James D. Brausch Blog
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Step 1 – Dream
Are you ready to live the magical life of your wildest dreams? Who or what is stopping you? What needs to change? Where exactly is the problem? We are told that the universe is over fourteen billion years old. Causes and effects across those fourteen billion years led you, a tiny part of this vast
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Playing The System
My dad scooped me up off of the blanket spread on the floor where I slept so that I would not accidentally touch my mother’s breast. He lifted me directly into the thick layer of smoke. I coughed and couldn’t see. I tried to push my way out of his arms so that I could
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Bitcoin Trends After Mid-2025
Disclaimer: The author is a convicted felon serving time in Idaho state prison. He is probably also quite insane. Do not take advice from him and do not feed him. There are qualified paid professionals who can help both you and him. Use them instead. Introduction I am planning to exit Bitcoin for one year
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I’m Hiring
That isn’t anything new. I’m always hiring an I would love to have you on my team. I teach that the way to success is business and investing, but a “job” is often where those skills are learned and honed. Working for me allows you to see how success works. It allows you to change
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Leaving Paradise
We talked about going back north and visiting the Mexican ports we had missed. The Sea of Cortez sounded like quite a paradise. Maybe we could leave the boat there and go live in the Mormon colonies in Colonia Juárez. We also talked about today. We talked about these memoirs. We talked about telling Jimmy
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Optimize Bitcoin Investment for Prisoners
Many investors recommend a “buy and hold” strategy. While I have done very well with Bitcoin by following that strategy, I have also noticed that Bitcoin appears to have fairly predictable timing characteristics. My cost-basis in 2012 was $20 per Bitcoin. As I write this, the latest quote was $119,000 per Bitcoin. A “buy and
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Weight Loss in Prison – WMI not BMI
Obesity is a big problem in prison. For most, it is the easiest health indicator to address. Many (possibly most) health problems diminish or completely disappear when normal weight is achieved. Inmates know that and often visit the gym or at least try the walking track to try to deal with their weight problem. Most
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Sissy
My first memory of Sissy is at the big house on California Avenue in San Pablo. As I look back, I have to laugh at the idea of it being a big house. I suppose that was in comparison to the one-room cottage on the beach in Florida. This house was two stories tall, so
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Pasta Sauce Superfood for Inmates
There is currently a craze that claims some foods are superfoods delivering more nutrition per calorie or per gram and maybe even a cure for some diseases. At the heart of most fads is an element of truth. It is no different here. When we look at some so-called superfoods using science, we actually do
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Cat Tacos
The Cumberland Valley has hot humid summers and winters that appear to be the end of the world. I saw the most spectacular thunderstorms I have ever seen there. It snows, but never accumulates more than six inches or so. And it has ice storms that look like a magical diamond kingdom. Sometimes the ice