For most of my life I was the smartest person in every room I was in.
This is not a brag about my intelligence and more an admission that I was perpetually in the wrong room.
I was in the wrong rooms because I was afraid. Afraid of failure, afraid to lose control, afraid of the unknown. It was easier to be the big fish in the small pond.
But it came at the expense of my potential and one day the internal dissonance from taking the easy way out just got too great to ignore and I had to take a leap into the unknown.
I had to let it all fall apart.
Iβm sharing this because Iβm having an honest reflective moment about my own human weakness and fallibility and I think many of you out there are probably still in a place that youβve already outgrown.
My advice?
Its time to let the past die.
Kill it if you have to.
Thatβs the only way to become what you are meant to be.
Iβm extremely optimistic about humanity. I fully expect humans to colonize the entire universe. There is no practical end to our civilization, it will ripple forward for trillions of generations to come. Weβve only begun to scratch the surface of what we are capable of.
@npub1guh5...6hjy, @Erik Cason and I look like weβre about to hand you a pamphlet titled βTurning Away From Fiat Sin: Salvation Through Proof of Work.β π
There was a housefly in my kitchen buzzing against the glass. Desperately yearning to be outside.
I scooped him up and attempted to direct him to the open door, but he was insistent on crashing into the glass over and over again. Finally I trapped him in a cup and carried him outside.
I watched him fly away and thoughtβ¦
How often am I that fly in gods eyes?