How To Use This Book
Three ways in, and none of them is wrong.
Just the music. Read the lyrics. Skip everything else. The album works as an album.
Music with the decoder. Read the annotations beside each track. Each one does up to four jobs — Define, Decode, Danger, Do. You'll finish knowing what the bars mean and roughly how the technology works.
The full manual. Work the last third front to back. It assumes nothing and takes you from never having opened a wallet to holding your own keys safely.
The Four D's
| Define | What the term means |
| Decode | What the bar is actually saying |
| Danger | The failure mode being referenced |
| Do | The action you can take |
The one rule
The manual teaches you how to lose money before it teaches you how to move it. That order is deliberate and it isn't negotiable. Chapter order exists for a reason — the safety chapter comes before the tutorial chapter.
What this book is not
It is not investment advice. Nothing here recommends buying anything. The annotations describe how things work and how they fail, and nothing more. The songs are art; art is allowed opinions the manual is not.