Know your game
Define the rules, incentives and your own winning condition.
Try the exercise →START HERE / THE BTCisGTO PLAYBOOK
Three lessons.
One better decision.
I’m Jay. I grew up playing games before the internet. Now I’m using this site to explore how decisions, money and experiences fit together. Start with these working principles, then test them in your own life.
A working playbook drawn from the decisions behind BTCisGTO. Read a lesson, try an exercise, then record your next move.
A good decision can lose
Separate a sound process from a lucky outcome.
Try the exercise →Money versus XP
Decide what an experience is worth to you.
Try the exercise →Make your next move.
Turn the three lessons into a short decision brief. Keep it private or export your notes.
Open the worksheet →Define winning before you play.
A higher score is useful only if it measures something you actually want. Income, attention and a good relationship have different rules and different definitions of success.
From my case study: I’ve chosen a concrete financial destination: 1 BTC toward LOLA’s HOME. But money is only one score. Experiences and happiness are the other.
Try this: Choose one current decision. Write the outcome you want, the constraints you face, and what you refuse to sacrifice. For a shared decision, ask what a good outcome looks like for the other person too.
Check yourself: Are you pursuing your own goal, or someone else’s scoreboard?
Judge the process, then the result.
Uncertainty separates the quality of a decision from its outcome. A lucky win can reward a bad process; a reasonable decision can still end badly. Neither one result nor confidence proves an edge.
From my case study: I asked for the agents to be tested in simulation before they trade real money. The point is to make the assumptions and risks visible before committing capital.
Illustration: If an event truly has a 70% chance of happening, it still fails 30% of the time. One failure does not disprove the estimate, and one success does not validate it.
Try this: Before the outcome, record your reasons, what could go wrong and what would change your mind. Review that record afterward instead of rewriting the story to fit the result.
Practice writing a forecast in Edge ↗Ask what the experience is worth.
Some choices add money. Some create an experience, a connection or a lesson. Sometimes they do both. Treat the trade-off as a conscious decision.
From my case study: I define XP as experiences and happiness. LOLA’s HOME is the place I want to build; the experience of building it also belongs in the story.
Try this: Compare two uses of your next free afternoon. Write the money and time cost, the experience you expect, and who shares in it. Choose deliberately, then reflect on what actually happened.
Check yourself: Is the money helping you live the life you want? There is no universal numerical happiness score.
YOUR NEXT MOVE / PRIVATE WORKSHEET