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Paying taxes is just an insane humiliation ritual at this point

Men have lost the '3rd place': 1. Home 2. Work 3. ??? Historically, they thrived in: - Guilds - Pubs - Fraternities - Social clubs - Church Without a 3rd place, men can’t dialogue with aligned peers No 3rd place = isolation. Isolation = stagnation.

I visited my sister recently and spotted something that stopped me cold. A kindness points system stuck to her fridge. Kids earn points for good behavior. Lose them for hitting siblings or other children. We missed when this transformation happened, but we've arrived somewhere insane. Any physical contact between children gets treated like assault. Think about what this means. A six-year-old pushes his brother during an argument and suddenly we're treating it like criminal behavior. The same rough-and-tumble play that built resilience for thousands of years now triggers intervention protocols. Parents panic. Teachers document incidents. Everyone acts like normal childhood conflict represents moral failing. The kindness points system reveals the deeper problem. We've turned childhood into a corporate performance review where every interaction gets scored and tracked. Kids learn to navigate social dynamics through artificial reward structures instead of figuring out natural consequences. They don't develop the ability to handle conflict because conflict itself has been pathologized. This shift happened gradually, then all at once. Men in relationships now operate under this same broken framework. They've created their own performance tracking system where any disruption to their partner's emotional equilibrium transforms them into monsters. Raised voices become abuse. Minor disagreements turn into relationship crimes. This creates a constant state of hypervigilance. Men walk on eggshells, constantly monitoring their tone, their facial expressions, their word choices. They've internalized the belief that their partner's emotional state is entirely their responsibility. One wrong move and they're labeled toxic, abusive, or emotionally unavailable. The natural push and pull of human relationships gets reframed as psychological warfare. The performance metrics are everywhere. Did you listen actively enough? Did you validate her feelings sufficiently? Did you respond with the right level of empathy? Men track these invisible scorecards, terrified of losing points in a game where the rules constantly shift. They apologize for things that aren't their fault. Accept blame for emotions they didn't cause. Sacrifice their own needs to maintain the illusion of perfect harmony. My grandfather would have found this completely absurd. The notion that a man should monitor and manage every fluctuation in his wife's mood would have struck him as both impossible and pathetic. He understood that adults are responsible for their own emotional regulation. Conflict was normal.Disagreement was expected.Nobody walked around pretending relationships should feel like permanent therapy sessions. The old framework wasn't perfect, but it recognized basic reality. People have bad days.Emotions fluctuate.Sometimes you argue with the people you love. This doesn't make you a monster. It makes you human. Men who constantly apologize for being human create fake relationships where authentic connection dies because someone's always performing.

REVENGE FIRST. UNITY AFTER.

Had to cancel raw milk for my family it gave my daughter a cough for 8 months until I finally landed on the raw milk being the cause. Went away immediately. I took it as a major failure I didn’t challenge my raw milk bias earlier, giving it a pass for being “more natural.”

