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Wife asked what I want for Christmas. I said bitcoin. She said “you already have bitcoin.” I said “exactly, MORE bitcoin.” Wife’s face: 😐 My conviction: 📈

Lazy workout thread: what’s the thing you can always talk yourself into doing even when everything else sounds terrible? For me it’s kettlebell swings. 10 swings for EMOM for 15 minutes, done, somehow it counts.

Mainstream platforms like X, Facebook etc etc monetize hatred. Every algorithm is engineered to keep people furious, divided, and scrolling. They’ve weaponized tribalism and discovered that a population at war with itself is incredibly profitable. This isn’t a bug. It’s the business model. This ends badly. You cannot sustain a civilization on algorithmically amplified rage. Every engagement metric is a brick pulled from the foundation. Nostr strips out the incentive structure. No corporate parasite extracting profit from your anger. No algorithm designed to turn you against your neighbor. No shareholder demanding you hate harder. Just a protocol. Your feed. Your connections. Zero corporate intermediaries monetizing the collapse of social trust. Decentralization isn’t idealism. It’s removing the economic incentive to destroy us.

There’s something deeply cynical about politicians who declare “America is a Christian nation” while their own lives tell a different story. JD Vance says Christianity is America’s Creed, yet he’s married to a Hindu and celebrates Hanukkah with his family. I’m not questioning his marriage or his respect for other faiths. I’m questioning the authenticity of his public theology. As a reformed Christian, I believe America’s founding was deeply shaped by Christian ethics and moral reasoning. That’s a historical reality we can trace through the documents, debates, and institutions our founders created. But there’s a massive difference between acknowledging that influence and weaponizing faith for electoral advantage. When politicians suddenly discover the language of Christian nationalism at precisely the moment it polls well with their base, we have an obligation to call it what it is: pandering. They’re not defending the faith. They’re using it as a vehicle to power. The gospel doesn’t need politicians to protect it. It needs believers who live with integrity, who refuse to let our most sacred convictions become just another campaign strategy. When faith becomes nothing more than a demographic to capture, we’ve lost something essential. I’d rather have a leader who lives their convictions quietly and inconsistently than one who performs them loudly while calculating their next move. At least the first one isn’t treating my faith like a focus group finding.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Dads, your kids are watching everything you do, even when you think they’re not paying attention. They’re watching how you treat their mom. How you handle stress. Whether you keep your promises. How you react when things don’t go your way. Whether you own your mistakes or blame everyone else. You’re not just providing for them, you’re showing them what a man looks like. What strength looks like. What integrity looks like. They’re learning from you whether the world is safe, whether they matter, whether people can be trusted. A lot of fathers think their job is mainly to work and provide money. That matters, but it’s not enough. Your presence matters. Your attention matters. The way you listen when they talk about something you don’t care about, that matters. You don’t have to be perfect. You’ll mess up, and that’s okay. What matters is being there, being consistent, and actually caring about who they’re becoming. The distance you create now, the conversations you avoid, the times you choose work or your phone over them, that stuff echoes for decades. Your role is bigger than you think. Show up for them now or they’ll rely on a government that will use you children for profit.

When we debate which faction should wield state power, we’re arguing over who gets to hold the leash, while missing that the leash itself is the problem. Real economic and social power belongs to those creating value, not those regulating its creation. The question isn’t who should control the machinery of government, but how quickly we can reduce that machinery to its minimal necessary functions…protecting rights, enforcing contracts, preventing coercion. Everything beyond that is just different factions taking turns standing in the way. Get out of our way!