Everything in life is a choice. A few good habits compounded over a lifetime reap high rewards. A life of abundance is only a few atomic habits away. Decentralized living starts with self-awareness.
Be aware & responsible:
Truth is foundational to blockchain & human evolution, truth & trust build our collective awareness, nodes in blockchain need to be trustworthy to effectively contribute to the ever-growing ecosystem.
The collective awareness of the system improves with verifiable & truthful data, humans like this model need to echo the right sentiments to their near ones in order to reduce the complications of everyday life & untangle the mystery of lies. We create these lies unconsciously due to pre-existing patterns due to social situations or the fixed mindset of an individual. To carry forward a lie, every day the mind must remind itself of the lie and keep reminding itself of it till that lie becomes the source of its truth. This happens more often than not with us. With every lie, we move a little bit away from the truth. We enter an unrecognized territory & lose track of reality eventually forgetting who we truly are.
To come back from such a situation one must become an observer. The best way to identify patterns is to keep collecting behavioral information about our surroundings & ourselves. Do not judge, simply collect data. Learn from the big boys (Fb, insta, twi), they just collect data and know a lot more about you than you ever will. So use the same logic for your own benefit, collect all kinds of data, observe yourself. Be aware. Know your strengths & weaknesses, build models around your strengths & minimize the impacts of your weaknesses. Easier said than done but that’s the challenge, isn’t it?
Become a health investor:
Owning our health, food over medicine. Organic over GMO. Every meal is a choice, make decisions based on how you feel, slow release of pain (physical exercise, mindset hurdles) & facing new challenges in your life is better than sudden attacks your body cannot handle due to compounding of poor health decisions. Take care of your body. It’s the only thing we truly own on this planet.
Staying away from the perils of the centralized food industry that feeds us processed garbage every day, investing in local food, food in a form that is closer to natural consumption will reap lifelong benefits. Unprocessed, lightly cooked, food that has life & isn’t dead due to heavy processing is the natural correction our body needs. Love thy banana.
Be independent of the system (as much as possible):
This is our matrix. We often depend on a singular source of income & earn in a currency that loses value with time. Essentially wiping out all our savings, we try to invest but it isn’t enough.
The system exists in all unnatural forms of life, the system runs on fear of the masses. Health insurances, car insurances, every Ponzi scheme monetized beyond our comprehension. Realize who is trying to cash in on your fears. The system needs a slice of our cash flow, the system is your monthly subscriptions, annual renewals. It’s all your needless dependencies. Your material needs & your regular distractions, same patterns on loop, every year, the system asks you to be comfortable, relaxed, glued to your screens, predictable, behaving according to instructions fed to you by mainstream media narratives. The system demands your attention.
It’s time to be independent of the system, unlearn our conditionings and own our situation. The driving wheel is always in front of us. Don’t be a passenger. Realized how far south are you from yourself. Don’t outsource your mind & your ability to criticize. Live to be free & not just to support your current lifestyle.
Know your distractions (enemies?):
Your distractions are served by several forms of centralized entities, the power-hungry, the discrete, those who try to bend data in their favor. They want to know what you’re thinking, they need to know your habits, they want to monetize your body & mind. Treat you like a cattle class.
They’re on your internet, trying to sell you something, distract you, take a piece of you, own your attention. Never give your attention to anything/anyone who doesn’t deserve it. Always question if the current activity requires the best of you & if it aligns with your interests. You have several enemies right in your phone trying to get your attention, stay away from the attention-hungry & reserve that attention for yourself. Several industries such as big tech, big pharma, big hollywood & big sport have no interest in distributing the right information to everyone equally.
All social layers are simply monetized. They will continue to distract you from your goals. Know who does not have your best interest, know who wants to constantly consume your attention.
Local involvement:
Our world is a stage, the media is our circus, the media loves to confuse us, take a video, blow it out of proportion, media is often controlled by those who want to set the narrative, they are not interested in being fair or honest, truth is perhaps only discussed when it is convenient. What you see in front of your eyes needs to take priority over world affairs. Nothing that you see on TV is ever as important as the truth that you ignore in front of you every day.
Before donating to Ukraine, first, make sure if there’s anyone around you that needs help. Value you, your local & immediate surroundings before anything else. Become the environment you choose to live in & protect it equally. Every other problem is secondary to your local issues. Self needs to heal first in order to contribute effectively.
Personal finance:
Personal finance goes deeper than owning assets that appreciate over time, we must individually define what wealth means to us, personally for me to be wealthy is to keep my physique in great shape to play football as much as I can, get the joy I want without my body hurting my footballing ability. I feel this is wealth.
To own wealth is to invest whatever I have in my very own life. To bet on my dreams, passion & aspirations constantly and relentlessly. People limit their lives by growing only in a few directions or worse just in one direction. Money in your bank will keep losing value over time. Invest it. You are your best investment.
Get involved directly, communicate/help directly, peer to peer way of life -
We’re already living in a decentralized society & have been living in the past as well. With the rise of agriculture, we learned to grow surplus & now through the printing press we can share our ideas through paper without a middle entity reading the content.
It is natural for us to communicate our ideas freely, in order to completely transition to a decentralized society we must shift our mental models from client-server architecture to a peer-to-peer model. Giving it to the man by completely removing the man from our system. Removing Uber from the equation and connecting the driver directly to the passenger through hybrid smart contracts (We shall dig into Chainlink in the upcoming posts, it’s an important protocol).
Building our pillars of decentralized society based on the above architecture -
The Pillars of Decentralization.
1. Decentralized Communication; Communication without censorship, through the internet and cryptography(The latter to make sure it stays uncensored).
2. Decentralized Law; The choice of our law, judge, and our enforcer.
3. Decentralized Production. Anyone is allowed to make products( 3d printing things & using solar panels to get your own energy).
4. Decentralized Finance. Decentralization over currency and legal contracting platforms.
If you’re interested in learning more about the above pillars you can listen to Johann Gevers (founder of Tezos blockchain) here:
A shift in mentality is crucial to truly understand the value of….value. Progress in decentralized law, communication, production, finance & health will show us a glimpse of the future we’ve been waiting for. The transition will be bumpy but the goal is to own more of our time. Decentralization will deliver on that promise. WAGMI.