Restoring the Territorial Council This is a must read if you've been following my territory insights. You've probably been wondering "wtf is this 'council' thing Trav talks about?" And how is it created? The council is a staple of every territory in history aside from the last few decades. Here's an example: when I look outside, I am surrounded by Sikhs from the Punjab region of India. Up on the hill is a Gurdwara. This Gurwara is the congregation point that projects the local territory of the Sikhs that live here. Remember the Zerg in Starcraft with their Spire and the Creep that expands outward from it? This is how congregation points like this Gurdwara terraform the local territory. Just last week that had a crazy ass parade that ran through my neighbourhood. I had no say in the matter. Streets shut down. Total territorial flex. I admire them, frankly. They are terraforming this region rapidly and everyone else will subsumed. In that Gurdwara is a council of men that run the affairs of the this small territory. It is a little piece of Punjab abroad for their people to live comfortably in. There's a hierarchy of men there. The top is the council. I'm sure they are knee-deep with politicians and local leaders also. This Gurdwara is huge and packed with cars almost daily. The marching orders of the priorities of the territory, the arbitration of disputes, the bonds of the families, the passing down of knowledge, and any local opportunities all flow from the Gurdwara. I'm sure it has its hand in local development bylaws and proposals. I bet it's directing what's allowed to get built and not built through direct employees and political control. I'm sure they have rich resources for immigration, learning English, and skills development and placement. I have no doubt they are masterfully taking care of their own. Across the street from the Gurdwara is a Mormon temple. Similarily here, there is a council of men that are trying to do the same. Mormons are feeding off the caracass of anyone of British ancestry in the area, which was the original founding stock. They have ambitious expansion plans, but it might take a few decades to really get the numbers of ancestral British people signed up to terraform this region. That said, any church has this territorial structure. A council (generally) of men, with a "Pride" of women who serve the territory. Almost every church has some form of women's arm that is uniquely focused on the territorial mission. They also have an ancestrally aligned peer group for the kids. You may think this is somehow backwards, but this is only because you've accepted this council structure being outsourced to government. Historically, outsourcing the council to the nation-at-large is completely novel. Outsourcing the arbitration of disputes to a far off entity, the passing down of knowledge to a credentialed class of economists, doctors, educators, and scientists, and simply abandoning the designs and opportunities in the local territory is laughably modern. I look outside and I see all these streets named after birds. It was unique to the English settlers here to name their streets after their love of Ornithology. I wonder what they'd think now that all their terraforming is completely paved over by other territories. I'm sure these street names that no logner have meaning to the inhabitants will soon change. But this is the overall trend. Most peoples from ancestrally european territories have embraced the trend of outsourcing: - Peer group for kids is outsources to daycare and public school - The sisterhood (the Pride) outsourced to social media and facebook groups (🤮 ifyky). - The fraternity of men outsourced to corporate territories And if it's not outsourced, it's simply contained in the pair territory-style of living that European-descended peoples have embraced as their primary territory type. The pair territory is a "man and woman all alone with their kids." (Maybe they'll have a few family members who infrequently visit.) The "pair territory" is an isolated, anti-social, low stimulation form of territory, but is the most dominant due to the competitive nature of modern secular peoples. It's a dislocated mess for most secular european descended people. A patchwork of pair territories and no congregation point except schools and workplaces. Here is the most important point -- european-descended people have NO working example of a council that functions properly without Jesus at the center. Run it through in your head -- it doesn't exist. Their previous method was a caucaphony of different church denominations to satisfy each ethnicity and sub-ethnicity. This worked great but most are now in terminal decline: - Presbyterian (Scottish) - Anglicans (British) - Episcopal (same as Anglicans but in US) - Methodists (Ex-Anglicans, Americans) - Lutherans (German) There are so many more, but these ones were the biggest for these people groups, only to now be nearly defunct. The Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) is almost completely abandoned, with no congregation point left for diasporic Scots anywhere in the world. They are two-three generations away from being lost to the sands of time. (Goodbye my Scottish ancestry, was nice watching movies and reading about you.) You can try experimenting without a Jesus-centered territory, but I fear you'll only end up living de-territorialized life. Personally, I am part of the Anglican tradition of counciled territory. Anglican is "the Church of the Angles" or more accurately, the Church of the English peoples (the English language). It is also uniquely fused with Celtic Christianity. If you think of the British Empire in its heyday, it was unpinned globally by the Anglican chuch terraforming each region to make it habitable for English peoples. 70% of the signers of the US Declaration of Independence were Anglicans. (A huge footprint in history, totally gone.) Unforunately, my ancestral territory is in complete shambles. But I'm back there trying to fix it. Frankly all I need is about 3-5 more families with strong male leaders and we can completely re-assert the local territory. My kids will have their ancestral peer group re-established, my wife will have a much better alternative to the social media sisterhood and potentially achieve the Pride, and I'll find other men devoted to a very distinct local mission of territory to work alongside with. It just so happens everything Anglican is tailor-made for me, from the theology to the music, that fits naturally with my genetics. It "feels" like home when I am there, but it was a long journey to figure that out. It was also hard to see through the disrepair to the jewel that was once there also. Outside of this type of territory, life is just outsourced to government and corporations. I have seen this new "Eden" that secular people wallow in, and I am not interested in it.

If you've struggled with weight-loss and are not considering reta, I think you're making a mistake. I've combed the internet for side-effects and they simply do not exist. Only benign little quirks. Human technology really did it. It solved obesity.

