Daily Ramble
It’s a new week but I’m not feeling the love today. I found out a friend who’s been fighting a health condition has gotten down to his last silver nickels. He’s rubbing them together in hopes they reproduce so he can buy more of the one thing uniting the poorest and richest amongst us: a finite amount of time on this precious blue ball floating in space.
He’s got a GoFundMe going. Please contribute if you’ve got the means. As a relatively new father myself, the thought of leaving behind a young child guts me. It happens, and that’s life, to be sure. But there’s something about leaving the job of childrearing half-complete that curls my toenails. Call me old fashioned, but I’ll kick the bucket more peacefully knowing I’ve raised my child through to independence.
While I’m waxing morbid, let’s go ahead and just level down further and talk about death generally. Good lord almighty, if we as a species have not become absolute pansy-asses about the topic, delusionally shying away from the topic as if it doesn’t exist. I’d go so far as to say COVID dragged the elephant into the center of the room this year and we’re all dancing around it as if it’s not there — I’ve read not a single luminary talking about its importance in life — as the ultimate life-affirming and clarifying tool.
If you don’t embrace death and understand its effect on each and every waking moment, you’re not living. How could you be? It’s only when we recognize the ending that we truly prioritize our lives to value that which is most important. Ok, so I’m being a bit over the top in stating you need to embrace it every moment, but why not at least consider it every once in a while? You’ll be sure to start asking yourself quality questions like: am I taking the time to tell those I care about that I love them and am proud of them? Am I using my time in ways that give my life purpose and meaning? …
Now don’t get me wrong, when death arrives for me, I’ll probably be sniveling and whimpering, wanting more time too. But what I won’t do is ignore it today and delusionally prioritize my life believing it will go on infinitely. Live well until you punch out — because you will and believing you won’t is only doing a disservice to you and those you love.
Favorite Thing on the Interwebs Today
If watching a cat, Trump, and Biden jamming together doesn’t cause you to laugh foolishly with glee, you might want to go back to contemplating death and its meaning again.
Bitcoin
Over the weekend, Bitcoin experienced a minor pullback dropping as low as $17.6k. Given how quickly it was bought up, it’s safe to say the bull trend continues unabated. We may have another couple of days of ranging but with the Bitcoin supply shortage inducing FOMO across the interwebs, I suspect we’re in for a push over $19k before too long. TL;DR: I see price trading in the $17.3k - $19k range today.
Bitcoin is a 0 to 1 invention. What does that mean? It means it was a completely original idea. While it built off the shoulders of giants, it did so in a unique way coming from nothingness into existence (0 to 1). That’s what makes it a 0 to 1 invention — there’s nothing comparable to it before it existed. The Orville brothers had the 0 to 1 invention of the airplane and Sir Alexander Fleming’s discovery had a 0 to 1 invention with penicillin. Bitcoin is a 0 to 1 invention for money. The history of 0 to 1 inventions is pretty clear — they take a while to catch on broadly because something new is hard to understand at first. Knowing it’s a 0 to 1 invention helps me have patience on the learning curve.
Thanks for reading,
Kent
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I don’t really care. I’m just going to keep writing thoughts into the void and see what happens.
Interesting thoughts on the lead up to and actual departure. I have long held my next breath may be my last and as such would like all (or many) to greet the news with the knowledge that I did the best I could. In doing so I loved, I cried ,grieved, laughed and did nothing to cause pain to anyone, at least on purpose. I may be slightly delusional, but it's how I see my past and future. It's been one hell of a good life and I only hope at the end there's grace.