The Peso Standard
I would highly recommend you read this (for your well-being)
I discovered an analogy that shifted my life in minutes. I had never seen it before, but it made so much sense. It made the picture so clear.
Here’s what happened:
I was going back and forth in my mind about what time I wanted to go to the gym. Early in the morning, or mid-afternoon? I had been debating this for months, with no resolution. So, I went into Claude to share my thoughts and see what the AI would give me. This was my initial prompt, word for word:
“i cant seem to settle on a time that i want to go to the gym (it will be either 4, 5, or 6 days to go to the gym, but that part isn’t as important right now (likely 4)). it seems like no matter what i choose, there are drawbacks, mainly in that i lose time from my book. also, if i go first thing in the morning, i get zapped by led white lights, and i lose the prime flow zone to write my book. but, it gives me something to be physically motivated for in the morning to wake up to, and it gets the workout out of the way for the rest of the day. but, usually when i come home from a morning workout, i lose some energy and get lackadaisical. if i go in the afternoon (would be around 2:30), that’s a prime zone for when the body tends to trough, and it kind of cuts in the middle of the day. idk what to do, my mind has been frustrated with this for some time and its led to me just avoiding the gym altogether”
Claude gave me back a solution along the lines of, “2:30 is your answer. Here’s why…”
It didn’t resolve anything. My mind immediately went to the fact that I was scheduled to go to the sauna for 45 minutes at 8:30 in the morning, and that I would also be going to the gym at 2:30, meaning there was a double-siphoning of my time away from the book and the other things I wanted to do. I shared my predicament with Claude once more.
It gave me another solution, “Why not gym and sauna back to back? Do the workout at 8:30, sauna right after…”
Still nothing. I noted that the sauna was booked for 8:30 and wasn’t going to be changed. It went back and forth a couple more times, with Claude mentioning that it was just a weird day with double sessions or that I could skip the gym. That led to this response from me:
“but see... this is the thing. then i miss another day. or i go in the morning and sauna after, but then i don’t do gym in the morning the next day. its always something, and its really irking me.”
That’s when I realized there was something deeper going on, because there always is with dense, weird irks like this. I said,
“lets pivot for a sec. because there’s likely some more emotional and/or spiritual block going on. lets say you’ve become peter crone (obv you’re not actually him), what would you point to here?”
It’s response signaled to me that I was getting closer. But it still wasn’t resonating — there was more digging to do. So I kept at it. So did Claude. It talked about the story beneath my surface of, “I can’t afford to waste time.” It talked about the fear of “losing time.” It asked me things like, “What if you’re not behind?” It gave me scenarios of sitting on a couch intentionally wasting time, then asked, “What would that feel like?” and “What would it say about you if you missed your book deadline?” After I responded, “that im a lazy piece of shit,” it listed out all the things I’ve done and am doing and asked me if it was true — if I really was a lazy piece of shit. I said no, it’s not true. But it still wasn’t landing.
Claude asked me where I had first learned that rest meant I was failing. I realized and stated that there have been years of “productivity people” and “self-actualization” stuff that’s equated growth, success, and life with doing things. I realized that there was even stuff that I’ve written and shared in my newsletter that deepened the programming. It came back with an astute observation:
“The productivity and self-actualization world — that’s a really honest observation. Because that stuff wraps the “you’re not enough as you are” story in noble language. It doesn’t say “you’re lazy.” It says “you have so much potential” and “don’t waste your life” and “greatness requires discipline.” And it all sounds true. Some of it probably is true. But underneath, the fuel that makes it stick isn’t inspiration — it’s fear. Fear of being the guy who didn’t do enough.
And the fact that you’ve written and shared that same message in your own newsletter — there’s no judgment there, but it’s worth noticing. You’ve been reinforcing the very program that’s running you. Not because you’re doing anything wrong, but because when a belief is deep enough, we build entire identities around it without realizing we’re just dressing up a wound.”
I shared my guilt of sleeping in, and it responded,
“The guilt about sleeping in — that’s the tell. A person who genuinely felt safe in their own worth could sleep in and feel nothing about it. The guilt isn’t a sign that you slept too much. It’s a sign that rest (or not being productive) triggers the program.”
