my journey of online business, global living & self education so far… youtu.be/Fj4nMxzHF6g?si=2NvD…

new home; blank canvas. you create the space & the space creates you.

where i tweet from btw

dont buy a rolex... buy a steinway

life loves those who live it

success is so simple

setting up in barcelona for the next while

italy for art week

Running a credentialing factory is a really good racket.

A healthy blend of: - Childhood approval trauma - An environment that provides opportunities - Simultaneously being given nothing Formulates a killer entrepreneur.

buenos aires

I would like to thank my landlord for his generosity. For allowing me and my family to live in a property he owns. All we have to do is pay him rent every month. For accepting mediocre returns on his capital so that I can earn much higher returns on my capital by investing into my business and into real estate. For taking on the risk of all major components of the property including the HVAC system, roof, foundation, plumbing and electrical systems, etc. The value he is adding to my family is appreciated and does not go unnoticed.

That's because this dude doesn't know what education is. He speaks of growing wheat, herding sheep, riding a horse, and so on, but in the era of these skills, this was the kind of education given to slaves. Only a slave, a person who was owned as property, and used as a machine for a task, could be expected to do one task for his whole life. A gentleman, or even a freeman of the lower classes, was not a machine for labor, but a person who could be expected to act in his own interests, and thus would need to do many different things throughout his life, depending on what served his goals at the time. And he would need to be able to independently learn these tasks, rather than needing to be taught them in childhood. Therefore if a boy was to formally educated, that might include some of gentleman's skills (riding, fighting with a sword, the management of finances), but his education was centered around what education really meant: A fundamental grounding in how to live and thrive as an independent and free-willed person. Thus, he was taught the seven liberal arts of classical antiquity: - Arithmetic - Geometry - Music - Astronomy - Grammar - Logic - Rhetoric These were not trade skills in the sense that they did not enable the performance of any particular trade or task, but that wasn't the point. The point was that they taught the young gentleman how to think and learn. By contrast, modern government schools were founded to train clerks and factory workers at public expense... a servant class with the specific skills necessary to be useful workers, but not the general education to be independent or question their betters? Have you noticed which two of these arts are utterly absent from a modern government-school "education"? That's right, logic and rhetoric. Logic is how to arrive at true conclusions from known facts. Rhetoric is how to persuade. A servant educated in logic might notice that the things he is being told are false. A servant educated in rhetoric might notice the techniques that are being used to persuade him to act in the rulers' interests instead of his own. If you conceive of your children's education as training in career skills, whether that be growing rice or programming a computer, you are preparing them to be slaves, not free men. If you properly prepare them to be free men, what skills will be lucrative or useful twenty years from now is irrelevant, because they will be prepared to learn them. In my opinion, the seven liberal arts of the modern world are: - Logic: how to derive truth from known facts - Statistics: how to understand the implications of data - Rhetoric: how to persuade, and spot persuasion tactics - Research: how to gather information on an unknown subject - (Practical) Psychology: how to discern and understand the true motives of others - Investment: how to manage and grow existing assets - Agency: how to make decisions about what course to pursue, and proactively take action to pursue it. Notice that you didn't learn any of these things in school, even if you went to a so-called "liberal arts" college. Instead, they taught you things about mitochondria and calculus and symbolism in Jon Steinbeck novels where a boy has a dog, and the dog dies. That's because liberal arts, whether you define them as I have, or slightly differently, are the arts of the master, the arts that make one a master, and therefore not be taught in a school for slaves. Worry less about which "career skills" AI will take over, and more about whether you are training to be, and training your kids to be, high-agency, perceptive, self-motivated people who can navigate an unknowable future with an adaptable mind.

A new Rome must be built.

THE PURPOSE OF BITCOIN The purpose of Bitcoin is to shatter the welfare/warfare state and return power to the people. Yes, you can understand it as technological innovation — as a better way to hold and send large amounts of money — but at its core it is political revolution. It stops both Putin's war machine and Powell's money printer. It defunds the secret police and the NGOs calling for defunding the police. It rewards places that attract skilled immigrants and punishes those that cannot protect property rights. It does all this by breaking the 20th century centralized state's business model, by breaking both the wealth seizure of Communism and the money printer of Keynesianism. Because Bitcoin is money that can't be seized and monetary policy that can't be manipulated. So, think of Bitcoin as the ultimate zero-based budgeting. It zeros out everything that centralized states spend money on. It ends the wars and starves the beast. And then, it allows free people to decide from scratch what collectives they want to form, what public goods they want to crowdfund, and what they want to voluntarily do together as a society. In a word, it restores consensual government. You just don't do what you have not consented to do. Because Bitcoin reverses several centuries of power centralization in a few decades of decentralization. It fuses the egalitarian global government of the internationalist left with the limited local government of the capitalist right. It does this by transferring sovereignty from each centralized local state to a decentralized global network, where the collective of Bitcoin holders act as the ultimate bond vigilantes, the ultimate international union, the ultimate government of governments. And DC's declining "rules-based order" cannot match the legitimacy of this ascending Internet opt-in order. We already see tens of millions of Americans and Chinese alike voting against both Democrats and Communists by voting with their wallet for Bitcoin. Their states may be gearing for pointless war, but on the network these two great nations are at peace. Bitcoin Americans may not trust the Chinese state, and Bitcoin Chinese may not trust the American state, but neither of them trust their own states as much as they trust Bitcoin's network. Trustworthy states, of course, have nothing to fear. If you have popular legitimacy you need not fear capital flight. And already we see early adopter states for Bitcoin, from Bukele to Bhutan. Early adoption serves as a political IQ test — small and smart governments can pull it off, while big and dumb states simply will not. So big, dumb states will be hardest hit. And they will hit back. Just like they went from calling social media unimportant to assailing it as too important, so too will they go from questioning whether Bitcoin has any utility to calling it too powerful to leave in the hands of the citizenry. And then the attempts at seizure will begin. The explicit use of state force will unify left- and right-libertarians against neocons and neolibs, shattering and remaking the political compass. That's likely to begin after this cycle. And it'll be a fight that will make 2016-2024 look like the good old days. But at least we'll all know that Bitcoin has a purpose.

the frontier of education is beyond the mind & intellect

learning spanish in medellin, colombia 🌏

no schooling my siblings on island. video here if you haven’t seen it : youtu.be/BPFZsZEs8Oo?si=YvFw…

who is in buenos aires right now? 🇦🇷🌍

memories from the end of last year