Money is a flow of water.
That’s why it’s called currency.
Money is like water in that it is essentially fungible. You can track a bottle of water like an account. You can measure how much is in it, you can see when it is emptied and by how much. You can match it with whatever receptacle it went into, but once you mix it, you can no longer identify which water or money came from which container or account.
Money is like water in that it lasts longer than you.
Water goes from the ocean to the skies, from the skies to the rain, from the rain to the ground, from the ground to the wells, and into your drinking water, out through you, and back to the ocean in one way or many other ways.
Money comes in through your income, it flows through you to somewhere else, in one hand and out the other. On and on forever.
Money is like water in that some places are wet and some places are dry. You can struggle to find water in the Sahara desert, you can get drip fed water in a cage like a little gerbil, or you can get soaked just walking around sea world. You can be a genius in a bad environment for making money and be poor, and you can be a goober rolling in millions because you were in the right places, or you were smart enough to move yourself into position.
There are billions flying around us, giant mile wide rivers flowing and being diverted, giant oceans and reservoirs, flowing so loud it would be deafening to hear.
Your employment income in reality is droplets. You are selling away the only thing that exists, your life, an hour at a time, for the price of a chipotle bowl. “Not me, I’m successful, I get drip fed at the rate of 3-4 chipotle bowls an hour”.
And you pool up your flow into a little pond, big enough for a frog to live in, and it gets stagnant. Selling away your time to end up with what? A little pool? Say you’re somewhat successful but still a normal person like even many of the successful people here… Your pool is bigger. But over the long run what really happens to it? It flows out to shinier things and maybe a little to an orphanage or something, but what did it really DO? In the long run it changed hands like it always does.
As we know with water, it has to go somewhere. It will flow someplace else, and what changes?
All you did was pool it up to go some other place. That’s what your savings are, a stagnant pool to be sent off somewhere else later. Every dollar is already spent if you realize the truth of money.
Because of this, money is not real. It comes in and goes out. It is zero sum in that way.
The ONLY thing that matters is what that flow allowed to happen in the REAL world.
THAT is how you take something that is not real and make it real.
You are a conscious creative mind, that can see the world and decide the flow of this current, and you have the power to direct the useless, fungible, flowing current into something that can be real and tangible.
It is very easy to misinterpret this message as “yeah, make some cash and give it to charities”. That is small thinking. Completely not what I’m really talking about.
I pay zero attention to collecting a stagnant pool. I pay very little attention to irrelevant expenses that are not indicative of tracking the actual health of my business model, not even my business itself, but the model. I don’t care how much is in an account. I only primarily care about the path going from where I am now, to a point in which I have complete dominion over an enduring, growing, unfathomably large current for the main purpose of diverting in for other specific purposes. But the money itself is pointless. I make it, spend it, forget it, and it doesn’t matter. “But what if you run out and lose it all?” I have a strong feeling I will not die, and I don’t think the underlying structure of what I’ve built can die so easily. We have all of our customers names. I know they all trust is to perform services at $X per month. I know I have relationships and partners. Money is not attached to those things. They are more of an asset to me than whatever can be in my bank account.
It is also not important just to “have control” over large amounts of money you don’t really control. Being a hedge fund manager is not controlling that money. You are doing the same thing another hedge fund manager would do, optimizing profits. You did not make something real out of something worthless.
If you have a mind like everyone else too, then diverting a current was essentially pointless too. You sent it someplace anyone else would send it to. You changed nothing. Your life was a script with a fill in the blank for your name, favorite hobbies, and what car brand you drove. Net neutral change.
Forget about cliches like “helping people” and “making a difference”. Think about the fact that money is a flowing current and the only way to make anything real is how that flow of money actually moves and affects other things.
Your margins are the flow that can be used for anything. Revenue comes in and flows out with expenses, but the net can be directed anywhere.
How you live is actually irrelevant. How you spend is actually irrelevant. If it is actually relevant then you are thinking way too small. Any amount of money I am dealing with right now is actually irrelevant. The only thing is the long term path to eventually being able to have complete dominion over a massive flow of margins to be directed at anything. The $20 grand I made in a deal didn’t matter. The mustang I bought yesterday doesn’t matter. It’s all droplets. What matters is the millions of gallons a second a massive corporation can turn over when it is at scale and offering massive value.
You can do as you wish, but I will remain entirely unconcerned with what is or isn’t in my bank account, and instead focused on the general path from where I am now to being in a position of entirely controlling a massive flow, and in a lasting way that is not a flash in the pan startup with an exit.
And that’s when phase two can start.