I've been waiting 8 months for this day. Late January I started working on an app that was going to be my flagship. I had built 3 apps up to this point. But these 3 were training wheels. The first app was CalorieBot. Visual AI calorie counting for Discord. I really like discord. I think it's fundamental digital community technology. I think digital communities are the future. The second was PastorBot. My frustration with the "priest-class" in Christianity led me to make a bot that specializes in Bible Studies for discord. The key element being it provides historical context and exegesis from a biblical scholarship viewpoint. Ever since I learned the field of biblical scholarship, any other way to digest the bible is simply unpalatable. It's like that horse meme. Modern christians "takes" are the kid drawn scribble horse; biblical scholarship is the elegant picture of the horse. The third was PayBot. This is a really cool app. Discord makes it difficult to monetize your community. Only way to do it is having an external stripe page where you send users that link up to a bot in your discord that tracks their subscription. Gumroad does this probably the best. But it's still annoying. PayBot is Stripe for discord. Admins can make pricing options inside discord once Stripe is connected. Users can subscribe by /slash commands. "/subscribe." Never have to leave discord. All managed internally. While these are all great and are part of my vision of making digital communities, there was a big mamma jamma I've had in my brain that I felt would be where I make my mark. These 3 apps were vibe-coding training wheels for me to get to a high level where I could actually engineer it. It required very fancy, complex engineering to make work. Somehow over the years I've found myself becoming a writer. I didn't anticipate that this would be the primary way I earn. I write, my ideas spread, I do business. It's actually a bit weird. I didn't take writing in school, never studied it, I just write. X has been my primary platform. When I first started this account (to break-away from my bitcoin-only persona that you may remember) almost all my stuff went mega viral. It was always super long threads. I went on about a 1.5 year run where I would goto Starbucks and pump out something akin to a hand-crafted thread on very unique fusions of evolution and religion a couple times a week. It was an angle that Jordan Peterson had recently re-opened in the psyches of men. I felt like his explanations were very refreshing but ultimately off-target. Time has revealed the lens he was viewing things didn't really go anywhere, as he's been corraled by his Catholic friends into something of a nonsensical position. More on that in future writing. But anyways, writing was becoming what I do. I have my ideas, endless infact. Problem is, writing itself gives me very little dopamine. It's an activity I have to endure to get my ideas out there. Getting my ideas out there is highly dopaminergic. Writing has been the impediment to me getting my ideas out. When you look at X accounts that are large, the math is always the same. 10s of 1000s of tweets. 100s of 1000s sometimes. Most had an initial seeding period too where they pumped out threads en masse. Just tons and tons of writing. Inconceivable amounts at times. I really don't have time or interest in that. It doesn't give me much dopamine. Getting my ideas out there tho, does. It's always been a tension for me. I have 3 kids and the ability to sit quiet and uninterrupted for hours to create the environment conducive for writing just isn't really realistic. The second I'm interrupted, I lose context (train of thought) and my ability to put idea to paper gets a little corrupted. But all I really want to do is get my ideas out there. So I built a platform to do it. I was looking at Google docs one day thinking "why haven't they added an AI agent to this?" "why can't it write for me?". And if you've tried getting ChatGPT/Grok to write, they can't really do the job. It's all emdashes and "It's not about X; it's about Y" AI-slop. You can train it to overcome this, just not really realistic or fast. My thinking was, why can't it look at all my work, learn my writing style, and write for me. "I want a paragraph that describes XYZ concept." Can't do it. "Add the relevant studies I'm referencing to this paragraph." Can't be done. After working on my app, I realized they'll probably never figure it out. It requires very unique engineering you'd have to be passionate about NOT writing in order to figure out. I just don't see the will there for it. They'll likely botch the implementation and it won't have the right angle that people need. So I set out to build Google Docs + AI. That app is Bree. That's the name of my AI. "Bree." Probably sounds weird, but it's the perfect name to me. "Bree, write this." Bree is a full document editor platform powered by AI. This is what I'm using to write this longform post. I can select this text and tell bree to "finish this paragraph" or "flesh out what I'm trying to say here" and it'll do it. It has all my past writing, my style, my concepts, it'll just complete what I say exactly how I say it. It'll add any details I request. Bree allows me to overcome the drudgery of writing. Writing is no longer an impediment to getting my ideas out. Just like coding is no longer an impediment to get apps out. I think this is a fundamental paradigm shift. I'm not a memorycel. I think in logic and patterns, but for whatever reason my brain discards things real quick. I just went on a trip to Alberta with the fam the other month for 7 days to scope out places to live and can't remember where we went. It's just how my brain works. My best friend in high school had a photographic memory, valedictorian, always ribbed me because I remember nothing of our youth. "Remember that party?" Nope. Literally blank. Just sort of a blur of memories. It's not fast recall for me. But logic and patterns, connections between things, I can recall that instantly and maintain almost a live map of the linkages between them. With AI I realized I can outsource memory. I can outsource details. It's a playground for my mind. I know where details are and need to be, I can remember all the linkages, I can just delegate that to AI to remember the details. With Bree, I can move at the speed of light writing about my ideas because the connections, patterns, and logic are the true structure of my writing, I just use Bree to fill in the details. Exactly when did humans evolve language? I can't remember. "Bree, fill that in for me" when I write this article on human evolution. I know the why and how we evolved language, I just don't remember memorycel details like when. My view is that this is the same problem many very smart people have with writing. They don't necessarily have the patience for it. Their ideas could be earth-shattering but they don't have the grinder ability to suffer through the act of writing to get things out there. I've just learned this about myself with coding. Clearly I have a talent for the vision behind apps. I can really see the full app, how it works, what it solves, all the little pieces that make it work. But to code it? That's fucking absolute drudgery to me. Prior to AI, people like me are de-activated. We're never going to learn coding. I'd rather be a nobody. But with AI, people like me are unlocked. High logic, high reason, patternistic thinking, engineering mind. I'm now in the ultimate playground where I can work from top level vision and structure, not needing to remember details. AI does the drudgery. So today marks Bree ready for beta-testing. I don't want to say it's version 1.0 yet, it needs it's first 20-100 users to really put it through the paces. I also need to learn the more novel ways people would like to use it that don't exactly match my workflow. After that, I'm certain it will be an absolute monster. Bree is for longform writing. You can use it to write pithy tweets but it's main power is to take the high level concepts in your brain and put them elegantly to digital paper. I want the reign of the memorycel grinder to be over. I'm tired of their ideas. Their books are lame. They're selected for their ability complete a book or write 100,000s tweets, not necessarily the quality of their ideas. Some rare gems are, but most it's just the ability to do the task that isn't easy for the rest of us. Same phenomenon you see in coding: the guys who had the ability to grind through learning coding rarely have the vision to build a great app. They are 2 different skills. My view is writing has equally been polluted by this problem and the vast majority of the ideas and vision put to paper are subpar, selected instead for the ability to complete the drudgery of writing, not the quality of the ideas they're writing about. So this marks the beginning of my Bree-powered onslaught. I can now write at somewhere between 10x-100x productivity. I can do 1 click threads, 1 click stories. I can take a previous high performing long-form post, create a variant isolating a specific angle, then build out that concept into a whole new article. I can absolutely mass produce my ideas at a scale the memorycels can't even hope to keep up with. "Insert this study here" "reference this passage" there. "Bree, write me an intro about the ethology of territory, reference the Uganda Kob and contrast with Hippos." I'm now a writing cyborg with augmented abilities. Bree adds all the fancy details my brain has consciously forgotten. This is why I've been sparse the last 8 months. The project is ready. Bree is live. My plan is to start my Kessel Run, fleshing out all my ideas and mass producing every angle of what I speak about in longform posts. Nothing is stopping me now. (That's a good example: I just made Bree re-write this "What's that castle run thingy from Star Wars he did in 5 parsecs?" Bree filled it in. I don't remember this shit.) I welcome you keep up with my account as I elucidate on the meta, territory, frame, fitness, evolution, christianity, Jesus, weaving every thread into a massive symphony of concepts that connect to each other. I hope you enjoy seeing Bree in action. I'll get onto my first longform post after I get some coffee (I'm still lazy).

