Lab Notes
Sound Money, Sound Relating
Taye's Voice
October 8, 2026
Ricky Zhang named ten skills for the Age of Abundance this week.
Instantly, I felt shot out of a cannon.
Bitcoin is a personal focus in my life. Bitcoin is sound money, and I relate to it the way I relate to everyone I love.
All of a sudden, my fragmented worlds intersected. I saw my intimates and my money in a free-flowing dance.
I feel I am taking the form of what others are calling a new human.
1. Understanding the money
Ricky: Know what money is, and hold your own keys.
Holding my own keys begins with holding my Self. Everyone is held, including my Self.
A practice I keep stating and restating now asks a new question.
To what end? What would success look like, and how would I know?
2. Time horizon
Ricky: Live as the you who spans decades.
My creative impulse takes time and space to cultivate. I curate environments where creativity is revered and protected.
A long view gives me patience with my mistakes. They become learning tools.
Compassion comes easier for what others are going through. Difference emerges in my relationships without attack.
3. Allocation
Ricky: Decide where your time, sats, and trust go.
Where does my attention go, especially when harsh thoughts arrive? I notice whether my actions follow.
My checkpoints live in the transitions of my day. I check in with my internal clock.
My internal clock is eternally driven and less urgent than the clock on the wall.
4. Creativity
Ricky: Offer what only you can bring.
I have been on this track all my life.
Now I weave the threads together, coherent and open to all who are tracking these ideas for them Selves.
5. Enrollment
Ricky: Help people reach their own truths.
This is the threshold where I find my Self now.
How do I speak clearly one to many, so 8 billion people are reached through all our voices in unity?
I don't know yet. Presence counts.
All my efforts count, because I am aware of my Self, the other, the collective, humanity, all life on Earth, and beyond.
6. Stillness
Ricky: Give attention to yourself.
Tending my Self gives every relationship the medicine of a clear, free zone.
Ideas wait there, ready to take shape and further this bigger idea through my own lens.
7. Presence
Ricky: Give attention to others. Witness them.
They feel me feeling them. A circuit of love completes.
Each of us begins again, freely.
Scorekeeper dropped.
8. Being known
Ricky: Be trusted for what you choose.
I say what I mean. I mean what I say. Enough of the time to learn when I am out of step with my own beat.
Being true to my Self comes first.
I trust without strong conviction, even when I feel strongly convinced.
I believe accepting our Selves fully, and no longer suffering, is a universal desire.
9. Care
Ricky: Serve with no expectation of return.
Giving is my nature. I use the energy I have for good.
Care is the primary currency, a phrase I carry with Anna Miller, my evolutionary partner.
Tomer Strolight names a third way of exchange, giving with nothing asked in return. Satoshi gave the world Bitcoin this way.
When we create, sharing our gifts follows naturally, and everyone who witnesses flourishes.
Care circulates and builds a web of trust, ever expanding, with no coordinate in time or space.
Physics may one day show this to humanity, as Nassim Haramein's work suggests.
10. Choosing your friction
Ricky: Meaning comes from the struggle you choose.
The friction I choose is rising from unworthiness.
I walk out of the old paths to shame and the feeling I was never good enough.
I have decided to take steps that build my participation in a web of trust.
Within the dyad. All encompassing. All inclusive.
Where do your 10 land?
With Gratitude
Ricky Zhang, Age of Abundance, Episode 98, "The Age of Abundance Skill Stack" Listen →, and Episode 97, "Is Bitcoin a Digital Life Form?" Listen →
The Bitcoin short by Bram Kanstein Watch →, on Nostr →
Tomer Strolight, "Hello. I Am Bitcoin." Read →, and "What Is the Essence of Bitcoin?" Read →, on X →
Anna Miller Gene Keys profile →
Nassim Haramein spacefed.com →
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