Power Is So Cheap

The biggest arbitrage opportunity of 2025 is sitting right in front of everyone

I moved to Japan last month with nothing but my laptop and a clear head. No girls texting me. No Vegas distractions. No crypto FOMO pulling me in twelve directions. Just work.

This wasn't monk mode by accident. It was pattern recognition.

Every successful person I know gave up something obvious to get something better. The trade-off isn't complicated. You stop chasing dopamine hits and start building something that lasts. The problem is most people won't make this trade because they think sacrifice means losing.

They're wrong. Sacrifice means winning.

I spent years ghostwriting for YouTubers who made millions telling other people's stories. Good money, but I was invisible. Now I'm about to tell stories that matter, with my name on them, funded by someone who believes in the mission. The difference between those two positions? Moral courage.

Moral courage isn't heroic. It's boring. It's saying no to the girl who wants to "make things work" when you know it won't. It's moving to a country where you don't speak the language because you need to focus. It's taking a journalism assignment in Lebanon when everyone else is making TikToks about the Middle East from their living room.

The ROI is insane because nobody else is doing it.

We're living through World War III right now. Not the hot war everyone's waiting for, but the cold one that's been running for years. Information warfare. Spiritual warfare. Economic warfare. Most people are consuming content about these wars instead of participating in them.

I have friends in Special Forces who told me this years ago. They weren't being dramatic. They were being accurate. The whole world is about to change, and the people who recognize this first get to shape what comes next.

The journalism industry is broken. Everyone has opinions. Nobody has facts. The Overton window is wide open for someone who just wants to let people tell their own stories. That's not revolutionary thinking. That's just going back to what journalism used to be.

But it takes moral courage to do basic journalism now because basic journalism has become radical.

I know the best editors in the world. I know the best videographers in the world. I have the funding and the mission. The only thing standing between me and career-defining work is whether I'm willing to get on the plane.

That's it. That's the whole arbitrage.

While everyone else is debating the Middle East on Twitter, I'm going to Lebanon to interview Lebanese people. While everyone else is theorizing about what courage looks like, I'm practicing it.

The million X ROI isn't hypothetical. It's happening right now for anyone willing to do simple things that feel hard. The difficulty isn't in the execution. It's in the decision to execute while everyone else is still talking.

Power really is so cheap. You just have to be willing to pay for it.