Introduction Imagine a world where energy isn’t just oil or electricity, but a digital force buzzing through cyberspace, powering a new economy. Michael Saylor, the outspoken CEO of MicroStrategy, paints this picture with a bold claim: “Bitcoin is the first software network capable of storing all the monetary energy in the world with no loss […]
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Money & Power Essays 4 of 8 Introduction Five thousand years ago, a Mesopotamian farmer hefted a sack of barley, its weight a promise of trust—payment for a tool, a debt settled under the watchful eye of a temple overseer. In March 2025, a coder in a dimly lit room watches Solana tokens stream through
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Introduction Imagine a trader watching a stock plummet 20% below their entry point—hope whispers to hold on, whispering promises of a rebound, but discipline demands an immediate exit. This moment captures a foundational principle of trading success: cutting losses quickly. In the high-stakes world of financial markets, where fortunes can be made or lost in
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Introduction: The Cyclical Dynamics of Civilization—A Lens on Past, Present, and Future Human civilization unfolds as a rhythmic interplay between order and disorder, a cycle where power alternately consolidates into centralized structures and disperses into fragmented pieces. This pendulum swing—between centralization, where authority concentrates in the hands of a few, and fragmentation, where it scatters
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Money & Power Essays 7 of 8 Introduction Through the ages, humanity has traced a ceaseless rhythm of power—waves swelling from the scattered shards of fragmentation to the towering crests of centralization, only to tumble back into chaos, a pattern carved across civilizations. In Sumer’s dawn, economic might flowed from river-fed harvests, knitting tribes into
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Introduction In 2025, trillions of dollars in digital transactions—once a shadowy undercurrent of the global economy—stepped into the harsh light of international scrutiny. The catalyst? The International Monetary Fund’s Balance of Payments Manual, Seventh Edition (BPM7), a seismic update to the way the world tracks cross-border financial flows. Launched on March 20, 2025, just days
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Money & Power Essays 1 of 8 Introduction In a Mesopotamian village five thousand years ago, a farmer hands over a sack of barley to secure a tool, trusting its weight as payment. In a server room today, a coder watches lines of code yield Bitcoin, trusting an algorithm to hold value. Across millennia, these
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Introduction Humans have always been cartographers of chaos. From starlit myths scratched into cave walls to equations unraveling climate’s dance, we chase order in a universe that delights in disorder. Our frameworks—those intricate maps of how the world works—are our defiance against the unknown, stitching together behavior, systems, and shadowed futures. Yet now, a new
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Introduction Human behavior, often operating beneath conscious intent, shapes the trajectories of markets, technologies, and societies. In March 2025, this dynamic is evident in the volatility of cryptocurrency markets, the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, and the pervasive influence of social platforms. These phenomena, though modern in form, reflect impulses rooted in humanity’s evolutionary past—instincts
MYTH & MEANING ESSAYS 6 OF 6 AbstractThis essay unveils the Identity Velocity Framework (IVF), tracing the inevitable merger of consumerism and self through semiotic myths, affective responses, and AI-driven systems from the 1950s to an uncharted future. IVF hinges on a key insight: affect theory’s visceral tug aligns with System 1’s fast reactions, shaped