We cover
🔹 Bitcoin as the “entropy engine” for unused global energy
🔹 The Calm Pond Hypothesis & mental pollution
🔹 Ancient mindfulness vs the modern default mode network
🔹 Hunting, fasting & cold exposure as natural mind training
🔹 Thermodynamics, Taoism & aligning with nature
🔹 Computers as thinking machines that free human attention
🔹 Bitcoin, energy, sovereignty & aligned incentives
🔹 Why teaching custody/mining is really teaching agency
🎙 Guest: Sydney Bright, Client Success Lead, Abundant Mines; Author, The Ancient Way of the Mind
https://twitter.com/brightmindsco
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneysbright
📚 To get the book – The Ancient Way of the Mind: How Modern Thinking Blinds Us From Wisdom of the Past https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR3MX7F7
🎙 Timestamps
00:00 – Intro & Sydney’s path through economics, medicine & Bitcoin
05:12 – Ancient mindfulness vs the modern “monkey mind”
11:20 – Thermodynamics, entropy & the flow of energy
17:45 – The Calm Pond Hypothesis & mental pollution
24:30 – Technology as cure vs curse
31:10 – Bitcoin, energy, and sovereign systems
39:55 – Hunting, fasting & cold exposure as natural mind training
47:18 – Aligning with nature in a digital world
57:40 – Mining, mastery & the future of human sovereignty
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