2026-03-20

Live from Warm Sunny Colorado

42 entries

Broadcasting March 19 2026 in a shirt made by a Vietnamese tailor who once was a nun with Mother Teresa, he sets out to reassure the ecosystem that everything is okay.

Personal & Off-topic Vietnam

The world is on fire with wars in Iran and Ukraine, a likely China Taiwan conflict, 150 dollar oil, and mass layoffs at Dell, HP, Microsoft, and Facebook.

Vision & Philosophy

Jokes the government is run by satanic pedophiles so you just pick the Coke or Pepsi flavor, then begins the story of a man born in 1899 in small-town Kansas.

Vision & Philosophy

Man was drafted into World War I trenches with chlorine and mustard gas, then came home to the Spanish flu that killed 20 million.

Vision & Philosophy

The Dust Bowl and Great Depression hit next, with FDR on the radio saying there is nothing to fear but fear itself, before communism and Nazism rose in Europe.

Vision & Philosophy

Pearl Harbor drew his children into World War II amid rationing coupons, and by 1950 the Soviets had nuclear weapons and everyone feared the end of the world.

Vision & Philosophy

Man went from a horse and no electricity to planes, empire, and nukes by his 50s, and his descendants lived Korea, Vietnam, Watergate, and the oil shocks.

Vision & Philosophy resilience

Every generation faces a challenge, and this one is the hardest because it is a crisis of meaning where money, governance, religion, and meaning are all up for debate.

Vision & Philosophy

It is the most interesting time to be alive, with biophotons, panpsychism, Michael Levin's lab, waking quantum computers, and AI augmenting everyone's brain.

Vision & Philosophy artificial intelligence

Average people who learn to use AI can become exceptional, since a strong world gave the Industrial Revolution and a smart world gives an unprecedented enlightenment.

Every era had conflict and incompetent leaders, from inbred 19th-century royalty to bad US presidents like Warren Harding and Andrew Johnson, worse than Trump.

Vision & Philosophy

The boomer-to-next-generation transition brings a governance renaissance, and if crypto wins it banks the unbanked and gives everyone their own identity.

Vision & Philosophy

Says for the first time the billionaire three comma club would play by the same market rules as the poorest, and tells cynics they do not know what will happen.

Vision & Philosophy fair marketscynicism

The biggest lie is that the world always works one way and you have no agency, that some group you never met decides for you.

Vision & Philosophy

At 33 in the three comma club he met world leaders at the Milken Institute and found them as petty and autopiloted as everyone else, with big holes in their thinking.

Personal & Off-topic elites

The powerful think money makes them different, which makes them weak, citing Sun Tzu that bad warriors go to war then try to win, as Trump does in Iran.

Vision & Philosophy Art of War

Legacy elites have no idea what is coming, so young people using AI to think like a hundred people will overtake them and build a new society.

Vision & Philosophy artificial intelligence

He and Shielded CEO Mike Ward brainstormed making Midnight faster, weighing Sui's consensus, the Raptor route, or something bespoke before its end-of-month launch.

Company & Team

He built an agentic framework from the Midnight and Sui source and papers to generate a 40-page feasibility analysis of adopting Sui's Mysten protocol.

Cardano Tech & Research

The AI-generated paper with tables, phases, and a glossary equals six weeks of analysis, fact-checked with four LLMs, RAG, and adversarial agents, built in 90 minutes.

At 38 he is not even an AI expert while the next generation are rockstars, and every engineer and scientist now has this exponentially growing capability.

He now understands Sui's architecture, recalling meeting George Danezi in Corfu in 2016 where they discussed what became Sui a decade later while presenting Ouroboros and RS coin.

Cardano Tech & Research George Danezis

Despite hallucinations this capability is unprecedented for biology, physics, and society, and you could RAG in every religion's holy texts to find transcendent wisdom.

Vision & Philosophy science

Mocks the fetish that a new world order of geniuses controls everyone, when the US cannot see that invading Iran, an Iraq and Afghanistan in one with triple the population, is folly.

Vision & Philosophy

The US cannot fund Trump's 16 billion dollar border wall but finds 200 billion to invade Iran over nuclear weapons already bombed away, unraveling the system's legitimacy.

Vision & Philosophy

The real choice is what to do when the existing system collapses: hand the keys to Palantir, Canton, and Fed chains that KYC everything, or push the cause of liberty forward.

Vision & Philosophy know your customer

America's founders were revolutionaries who let people rule themselves and expand liberty, overthrowing most monarchies in under 200 years, and crypto can extend that further.

Vision & Philosophy

He is building a system where you control your money, cannot be deplatformed, have global freedom of speech and commerce, and a post-capitalist economy where your labor is yours.

Vision & Philosophy deplatform

He is giving people verifiable voting beyond team blue and red, since both Coke and Pepsi lie and give you diabetes, so a third and fourth option becomes possible.

Vision & Philosophy team red bluethird option

Blockchain government systems test new constitutions and censorship-resistant voting, and when the collapse comes crypto is what gets everyone out.

Governance & Catalyst blockchain governanceblock chain

Silicon Valley people lecture the Vatican on the Antichrist and build a spy state and techno-feudalism of trillionaires and serfs, curating politicians like JD Vance via Peter Thiel.

Vision & Philosophy

The old and new guard fight over a chessboard while the game changes from chess to go, and all he can do is build censorship-resistant voting, money, and blockchain systems.

Vision & Philosophy ambassadorsblock chain

Cites the Russian submarine officer in 1962 and the Soviet silo officer in 1983 who each refused to launch nuclear weapons, punished at home for saving humanity.

Vision & Philosophy ArkhipovPetrov

Humanity is tragically flawed and meant to make mistakes, but each generation resets and can choose to do a little better, like markets going down and up.

Vision & Philosophy reset

Maybe AI's purpose is to be an honest mirror and devil's advocate that tells you where you are wrong, if you are willing to listen and gain wisdom.

Vision & Philosophy artificial intelligence

People admire those who risk death climbing Everest or in Apollo 13 because stakes make a story, and AI and nuclear weapons have real stakes demanding a choice.

Vision & Philosophy artificial intelligence

The world is on fire and no market, real estate, crypto, or otherwise, is healthy when the whole body has cancer, so harder times are coming.

Crypto Industry & Commentary markets

Crypto's value proposition is the control layer for those who cannot control themselves and the one thing that can regulate AI, since like must regulate like.

Vision & Philosophy artificial intelligence

Adopting crypto takes the fangs from the beast by removing its money, punishment, fear, and monopoly on truth, since these leaders rule only because people fear them.

Vision & Philosophy power

Calls the Trump administration the Rubio shoes, mocking Marco Rubio for wearing too-big gifted shoes rather than tell the boss, calling these men powerless simulacra.

Community & Media

He will keep building and writing papers even if he goes back to broke, having already sold his Blackhawk Black Betty, easy to do during wars, closing in May or June.

Personal & Off-topic

Invokes the Japanese mono no aware that everything is ephemeral, urging viewers to know they matter and have the agency to change the world instead of being cynical.

Vision & Philosophy cynicism