{"id":"ade50a6decc451c34cadbddee52f3ad216be24dc2d792c97092d7321a5e67114","pubkey":"a44dbc9aaa357176a7d4f5c3106846ea096b66de0b50ee39aff54baab6c4bf4b","created_at":1746461979,"kind":1,"tags":[["r","wss://filter.nostr.wine/npub153xmex42x4chdf757hp3q6zxagykkek7pdgwuwd074964dkyha9s82ryu8?broadcast=true"],["r","wss://nostr-dev.wellorder.net/"],["r","wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net/"],["r","wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social/"],["r","wss://nostr.mom/"],["r","wss://nostr.wine/"],["r","wss://premium.primal.net/"],["r","wss://relay.damus.io/"],["r","wss://relay.nostr.band/","read"]],"content":"Zooming Out: How Winemaking Prepared Me for Bitcoin\n\nStarting Peony Lane meant leaning into something most people see as a downside.\nWaiting.\n\nMaking red wine is slow.\nYou invest into grapes, barrels, and labor, then wait two years before selling a single bottle.\n https://blossom.primal.net/2bea1ed0c4eca4fe75047a715ac4bdc11a91f8b27007a862ad8397e73264f03c.jpg \nMost people hate that part.\nFor me, it was the opportunity.\n\nThe waiting gave me time to focus on what actually matters: making good wine.\nSince I didn’t have a product to sell yet, all I could do was learn.\nPeople act like it’s wild I learned so quickly while working full-time, but nothing motivates you like dumping your life savings into something and having to figure it out.\n\nOne year in, I had a big test.\nYou only get to make wine once a year.\nWhen that second fall came, I'd never sold a single bottle, but I had to decide how much wine to make.\n\nSo I guessed.\nI figured I’d make a little more than the year before.\nWorst case, the wine would sit and get better with time. No harm in that.\n\nThat became the rhythm.\n\nNot scaling up felt like more of a risk than scaling up too much.\nI never wanted to run out of wine to sell.\nAnd if I ever made too much, I’d just make less the next year. Simple.\n\nWhat I couldn’t do was go back and make more if I ran out.\n\nEventually, that thinking becomes second nature.\nYou stop looking at each vintage in isolation.\nYour baseline shifts to thinking two or three years ahead.\n\nWhen I found Bitcoin, the low time preference mindset clicked immediately.\n\nYou can’t chase every short-term move.\nYou have to zoom out.\nYou trust that time and patience will reward conviction because you know the underlying product is sound.\n(Which, to be honest, is more than I could say about my wine back then.)\n\nSo I went all in on Bitcoin at both tops of the 2021 cycle.\nIt felt more risky to not buy bitcoin in the moment than the downside potential of being able to buy cheaper bitcoin in the future.\n\nIf you can wait long enough, time heals all.","sig":"4d64b31d84514a5b7bdb03748df3845d457786402998dac89d452d235477e97ca2e51e02569c7785f85f7338c47ec2a50ce118b102f95eb70aedc3932b210c41"}