A Bright Orange Future Is Brewing (with Kurtis Warren)
Ideas to take with you.
- 01
A cafe – or any third place – is community infrastructure, and its value compounds most during periods when other institutions are thinning out.
- 02
Sound money doesn't only preserve savings; it lengthens the runway required to build anything real, which is why entrepreneurship and hard money keep showing up together.
- 03
Bitcoin adoption clusters wherever the existing monetary system has visibly failed people – hyperinflation abroad, housing inflation in Vancouver – because adoption follows a felt problem, not an argument.
- 04
The right way to integrate Bitcoin into a consumer business is to be excellent at the core offering first and let curiosity do the onboarding at the margins, rather than branding around the technology.
- 05
As AI commoditizes software, capital and labor stranded in unprofitable knowledge work will pressure governments toward transfers and debasement, which in turn pressures more people toward a monetary escape hatch.
