This book came at the perfect time in my life. No sooner do we get what we need. It is one of the best books I’ve ever read.
I would read it while taking walks outside. An older couple said to me while walking “Wow! Reading while walking! That book must be too good to put down- what is it?”
I happily replied “a book about bitcoin!! They hit me with the “ohhhh” in that fake enthusiastic uninterested tone that means they think I’m very stupid and then immediately wanted to end the conversation LOL.
I thought this would teach me more about bitcoin, and as always it took me on quite a different journey. This book awakened things within me that I’m still synthesizing. At first I felt so seen, as so many of my thoughts on society were already beautifully and bluntly written down, my favorite style.
Its target audience may appear to be for men, which I didn’t realize when starting it, but actually maybe it’s just as important for women to reflect on what the standard of men should be, our own relationship to masculinity, and how that influences life and society around us.
It unlocked so much inside my heart and also ignited even more passion within me (which was already a lot but now more). This book has brought up where I have been very naive in my thoughts and behaviors towards father figures/authority/governance, and more importantly it has brought insightful perspective and healing for my relationship with my own father.
A relationship that has been both challenging and deeply complex in my life, a continuous spiritual test of unconditional love and forgiveness. This book helped me realize that running from a source of conflict may bring temporary relief, but leaning into the struggle and alchemizing a difficult dynamic can unlock exponential creativity, opportunity, and growth.
We do go farther together, and this has reaffirmed my belief in the power and necessity of the family unit. How could I speak about the importance of family if I was willing to walk away from part of my own? Can you endure when it’s messy and painful? Can you have enough grace to see the good virtues that are present, even when the broken parts cast the longest shadow?
The last 8 months my sister, my dad, and I started building family businesses. To pool resources, skills, visions, and create family opportunities, land, and legacy. We are all big dreamers, but this experience has magnified our flaws, tensions, and unresolved patterns. There have been many lows where I didn’t know if I could or should keep going. I couldn’t tell if it was worth it. And the beginnings are always the easiest time to back out.
This book gave me answers to things I was unconsciously seeking. This book gave direction to a mental fork in the road I’ve been standing at for months. It told me to stay, to commit. I’m doing the right thing. This was clarity to build even more together. For the sake of long term creation that serves a higher purpose, serves beyond ourselves. Something with capacity to evolve, expand and compound into outcomes bigger than me and my feelings. I can endure turbulence with more grace, I can hold discomfort for a greater good.
Not what I opened a bitcoin book for, but beyond grateful for what has shifted inside me.
Thank you so much for your work.
@Alekandar Svetski ❤️
And I will happily become a citizen of whatever nation Sol Brah is health minister of.
