Back to the tl because people irl frequently ask why I take such "huge risks" on crypto since I'm so clearly not a tech bro, because they see I love people, music, art, beauty and life. It's actually really not hard to explain- despite the culture wars training us into two camps who each sneer at the over or underuse of tech by the other- I want humans to thrive. I want communities to be empowered with the tools to support each other and create network effects. I want everyone to be able to make a living, create savings and a legacy, afford to eat, and to feel comfortable enough to explore, create and take advantage of opportunities that will allow them to continue to make the world better for even more humans. Money is broken. Banks are broken. If you were to spend too much time looking at the doomscroll, humans seem broken. YOU are not broken. It's not a mistake that I ended up in trustless, permissionless, voluntary FOSS tech circles, or that I gave up secure and cushy corporate salaries for the sometimes terrifying uncertainty of DAOs and non-stable alternative currencies. It's also not because I hate anything; it's the way that I want to love and value my own life and express that love to others. We can build something different, and better, for the people and the music and the art and beauty and life. It's going to have a lot of pitfalls, and an exceptionally high period of suck and discomfort. (It already does, especially when people make snap decisions hearing that I left the "real" world and now work solely for crypto and advocate for equitable, verifiable, open-sourced disruptive freedom tech. The reactions are often akin to telling someone I have leprosy.) I don't want you to immediately light every centralized institution in your life on fire RIGHT NOW. I don't want you to live in fear or feel like you're being torn between two "I'm fucked forever" paths that both feel wrong to you. But I want to you to slowly and surely remind yourself that human history is full of evolution, and that upheaval in the way things feel like they have to be is the key component of getting to the next plateau on the way to where they should be. Take heart. Learn more. Hold to your values alongside protecting your value. green days ahead 🖤