Quick update: this account’s shifting a bit.
The last decade was heavy on making money: Crypto
Over the past 2–3 years, my focus shifted to building holistic success beyond money:
How I:
• Dialed in my health
• Chose a partner
• Built deep friendships
• Found inner peace
• Designed a fulfilling way of living
Still talk crypto here & there - just more of the full picture now.
PS: Retiring the Pablo brand to something more personal.
Tried free-diving with some friends this weekend.
Really enjoyed it. Definitely doing it again. The silence and peace at the bottom of the sea are something else.
Recommend.
Most "lack of discipline" is just a lack of sleep.
If your diets and workout plans keep failing, it's probably not willpower. It's that you're running them on poor sleep.
Every time my diet, training or habits starts deteriorating, it traces back to poor sleep - usually from travel.
@bryan_johnson is right about this.
Fix the sleep and the discipline follows.
Put yourself in front of beauty every day: art, nature, craft.
At first you barely notice it. Then you start seeing beauty in things you walked past for years and as the faculty sharpens, something strange happens:
The eye you trained on beautiful things starts finding beauty everywhere. Even in the dull and heavy things you used to dread.
You didn't change your life. All you changed is your perception.
Life feels thin when you over-optimize one variable (e.g. money) believing it will fix everything else.
It doesn't.
Money won't buy health.
Health won't buy meaning.
Meaning won't buy love.
Each one is its own domain.
You can wear blue-light glasses every night for the rest of your life. A daily tax on your discipline that breaks sooner or later.
Or you set up a circadian lighting system once. Same effect, but it's remembered for you. No willpower required.
You can play life on hard or on easy.
I wanted a home that supports my health without feeling like a science project.
No towering phallic air purifiers sitting in every corner.
No 8Sleep on display like a trophy next to my bed.
No blue‑light glasses permanently welded to my face.
No ceremonial nightly Wi‑Fi kill switch.
No morning routine that starts with digging through a supplement drawer.
Just a beautiful space that does the work quietly in the background without making “optimization” my whole personality.
The reason you skip your supplements isn't discipline.
It's six movements: Open the drawer, pick out the bottles, uncap each one, dispense, recap, repeat tomorrow.
So I designed and built a box. One lid. Refilled twice a month.
You don't need more discipline, you need better design.
Lives built around one thing - work, health, money, toys, travel or her - never work.
The moment it cracks, the entire life comes down with it.
It's not the thing that's wrong. It's that one pillar is never enough to hold a life.
Man strives to be whole.
"Get eight hours of sleep. Eat clean. Take your supplements."
You’ve heard it a thousand times...
The problem isn’t lack of information. It’s that none of it has been seamlessly integrated into your life.
Knowing what to do is easy. The real work is designing routines, systems, and an environment that make them happen automatically and effortlessly.
Getting to 1M in most cases runs on:
1. The desire of “wanting more”
2. The pain of “not being enough”
These feelings don’t magically disappear when you hit that milestone.
You get to 1M and it still doesn’t feel like enough. Then you want more: 2M. Then 5M. Then 10M.
That will never end until you become aware of where that desire and pain originally came from.
Built this the other day:
Designed the pot.
3D-printed it.
Bought 50-something succulents at the nursery.
Then got to work.
Wholesome activity that adds 5% more soul and liveliness to your space.
Quality of life isn’t one thing.
It’s your body, your mind, your relationships, and your everyday environment.
You can have three locked in and still feel miserable if the fourth is slipping.
Neglect any one of them and the cost shows up - sooner or later.
No amount of overcompensating in one will cover what’s missing.
Aim for wholeness.
High IQ men only connect with high IQ women. Same goes for friends btw. A lot of shame around awkwardness/inability to connect goes away when you understand/accept this.
Went on dates with guys who made >$700k and had wiki pages and the first thing they would complain about when they got comfortable on the date was that they didn’t like “dumb” girls they couldn’t talk to.
I found it strange that this man prioritized the ability to converse more than I thought because when we’d walk around in public, people would recognize him. It wasn’t just about looks.
I had one guy friend that would go on to make >$200k right out of college. And even when we were poor college kids, mid way thru a date with a cute girl, he made up an excuse that he had a work emergency come up at his part time job, paid the bill, and left.
He told me it was actually because he got super bored.
Had another man worth >$1M, self made, by his early 30s. He kept complimenting me on my side hustles and career. Said I understood because we were in the same fields.
There is a certain type of man that does care about looks but equally cares about the ability to converse if not more.