Reality
What do you want from reality?
Abundance, joy!
OK… Looks like we crossed the 111 threshold, $111,000 a Bitcoin ,,, which at this point is more hilarious than anything because it seems so unreal.
I’ve been pegged to the all-time high, more recent hype being like $107,000 bitcoin. And I suppose one of the upsides of being in Asia time is like I’m almost like pseudo in the future; it broke that record high while everyone else in America was still asleep, so I suppose it is good that I am here because I was able to witness the all-time high with my own two very eyes.
Being here in Phnom Penh, good philosophical thinking. I think the big question is like… What’s the purpose or the point of reality?
First, to just be outside, to walk around in the real world. It doesn’t matter if you have all the virtual Lamborghinis and all the virtual babes in Apple Vision Pro, and all the infinite virtual monies, without a physical world, none of it is worth it.
Also, simple physiological things. I sleeping like 8 to 12 hours a night, and actually, a really big one: I’m like crushing my all-time highs for my weightlifting records, my most recent record is clocking in 471 kg rack pull, 1038 pounds — which is 38 pounds higher than a ton, 1000 pounds.
I suppose one of the fun things about being in Asia that because everyone uses kilograms, the numbers don’t look that scary. 471 kg, to me doesn’t look like that high of a number because I do not have the cultural adaptation to these numbers. Kind of also the funny thing about when you’re abroad and traveling, money becomes funny, because the local currency feels more like monopoly money than real money.
For example, in Cambodia they use the KHR, the Khmer riel. All the numbers are formed to me, but there’s this one note which is like roughly $12 USD, the nice yellow one, and I think two local Cambodians it’s almost like their $100, $120 bill?  Now that I’m bowling out of control, and even before that, I’ve always surprised myself on generosity and tipping well, as I knew how difficult it was for my mother to support me and my sister, working like 20 years at a sushi restaurant.
But anyways, I got a really great massage from this one woman like a week ago, and I slipped her the mythical big yellow note, and afterwards I heard her screaming and giggling and like exuberant full of joy, in the back staff room. It might have been the first time that anyone has ever tipped her that much.
More recently, meeting a woman who gave me a 90 minute traditional massage, all of her three kids are back in Siem Reap, and I gave her $20 USD in tip, saying it was to pay for her kids school and education. I think you’re in Cambodia, I don’t know if the schools are actually free? Or maybe the kind of decent ones are not free?
But anyways, if you meet local Cambodian people, you could almost like 99% assume that they have kids. 1 2 or three.  not like America we’re asking somebody whether they have kids or not is considered bad manners?
Anyways, like me giving the local lady a $20 tip, assuming that there is like 10X financial leverage here, that’s like me giving her a $200 tip. Note that the average salary in Phnom Penh is like I think 300 $350 a month, which sounds about right because in America, average working salary might be like 3000, $3500 a month?
But I think the magic of living here is that it’s almost like activating card mode, or in 007 golden eye, activating the golden gun. It’s like a cheat code.
If you are an American who has never traveled outside of the states, and have never been to Asia or Southeast Asia, I think it is actually very very difficult for you to understand how epic this is. Once again, the big problem in America is that even for the rich, everything feels too expensive and out of reach. It’s ridiculous in LA, average home price is like one now… 1.2, $1.3 million? And it’s not because the house itself is worth that much, it is not. But inflation has gotten so bad that these numbers are simply a signal of maybe a broken economy?
Bitcoin fixes the economy
Let us assume that bitcoin is clean drinking water, and traditional capital is like toxic sludge, sewer water.
If you have a young family and a kid, and you don’t know, but… The water in which you feed your child is contaminated, and your kid keeps on having diarrhea and is sick, cannot hold any food down, has no appetite, doesn’t eat food, and you are insanely scared and concerned because you think your kid will die… Is this out of virtue that somehow you are a bad and lazy parent and you don’t work hard enough? No! You’re like trying to do the best thing possible, but once again, either you don’t know that the water is contaminated, or… You only have access to dirty sewer water.
Nietzsche once talks about this… The lower caste system in India — the book of manu, says that the untouchables shall only be given dirty water, shall only eat onions, and she never ever ever interact with the clean Indian race. 
Like people think that the caste system and racism in America is bad, try going to India, go to Calcutta or go to Mumbai, Bombay ,,, if you are like a rich Indian from India… You might have never shook the hand of an untouchable on the streets. Me out of my American naïveté and openness, shook everyone’s hand give them all high-fives, even my friend Kaushal Parikh was shocked!
Anyways, not all, but close to 100% of the world’s problems are economic.
I’ll say 99.99% of the world’s problems are economic.
For example, racism classism and poverty, is because there are structures and structural loops in play in which people on poverty, stay in poverty. If you have never ever ever driven through Compton late at night, or sketchy parts of LA late at night, even sometimes during the day… It is difficult to understand how bad some of these neighborhoods are.
A lot of kids from the hood, end up just being nerds, staying at home playing video games all day, in some ways it is the safe strategy because you are less likely to get held up at gunpoint or beaten up for your shoes your necklace or whatever… Can you imagine growing up in an environment like this?