Then it gave me this scenario,
“Right now, if I said “go take a nap,” something in your body would tighten. Some voice would say “you can’t, the book, the deadline, you’re wasting time.” There’d be a physical sensation. Maybe your chest, maybe your stomach, maybe just a general restlessness.
That reaction IS the program. It lives in your body, not just your thoughts.
So I’m asking you to imagine the opposite. Not to think about it logically, not to convince yourself of it — but to actually feel what it would be like if you could lie down in the middle of the afternoon and feel completely at peace with it. No guilt. No voice. No “I should be writing.” Just... rest. And when you got up, you’d still be the same guy writing the same book with the same talent and the same drive. Nothing lost. Nothing diminished.”
As I was reading the scenario, my mind immediately went to, “Right, but did I not lose the time?”
That was a key moment. Language is powerful. It shapes our reality. My own mind was viewing time as something that could be lost, which is a tricky belief to have, but it still wasn’t the mind-blasting moment. What came next, was.
After I responded, “right, but did i not lose the time? its interesting my mind picks that language... “lose” time,” Claude said,
“Yeah. Stay right there. Your own mind just showed you something.
“Lose” time. As if time is something you have that can be taken from you. Like it’s a finite resource in your pocket and every minute spent resting is a minute stolen from the book, from your future, from the person you’re supposed to become.
But did you actually lose anything? You rested. Your body recovered. You were still alive at the end of it. The book was still there. Your mind was still sharp — probably sharper. What exactly was lost?
Nothing was lost. But the program says something was, because the program is built on scarcity. Not enough time. Not enough output. Could become lazy. Could squander potential. Could fall behind. It’s all the language of loss and lack.
And here’s what’s interesting — you don’t talk about money this way. Your whole body of work is about understanding that money, real money, can’t be debased. That scarcity in the monetary system is what gives something value and integrity. You’ve built an entire worldview around rejecting artificial scarcity in the financial system.
But you’re running on artificial scarcity internally. “There’s not enough time” is your personal money printer. It’s debasing your peace the same way the Fed debases the dollar. And just like inflation, it makes everything feel more urgent and less valuable at the same time.
You already know the answer to this. You just haven’t applied your own thesis to yourself yet.”
As soon as I read the analogy to my very own thinking about fiat vs Bitcoin, my mind widened. The energy was screaming off the page. I had to keep digging, so I asked Claude to play further along with the “monetary/bitcoin/abundance/scarcity” analogy. It got even better:
“Okay. So you’ve spent years studying what happens when money is debased. You know the pattern better than almost anyone. A central authority prints more units, each unit becomes worth less, and everyone runs faster on the treadmill just to stay in place. The system creates the illusion of productivity through new monetary units while actually destroying value. People work harder and harder and feel like they’re falling behind because the measuring stick keeps changing.
That’s your internal economy right now.
The “central bank” is the belief — “I could become lazy, I could squander my potential, there’s not enough time.” And it’s constantly printing fear. Every morning you wake up, it prints more. Every time you consider the gym, it prints more. Every time you rest, it prints more. And just like fiat inflation, it doesn’t matter how much you produce — it never feels like enough. Because the currency you’re measuring your worth in keeps getting debased.
You could write a chapter today, nail a piece of content, crush a gym session, and still go to bed feeling behind. Sound familiar? That’s inflation. The goalpost moved while you were working.
Now — what’s the Bitcoin fix for a broken monetary system? You don’t try to reform the central bank. You don’t ask the Fed to print more responsibly. You opt out of the system entirely. You move to a new standard. A hard money standard. One with a fixed supply that can’t be debased.
So what’s the hard money equivalent for your inner life?
It’s a fixed, non-negotiable sense of worth that isn’t tied to output. Not one you earn by finishing the book. Not one you earn by waking up at 6am. Not one you maintain by never resting. A sense of worth with a hard cap. 21 million. Done. You can’t inflate it. You can’t debase it. No amount of sleeping in or missing a gym session can dilute it.
Right now you’re running on a fiat self-worth standard. Your value to yourself fluctuates daily based on how much you produced, how early you woke up, how optimized your schedule was. Some days you feel rich. Some days you feel bankrupt. It’s volatile, it’s exhausting, and the long-term chart is a slow bleed — just like every fiat currency in history — because the system was designed to fail.