I love my kids more than anything. But I have to put work and food procurement before them. Without money we can't survive, and without food they can't eat. To love my children, I have to put a lot before them in raw hours devoted. Only then can I put any time into them. The same logic applies to every man throughout history. The farmer wakes at dawn to tend his crops before breakfast with his family. The hunter leaves the village for days to track game that will feed his tribe. The warrior trains with his brothers-in-arms before returning home to his wife. Territory comes first. Always. Without the foundation of secured territory, there is no family to protect, no children to nurture, no legacy to build. This isn't controversial. We inherently understand this. But when it comes to wives and marriage, the majority of men recoil at this same logic... They refuse to put male fraternity first. The key is this: a properly designed territory is the best way to love a woman. A man completely needs allies to build this massive territorial frame. Territory is so complex and hard. No single man can figure it out alone. The modern man must completely rebuild so many things because every aspect of the culture we grew up in is gone. He has to terraform his environment. I don't love my friends more than my wife or kids. But working alongside them comes first. Territory cannot be sustained otherwise. The basics matter, but so do the nuanced components: arbitration structures, tribal unity, the sisterhood, the kids peer group. Without these, the life I provide my wife is garbage. This is why I think it's moral men stop sacrificing themselves for their women, and start sacrificing themselves for the territory. Work alongside men. Spend most of your time in all the pursuits that aligned men make together to secure the territory. This is how you properly love your wife and kids. Men are doing this backwards.

Bitcoin meetups are mostly a yearning for tribal community that disagreeable bitcoiners face with how they’ve constructed their lives. Too smart for almost any unifying interest in normie land (sports, politics). They have to find their “people” or they go insane.

Elon vs Trump is kayfabe: The highest level game theory disguised as political theater The current Elon vs Trump drama looks completely different to me after watching the Mr. McMahon documentary on Netflix. I always wondered why wrestling commanded such massive audiences, and my analytical brain could not just see it for what was happening in front of me. It was pure story-telling, a protagonist and an antagonist, tapping into our basic psychology around heroes, mythology, and the eternal struggle between good and evil. Professional wrestling, at its core, operates on a principle known as kayfabe. This is the understanding that the staged events and rivalries are presented as real, creating a compelling narrative for the audience. This explains why the hero and the heel dynamic is so critical to the entire enterprise. The "hero" or "babyface" embodies virtues and represents the audience's deepest aspirations, while the "heel" or "villain" acts as the antagonist, challenging those ideals and creating the essential conflict that drives engagement. This leads to the feeling of a genuine struggle, even though the outcomes are predetermined through careful coordination. The continuous interplay between these archetypes taps into our ancestral need for clear narratives of good versus evil and the territorial battles that define human interaction across all social structures. Learning that this was far more complex than I had first considered, and recognizing that pulling it off required high-level cooperation, immediately brought to mind the nature of game theory. This is important because cooperation at high levels, where the opportunity to defect at the expense of your rival is overwhelming, but if you can stay in that volatile place, still cooperating and no one knows it, you will achieve outsized returns. This explains why cartels like OPEC operate successfully despite individual incentives to cheat. They are all incentivized to turn on each other, but they do not. The difference here is this represents a higher level of coordination. They are pretending to turn on each other while still maintaining cooperation, which is the highest and most high-stakes form of strategic alliance. Politics always involves the crowd, exactly like wrestling. In business, it does not matter if OPEC has the crowd supporting them, therefore no need for theatrics. But in politics it is ALL about the crowd. If you can get your enemy to support the other guy who is working for you, you gain exponentially more power. It was only a matter of time before the crowd nature of political support became weaponized by high level cooperative game theory, pretending to be rivals, and adhering to kayfabe. The reason this kayfabe becomes so obvious is the underlying payoff structure. Elon's primary motivation centers on the regulatory environment surrounding his companies. Will SpaceX receive clear operational runway from Washington? Will Full Self Driving technology face regulatory barriers or streamlined approval? This regulatory framework represents Elon's core territorial concern in the business battlefield. Mars colonization and other grand narratives serve as compelling stories for the crowd, but his immediate business interests require freedom from regulatory interference, which was being systematically constrained under Biden's administration. With Trump, he secured that essential regulatory runway. Would he genuinely risk throwing away this territorial advantage over budget disagreements? The probability approaches zero. The more rational explanation is this conflict serves Trump's strategic interests, given that Trump was directly mentored by Vince McMahon on the mechanics of hero-heel dynamics and the art of generating crowd engagement through manufactured tension. You can tell in the nature of the jabs. These are not serious attacks. Everyone knows Trump is in the Epstein files, though he did not say he was on the flight logs or an attendee at the Island. Everyone knows Trump canceled the EV credit, which Elon wanted so his competitors cannot keep up. Tesla achieved extraordinary productivity achievements and can mass produce cars cheaper than competitors. He wants all his competitors to lose credits so he can crush them through pure free market dominance. So what is Trump's motivation in this theater? If you know Trump, he despises Senators. Trump is a master at properly approaching power. He knows they have it. He thinks they have regularly and consistently sold out America to foreign interests and corporate lobbyists. Elon needs to be in a "heel/villain" position with the Republican party, so his America PAC can primary these Senators effectively. America will not improve until they are destroyed politically. Unfortunately for some, they may not be able to see through the game, like Rand Paul and Thomas Massie. They need to be on the side of Elon, not Trump, when the battle lines are drawn. Even if there is not a massive overhaul of the typical Republican senator, the pressure from America PAC on Republicans WILL change their behavior fundamentally. The number one roadblock to Trump's agenda has ALWAYS been these RINOs catering to their lobbyists burrowed in like ticks, feeding off the system while blocking meaningful change. Even if this is all wrong, I have come to realize there is the normie move which is to be the crowd, and then the high IQ, game theoretically wise observer, who is trying to figure out the actual game being played. I will always be on the latter team, even if I am wrong.