Even myself, I grew up in a relatively safe environment, Alameda California, which was like considered once… Like one of the nicest suburbs in the Bay Area. Yet when I was in middle school, already… Once again guys in middle school, at the age of 12… Girls were getting pregnant, kids were buying knives and trying to get guns, from kids in Oakland, there were already a gang in initiations, like I remember my best friend Aaron, Once… I was hanging out with him, and he took off his shirt because he was changing clothes, and his back was scarred from all these knife wounds, and I was really shocked and I asked him what happened and he said that he was dealing drugs on one corner which was a different gang territory, and he was knifed up as a lesson. Once again guys this is like 12-year-old kids.
Or… I remember as a kid, being bullied a lot, being called gay and faggot all the time. Middle school was extremely hardcore and bad.
I was very fortunate and happy that my mom moved us out of Alameda, into the nicer Castro Valley, more inland, more privileged. No drama there. As a consequence, I was able to thrive! No more drama, no more kids getting high off of ecstasy, I remember in middle school, in the seventh or eighth grade, my friend Tony came over my house, hopped half a pill of ecstasy, offered me some and I said no, because I knew better, and him getting very very high, and like touching the walls and carpet for like an hour. I think we were 13 at the time.
So once again guys… I was in a relatively privileged position. I can only imagine if I was a black kid, being raised in Compton or Watts, it probably was like 10 times as worse.
This is where a Kendrick Lamar is so exceptional, he was able to make it out of the worst of situations, same as Jay-Z. They are very virtuous in this way.
Kanye West is an exceptional case because his mom was an educated professor, he spent some time living abroad in Japan, and I think for the most part Kanye was a nerd, kind of like Pharrell. And also Kanye West is very short, 5 foot seven at best, maybe more like 5 foot 6 1/2, or 5 foot six?
Also do not forget that Kim Kardashian is a midget. I think she’s only like 5 foot tall? I think she lies, or the media lie and says she’s more like 5 foot one or 5 foot two, or 5 foot one and a half… But once again the fax is at least typically with men, if you are a Shorty guy, you will always have a small man complex. And this is where I am so confident, I am 182 cm tall, Which is about 5 foot 11, 5 foot 10 1/2, I have never had a small man syndrome in my life.
What next?
So assuming that your alpha, what is the goal? My thought is to become more alpha.
For example, bitcoin… Nobody will be happy until bitcoin is like $125 million a bitcoin. I hope maybe in my life… When I’m like 120 years old, I could see if it hit $1.1 billion a coin.
The world is changing. Even Kraken, just announced like six minutes ago that they have now offered tokenized American stocks like Apple Tesla Nvidia, as tokenized stocks? I cannot wait until somebody or Coinbase tokenize is MSTR stock, and also on Coinbase in the future to see like 2X leverage along MSTR token options? In the traditional market right now… MSTU is definitely the best bet, or MSTX, both in which Michael Saylor indirectly promotes.
Both are 2X levered long MSTR. Bitcoin is the best case, MSTR is 2X bitcoin, and then as a consequence, MSTU or MSTX  should be 4X bitcoin.
So if you want to make the maximum money, the quickest, MSTU. This is where I have invested a lot of money.
MSTX is technically the same thing as MSTU, but I prefer MSTU because it is created by Rex shares, which also created the Vmax, bitcoin convertible bond financial product, which essentially is like primarily MSTR strategy convertible bitcoin bonds.
The market is getting excited. And how and why does this matter to you?
First, if you live on planet earth, you need money. Money is not the end goal, but having money is like having clean drinking water. Clean water clean drinking water is a non-controversial issue. Without clean drinking water, all 9 billion people on the planet will die.
Second, freedom. If you like the idea of just being able to walk around eight hours a day, thinking, snapping pictures, hiking whatever, or nomading around the planet, focusing on your photography, your street photography, your kids your wife your life whatever… Any sort of creative productivity,,, and you wish you can FIRE, financial independence retire early, bitcoin backed stuff is super obvious. Bitcoin is FIRE. Both metaphorically and literally.
Are there any reasons to not buy bitcoin?
I don’t think so.
What else?
If you are a programmer, computer scientist, engineer, programmer… Smart person, you studied mathematics sociology philosophy, or any sort of critical thinking discipline… I think it’s pretty obvious that bitcoin is the answer.
First, people often forget that bitcoin is open source. If you have ever downloaded any of my free e-books, or open source stuff, you will know that this is great. Yet I think the hard thing for people to understand is just because bitcoin is open source,,, doesn’t mean that you can magically download bitcoins for free.
And I think this is a hard thing maybe something I need to talk more about that once again, this difficult to understand paradigm, especially for millennials in which we grew up being able able to pirate free stuff on the Internet for free… is that bitcoin is more about freedom, rather than having no cost.
it’s a feature not a bug
People say that bitcoin is bad for the planet and electricity blah blah blah. Yet you fools, don’t you know that like air conditioning requires like 25% of the world’s electricity, and yet nobody is saying that we should band that. Bitcoin is like at most 1%.
But if I could make the argument that bitcoin, could offer the whole planet, all 9 billion of us economic prosperity, forever, and there will be no more poverty no more kids dying of dysentery, essentially bitcoin is like clean drinking water for all impoverished people on the planet, and it will indirectly benefit all of the poor and marginalized people on the planet, and it would cost us only 1% of the world’s electricity… would it be worth it? Of course!
Goals
OK, now that I have officially made it, and it looks like it’s just gonna keep going uphill from here.
So I think a new pivot or direction, is definitely about like financial economic freedom power independence, thriving.
Economic prosperity and thriving for all 9 billion people on the planet, isn’t this like the ultimate life goal?
ERIC
Bitcoin power!