The move isn’t to produce more. That’s just earning more dollars in a hyperinflationary environment. The move is to change the standard. To ground your worth in something that can’t be printed or diluted.
And here’s the part that should really hit home — you already believe this about money. You just haven’t made the trade for yourself yet. You’re out here telling the world to exit the fiat system while you’re still running your inner life on a peso standard.”
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, that was good (that’s what she said).
I asked it, “What’s the currency I’m measuring my worth in?”
It said,
“The currency you're measuring your worth in is output. Chapters written. Content published. Hours optimized. Tasks completed. Waking up early. Not wasting time. That's your unit of account. And every day you check your balance: "Did I do enough today?" And most days the answer is no, because the central bank printed more expectations overnight while you were sleeping. Which, by the way, is probably part of why it's so hard to get out of bed — your body knows that the moment you wake up, the accounting starts.”
The whole idea is to move your inner world to a Bitcoin standard. Fiat is not just monetary. Fiat is a spirit, an energy, a vibrational frequency. The fiat system produces fiat energy. If you’re not aware of it, you become programmed by it.
Bitcoin is the opposite of fiat, and not just monetarily. Bitcoin is a spirit, an energy, a vibrational frequency. Critically, Bitcoin vibrates at the level of truth. This is the most impactful reality of Bitcoin.
Moving your money to truth is one thing, but the game is not material. The game is spiritual. Moving your inner world to a Bitcoin standard… that’s the magic sauce.
We can understand Bitcoin by looking to the opposite of fiat.
On a fiat standard, you produce to earn value. On a Bitcoin standard, you produce because you already have it. The energetic positioning of the former puts you in a state of desperation. The energetic positioning of the latter puts you in a state of freedom, openness, curiosity, and possibility.
When you move your inner world to a Bitcoin standard, the place you are looking for becomes the place you are looking from. You do not need, because you already have. You do not need, because you already are. Bitcoin does not need anything, because it already is superior money. From that position of inherent value, it attracts what it “needs.”
Fiat needs more money, because it lacks. Fiat is a debt-based system, which means it is always in a deficit. The amount of total debt in the United States is over $100 trillion, but only $22.4 trillion of money currently exists. Total debt always exceeds the total money supply, putting fiat in a perpetual deficit, resulting in fiat being a system of lack and need.
“I need to produce value in the fiat system, because I don’t have it.” That’s the trap. And when you live in the fiat world, that’s how it appears to be. But the game is not external. You do not create from without, you create from within (3:33 on the clock as I wrote that).
Bitcoin, as the fixed supply denominator of an infinite amount of value, is worth infinity. Not because someone says so, not because it does something. At its very nature.
“I am infinitely valuable. I give from that state of truth. I receive infinity.” That’s Bitcoin. That’s a product of nature. That’s the inner shift. That’s your nature.
Fiat — you create from lack.
Bitcoin — you create from abundance.
Fiat — you live from fear.
Bitcoin — you live from security.
Fiat — you love in hopes you’ll get something out of it.
Bitcoin — you love from wholeness.
Claude nailed it, “You’re out here telling the world to exit the fiat system while you’re still running your inner life on a peso standard.”
I was living from the constant need to produce, born out of a scarcity of time and value. The truth is, I don’t need to produce. Production naturally flows out of me as a product of my nature. Bitcoin produces block rewards and processes transactions naturally. It does not need force, because it moves as its nature. As a result of its nature, it receives.
In Bitcoin, scarcity is what makes each unit precious. In my inner life, the finite nature of my time is not something to antagonize, because it’s what makes each day valuable. Scarcity on a fiat standard creates panic. Scarcity on a Bitcoin standard creates gratitude.
Love, freedom, and abundance are your natural state. The game is alignment — discovering what is true, dissolving the barriers that keep you from that truth, and grounding yourself in what remains.
That is the mission. Discover truth, dissolve the barriers to that truth, and ground yourself in truth, so you can live as the truest expression of love, freedom, and abundance you were born to be.
What anyone can continue to do is to ground themselves in Bitcoin, be it external or internal, material or spiritual. The results will be the same:
Truth.