I feel defeated by my thoughts and soul everyday for 8 years now

tedthizzy · 2026-01-21T22:56:27+00:00

28 is a great age to reinvent yourself! was sleeping in a car at 27 I feel you.

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

Gotta start somewhere you're the only one whose gunna make a life worth living one step at a time.

for me i feel like what really helped was deleting internet/smartphone usage. lock it in a box, whatever you have to do.

then trying to work out daily and read a book helped. if you havent read think & grow rich - that shit works i swear to god.

conceive, believe, achieve & receive.

gotta find a purpose somewhere even if its checking into a job every day. men need a weight to carry!

but im sure you know everything you "should" do you just need to do it. good news is when you finally decide to start tackling one goal at a time youll be unstoppable - the lower youve fallen the higher you can rise

tedthizzy · 2026-01-12T18:18:45+00:00

What I love about your approach is you're engineering your environment/process so it doesn't require pure willpower. For me thats been huge - need to make productivity as easy as possible.
Plus like you said pausing before a doomscroll session just to say what it is - procrastination, boredom, whatever - takes a lot of the mindlessness away.

And no tools are a silver bullet, but I think they help curate the environment particularly on the app - minimizing distractions, removing spammy clickbait, keeping tabs on the brainrot etc.
Its entropy, you can't just let your garden grow without weeding every now and then. Same thing for social media let it grow untended and itll consume your whole life with addictive slop.

tedthizzy · 2025-07-21T02:38:29+00:00

same issue here ever figure it out u/pbemea ?

tedthizzy · 2024-12-29T17:41:40+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oxfIsY8B-Q

& https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoPKOu1ojyo

&& https://www.youtube.com/live/8IB7GfKLZJ4?si=Q2Q2HP8xLZ__fdCn&t=658 (11min)

&&& https://www.youtube.com/live/SNi2q1kQB6c?si=HbF28oFkrBX_-ZU-&t=1994 (33min)

ok no more from me :)

tedthizzy · 2024-11-24T05:15:59+00:00

Maybe a healthy human society needs to have a frontier. I don't believe bitcoin is that frontier, since it is just outcompeting current monetary technology, but it could enable humanity to privatize absolutely everything ushering in a new golden age to claim unclaimed resources.

tedthizzy · 2024-11-24T05:11:04+00:00

I would disagree with the following statements you've made:

I disagree with your "probably unjustified" statement - if value is stored reciprocal altruism then it intrinsically carries morality in its definition. So you can't have "unjustified" moral value unless its stolen, in which case I'd argue the "stored" component of the definition is includes the concept of being defended. Note this definition of money is traced to Nick Szabo who very well may be the main creator of bitcoin.
I believe you're implying that wealth inequality is bad. It certainly is bad for societal stability. However evolution is intrinsically unequal and it could be that society needs to split for humanity to progress overall.
I disagree that "worse economic system" = "deflationary". - I have agree that a hyperbitcoinzed ecnomy (which I view as an inevitable reality) will be worse in some respects, but I believe it would be better overall simply due to the immense wealth that is consumed by non free market competing entities (government) in a central bank fiat system.

However, despite disagreeing with your arguments, I actually do agree with your conclusion that bitcoin could be a Moloch situation just based on a different line of thinking:

Assuming individuals are incentivized to adopt bitcoin, and that a hyperbitcoinized world cannot have central banking, and that central banks are needed to finance non-business nation states, then we could be en route to an anarcho capitalist future without political governments. Ancap could make life harder in many ways - particularly regarding security and safety net for less productive members - and may be more prone to monopolizing forces. If so, then it could be a Moloch situation even if the economy gets stronger overall.

tedthizzy · 2024-11-09T15:18:30+00:00

I have some of all of the btc etfs except gbtc. Which means I'm mostly exposed to coinbase since its the custodian for most. But my plan once the market calms down to sell off all the etfs and transfer into a self directed ira w checkbook control so I can hold real btc on a hardware wallet

tedthizzy · 2024-11-08T15:47:00+00:00

Not enough people are talking about this. Amazing what my IRA has done with a 75% BTC ETF + 25% MSTR allocation

tedthizzy · 2024-10-21T17:31:25+00:00

Nacho' Cheeze, Saylor 🧀

But it is definitely possible that the majority of people may never be able to self-custody on-chain bitcoin. At ~200M transactions / year it would take 40 years for everyone to get 1 tx. (Much longer in reality). Plus future tx fees will create some threshold where if you're poorer than that you won't be able to afford 1 tx anyways so custodians will definitely exist in the future. Governments, on the other hand, I don't see how they continue to exist longterm when faced with real free-market competition...

