A Life Well Lived, Is A Life Full Of Community

When I saw the crypto light on 6/29/17, what I saw was that, for the first time in history, we had a toolset to solve for the community, instead of the man in the middle. Who generally solves for himself. And I thought that was going to be the biggest thing to happen in the history of humanity. And I’ve been crypto 24/7 ever since.

Five years later, and everyone’s talking about the importance of “community”. And, interestingly, community means something different to everyone. To me:

A community is an ecosystem where, when it works, everyone gets more out of it than they’re putting in

As I continued down the crypto rabbit hole, I became of the belief that the atomic level of community, is two people. Marriage is a community. And I realized that I had gotten married without a single conversation on governance and consensus!

As I look back, I think my 30 year marriage ended long after either of us felt that we were getting more out of it than we were putting in. If I had my community mindset earlier, I may have ended the marriage earlier. My ex actually ended it.

And I look at all business relationships as a community. So I always want to have easy outs. Because either party should be able to get out if they feel they’re not getting more out of it than they’re putting in.

My life now feels like one long series of community events. I spend 60% of my time going to CryptoMondays around the world. And 100% of the time, I’m with my community.

I’m going to CryptoMondays Tel Aviv on September 5th. And to me, the whole state of Israel is a community I care deeply about, and love being apart of, especially in the flesh.

And I’m writing this from Las Vegas. I’m with my main community. My three sons. Two of them are in a video game tournament at Mandalay Bay. So I’m seeing them with a community that they care deeply about.

Even my email or blog post endings reek of community.

WAGMI!