Investing is a highly-addictive video game… the goal = converting alpha into cash. Markets are the final boss (always flashing your score in a pretty little chart).

In-game returns are correlated with:

1 - knowledge
2 - discipline
3 - a lil luck

Knowledge is the easiest part of the equation to control. So every moment you’re not learning feels like backsliding/losing to the final boss.

Over a long time horizon, it has this weird effect of warping your worldview.

You don’t live in the now so much as the now's second- and third-order impacts on the markets.

You live inside simulations of what hasn’t happened yet.

And the present fades to gray.

Storyteller at Delphi Labs. Proposed the BRC-20, Bascii and Asteroid standards. Exploring the fringe and publishing daily >> zora.co/@redphone