The presenter discusses sleep optimization, then argues that spending reflects your values. He explains Bitcoin's 16-year track record as a freedom-focused monetary system, and introduces Wisp, a Lightning Network platform enabling micropayments between AI agents and devices at sub-penny costs.
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Hey everybody, welcome back. Episode 3. Got my coffee here. Today we're going to talk a little bit about sleep and blockchain, Bitcoin. So that's, uh, that's quite the interesting combo. Um, so yeah, grab a cup of coffee, push pause, take a minute, take a beat, and, uh, we can get into it. So, as you can see, it's a little bit overcast out here today. So, like we talked about in our last video, things change. Sleep though, sleep is one of those leading metrics in your performance overall, how you approach the world, your mood, depression, anxiety, your creative capabilities, how well you can interact with others, how well you can build new things and create new things, come up with ideas. But sometimes when you get into this thing, this mode of creation, and you get excited and you find something that like captures your fascination, it gets a little hard 'cause, you know, you may wake up in the middle of the night, you may need to use the restroom, and then your brain starts going. And then it's like, oh great, here we go. So you're in build mode all over again. And, you know, if you're like us, you're building pretty much 24/7, 365. So your brain doesn't get that much of a break. Yeah. If you're always on, never off till the break of break of dawn. So what do you do about it? Well, one of the things we've tried is we got these red lens glasses. And these red lens glasses are really interesting because once you put them on, it actually blocks the blue and the green light from all the devices that we look at all day. And so that helps your body regulate and get more in the sleep mind and sleep mode. But the other thing that happens, which is really interesting and was unexpected, I've tested this with a couple people. when I was running around New York City. It actually brings your mood down. It clicks down the calmness level. And so, you just kind of go from amped up from this coffee to like, oh, and you just kind of ease into it. So, we created this night mode thing on the shop. And, depending on when you watch this, it's early 2026, it may be gone at that point. A lot of the products and brands and things that we purchase now, we put on our body, we interact with— this coffee cup, the Frick Collection, the museum we became members this year in New York City. It's like we are really connected to the brands with core values, to the products with core values. And so we're becoming very intentional about the things that we engage with, the people we interact with, the companies and brands that we— connect with and where we put our dollars, where we invest our energy, our money. Because when we spend money with a brand, that's an investment in them such that they can continue to produce the things that they produce. So if they're producing good things, then, you know, it's a self-reinforcing cycle. If they produce bad things, that's a negative spiral and can take you down. So You know, you'll see stuff that we put up on the shop we actually believe in. And so, you know, none of this is like sponsored or like a cash grab. It's real. It's authentic to us. So you can trust in that. Same thing with these videos. So that's sort of the sleep. We're still in the belief, building belief mindset. And so as we switch into like decision-making for These new financial infrastructure elements that are coming online— blockchain, Bitcoin, some alternatives. Bitcoin's now, what, 16 years old? It was like January 3rd, 2009. So, we're almost at the 16-year point when it was created. And, it was created with some strong core values that people really connected with. And, that's why you've seen this take off and maintain its credibility and its authenticity over the years is it wasn't just an empty, an empty vessel of like empty money. It was truly embedding electricity into a monetary system that was hard and fortified and could be validated over time through these blocks. You can research more later, and I've got a whole like strategy background deck on this if you're interested. I'll include the link in the show notes here. But it really was about like freedom and the ability to be self-sovereign. And so because of that core value input into the atomic unit of that product, that belief system, it's maintained itself and it's not going away at this stage. And now like you have sovereign wealth funds, major corporations, countries around the world investing in this, um, because it started with the people. It started with a one-on-one connection with another individual, and that belief system is what it's built on. Truly, it's built on— Bitcoin is built on a core value. And so that is probably the best indication of a planetary-scale product, system, technology, network, you name it, That's built with strong core values and it connects with people. So when you're building your thing, like, look at that. Look at the stuff that you're buying every day. Does that match your core values? Does that represent who you are? When you wear that shirt, that cap, those glasses, the watch, whatever, the coffee cup you run around in, the phone you hold in your hand, it's signaling something about yourself to the external market. Similarly, as you flip that and you're creating a product or service for others, you have to think about like, what is, what is your thing signaling for them to the rest of the world? And if that's signaling something bad, then it's going to dampen your growth. And you may never even get out of like first gear on that thing. You may never get past first base. You may never even get out of the batter's box. So I think with all this stuff, it just again comes back to core values. So let's talk about this new financial infrastructure system. So we've gone very deep in this stuff over