We kicked off our first 2026 Platinum Mastermind yesterday.
This is where we get together with a group of business owners looking to take the next step.
It's pretty motivating to hang out with a group like that and we've got a great bunch for 2026.
The mix of different people and businesses is always fascinating and inspiring.
The new year brings new things, including this...
We're introducing a monthly AI Workshop to the VIP level of the Rock Star Inner Circle Membership.
Each month, we're going to share how we are using the latest AI tools in all areas of our lives.
AI is changing so fast that it's hard to keep up, so we're going to share what we're seeing and using and playing with.
You may be wondering how this relates to real estate?
Well we've always been more about "living life on your own terms" than purely about real estate.
Real estate is a vehicle to help us get to "YLYT" (Your Life. Your Terms.)
After using artificial intelligence over the last two months we've become convinced we're facing more change right now than any of us are prepared for.
The world is turning upside down and if you're paying attention you can feel the change in the air.
Our entire economy and lives have been built around "scarcity economics"...but that's all being torn up and thrown out.
Abundance is the new game.
This isn't just change.
It's a major phase transition that's going to catch a lot of people flat footed.
Let me dive into this with you using something we wrote up on NOSTR recently...
"Scarcity is imposed. Abundance is natural."
This whole shift to AI and sound money is a bigger transition than we initially realized.
The old economy runs on scarcity economics. The systems we use today - banking, pricing, debt, interest - were all built in a world where:
Energy was limited, production was slow, information was expensive, labour was the bottleneck.
This meant the economy evolved by managing "scarcity".
It's what most economists and CEOs still discuss today...the "economics of scarcity."
In a scarcity based system, whoever controls the money supply, the credit system, and the energy markets controls the distribution of wealth.
This leads to centralization.
But looking at the state of things today we can see:
Energy is abundant and is headed to becoming abundantly available (yes, we are early here but the trend to abundance is becoming visible).
Intelligence is becoming abundant. Scarcity is not the natural state of the world anymore.
(Aside: We already produce more energy than we use — we just waste it).
All of these now "obvious" realizations are blowing us away.
The sun hits earth with 10,000x more energy than humanity is currently using.
AI turns intelligence into a scalable resource.
Automation is turning labour from scarce to easily replicable.
Bitcoin turns value storage into something that's fixed and incorruptible.
So instead of economics being about who controls scarcity, it is now actively in the process of becoming about how efficiently we convert:
Energy -> Intelligence -> Output -> Value.
We are now incentivized to think from physics instead of from finance and the assumptions we've used our whole lives are changing very quickly.
Scarcity Economics:
Value is limited.
Money is managed by centralized institutions.
Wealth accumulates upward.
Savings don't work.
Physics of Abundance:
Value is producible at scale.
Money is secured by energy.
Wealth spreads outward through lower prices.
Saving IS the mechanism of prosperity.
If AI makes intelligence abundant, and Bitcoin makes money incorruptible, and energy increasingly comes from excess/stranded/renewable sources...
...then the limiting factor in wealth creation is no longer "who controls the money".
The limiting factor becomes: How much energy and intelligence you can access and coordinate.
We are moving to a world where physics is more important than finances.
Wealth in the future will flow to the people, companies, and regions that can power things (energy) and figure out what to do with that power (intelligence) — and connect those pieces efficiently (coordination).
And a new monetary layer (Bitcoin) is enabling global coordination between almost anyone.
(Quick Aside: AI isn't going to use a slow-to-settle fiat dollar system...technology is about to disrupt even the mighty central banking system. It already is).
Scarcity has been imposed on us. Abundance is natural.
And we're seeing this natural state emerge.
In that emergence there's going to be chaos as old structures are broken.
But make no mistake, the process is beginning to play out in a meaningful way right now.
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What a completely wild time to be alive.
If you are aware of these massive trends you can ride them to live life on exactly the terms you wish.
Yes, all of that is possible for you.
At Rock Star, we'll be talking a lot about how this intersects with real estate investing and the economy. And if you're a VIP member join us for the new monthly AI workshops.
Welcome to the future, everyone!!
Tom & Nick
p.s. Don't worry Leafs fans. We're down in the standings but we'll be OK. The playoffs are in sight. Stay strong!!
