is about"
After my son turns 1yo: "Ah yeah, this is the best thing ever"

2024-10-11 18:42:53 UTC

I used to fly with a crazy Dutch guy.
He was a full blown conspiracy theorist.
9/11. Chemtrails. Aspartine. Moon landing. You name it.
I still think the guy's crazy, but less crazy than before.

2024-10-11 05:42:00 UTC

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I never understand women who say men are complicated.
Just stroke our ego / penis.
We're almost pathetically simple.

2024-10-04 19:44:05 UTC

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It's better to have risked and lost, than never to have risked at all.

2024-10-04 19:42:59 UTC

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Massively underrated.
The author is a true gent as well.

2024-10-04 05:25:21 UTC

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I think it's all about finding just ONE piece of quality content that tries to explain it as simply as possible...
• The Bitcoin Standard by @npub1gdu…6nak
• The Bullish Case For Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati
• How Does Bitcoin Actually Work by 2blue1brown
• Teaching Bitcoin by @npub1r8l…x5dk
• Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin by @npub14mc…frlx
...if you find a good doorway into the topic, you feel empowered to continue down the rabbit hole

2024-10-04 05:10:13 UTC

Your kindle library is a window into your mind.
If you look through my window, you see a (fairly) contrarian, money-hungry individual who's plagued by the shortness of life.
Not sure it's a good thing!

2024-10-02 19:40:56 UTC

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100% The subconscious impact of this on one's life cannot be overstated

2024-10-02 18:14:29 UTC

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I'm going to wrap a belt around my arm and mainline that note into my bloodstream 💪🏻

2024-10-02 05:52:30 UTC

I rarely try to orange pill people.
But I just met another pilot.
On our flight to Spain, we got chatting about value investing. He was a huge Buffet fan, and has put in1000s of hours investing his own pension.
I asked him what got him interested in investing, and he told me he listened to a @npub1s5y…6q7z podcast over a decade ago!
That was it. This would be easy. A rational thinker who has low time preference AND clearly respects a prominent Bitcoiner.
I thought I'd give him the #bitcoin bug in under 10 minutes.
Hell, I suspected he might even be a Bitcoiner already.
2 hours later, he's still talking about no dividends, quantum computing and rat poison squared.
😫 I'm doubling down on my stance...
Don't try orange pilling unless the other person seems genuinely open minded and curious.

2024-10-01 19:55:18 UTC

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It's a beautiful baby boy, congratulations!

2024-09-27 17:04:26 UTC

Having an 'anti' role model in your life can be invaluable.
Outside of fixing people's teeth, my Dad spent most of his adult life washing his car, clearing leaves and fixing gutters. Structuring my life to avoid this fate has led to some good decisions in hindsight.

2024-09-25 05:01:03 UTC

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This is a president I could get on board with 🫡

2024-09-25 04:59:33 UTC

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couldn't scan this for some reason

2024-09-24 18:31:49 UTC

You know the Average Joe is feeling inflation when confectionary companies are using it as an emotional hook in their adverts 👀
https://m.primal.net/LAnf.jpg

2024-09-23 16:48:54 UTC

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wholesome stuff

2024-09-23 05:43:04 UTC

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I've never heard it been called that before

2024-09-21 19:02:18 UTC

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Most people see Bitcoin as a granular topic within the category of investment.
Therefore, that's the only conversation strain they'll humour it being discussed in (even then most people are closed minded about it)
I see it as interwoven with many societal topics. And I know I wouldn't be taken seriously amongst friends if I tried talking about it within the context of, say, politics or philosophy.
I have to then bite my lip many times to avoid being labelled as the 'crazy Bitcoin zealot'. My external is therefore non congruent with my internal, and that makes most discussions uncomfortable!

2024-09-21 05:09:00 UTC

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Completed it.

2024-09-19 07:57:52 UTC

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Check you DMs

2024-09-19 04:38:27 UTC

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post a lightning address for her so we can magic her a few nore

2024-09-18 18:21:52 UTC

My idea of a good Friday night is ordering an Indian takeout and cracking open an ice cold compound annual growth rate calculator.
#Bitcoin

2024-09-15 18:31:29 UTC

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🫡

2024-09-15 17:48:31 UTC

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If this is the only thing that annoys you about American English, you're doing quite well.
"I could care less" spirals me into lexical rage

2024-09-15 17:27:25 UTC

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To be honest a part of me wishes I hadn't gone down the rabbit hole.
Dinner parties were so much easier before.

2024-09-15 17:26:06 UTC

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No, we'll buy other things as well.

