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The Psychological Tools of CIA Operatives with Andrew Bustamante (WiM328)

The "What is Money?" Show

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The Importance of Intuition in Spying

"I'm not an intuition about espionage, but no training to back it," she says. "My intuitions that always made me feel like I was a horrible person were in fact just natural." The second big aha moment came when he left CIA because the skills they were teaching him were also the governing tools that they were using to control her. 'As before, I was instructed what tools to use and when'

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Andrew Bustamante joins me to discuss his life in the CIA, the current geopolitical issues, conspiracy theories, and how to become an everyday spy.

Andrew Bustamante is a US Air Force Academy graduate, former covert CIA intelligence officer, decorated wartime military veteran, and successful Fortune 10 corporate advisor.

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// OUTLINE //
00:00:00 - Coming up
00:00:49 - Intro
00:02:23 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:03:08 - Introducing Andrew Bustamante
00:04:11 - The Career Background of Andrew Bustamante
00:08:31 - Money is an Opportunity
00:11:07 - Equal Opportunity is a Fiction
00:14:49 - Instead of Equality, We Need Fairness
00:18:21 - How Equality Can Lead to Unfairness
00:21:26 - The Question of Gender Fluidity
00:23:32 - Productivity Should Be the Ultimate Goal
00:26:41 - The Story of Everyday Spy
00:31:00 - Category of Spy Tools and Skills
00:33:04 - Skills Get Embedded into the Spies
00:35:26 - Good Business leads to Good Productivity
00:37:00 - Introduction to Everyday Espionage
00:38:44 - The Correlation between Everyday Spy and Everyday Espionage
00:41:52 - The Secret to Disguises
00:43:11 - China: The Next Global Superpower?
00:48:27 - The Geopolitical Situation of Taiwan
00:53:20 - How the U.S. is Responding to Technological War
00:55:54 - Digital War between the U.S. and China
01:00:09 - Maximize Your Profits with Gold Investment Letter
01:01:06 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet
01:02:03 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth
01:03:04 - Will the Semiconductor Business Lead to A Conflict?
01:05:21 - Decentralized Economy Deters Military Warfare
01:08:21 - How to Counter the Drawbacks of Decentralization
01:11:40 - Bitcoin is a Net Benefit for Humanity
01:14:34 - The Social Triangle: Increased Efficiency but Decreased Freedom
01:19:06 - Slavery is Imprinted in Human History
01:21:18 - Human Condition: A Battle between Thriving and Surviving
01:28:57 - How Bitcoin Shifts the Balance of Power
01:34:43 - The Actual Situation of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
01:39:54 - Economic Motivations for Armed Conflict
01:43:52 - How Supply Chain Will Impact Future Conflicts
01:45:30 - How an Average Person Can Defy the Uncertain Future
01:49:38 - We Need to Invest in Unseizable Assets
01:51:30 - Government's Broken Incentives and Incompetence
01:55:57 - The Recipe for Conspiracy and Self-Deception
01:58:42 - Debugging Some Conspiracy Theories
02:04:55 - The Economic Incentive behind the Moon Landing
02:06:58 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
02:07:50 - Hold Bitcoin in the Most Secure Custody Model with Casa
02:08:38 - The Significance of Learning Thy Enemy
02:15:04 - We Bend the Truth to Justify our Action
02:18:47 - Human PSYOPS: The Constant Need for Acceptance
02:21:37 - Espionage is the Game of Secret Life
02:26:46 - Know Like Trust: The Process of Infiltrating or Protecting the Secret Life
02:30:38 - The Framework of Discussing the Secret Life
02:31:44 - The Core Motivators to Control Human Behaviors
02:38:06 - The Ideology of Money
02:40:50 - How the CIA Transformed Andrew Bustamante
02:45:28 - The Life after the CIA
02:48:09 - Unplugged Moments from the Matrix
02:49:01 - Future Life Goals of Andrew
02:52:51 - Where to Find Andrew on the Internet