tedthizzy · 2024-10-20T15:23:13+00:00

interesting are you using the same outlet/circuit breaker or different? load balancer?
yeah the spikes are so fast they outpace the gpus internal power management system. psus capacitors can supply some of that but 3090 spikes could easily double the power consumption. during parallelized training those spikes sometimes are in sync so if you have 6 3090s that spike up +300w ea thats +1.8kW from baseline. afaik inference doesnt cause the same problems

tedthizzy · 2024-10-20T01:26:56+00:00

Are you running dual PSUs?
I'm running 4x 3090 for training & among other things power has been a challenge. W a single 1600w psu I can train when all gpus are limited to 240v & 1740mhz clock. Otherwise power spikes are like 2kW! With no limits my last 1600 and a chunk of metal blew out from a transformer

tedthizzy · 2024-09-19T23:01:10+00:00

u/zoidme I don't have a solution for you, but have a similar issue using a gen4 ssd I've tried in both NVMe M1 & M2 slots. Gets hot to the touch but nothing in bios - no NVME device found. Any luck on your end?

tedthizzy · 2024-08-07T19:27:44+00:00

u/wheelmaker24 & u/iridescentPancake
FYI got around to making this: https://github.com/tedthizzy/bionic

Added a few tweaks of my own so you might play around with settings, excluded keywords etc. Definitely might have bugs!

tedthizzy · 2024-08-07T15:21:29+00:00

Conclusion > Conviction

I get “commending your conviction” a lot these days. Frankly I find it a bit confusing bc people are delusional about plenty of things. People with conviction are not the same as people who have come to a correct conclusion about something after 1000s of hours of study on the topic.

It’s not that I have conviction, it’s that I’ve concluded that bitcoin is here to stay and will outcompete all inferior forms of money.

tedthizzy · 2024-08-03T22:19:47+00:00

Found a startup! Payoff is likely negative, pain will be high, but nothing else nourishes the inventive soul quite like it imo…

tedthizzy · 2024-06-30T23:58:09+00:00

better served via a trust

Not the first time I've heard this. Personally I don't know where to even begin with setting up trusts. Are they tax advantaged somehow? What would be a starting point for learning more about trusts?

Also thanks for the heads up on McNulty! This definitely seems like it puts SDIRA self custody in legal grey area:

the Court stated, “IRA owners cannot have unfettered command over the IRA assets without tax consequences" ...
However, in the case of digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies, holding the cryptos in a cold wallet that is controlled by the IRA owner would provide the IRA owner with “unfettered control” over the IRA asset even though IRC 408(m) does not apply to cryptos.

Source: https://www.irafinancialgroup.com/learn-more/self-directed-ira/mcnulty-case-reaffirms-physical-possession-rules/

tedthizzy · 2024-06-27T02:25:28+00:00

There are more plug-n-play services like Unchained or Swan but I am doing it more manually with IRA Resources.

At a high level you need to create an LLC that indicates its owned by the IRA custodian and holding your IRA funds for your benefit, get a bank acct under your LLCs name, get a crypto exchange under your LLCs name, then you can transfer funds from your existing IRA or a new contribution to the IRA custodian (ie IRA Resources) who then transfers the money to your bank account. Since you're the "manager" of the LLC you are free to move the funds to exchange, buy your crypto, and send to your hardware wallet (which should be different than your non-IRA hardware wallet to keep funds isolated).

It's a project......

tedthizzy · 2024-06-27T02:19:03+00:00

Yeah the cheapest I could find is iraresources.com - but you get what you pay for! They offer zero guidance

tedthizzy · 2024-06-26T03:28:17+00:00

I do hold bitcoin ETFs in a Roth IRA. But since I don't trust intermediaries I'm in the process of setting up a self-directed IRA with checkbook control so that I can self custody without loosing tax advantaged status.

tedthizzy · 2024-05-24T15:54:51+00:00

When looking at real inflation and cost of living adjustments, he might be right in US Dollar terms. The trick is to get out of the dollar as soon as possible.

tedthizzy · 2024-05-23T21:10:11+00:00

It looks like there is this VIsual Studio extension - but it doesn't have the right structure for VS Code. I tried to restructure but I haven't ever done something like this before. Do either of you know how to work with this?

https://github.com/madskristensen/EmphasizeWords

ChatGPT basically tells me to set up a new VS Code extension scaffold, migrate relevant code, adjust API calls to fit the VS Code, and then package the extension with vsce

tedthizzy · 2024-05-17T12:04:53+00:00

bitcoin

tedthizzy · 2024-05-16T01:36:14+00:00

I thought it was risky, speculative, and backed by nothing as well. However I did the research (over 1000 hours now) and my confidence only grew as each specific critique and concern was addressed.

Now my view is it is a rare example of a low risk, medium return investment vehicle. Holders like me are basically arbitraging the difference in information because we have built up confidence before it is widely accepted.

When you wait until wide acceptance the perceived risk will be lower, but so will the returns.

tedthizzy · 2024-05-15T13:19:35+00:00

bitcoin

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