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New Post: Presidential Tweet Mode https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stjohnpiano_at-solidi-in-preparation-for-international-activity-7334138828607139840-WdYX Mood music: Just Like You Imagined, by Nine Inch Nails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P_YISMJ4sQ Excerpt from Housing Is Both a Product and an Investment, by Michael Magoon https://substack.com/home/post/p-136980783 Housing is unusual because it is both a consumer product and an investment. Most products that you buy on the market depreciate rapidly after the initial purchase. This makes them extremely poor investments. When a person buys a home, however, they are not only purchasing a place to live. They are also purchasing an investment that can potentially accrue more value over time. For many homeowners, their house is their most substantial investment. ... This places the financial interests of homeowners in direct conflict with those who do not own homes.

On 2025-07-18, Tela Network purchased 0.00006836 Bitcoin for 0.00000606 million GBP, at a price per coin of 87,576.29 GBP ($117,468.50). Explanation: This is a (very) small-scale version of Microstrategy's Bitcoin investment strategy. We take it quite seriously, however, and it's likely to be an interesting journey. 👉 Follow Tela Network on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/dUEVryNw

Chuck Prince, Citigroup CEO, 2007: 'As long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing. When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated.’ ---- I see that happening in front of my eyes with AI. Companies are developing internal chatbots at great expense; employees are getting CoPilot licences. At the same time, I hardly use it. I hardly see a need for it. Outputs are unreliable, and require so much reviewing you're often quicker writing it yourself. The uses of gen AI, in my professional experience, don’t come close to justifying the investment that’s put into it. And the time invested in compulsory training programmes. But… everyone else is doing it. All the big companies, all the big professional services firms. The music is playing. And we have to dance. And when the music stops playing we will look like idiots.

/ The state functionally went bankrupt, and was dissolved in what amounts to essentially a corporate-sovereign restructuring. Starting in the 1970s and accelerating thereafter, the Soviet growth model - extensive capital accumulation poured into new urban factories, power plants, steel mills, and machine tools - had effectively run out of low-hanging investment opportunities, resulting in persistently diminishing marginal growth potential. / A total lack of ... creative destruction on one side, and ballooning imperial obligations on the other. / To paper over these holes, the Soviet Union financed its civilian consumption and military spending - along with the subsidies it paid to its puppets - through oil rents made possible by the global energy crisis of the 1970s. But when oil prices normalized again in the mid-1980s, the regime was forced onto international debt markets, where it was eventually strangled. / https://boydinstitute.org/p/debt-killed-the-soviet-empire

The first wave of Bitcoin Banks have started to emerge in the form of Bitcoin Treasury companies such as Metaplanet, Twenty One, and MicroStrategy. They are all trying to do one thing: acquire as much BTC as possible and use it to generate returns in whatever way possible for their shareholders. In short: they are attempting to bridge the gap between the old Fiat system and the new digital asset system by treating Bitcoin as a stock, not as gold. I don't have a concrete idea of how Bitcoin can be used in finance but I do know that using it to create returns as if it were a stock is unlikely to work in the long term. I believe that a good use of time is to research and experiment with how a group of individuals can come together a collectively grow a stockpile of bitcoin. Step two would then be how to financialise that or issue a token on top of the Bitcoin whoch could be used everyday in a small geographical area.

Viewpoint = what someone thinks Mythos = the story-world that makes those thoughts feel true / Re: 'silver is an industrial metal and has no monetary value'... The awakening is spreading and everyday people are looking for a place to keep their cash. They are getting priced out of gold - silver is their only option. It is ultimately the people who will decide what has monetary value and what doesn't. / Source: An (edited) comment from: https://youtu.be/tQa6mNXcM4s We can see an underlying doctrine: People can decide the monetary standard. And another one: Gold is too expensive for the average person, therefore it can't be the primary monetary standard. What is most interesting to me is that it is a democratic inversion of the goldbug mythos, which says: 1) People must adapt to the most powerful monetary standard. 2) The best monetary standard will have the highest price. Summary: Goldbug mythos: monetary truth is discovered. Silverbug mythos: monetary truth is ratified.

Bitcoin is the first modern monetary system that is outside of the political control of any state. In the pre-modern era (earlier than the French Revolution), gold (and to some extent silver) was above the state. If the state issued too much currency, its value would visibly decrease relative to gold. However, tech advancement caused gold to become too difficult to protect on a small scale. Gold centralized into a few major locations inside states. It became impossible for an individual to escape the effect of money printing. Inflation is effectively another tax. (It also destroys the measuring stick that we use for value, and therefore for business.) For most young people, a house is out of reach. This was one of the only remaining ways to escape (somewhat, and badly) the debasement of inflation. For the next 15-30 years, despite the scams / fear / uncertainty / doubt, I think that Bitcoin will remain the most achievable method available to a young person to save for the future.

Jacob Klug, CEO @ Creme Digital, analyzed every Lovable app that hit $10K MRR in under 30 days. Key points: 1) Each solved a problem that already had paying customers. They just made the existing solution 10x simpler with AI. 2) The domains were boring. E.g. Inventory management for dentists. 3) Unfair advantage: Direct access to potential customers. Distribution > Product. 4) Personally onboarded every early user. Get insights. 5) Double down on whichever sales channel worked first. Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7353049897475928064

Millennials came of age just as the old promises began to be broken. Millennials were told that they were special, that the world was their oyster, and that they were entitled to success. Millennials are upset that the promises are not coming true. They despise religion and foster resentment towards the institutions. A German would say that this is nothing compared to losing everything in the war, experiencing the division of one´s country, years of famine, war crimes committed by Russian soldiers, and building from scratch. Germans do not believe that anyone is entitled to anything apart from human dignity. Disappointment is a normal response and can be worked through. Entitlement is a prideful belief that one is owed something.

I became a Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) through the Project Management Institute (PMI) on 09-08-2025. The PMI is the leading professional association for project management. I was evaluated for "knowledge, skill, and understanding of the processes, terminology, and best practices in project management" and “Predictive methodologies, Agile principles, and business analysis needed for effective project management”. The exam consisted of 150 multiple-choice questions completed in three hours. My score was graded "Above Target", the highest grade. • Credly badge: https://www.credly.com/badges/a8270f3a-9978-47a4-8405-c6d86a03b518/public_url • LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guillermo-pablos-murphy_im-happy-to-share-that-ive-obtained-a-new-activity-7360987895916019712-Wm2g?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADJEdT4BB5dPGU7gJizFjf6uIihxZWrMjpI • My video on the exam prep: https://youtu.be/uhVZyaR0AdE?