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@mcuban @Mappy6984 Are you taking anything to help? I ask because I am 63 and getting back to working out. Curious what us older guys need besides good diet and exercise to maintain good health.

I just finished translating @gavofyork's long-form interview, and I can’t help but share a few thoughts.🩷 If you break Gavin’s life into pieces, you’ll notice a strikingly clear — almost stubborn — through-line: he has never been someone who uses systems. He has always been someone who invents the rules. At five or six, he was exploring a second-hand box of LEGO without a manual. At nine, he was in his bedroom writing the “first line of fate” on his very first computer. As a teenager, he wasn’t satisfied with playing games — he built his own: Dark Times, a homemade Bomber Man, turning classmates and magazine reviewers into his players. Later, he taught himself AMOS, C++, OpenGL; he wrote games, built websites, tinkered with samplers, designed tabletop games — again and again turning the worlds in his mind into systems other people could step into. Taken separately, these moments look like the hobby list of a gifted geeky kid. But from where we stand today, they reveal something deeper: Gavin never really believed in the “world handed down by authority.” He cared far more about whether he could design a fairer, more playful world of his own. Whether it’s the rules of an open-world game, or the crypto-economic and governance architectures behind @ethereum, @Polkadot, and now JAM — it’s all, at its core, the same pursuit: Not telling people which path to walk, but building a world where paths can be discovered and invented. Not trusting authority, but letting rules themselves stand up to authority. So when we talk about @gavofyork today, we’re not just talking about “a founder of a blockchain” or “a technical mind.” We’re looking at someone who started practicing with LEGO and ended up extending that imagination into games, hardware, tabletop systems, social structures, and Web3 — someone who has spent his entire life grappling with one question: “If rules aren’t made to control people, but to unleash human creativity, what could the world look like if we redesigned it from scratch?” That’s what makes the conversation you’re about to read truly compelling.

Ten years ago, @gavofyork created the EVM and it became industry consensus. Everyone started launching EVM-based chains, and the world split into EVM chains and non-EVM chains. Today, a decade later, Gavin introduces JAM. And it’s poised to become the next consensus. Soon, the industry may only talk about JAM chains and non-JAM chains.🏄‍♀️