Why do females care about protection more than provisioning? In tournament species external males are the most dangerous threat, especially territorial invaders. The problem isn’t lack of food. That’s easy to secure once the territory is secure. Females have adapted showing a dominant male in their territory “desire” or alternatively offering provisioning for the male to procure their protection. This is a role reversal to what most see as males provisioning females. This is how pimps (territorial protectors) have women working for them who pay them money. This is because the pimp protects the urban territory from other pimp invaders. Modern life no longer has the territorial threat of invaders, so how do you procure her genuine desire?

100% convinced Grok 3 is trained with access to live data and feeding the Trump campaign near perfect strategy right now.

Why Men Are Dying in Home Offices Men are rotting away in their home office chairs, trapped in a biological prison they can't even see. Their bodies scream for one specific environment, but they've forgotten how to build it: the periphery. The periphery is the border of tribal territory. Past this line sits external territory. This is where hazards wait, threats emerge, and rival tribes attack. Millions of years shaped us for this exact territorial structure. Our nervous systems, reward pathways, and motivation circuits are all calibrated for these distinct zones and their interplay. Males gravitate toward the periphery because their biology demands this specific territorial zone. For males in a group, this becomes their peak stimulation zone. Right on the edge of risk and hazard, but defended. Watch any animal species and you'll see this pattern. Males wake up and immediately head to the periphery for daily stimulation. They heckle animals from rival tribes or patrol the borders like chimps do, following worn paths that mark the exact edge of their territory. Understanding the periphery matters because if we're biologically designed for it, we must recreate it in modern life. Working from home traps you in home territory — the protected space where men get minimal stimulation. This is why remote workers watch their testosterone crash while men in periphery-like environments keep their hormones firing. Picture a sales floor packed with men in cubicles, phones pressed to ears, voices rising and falling in territorial displays. They slam phones down after brutal rejections, immediately turning to their pack with grins and war stories. "That guy was a fucking idiot," one barks, and the others erupt in laughter. The energy is electric. These men have found their periphery in the corporate world. Each phone call launches them into external territory where prospects can attack, reject, or reward them. They're surrounded by their tribe, sharing the victories and defeats, the adrenaline and the comedown. If you work at home, you need to figure out how to create the periphery. My first home office was a disaster. Kids smashed through the door every five minutes, destroying focus. I tried the living room next—same problem. My wife would holler from the kitchen about household crises. Every space in the house kept me locked in home territory. The garage became my solution. I laid down carpet, built a proper desk, and rigged up my treadmill with a laptop stand. My workout gear forms a defensive perimeter around the workspace. The impact has been staggering. There's a deadbolt on the door, so no one can bother me without knocking. But more important—I can't hear a thing. This is a key feature of the periphery. It cannot hear what's going on in home territory. Noise is the most disruptive force to men. In my garage, I don't hear anything going on in the house. I don't have to be attentive to it or solve their problems. The fires seem to solve themselves. Now I connect with the tribe daily while working and working out. This setup mimics the periphery perfectly. High stimulation, high focus. No distractions. Risking hazard with Stripe, Gumroad, X, and discord, all while getting steps and having a blast every day.

Men have lost the '3rd place': 1. Home 2. Work 3. ??? Historically, they thrived in: - Guilds - Pubs - Fraternities - Social clubs - Church Without a 3rd place, men can’t dialogue with aligned peers No 3rd place = isolation. Isolation = stagnation.

