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# Blood & Ink: Sunday
- URL: https://www.zenmedicine.co/28/
- Published: 2024-10-27T12:35:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-09T15:58:25.000Z
- Description: proof-of-work / deceptive sophistry / grounded examples
- Author: Eric Brown
- Tags: Blood x Ink

*“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”* 
  
*– Carl Jung* 

## **Show me who you are…**

Talk is cheap. The domain of rhetoric and sophistry.

**To my astonishment, it was Bitcoin that drilled this lesson into me.**

Bitcoins’ fundamental mechanism—the proof-of-work hash function—requires energy to be expended to guess the solution to a massively complex equation.

**This energy expenditure is the divine thread that connects the abstract digital realm of Bitcoin to the living and breathing earth.**

Solving the hash function requires computation. Computation requires energy. If you deliver the solution for the has function, it demonstrates—undoubtedly—that you *put in the work* to solve it.

*“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”* 
  
*— Marcus Aurelius*

- Don’t tell me you’re committed to the project. **Show me.** Invest the time and energy, be proactive, and make good on your promises.
- Don’t tell me you love someone. **Show me.** Let it shine through evidently in your actions.

**People fool themselves (and others) into thinking that what you say is enough.**

Until it is grounded in action (read: in reality) it’s hyperbole, mere conjecture. You must put in the work, and demonstrate your proof of work.

When a morbidly obese person says “I’m healthy,” – what do you listen to? Their words or their actions?

When a triggered husband is arguing with his wife and yells, “I AM calm right now!” – what do you listen to? Their words or their actions?

Do not tell me who you are.

Do not even tell yourself.

**Demonstrate it. Embody it. Be it.**

Show me who you are,  
Eric Brown.