the years. Like we've got a background in econ, finance, math, yada, yada, monetary systems, incentives. We used to design incentive systems for the boards, management teams, sales teams of a lot of the Fortune 1000 companies. Which is interesting. We've actually written definitive 14A proxy statements, which gets filed with the SEC, advised a lot of companies. So it is, it is a system of control in some way, but it's more of a like, how do we get a large group of people, say an organization of a million people, to align? That's really difficult. You can't have a conference call with a million people every day. and, you know, sort of like direct them. So you have to use other and invent other mechanisms. And so compensation systems are a way for that. So Bitcoin actually can function as not just like a monetary protocol where you're like paying for things back and forth, but almost a compensation incentive system as well. And then you can build things on top of it. It's a technology, so it's like a platform as well. So we've got this new thing, it's called Wisp, wisp.com, W-H-I-I-S-P dot com. Wisp. It's a Bitcoin Lightning network all over the world. And what it allows you to do is it allows tiny subpenny micropayments from yourself to someone else, from an AI agent to another AI agent, from literally any one thing to any other thing. Now, why do we need this? Well, we need it because the current monetary system can't manage small transactions. So below $0.50, Stripe won't work. ACH bank transfers won't work. Credit cards won't work. Like, you're just going to be paying fees that, you know, doesn't make sense for you to have these small transactions. So, and you can do big transactions too. I mean, you could transfer $1 billion at the speed of electricity, the speed of the internet, uh, to the other side of the world on this thing. But Why small transactions? Well, our core hypothesis is that in the future, and even today, there's going to be hundreds, thousands, millions, trillions of these small little AI programs. Let's just call them small little programs that just do one small function, one little thing. And as you chain a lot of these little things together, each one needs to do a transaction. There's some exchange of value there, right? Hey, I want this, I want your program to do this small thing for me and give me back this thing and answer a task, whatever. And so I'm willing to pay you 0.0000001 cent to do that. And I'm gonna pay you that a billion times a second all over the world at scale. So you can't do credit cards like that. That doesn't make sense. I mean, you're paying 25 cents every time you do that. So So you've reached this fundamental limit. And so you see these other companies like Stripe and, you know, Coinbase, they're like building their own blockchain. And then it's just like, what are you doing, guys? Like, this is stupid. You already have Bitcoin, which is a network that's so large. It's at zettahash scale. Zetta scale is all the grains of sand on the planet. Zetta scale is the width of the Milky Way galaxy. Wow. Zettascale is the number of water drops on our planet. And so you're not gonna just like build a new like financial infrastructure from scratch that meets those needs today with just a closed set of like 10 companies and financial institutions. It's another set of control. So they are still hanging on to power as much as they can. And we just take a different approach. Like the more you give away power, the more it comes back to you. Ding, ding, quiz question. So it's— you got to let go in this new market, this new economy. You got to let go with AI, like it's a probabilistic system. You got to let go with this Bitcoin Lightning Network because it's taken the path of least resistance. Whatever node is best positioned with the highest— lowest latency, highest throughput, shortest hop between 2 points on a network graph, like a highway system, And so you can't control always the pathway that it takes. So you gotta relinquish control. And all these companies that are still trying to like hang on to control and like power and money, they're obsolete. They don't know it yet, they're obsolete. And even these new Web3 companies are still in that same mindset, even though they came up through this new system and they still haven't gotten it. The philosophy The core values of this thing. Let go. Give it back to the people. Let the universe and nature take hold. Look at this. This is perfect. No one designed this. I mean, God, the universe, right? The laws of physics. But no one sat down with a pencil and paper and said, like, you know what, we're a bank and we're gonna make a forest today and we're gonna draw it exactly like this. It's not how the universe works. So, you know, us humans, we like to put things in a box. I think we should put things in a tesseract or just, you know, let go and let nature take its course. So you have to become a philosopher and direct systems like a river, the flow of water, right? Rather than like trying to control everything, you have to let go and ride the waves. You gotta become a surfer rather than like a rote engineer building like a core set of train tracks and it must follow this path. It's like, Oh, maybe we can fly today. Maybe we can take a river. Maybe we can walk a little bit. All right, we'll hop a train, yada, yada. So that's a little bit of an overview. We can go deeper later. And I just wanted to share that thought with y'all today. So remember, we're still in belief situation. Enjoy your cup of coffee. Go look at some art, expand your mind, and think about building a product or service with core values. But in a way that relinquishes control such that your brand can help your customer signal the virtues that we all believe in to the rest of the market, and good things will happen. The more you let go, the more it comes back to you in droves, actually. So that's it. That's a bit of an intention for today. And I hope you have a great rest of your day and step outside, enjoy some of this. We'll talk to you later. Peace out, everybody.