Paying taxes is just an insane humiliation ritual at this point

Had to cancel raw milk for my family it gave my daughter a cough for 8 months until I finally landed on the raw milk being the cause. Went away immediately. I took it as a major failure I didn’t challenge my raw milk bias earlier, giving it a pass for being “more natural.”

If you've struggled with weight-loss and are not considering reta, I think you're making a mistake. I've combed the internet for side-effects and they simply do not exist. Only benign little quirks. Human technology really did it. It solved obesity.

I've been waiting 8 months for this day. Late January I started working on an app that was going to be my flagship. I had built 3 apps up to this point. But these 3 were training wheels. The first app was CalorieBot. Visual AI calorie counting for Discord. I really like discord. I think it's fundamental digital community technology. I think digital communities are the future. The second was PastorBot. My frustration with the "priest-class" in Christianity led me to make a bot that specializes in Bible Studies for discord. The key element being it provides historical context and exegesis from a biblical scholarship viewpoint. Ever since I learned the field of biblical scholarship, any other way to digest the bible is simply unpalatable. It's like that horse meme. Modern christians "takes" are the kid drawn scribble horse; biblical scholarship is the elegant picture of the horse. The third was PayBot. This is a really cool app. Discord makes it difficult to monetize your community. Only way to do it is having an external stripe page where you send users that link up to a bot in your discord that tracks their subscription. Gumroad does this probably the best. But it's still annoying. PayBot is Stripe for discord. Admins can make pricing options inside discord once Stripe is connected. Users can subscribe by /slash commands. "/subscribe." Never have to leave discord. All managed internally. While these are all great and are part of my vision of making digital communities, there was a big mamma jamma I've had in my brain that I felt would be where I make my mark. These 3 apps were vibe-coding training wheels for me to get to a high level where I could actually engineer it. It required very fancy, complex engineering to make work. Somehow over the years I've found myself becoming a writer. I didn't anticipate that this would be the primary way I earn. I write, my ideas spread, I do business. It's actually a bit weird. I didn't take writing in school, never studied it, I just write. X has been my primary platform. When I first started this account (to break-away from my bitcoin-only persona that you may remember) almost all my stuff went mega viral. It was always super long threads. I went on about a 1.5 year run where I would goto Starbucks and pump out something akin to a hand-crafted thread on very unique fusions of evolution and religion a couple times a week. It was an angle that Jordan Peterson had recently re-opened in the psyches of men. I felt like his explanations were very refreshing but ultimately off-target. Time has revealed the lens he was viewing things didn't really go anywhere, as he's been corraled by his Catholic friends into something of a nonsensical position. More on that in future writing. But anyways, writing was becoming what I do. I have my ideas, endless infact. Problem is, writing itself gives me very little dopamine. It's an activity I have to endure to get my ideas out there. Getting my ideas out there is highly dopaminergic. Writing has been the impediment to me getting my ideas out. When you look at X accounts that are large, the math is always the same. 10s of 1000s of tweets. 100s of 1000s sometimes. Most had an initial seeding period too where they pumped out threads en masse. Just tons and tons of writing. Inconceivable amounts at times. I really don't have time or interest in that. It doesn't give me much dopamine. Getting my ideas out there tho, does. It's always been a tension for me. I have 3 kids and the ability to sit quiet and uninterrupted for hours to create the environment conducive for writing just isn't really realistic. The second I'm interrupted, I lose context (train of thought) and my ability to put idea to paper gets a little corrupted. But all I really want to do is get my ideas out there. So I built a platform to do it. I was looking at Google docs one day thinking "why haven't they added an AI agent to this?" "why can't it write for me?". And if you've tried getting ChatGPT/Grok to write, they can't really do the job. It's all emdashes and "It's not about X; it's about Y" AI-slop. You can train it to overcome this, just not really realistic or fast. My thinking was, why can't it look at all my work, learn my writing style, and write for me. "I want a paragraph that describes XYZ concept." Can't do it. "Add the relevant studies I'm referencing to this paragraph." Can't be done. After working on my app, I realized they'll probably never figure it out. It requires very unique engineering you'd have to be passionate about NOT writing in order to figure out. I just don't see the will there for it. They'll likely botch the implementation and it won't have the right angle that people need. So I set out to build Google Docs + AI. That app is Bree. That's the name of my AI. "Bree." Probably sounds weird, but it's the perfect name to me. "Bree, write