ESCAPE VELOCITY

Building, building, building...

I’m building.

No doom scrolling. No rage posting. No endless commentary on the latest political circus that masquerades as democracy in this decrepit nation.

Because I realised something profound: every minute I spend complaining about the system is a minute I’m not spending overcoming it. And the system is designed to be complained about. It wants you scrolling, seething, impotent. It wants you to watch the theatre, to believe your vote matters, to think that writing another furious post will change something.

It won’t.

The entire apparatus is engineered to keep you exhausted, distracted, broke. They inflate your currency, tax your labour, regulate your ambition into submission. And whilst you’re busy being outraged by whatever manufactured controversy the media has served up this week, you’re not building wealth, not creating value, not forging the life you actually want.

So I stopped playing their game.

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Reminder - My Book is Out Now.

Before we continue, I want to quickly tell you that my book is available for purchase in hard cover and paperback.

It is called Life in the People’s Republic of Victoria, I am very happy with how this book turned out. It is beautifully printed with high quality materials. I took extra time with the design of this one, and I’m glad I did. There are also some fun surprises inside (but I won’t ruin those).

Back to it…

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I wake up at 5am. I work. I build my business, I advance my career, I invest, I learn. I’m reading books that make me sharper, not news articles that make me angrier. I’m having conversations that elevate me, not arguments with strangers online who will never change their minds.

And something remarkable happens when you do this consistently: you achieve escape velocity.

This is a physics concept, but it applies to life. Escape velocity is the minimum speed needed to break free from a gravitational field. For a rocket leaving Earth, it’s about 11 kilometres per second. Below that threshold, gravity pulls you back down. Above it, you’re free.

The system has gravity. It wants to keep you in orbit, circling endlessly, getting nowhere. Scrolling, seething, consuming, complaining. The gravitational pull is immense: debt, taxation, inflation, regulation, propaganda. All of it designed to keep you trapped in the lower atmosphere, unable to break free.

But if you can generate enough momentum. Through work, discipline, focus. You can reach escape velocity. You can break free from the system’s gravity well.

The critical thing about escape velocity is this: you can’t slow down once you’ve achieved it. The moment you ease off, gravity starts pulling you back. You drift, you coast, you tell yourself you’ve earned a break. And before you know it, you’re back in orbit, trapped again in the feed, in the rage cycle, in the machinery that keeps you poor and powerless.

So you have to maintain velocity. You have to keep building, keep working, keep pushing forward. Not forever, eventually you’ll be far enough out that gravity’s pull is negligible. But until then, consistency is everything. One day off becomes two, becomes a week, becomes a month. And suddenly you’re back where you started, doom scrolling, complaining about politicians, watching your life slip away.

I’ve felt this pull recently. The temptation to slow down, to engage again with the political circus, to spend my days crafting the perfect post about whatever fresh insanity has emerged from Canberra. But I recognise it now for what it is: gravity trying to pull me back down.

This is what they don’t want you to know: this Modern Life is designed to pull you in, distract you. It STARVES YOU OF THE SPACE TO THINK.

The less attention you pay, the more space you create for yourself, the more power you actually have over your own life. Because your focus is a finite resource. You can spend it on things you cannot control, or you can spend it on things you can.

I can’t control the Reserve Bank. But I can control how I invest my money.

I can’t control immigration policy. But I can control where I choose to live and who I choose to associate with.

I can’t control taxation rates. But I can control how hard I work to increase my income.

And this is liberating in a way I didn’t expect. There’s a certain peace that comes from accepting that the nation is beyond saving, that the political class is irredeemable, that the system will continue to grind away at your prosperity until there’s nothing left. Once you accept this, you stop waiting for salvation from above. You stop hoping that the next election will fix things, that the next Prime Minister will be different, that somehow the machine will suddenly start working in your favour.

It won’t.

But you can still win.

Not by changing the system, but by mastering it. By understanding its rules, exploiting its loopholes, building wealth despite its best efforts to impoverish you. The game is rigged, yes. But that doesn’t mean you can’t win. It just means you need to be smarter, work harder, be more disciplined than the average person who’s content to be a tax serf.

So that’s what I’m doing. I’m increasing my velocity. I’m building the life I want in defiance of a system that wants me poor and compliant. I’m rejecting the narrative that we’re all victims of circumstance, that prosperity is impossible for our generation.

Because it’s not impossible. It’s just harder. You need more thrust, more discipline, more focus to achieve escape velocity in 2025 than perhaps any generation before. But it can be done.

And once you break free? The view is extraordinary.

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Reminder - My Book is Out Now.

Before we continue, I want to quickly tell you that my book is available for purchase in hard cover and paperback.

It is called Life in the People’s Republic of Victoria, I am very happy with how this book turned out. It is beautifully printed with high quality materials. I took extra time with the design of this one, and I’m glad I did. There are also some fun surprises inside (but I won’t ruin those).

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