These are the only 4 skills you should focus on in 2025 and we’re 1/4 through it. 1. DEEP FOCUS - Attention spans are gone. Even yours. AI makes it easy to do shallow work. Don’t succumb to easy. - Know your biggest distractions and remove them. 2. AI PROFICIENCY -AI only helps you do 5 things better and faster: Think. Create. Communicate. Analyze. Automate. But those entail nearly everything you do. - Assume AI can do any task if you just prompt it correctly - Use AI to learn anything. Fast. - Build AI agents for repetitive tasks in your business - Test new AI tools weekly - it’s like keeping your HR department always accepting applications for talent. 3. AUDIENCE BUILDING - When everything can and will be faked, human connection rules. - AI can build virtually product in hours, so your brand becomes your moat - Systemize content creation: voice notes through the day later condensed with AI. - Post interesting valuable insights daily (like I am) consistently. Focus on one platform until you master it - Get 1000 true super fans : reply to comments, ask for audience feedback and input - Brand loyalty is the best moat for most businesses today. A loyal audience is one of the few ways to protect your business. 4. SALES. - Sales will always be the best skill because it’s closest to the cash register. - Selling in person or online is pretty similar but different enough to get good at both. These 4 areas will create massive leverage and insulation. And they’re easier…but not easy. These are the traps to avoid. AI triggers ADD. more shiny objects than ever. More ideas can come to life. It will be hard to choose. Deciding to do deep work is like deciding to go to the gym. Sucks in the start till you develop the habit. AI changes quickly. Too many tools. Exciting but overwhelming = Toolphoria. Focus on your outcomes not the tools. Lack of consistency and short term thinking will kill your progress. I fell victim to this for too long. This is the hard part that most won’t do. We call them poor. Your best audience cares about themselves not about you but connecting yourself or your business to themselves will make you addictive. Focusing content only on yourself will make you annoying. The most important lesson of all. Remember, you can just do things.

To the (slightly) older entrepreneurs with a young mind, big ideas but feels a little too tired to learn new tricks... You thought best days were behind you. That you couldn't keep up with technology. Wrong. Experience isn't a liability. It's your secret weapon. You've seen markets crash. Built businesses from nothing. Made tough calls when others hesitated. You know what works. The problem was never your ideas. It was the execution gap. Days spent on tasks beneath your expertise. Hours wasted fighting technology. Momentum killed by operational quicksand. Until now. AI doesn't care about your birthdate. It doesn't see your gray hair. It's not a new language you need to spend months or years learning (it's easier than you think) Better yet, the more you already know, the better your results will be. Human experience gives you an advantage when using AI. The second chance that isn't really a second chance... but a continuation of what you started. Some call it disruption. You call it liberation. What once took weeks now takes moments. What required teams now needs only you. What seemed impossible is suddenly within reach. You're not learning new tricks. You're finally being unburdened to use the old ones. The wisdom. The judgment. The pattern recognition. The business sense. Now paired with tools that eliminate friction. The entrepreneurs who will dominate aren't just the young disruptors. They're the seasoned veterans with fire rekindled. The builders who combine decades of knowledge With technology that turns thoughts into reality. This isn't your twilight. It's your renaissance. We can just do things now. You just need to want to.

Can I get some love on this prediction that came true? 😉

Some people wear masks for fun. Others wear them to tear down empires. This is a Halloween story about both. Halloween. The night when we put on masks, break the normal rules, and step into different identities. But sometimes, the scariest disruptions aren't the ghosts and goblins – they're the ideas that overthrow entire systems of power. Because October 31st isn't just about candy and costumes. Twice in history, as darkness fell on All Hallows' Eve, revolutionaries launched ideas that would tear down empires. In 1517, the Catholic Church was at the height of its power. It controlled not just souls, but economics – selling salvation through "indulgences" while keeping scripture locked away in Latin. On that Halloween night, an obscure monk named Martin Luther took a hammer and nails to the church door of Wittenberg, and with 95 Theses, lit a fire that would burn down the medieval order. When told to recant or die, he declared: "Here I stand, I can do no other." His reward? Excommunication and a death sentence that forced him to live as "Knight Jörg" in hiding, while his revolution spread like wildfire through Europe. Then, Halloween 2008. Lehman Brothers had just collapsed. Banks that had gambled with people's lives were getting trillion-dollar bailouts. The financial order seemed both absolutely corrupt and utterly unshakeable. That's when someone wearing the mask of Satoshi Nakamoto dropped a digital bombshell: a nine-page paper describing money without rulers. No banks. No bailouts. No permission needed. Just pure mathematical truth. Like Luther's theses, it was a declaration of independence – this time from the high priests of finance. The parallels are more than spooky – they're revolutionary: * Both struck at the perfect moment: Luther when the Church's corruption had reached its peak, Satoshi when the financial system was revealing its fatal flaws. * Both used the latest technology to spread rebellion: Luther harnessed the newly invented printing press, Satoshi deployed the borderless internet. * Both faced overwhelming odds: Luther against the combined power of Church and Empire, Satoshi against the entire global financial system. * Both disappeared into legend: Luther emerging from exile as a victorious prophet, Satoshi vanishing entirely but leaving behind an unstoppable movement. Think about it: On the one night when the veil between worlds is thinnest, when old rules can be broken and new realities can emerge, two figures chose to light matches that would burn down the old order. Like supernatural trick-or-treaters, they knocked on the door of the establishment and left behind revolutionary treats that turned out to be existential tricks for the powerful. Today, 515 years after Luther spooked the Church and 16 years after Satoshi spooked the banks, their Halloween gifts keep giving: decentralization, freedom from middlemen, and the radical idea that common people shouldn't have to beg permission from high priests – whether they wear clerical robes or banker's suits. Sometimes the most disruptive masks aren't the ones we wear on Halloween – they're the ones worn by revolutionaries who dare to question everything. Now that's a Halloween story worth telling. Did you really think Bitcoin was about getting rich?

First, I'm a #Bitcoin maximalist, not a skeptic, yet always looking at potentially sound arguments against it (as we all should if being intellectually rigorous). Just watched this video with Patrick McKenzie: "Why Crypto Will Never Fix Payments" One of his arguments against using Bitcoin or crypto as payments is that its lack of infrastructure for dispute resolution and refunds, (which I think we all believe are valuable aspects of the current system for consumer protection) and he asserts this could hinder adoption as a mainstream payment method. Of course some Layer 2 solutions may help solve some of these issues, but they may not, refunds and dispute resolution by nature require a trusted 3rd party intermediary. My first thought is that having a 2 or 3rd layer solution on top of Bitcoin with some sort of smart contracts for this "might" be helpful but not quite sure. Just curious if any Bitcoiners have thought this aspect through and if I'm missing a smart innovative answer to this objection for using it as a payment method and not just a store of value.