2024-09-15 17:24:29 UTC

I wrote a letter to my son to tell him about money and why I've gone100% #Bitcoin.
If Bitcoin fails, and our family loses all our wealth, at least when he grows up he'll know why I did what I did.
https://letterstoreg.com/money

2024-09-14 18:36:50 UTC

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I've stopped mentioning bitcoin to anyone unless it comes up organically (there are plenty of splinter subjects that can bring it up)

2024-09-14 18:35:06 UTC

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Last 5 are:
• Unschooled - Kerry McDonald
• Brief Lessons of History - Will Durant
• Awareness - Anthony De Mello
• Skin in the Game - Nassim Taleb
• Hidden Cost of Money - Seb Bunny
However, I've got every #bitcoin book under the sun in there, and a lot of self development

2024-09-13 16:04:40 UTC

A lesson from a long term relationship after kids:
Tit-for-tat is the cancer. Communication is the chemo.

2024-09-12 18:07:35 UTC

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it's the KISS method.
Keep Intensely Stacking Stupid

2024-09-12 15:23:32 UTC

My colleagues are obsessed with their pension contributions. They're putting as much as 35% of their salaries into it.
All of that to ensure their nest egg is enough for a rich retirement.
I worry the only thing they'll get in 30 years is fucked by the government with an inflation-shaped dildo.
#bitcoin

2024-09-12 05:59:38 UTC

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Depressingly, this looks very much like my kindle library as well.

2024-09-11 18:47:09 UTC

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it's diabetes in a cone, but that's not the point!

2024-09-11 17:11:09 UTC

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Ah...the social security ponzi scheme in all its glory.
Most of my colleagues are obsessed with their pension contributions, even at a relatively young age.
These people are making very real life sacrifices for a future moment in time when their government decides to fuck them with an inflation-shaped dildo.

2024-09-11 17:06:24 UTC

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Sadly not.
If it costs 4.5 times what you paid for it when you were a kid, then I'd imagine it tastes quite bitter.

2024-09-11 17:02:22 UTC

The UK emblem of inflation is the '99er'.
A soft 🍦 ice cream sold at every ice cream truck during my childhood for, as the name testifies, 99p.
I bought one for £4.50 for my son at the weekend and nearly threw it at the server.
A few more years and they'll be £99 each, when the '99er' marketing can kick back in.
https://m.primal.net/Kmxx.png

2024-09-11 16:55:47 UTC

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You should try flicking through a mainstream newspaper.
At least the 'for you' tab has a funny dog video every now & again.

2024-09-11 16:49:04 UTC

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Experiences and Relationships.
They form the currency of life.

2024-09-11 16:44:40 UTC

Working hard can pay well.
Delayed gratification pays better.

2024-09-11 04:22:40 UTC

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you're doing the Lord's work Dr.

2024-09-11 03:44:12 UTC

As of a few weeks ago, I'm100% #bitcoin.
This transition hasn't been sudden.
It happened gradually, then inevitably..
I struggle to see how a rational economic actor, who's willing to learn about the asset, can avoid the same fate.

2024-09-10 16:59:32 UTC

Looks like the BBC just got the memo
https://m.primal.net/KmGt.png

2024-09-09 18:03:05 UTC

I'm thinking of quitting my job and just coming onto NOSTR every couple of days to post:
"I just deleted my X account, going all in on NOSTR"
I reckon I could live off the zaps this statement attracts.

2024-09-09 17:58:21 UTC

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happens to the best of us

2024-09-09 17:57:24 UTC

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if we don't see a photo of the sandwich, it never happened 🥪

2024-09-09 16:54:38 UTC

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Experiences and Relationships.
They form the currency of life.
And there's no better way to cultivate the former than by taking risks and just going for it.

2024-09-09 16:51:24 UTC

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There's no better statement to get the whole of NOSTR zapping you sats.

2024-09-09 16:10:56 UTC

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Purchasing Power to the People, right?

2024-09-08 19:50:54 UTC

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as it should be

2024-09-08 19:31:37 UTC

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Living by the sea is good for the soul. GM.

2024-09-08 19:26:27 UTC

I remember getting chatting to a self-made Multi Millionaire whilst smoking a cigar in a local hotel lounge.
Having offered to buy me and my friend's next round of cigars, and having covered the drinks bill of a group sitting next to us, he told me that his Grandfather had given him some advice he always tried to live by....
DON'T CURB THE GENEROSITY IMPLUSE.
It's stuck with me since.
There are so many times where I think about doing something really nice for someone at personal cost, but just before I do I back out because of the price or inconvenience.
Now I force myself to follow through.

2024-09-07 19:16:26 UTC

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Vitality, Connection and Time.
It's life's trifecta. Simple, not easy.

2024-09-07 19:13:32 UTC

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This one felt like a real gut punch.
When the dips start making me feel nauseous, you know the bull run is near.

2024-09-07 18:18:51 UTC

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The biggest gift #bitcoin gives us is to feel like we're the 'smart money's in the relationship between us and the bank.

