For as long as we’ve had stories, we know that people explore. From Ragnar Lothbrok to Captain Flint, from Da Vinci to Wright brothers, from Steve Jobs to Satoshi, from Gandhi to Peter Thiel, everyone has been doing things only for one reason: to find or build a better world.
That is the underlying motivation behind everyone who moves their mouth or fingers every morning.
The great ones just dare to accept the magnanimity of this mission, say it out loud, and devote their lives in pursuit of it, knowing this is all going to fail.
We are on the Sisyphean task of making sense of the entire universe. We will fail. Every ancient scripture talks about the day that this good fight ends.
But what else is there? So we fight.
In that fight, the result doesn’t matter. What matters is those sparks when two swords meet, when the gong rings, when the Gods smile.
This requires a deep understanding of the world and, more importantly, courage.
Sadly, the creation of this new world also means a threat to the old world.
And often, the new world is built on the sweat and knowledge of the old world. Spanish Gold was needed for Nassau. And yet, it had to disconnect from the old energy.
Today, we are building metaverses. We no longer need to take physical risks to discover and experiment with new worlds.
But the fight is still on. We need to take from the old, build the new and try to make it better.
All great endeavours will lead to a better world before the world folds into itself.
It does not matter because nothing matters. But we will have been a part of this unique painting of that moment when the Gods laughed. That resonance is our reward.
This, we hope, stays in the universe’s memory forever.
That is why we fight.