this." Bree is a full document editor platform powered by AI. This is what I'm using to write this longform post. I can select this text and tell bree to "finish this paragraph" or "flesh out what I'm trying to say here" and it'll do it. It has all my past writing, my style, my concepts, it'll just complete what I say exactly how I say it. It'll add any details I request. Bree allows me to overcome the drudgery of writing. Writing is no longer an impediment to getting my ideas out. Just like coding is no longer an impediment to get apps out. I think this is a fundamental paradigm shift. I'm not a memorycel. I think in logic and patterns, but for whatever reason my brain discards things real quick. I just went on a trip to Alberta with the fam the other month for 7 days to scope out places to live and can't remember where we went. It's just how my brain works. My best friend in high school had a photographic memory, valedictorian, always ribbed me because I remember nothing of our youth. "Remember that party?" Nope. Literally blank. Just sort of a blur of memories. It's not fast recall for me. But logic and patterns, connections between things, I can recall that instantly and maintain almost a live map of the linkages between them. With AI I realized I can outsource memory. I can outsource details. It's a playground for my mind. I know where details are and need to be, I can remember all the linkages, I can just delegate that to AI to remember the details. With Bree, I can move at the speed of light writing about my ideas because the connections, patterns, and logic are the true structure of my writing, I just use Bree to fill in the details. Exactly when did humans evolve language? I can't remember. "Bree, fill that in for me" when I write this article on human evolution. I know the why and how we evolved language, I just don't remember memorycel details like when. My view is that this is the same problem many very smart people have with writing. They don't necessarily have the patience for it. Their ideas could be earth-shattering but they don't have the grinder ability to suffer through the act of writing to get things out there. I've just learned this about myself with coding. Clearly I have a talent for the vision behind apps. I can really see the full app, how it works, what it solves, all the little pieces that make it work. But to code it? That's fucking absolute drudgery to me. Prior to AI, people like me are de-activated. We're never going to learn coding. I'd rather be a nobody. But with AI, people like me are unlocked. High logic, high reason, patternistic thinking, engineering mind. I'm now in the ultimate playground where I can work from top level vision and structure, not needing to remember details. AI does the drudgery. So today marks Bree ready for beta-testing. I don't want to say it's version 1.0 yet, it needs it's first 20-100 users to really put it through the paces. I also need to learn the more novel ways people would like to use it that don't exactly match my workflow. After that, I'm certain it will be an absolute monster. Bree is for longform writing. You can use it to write pithy tweets but it's main power is to take the high level concepts in your brain and put them elegantly to digital paper. I want the reign of the memorycel grinder to be over. I'm tired of their ideas. Their books are lame. They're selected for their ability complete a book or write 100,000s tweets, not necessarily the quality of their ideas. Some rare gems are, but most it's just the ability to do the task that isn't easy for the rest of us. Same phenomenon you see in coding: the guys who had the ability to grind through learning coding rarely have the vision to build a great app. They are 2 different skills. My view is writing has equally been polluted by this problem and the vast majority of the ideas and vision put to paper are subpar, selected instead for the ability to complete the drudgery of writing, not the quality of the ideas they're writing about. So this marks the beginning of my Bree-powered onslaught. I can now write at somewhere between 10x-100x productivity. I can do 1 click threads, 1 click stories. I can take a previous high performing long-form post, create a variant isolating a specific angle, then build out that concept into a whole new article. I can absolutely mass produce my ideas at a scale the memorycels can't even hope to keep up with. "Insert this study here" "reference this passage" there. "Bree, write me an intro about the ethology of territory, reference the Uganda Kob and contrast with Hippos." I'm now a writing cyborg with augmented abilities. Bree adds all the fancy details my brain has consciously forgotten. This is why I've been sparse the last 8 months. The project is ready. Bree is live. My plan is to start my Kessel Run, fleshing out all my ideas and mass producing every angle of what I speak about in longform posts. Nothing is stopping me now. (That's a good example: I just made Bree re-write this "What's that castle run thingy from Star Wars he did in 5 parsecs?" Bree filled it in. I don't remember this shit.) I welcome you keep up with my account as I elucidate on the meta, territory, frame, fitness, evolution, christianity, Jesus, weaving every thread into a massive symphony of concepts that connect to each other. I hope you enjoy seeing Bree in action. I'll get onto my first longform post after I get some coffee (I'm still lazy).

