FIRE people track their expenses to the penny. They stress over loyalty points and mortgage basis points. Bitcoiners obsess over MVRV ratios and exchange balances.
Both groups think more measurement equals more control.
But there's a trap here: mistaking information for insight and activity for progress.
I run my numbers every morning over coffee. Takes 10 minutes. I track where cash flows, what my portfolio is worth, what my trailing 12-month expenses look like. That's it.
The Pareto Principle applies: a small number of inputs drive most results. The rest is noise.
What gets measured gets managed. But most people manage the wrong things.
Track what matters. Simplify the rest. Trust your process.
Bitcoin gives you radical transparency—you can verify the monetary policy, audit the ledger, hold your own keys. But that transparency is for validating the system, not for predicting price movements.
Use measurement to clarify your path, not to shield yourself from uncertainty.
Direction over perfection.
https://firebtc.substack.com/p/run-the-numbers
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Both groups think more measurement equals more control.
But there's a trap here: mistaking information for insight and activity for progress.
I run my numbers every morning over coffee. Takes 10 minutes. I track where cash flows, what my portfolio is worth, what my trailing 12-month expenses look like. That's it.
The Pareto Principle applies: a small number of inputs drive most results. The rest is noise.
What gets measured gets managed. But most people manage the wrong things.
Track what matters. Simplify the rest. Trust your process.
Bitcoin gives you radical transparency—you can verify the monetary policy, audit the ledger, hold your own keys. But that transparency is for validating the system, not for predicting price movements.
Use measurement to clarify your path, not to shield yourself from uncertainty.
Direction over perfection.
https://firebtc.substack.com/p/run-the-numbers
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