![]() Then a few months ago, DeFi Kingdoms blew up after I had made a large investment in it, I started working for them, and I quit everything to work in crypto full-time. There was a period where I went 4 months without a single day off. Averaging out my hours per week, I worked about 70–90 hours per week, across all 7 days. I drove approximately 54,000 miles (87,000 km, for my non-US friends) in a years time for those two side gigs. ![]() I was doing medical courier work as a contractor, working as a Data Analyst for a very large corporation full time, and also picking up side-side-courier jobs for a long haul operation. Now I will take my own advice, and meet with Ursula again in her own thought experiment, and say Hail and Farewell, and thank you.My lessons learned on stress, boundaries, goals, and the elusive idea of “GMI” on/off chain.Īt this time last year, I was working 3 jobs, trying to pay off old debts and simultaneously build a crypto portfolio the likes of which I had long dreamed of. ![]() “Read the Earthsea trilogy,” I suggested. Recently, not long before Le Guin died, I found myself talking with a much younger woman who was mourning the loss of a friend. In the process, he must contend with the wisdom of dragons: ambiguous and not our wisdom, but wisdom nonetheless. Ged, its hero, must face his shadow self before it devours him. The darkness includes the hidden and less pleasant sides of our selves – our fears, our pride, our envy. The Earthsea trilogy, for instance, is a memorable exploration of the relationship between life and death: without the darkness, no light and mortality allows all that is alive to be. This was a time of high energy for Le Guin the writer.īut political thought and activity was just one facet of this astonishingly talented woman’s multifaceted life and work. It was this generation of American women that fuelled much of the second wave feminism of the late 1960s and 70s, which was when that particular tin can exploded. For those who’d been taught they were grownups, this was like trying to seal a volcano inside a tin can. But after she married and left academia, she found herself in a society that treated her and all women – from a legal point of view – like an irresponsible 13-year-old. She was taught to think, as they used to say, like a man: widely, curiously, rigorously. She took note, and was not amused.)Īfter Radcliffe she went to graduate school, studying French and Italian literature. (Once she became a writer – a science fiction writer, among other things – the men defending that particular tree house continued the exclusionary bun-pelting. She would have strolled past the dining hall, where – she would have been told – the male students used to pelt with buns any female who dared to show her face. She went to Radcliffe, a liminal space then: it was Harvard but not really, its women allowed some participation but not full access. Le Guin was born in 1929: a child in the depression, a teenager in the second world war, then at college right after the war, in that moment that seemed so filled with the spirit of renewal. It would also have contained mutually enjoyable sex and good food: there was a better chance of that. In all her work, Le Guin was always asking the same urgent question: what sort of world do you want to live in? Her own choice would have been gender equal, racially equal, economically fair and self-governing, but that was not on offer. Were you predicting anything? Not exactly, she answered. ![]() What do you think, Ursula? I asked her in my head. Le Guin was always asking the same urgent question: what sort of world do you want to live in? If judged a danger to the general good you’re deemed persona non grata and exiled to a prison enclave, with no trial or right of reply. In the other society, an oppressive bureaucracy prevails and a secret committee knows what’s best. You’re in the powerful inner circle one day, an outcast the next. In one of its societies, the king is crazy. Consider: the planet of Gethen is divided. ![]()
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