That’s why it’s called currency.
Money is like water in that it is essentially fungible. You can track a bottle of water like an account. You can measure how much is in it, you can see when it is emptied and by how much. You can match it with whatever receptacle it went into, but once you mix it, you can no longer identify which water or money came from which container or account.
Money is like water in that it lasts longer than you.
Water goes from the ocean to the skies, from the skies to the rain, from the rain to the ground, from the ground to the wells, and into your drinking water, out through you, and back to the ocean in one way or many other ways.
Money comes in through your income, it flows through you to somewhere else, in one hand and out the other. On and on forever.
Money is like water in that some places are wet and some places are dry. You can struggle to find water in the Sahara desert, you can get drip fed water in a cage like a little gerbil, or you can get soaked just walking around sea world. You can be a genius in a bad environment for making money and be poor, and you can be a goober rolling in millions because you were in the right places, or you were smart enough to move yourself into position.
There are billions flying around us, giant mile wide rivers flowing and being diverted, giant oceans and reservoirs, flowing so loud it would be deafening to hear.
Your employment income in reality is droplets. You are selling away the only thing that exists, your life, an hour at a time, for the price of a chipotle bowl. “Not me, I’m successful, I get drip fed at the rate of 3-4 chipotle bowls an hour”.
And you pool up your flow into a little pond, big enough for a frog to live in, and it gets stagnant. Selling away your time to end up with what? A little pool? Say you’re somewhat successful but still a normal person like even many of the successful people here… Your pool is bigger. But over the long run what really happens to it? It flows out to shinier things and maybe a little to an orphanage or something, but what did it really DO? In the long run it changed hands like it always does.
As we know with water, it has to go somewhere. It will flow someplace else, and what changes?
All you did was pool it up to go some other place. That’s what your savings are, a stagnant pool to be sent off somewhere else later. Every dollar is already spent if you realize the truth of money.
Because of this, money is not real. It comes in and goes out. It is zero sum in that way.
The ONLY thing that matters is what that flow allowed to happen in the REAL world.
THAT is how you take something that is not real and make it real.
You are a conscious creative mind, that can see the world and decide the flow of this current, and you have the power to direct the useless, fungible, flowing current into something that can be real and tangible.
It is very easy to misinterpret this message as “yeah, make some cash and give it to charities”. That is small thinking. Completely not what I’m really talking about.
I pay zero attention to collecting a stagnant pool. I pay very little attention to irrelevant expenses that are not indicative of tracking the actual health of my business model, not even my business itself, but the model. I don’t care how much is in an account. I only primarily care about the path going from where I am now, to a point in which I have complete dominion over an enduring, growing, unfathomably large current for the main purpose of diverting in for other specific purposes. But the money itself is pointless. I make it, spend it, forget it, and it doesn’t matter. “But what if you run out and lose it all?” I have a strong feeling I will not die, and I don’t think the underlying structure of what I’ve built can die so easily. We have all of our customers names. I know they all trust is to perform services at $X per month. I know I have relationships and partners. Money is not attached to those things. They are more of an asset to me than whatever can be in my bank account.
It is also not important just to “have control” over large amounts of money you don’t really control. Being a hedge fund manager is not controlling that money. You are doing the same thing another hedge fund manager would do, optimizing profits. You did not make something real out of something worthless.
If you have a mind like everyone else too, then diverting a current was essentially pointless too. You sent it someplace anyone else would send it to. You changed nothing. Your life was a script with a fill in the blank for your name, favorite hobbies, and what car brand you drove. Net neutral change.
Forget about cliches like “helping people” and “making a difference”. Think about the fact that money is a flowing current and the only way to make anything real is how that flow of money actually moves and affects other things.
Your margins are the flow that can be used for anything. Revenue comes in and flows out with expenses, but the net can be directed anywhere.
How you live is actually irrelevant. How you spend is actually irrelevant. If it is actually relevant then you are thinking way too small. Any amount of money I am dealing with right now is actually irrelevant. The only thing is the long term path to eventually being able to have complete dominion over a massive flow of margins to be directed at anything. The $20 grand I made in a deal didn’t matter. The mustang I bought yesterday doesn’t matter. It’s all droplets. What matters is the millions of gallons a second a massive corporation can turn over when it is at scale and offering massive value.
You can do as you wish, but I will remain entirely unconcerned with what is or isn’t in my bank account, and instead focused on the general path from where I am now to being in a position of entirely controlling a massive flow, and in a lasting way that is not a flash in the pan startup with an exit.
And that’s when phase two can start.
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