Recent developments have shone a light on some key areas for me. Time allocation. Attention allocation. Energy allocation. Why am I doing what I am doing?

The upshot?

The order of business in my day:

• My parenting
• My health
• My career

I was guilty of prioritising career. I don’t have to. So why do it? Especially at the expense of my family life, and personal health goals. A nice problem to have no doubt. This is the benefit of a deflationary savings technology, my friend Bitcoin. I no longer have to sell my time for money. I have built a position of financial health, of financial freedom, that with time, is only getting better.

This has multiple externalities. I can persue more low time preference objectives. I don’t need to dress creative outlets up as “business opportunities” or “career aspirations”. In fact, I don’t need to do anything for anybody. I am the master of my time. With great power comes great responsibility.

So what is important to me? Well as per the order of business above, my commitment to home-schooling my children comes first and foremost. I have to release any notion that anything else is superior. They get my time. They get my attention. They get my energy.

Interestingly, I’ve noticed that the more I’ve leant into this, the more the child will come to me when they need, but often will return to whatever game they’re playing. I am not needed the whole time. This opens up time for me to achieve whatever else is on the “to do” list. Instead of prioritising whatever laptop or phone based “work” I am doing, I immediately put them down when they approach me, and not before long they run off again. A much better setup to kicking your shins at the annoying request at you feet, whilst desperately trying to complete whatever notification enhanced task my laptop has thrown at me.

My energetics mentor Jason re-framed this process excellently for me this week:

“Your focus is on solving the humanistic problem. All we have to do is expand our job. Your work: really thinking about legacy, of multi-generational healing, via the multi-dimensional application of time, space, and energy, with humanistic, intellectual and financial capital, to pass down to your kids, via energy transmutation, the idea of each generation being the first generation, the legacy of each person as a pioneer. Now that’s an interesting job to have”

Amen to that. What an interesting job to have. The key: my job is not what I’ve been conditioned to do, to work work work for financial gain. This realisation has itself taken work to recognise, process, and adopt. Indeed, I am still working on it. This last week is proof of that. Jake, you don’t need to run a successful business right now to be valuable… Actually, the real flex, is to focus inwards, on yourself, your wife, your children, and lean into the humanistic investment.

So what is humanistic capital? To me its your life partner, your relationship, your children, the relationships you have with them, the values you live by, the requirements you set, with measurable and tangible manifestations, the agreements you hold, with the relevant frequencies and behaviours, a sophisticated system, a capital resource that arms your legacy with the humanistic power it needs to flourish. After all, what’s the point of creating large financial returns, if the benefits it brings have no heir to pass to?

It’s my opinion that the nurturing of humanistic capital is sorely overlooked in today’s world. Fatherless homes. Depressed kids. Suicide. Obesity. Childless marriages. Divorce. Climate-fear. Climate-obnoxious-martyrdom-childless-marriage’s… But, what if they’re all linked? Well of course, as a Bitcoin advocate, “fix the money, fix the world”, rings true for many of these issues. But how does it do that in practice? Well a deflationary savings technology opens up our time, our mind, our attention, to focus on other forms of capital, in this case humanistic. What difference would a balanced, present, and attentive father make to a family? Not “Dad was there but wasn’t there” huddled over a laptop “working from home” and shooing children away, but inter-active, open, and always there.

So where am I going with all this?

Point being, my latest “I have to create a massive business” loop has ended, and I am learning. My podcast is going to return to what it was meant to be, a creative outlet, to be worked on in my time when not fulfilling my role as a parent, as a humanistic investor, or day-to-day health goals, biohacking for not just multi-generational health.

What will the podcast look like?

Great question. That is what I am thinking through now. Lean. Really lean. Beholden to no-one. Perhaps I have a little by-the-hour contracting done to assist with the repetitive tasks of editing and publishing, but if so then on a pay-as-you-go basis, meaning there is a minimal financial strain on the project. It’s a way to share what I learn. It’s a way to have fun. It’s a way to be creative. It will only be worked on when the time and space to do so appaears or is scheduled.

As I reflect, why did I start? Well I love long-form podcasts, the multi-hour conversations. There’s nowhere to hide. They’re raw. They’re real. They’re valuable. This is where I will focus. Hosting excellent storytelling sessions, with people doing hard work, in cutting edge areas, willing to put themselves out there, take risk, fail, share, and learn. Very little editing. Not much more than posting of a conversation. Fewer short form, or medium form clips, perhaps 1 per episode, almost zero “news”, the focus is on knowledge, and market commentary only from what I pickup along the way. I’ll share when ready, not when the algorithm says I have to, whilst there’s no doubt in my mind that Nostr will be a foundation for the whole thing.

Which brings me nicely to a key battleground in my mind. If this is just a creative outlet, why post on every platform available? I don’t need to try and maximise reach. This is what has tripped me up before, and scooped up too many resources. I know the companies that control Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X et al, are censoring, open to the highest advertising bidder, in lock-step with authoritarian globalists, and very much practicing: “freedom of speech does not mean freedom of reach”. So if this is just a creative itch, why not go all-in on Nostr? F#ck all the others off. Build on a protocol, not a rented piece of digital real estate, and think super long-term. This would be the low time preference option. Audience size is of no interest to me if I am able to fill my creative cup. Revenue is of no interest to me right now if this is simply to scratch a creative itch. I smirk as I write this. What if you just used RSS feeds, with Fountain on the back-end, and Nostr, for all your publishing and promotion? Feels naughty. Feels cutting edge. Feels free. Feels like the “F*ck you Elon and Zuck” move. I do not comply. I will not feed your attention focused surveillance capitalism platforms, I opt out, and choose to follow freedom tech, truth, and a vision that once existed for a totally decentralised internet.

Time to wrap this up.

What’s next? Well I’ve got a podcast process to reconfigure, iron out, and iterate on. That will come. How I produce, publish, and promote the podcast will be revamped. Crucially there’s no rush, I’ll give myself time.

Now back to my day…! 2 of the 3 kids have had gastro, so we’ve been dealing with vomit, disinfectant, and volatile behaviour.

Thanks for reading.

Best, Jake

Ps - a big part of this process is caring less what people think about me. I want to lean into that. Create to create. Bring joy. Proceed with ease, grace, and kindness. Bitcoin has solved the wealth problem so you can re-focus elsewhere. Enjoy that. Allow that. Overcome your fears. Do not be afraid to travel the untrodden path…

Pps - a special shout out to Michael and Pat, who we’ve worked with me since launch, as producer and editor, who for now I will not be able to keep involved. Just a week ago I wouldn’t have seen this u-turn happen, for that I apologise. They’ve both been excellent, and I’d highly recommend them to anyone that ever asked.