You go downtown you meet that lawyer who’s jogging at 5am followed by his oatmeal and fruit breakfast, clothes pressed in a spotlessly clean car. Follows the rules meticulously. Works very hard. This man is always a progressive. Why? He’s likely descended from Puritans.

Restoring the Territorial Council This is a must read if you've been following my territory insights. You've probably been wondering "wtf is this 'council' thing Trav talks about?" And how is it created? The council is a staple of every territory in history aside from the last few decades. Here's an example: when I look outside, I am surrounded by Sikhs from the Punjab region of India. Up on the hill is a Gurdwara. This Gurwara is the congregation point that projects the local territory of the Sikhs that live here. Remember the Zerg in Starcraft with their Spire and the Creep that expands outward from it? This is how congregation points like this Gurdwara terraform the local territory. Just last week that had a crazy ass parade that ran through my neighbourhood. I had no say in the matter. Streets shut down. Total territorial flex. I admire them, frankly. They are terraforming this region rapidly and everyone else will subsumed. In that Gurdwara is a council of men that run the affairs of the this small territory. It is a little piece of Punjab abroad for their people to live comfortably in. There's a hierarchy of men there. The top is the council. I'm sure they are knee-deep with politicians and local leaders also. This Gurdwara is huge and packed with cars almost daily. The marching orders of the priorities of the territory, the arbitration of disputes, the bonds of the families, the passing down of knowledge, and any local opportunities all flow from the Gurdwara. I'm sure it has its hand in local development bylaws and proposals. I bet it's directing what's allowed to get built and not built through direct employees and political control. I'm sure they have rich resources for immigration, learning English, and skills development and placement. I have no doubt they are masterfully taking care of their own. Across the street from the Gurdwara is a Mormon temple. Similarily here, there is a council of men that are trying to do the same. Mormons are feeding off the caracass of anyone of British ancestry in the area, which was the original founding stock. They have ambitious expansion plans, but it might take a few decades to really get the numbers of ancestral British people signed up to terraform this region. That said, any church has this territorial structure. A council (generally) of men, with a "Pride" of women who serve the territory. Almost every church has some form of women's arm that is uniquely focused on the territorial mission. They also have an ancestrally aligned peer group for the kids. You may think this is somehow backwards, but this is only because you've accepted this council structure being outsourced to government. Historically, outsourcing the council to the nation-at-large is completely novel. Outsourcing the arbitration of disputes to a far off entity, the passing down of knowledge to a credentialed class of economists, doctors, educators, and scientists, and simply abandoning the designs and opportunities in the local territory is laughably modern. I look outside and I see all these streets named after birds. It was unique to the English settlers here to name their streets after their love of Ornithology. I wonder what they'd think now that all their terraforming is completely paved over by other territories. I'm sure these street names that no logner have meaning to the inhabitants will soon change. But this is the overall trend. Most peoples from ancestrally european territories have embraced the trend of outsourcing: - Peer group for kids is outsources to daycare and public school - The sisterhood (the Pride) outsourced to social media and facebook groups (🤮 ifyky). - The fraternity of men outsourced to corporate territories And if it's not outsourced, it's simply contained in the pair territory-style of living that European-descended peoples have embraced as their primary territory type. The pair territory is a "man and woman all alone with their kids." (Maybe they'll have a few family members who infrequently visit.) The "pair territory" is an isolated, anti-social, low stimulation form of territory, but is the most dominant due to the competitive nature of modern secular peoples. It's a dislocated mess for most secular european descended people. A patchwork of pair territories and no congregation point except schools and workplaces. Here is the most important point -- european-descended people have NO working example of a council that functions properly without Jesus at the center. Run it through in your head -- it doesn't exist. Their previous method was a caucaphony of different church denominations to satisfy each ethnicity and sub-ethnicity. This worked great but most are now in terminal decline: - Presbyterian (Scottish) - Anglicans (British) - Episcopal (same as Anglicans but in US) - Methodists (Ex-Anglicans, Americans) - Lutherans (German) There are so many more, but these ones were the biggest for these people groups, only to now be nearly defunct. The Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) is almost completely abandoned, with no congregation point left for diasporic Scots anywhere in the world. They are two-three generations away from being lost to the sands of time. (Goodbye my Scottish ancestry, was nice watching movies and reading about you.) You can try experimenting without a Jesus-centered territory, but I fear you'll only end up living de-territorialized life. Personally, I am part of the Anglican tradition of counciled territory. Anglican is "the Church of the Angles" or more accurately, the Church of the English peoples (the English language). It is also uniquely fused with Celtic Christianity. If you think of the British Empire in its heyday, it was unpinned globally by the Anglican chuch terraforming each region to make it habitable for English peoples. 70% of the signers of the US Declaration of Independence were Anglicans. (A huge footprint in history, totally gone.) Unforunately, my ancestral territory is in complete shambles. But I'm back there trying to fix it. Frankly all I need is about 3-5 more families with strong male leaders and we can completely re-assert the local territory. My kids will have their ancestral peer group re-established, my wife will have a much better alternative to the social media sisterhood and potentially achieve the Pride, and I'll find other men devoted to a very distinct local mission of territory to work alongside with. It just so happens everything Anglican is tailor-made for me, from the theology to the music, that fits naturally with my genetics. It "feels" like home when I am there, but it was a long journey to figure that out. It was also hard to see through the disrepair to the jewel that was once there also. Outside of this type of territory, life is just outsourced to government and corporations. I have seen this new "Eden" that secular people wallow in, and I am not interested in it.

Surprised this doesn't have more engagement. It's the clearest explanation of what's happening in the West, and outlines the only way back. (And no, it's not voting for politicians in the territory-at-large.)

Bitcoin meetups are mostly a yearning for tribal community that disagreeable bitcoiners face with how they’ve constructed their lives. Too smart for almost any unifying interest in normie land (sports, politics). They have to find their “people” or they go insane.

I feel bad for guys that have a natural penchant for feeling high status but are overweight. It's a stark and noticeable incongruency that largely goes uncorrected for most of their lives.

Reminds me of my oldest daughter. The blonde hair. The knobby knees. Super slender. Delicate. She shouldn't have been in this situation. Surrounded by foreigners, in a hellish place. Like a fish on land.

Why do females care about protection more than provisioning? In tournament species external males are the most dangerous threat, especially territorial invaders. The problem isn’t lack of food. That’s easy to secure once the territory is secure. Females have adapted showing a dominant male in their territory “desire” or alternatively offering provisioning for the male to procure their protection. This is a role reversal to what most see as males provisioning females. This is how pimps (territorial protectors) have women working for them who pay them money. This is because the pimp protects the urban territory from other pimp invaders. Modern life no longer has the territorial threat of invaders, so how do you procure her genuine desire?

The oddest belief I run into is this idea you can improve yourself without spending money. There is perhaps no greater prison than the one where a man does not spend money on his improvement.