The Weekly Universe
Volume #54
“Rick Rubin’s fishing metaphor:
This is the sign of a true professional. He doesn’t sit around waiting for inspiration to come— he goes to the studio rigidly, every day, ready to work, knowing that it will be there for him when he calls on it.
“It’s like fishing. You can go out and spend the whole day fishing and not catch any fish. You can work for a day or for a week and nothing good can happen. That happens. It’s out of our control.”
You have to trust the process. You have to keep showing up.”
“Rick Rubin’s House on the Mountain test:
Create according to your own taste, not for applause, critics, algorithms, or market demand.
“Imagine going to live on a mountaintop by yourself, forever. You build a home that no one will ever visit. Still, you invest the time and effort to shape the space in which you’ll spend your days. The wood, the plates, the pillows—all magnificent. Curated to your taste.”
“This is the essence of great art. We create our art so we may inhabit it ourselves.”
“I'm willing to go to extremes to make the thing that I want to inhabit and it's not for anyone else. it's just for me.””
“If the currency of the universe is energy, what would a perfect currency anchor itself to?”
₿
“Money should reward creation, effort and productivity.
That’s why so many people are drawn to a system where value cannot simply be printed into existence.”
₿
“I ran a test.
Buying Bitcoin every day
vs
Buying Bitcoin only when it crashes
The results:
Same $45,260 invested into both strategies over 2014–2026.
Buying only the crash years (2014, 2018, 2022, 2026) left you with: 29.91 BTC
Buying every day left you with: 31.96 BTC
The main reason:
Buying Bitcoin only when it crashes misses out on the boring bottoms.
2015 ($273 avg), 2016 ($568), 2019 ($7,365), 2023 ($28,859) are considered "non-crash" years, but those were prime times to buy.
Two morals of the story:
1) Consistent DCA continues to be the simplest, most effective strategy
2) You still turned $45k into roughly $2 million”
That’s all for this week :)