I wouldn't change a thing.

Last week, I took my first break from the screens in a very long time.

I went camping. In a field. Near a mountain. I had exactly zero internet access the entire time.

I missed the Base launch and the BALD drama, but spent my days outdoors getting soaked by rain, climbing up large hills, and trying to avoid breaking any bones.

I interacted with normal human beings whose accents I could just about understand and probably spent a total of 10 minutes the entire time thinking about Crypto.

It was a fantastic, much-needed mental reset after the craziness and stupidity of the past few months that culminated in peak ridiculousness when I found myself having a multi-thousand dollar position open on a coin that races real-life hamsters and lets people gamble on the outcome.

If I tried to explain what I do for a living to any rational normal human being, they would honestly think I had something seriously wrong with me.

And you know what? I probably do.

But I wouldn't change a thing.

Taking some time away gave me a chance to reflect and remove myself from the day-to-day volatility of the space.

You truly have to be zoned in to be successful here, so I guess I can forgive myself for sometimes forgetting the bigger picture.

But the time away reminded me that it truly is a blessing to be able to make a living entirely online, where success is solely dependent on my own performance.

At no other point in human history was it possible for someone with zero financial qualifications or industry contacts to wake up each day, log into the mental illness machine that is CT, and compete against the suits in the biggest, global, decentralised financial ecosystem to ever have existed, where wealth generation opportunities are abundant and continue to fall from the sky into the laps of those willing to work hard enough to find them.

Of course, it's not always sunshine and rainbows.

There are some ridiculously hard times, and it takes a SIGNIFICANT amount of very hard work to be successful in this space. The learning curve is incredibly steep.

You can make an annual salary from an airdrop in one day and lose it the next in a hack.

But the fact that I, a person with no particular standout skill set, can wake up each day and permissionlessly compete against the institutions, the trust fund-receiving privately educated VCs, and the bankers, all from my laptop, in my living room, wearing pyjamas, excites me more than any job I've done in the past, and the margin is not even close.

It's not for everyone, of course.

But it is for me.

Have a great weekend.

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