2024-09-06 21:21:49 UTC

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Our dog is pretty high up the pecking order in our family.
Pretty sure if anyone's going to get left without medical intervention, it'll be me.

2024-09-06 17:35:24 UTC

The other day I felt compelled to draw out a spider diagram of areas that are my focus right now (I find it easier to think visually)
It was interesting to see that the majority of them would all vastly improve if I was to tackle what is, frankly, an unhealthy relationship with my phone.
• Moved my phone out of the bedroom at night.
• Deleted X.
• Installed an app that blocks me from NOSTR between certain hours.
It's day 2 and already I'm a better thinker, worker, Dad & Husband.

2024-09-06 17:00:38 UTC

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A credit card is the only way I can have zero fiat stored at all times.
Put all my monthly spending on it, then sell BTC to clear the balance every month

2024-09-06 16:44:02 UTC

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I've heard this book bandied around a lot, and it was very tentatively on my 'to read' list. I'll definitely make it a priority to read.
Thanks for the recommendation 👍🏻

2024-09-06 16:42:30 UTC

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it's entirely possible I haven't hung around enough rich families to see the weak child syndrome with my own eyes

2024-09-05 19:16:02 UTC

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Weak children of rich parents is the rule, not the exception.
I often wonder what I can do with my kids to not make them little cunts should #bitcoin make me as wealthy as I think & hope it does.
Do you think about this at all, and how will you / are you handling it?

2024-09-05 18:38:51 UTC

As a kid taught to conform, there's nothing more admirable to me than people who possess the will to say fuck you to incompetent authority
I think it's why I enjoy the #bitcoin community so much.

2024-09-05 16:57:26 UTC

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That's the kind of meal that hugs you and let's you know everything's going to be alright.

2024-09-05 16:55:09 UTC

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It's the Lord's work.

2024-09-04 19:15:42 UTC

Sometimes I'm driving along minding my own business when suddenly I''m overcome with anger at how governments raid the savings of hard working people through money printing & inflation.
I can't wait to see their currencies slowly but surely collapse, and their overreaching tentacles hacked off.

2024-09-04 18:10:36 UTC

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Tell me about it.
Quite frankly, I think my neighbour has seen enough.

2024-09-04 14:02:49 UTC

We all know #bitcoin rewards low time preference.
I'm sure most of you reading this were '2 marshmallow kids'.
And of course we're all pretty smug that hedonist no-coiners are out there partying, whilst we're sat at home watching Michael Saylor videos and stacking sats.
But take it from someone who has spent their adult life living for the future....don't lose sight of what you're doing it all for:
EXPERIENCES and RELATIONSHIPS.
They form the currency of a good life.
Bitcoin's price will take care of itself. Stop focussing on it and instead focus on your plan to start living your life as soon as possible.
In a few measly generations, no one will remember you.

2024-09-04 13:34:52 UTC

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I've seen a few of his talks, an interesting human.

2024-09-04 12:10:20 UTC

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Yep - I've read all the books man, and of course they don't act out to deliberately spite you.
That's a difficult sell though when you're on a few hours sleep, you're hungry and your kid has just hit you round the face.

2024-09-04 11:47:11 UTC

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As someone who has seen their child go through extreme pain over the last few days, I find this to be true.
It's gut wrenching.

2024-09-04 11:44:52 UTC

I'm not a religious man. Far from it.
But more and more of my World views are lining up with Christian ideals.

2024-09-04 11:40:32 UTC

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It's not an insignificant achievement to be a kind and patient father👏🏻
I always thought I was an easy going guy who didn't really struggle with emotional outbursts.
Turns out all I needed was a couple of kids to blow that mental model apart.
Every day is a battle between the emotional and rational sides of my brain, when responding to my kids being dicks.

2024-09-03 16:01:17 UTC

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Congratulations Dr Jeff 👏🏻👏🏻

2024-09-03 15:22:36 UTC

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He's won the12-hour jackpot.
If you DON'T take over the World, you'll be doing a disservice to us 5-hour-a-nighters.

2024-09-03 15:11:16 UTC

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9 hours?!
Don't you have young kids?
I've often thought about a good night's sleep, but I think it would involve starting the car in the middle of the night and starting a new life somewhere.

2024-09-03 15:02:43 UTC

Got a personal loan arranged for "home improvements"
Money drops into my account in a few days.
Hoping the 58k gang can keep up the good work, so I can pick up some cheap #bitcoin.

2024-09-03 07:43:15 UTC

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I think that's what 'Flow' looks like

2024-09-02 17:26:48 UTC

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Looks like something you'd have walk through a wardrobe to see

2024-09-01 19:51:04 UTC

I often wonder if I'll be able to sit back and watch a frothy #bitcoin bull market unfold with a calm, all knowing disposition.
Or whether I'll turn into an emotional, trigger happy psychopath like I did last time.
I hope the former. I suspect the latter.