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Canadian 20-year-old lottery winner turns down $1M cash for $1,000 a week for life.

agree with lots of what jensen has been saying about ai and jobs; there is a ton of stuff to do in the world. people will 1) do a lot more than they could do before; ability and expectation will both go up 2) still care very much about other people and what they do 3) still be very driven by creating and being useful to others for sure jobs will be very different, and maybe the jobs of the future will look like playing games to us today while still being very meaningful to those people of the future. (people of the past might say that about us.) betting against human's ability to want more stuff, find new ways to play status games, ability to find new methods for creative expression, etc is always a bad bet. maybe human money and machine money will be totally different things, who knows, but we have a LOT of main character energy. more to come.

Today is a monumental day for me in my life. Exactly 4 year and a half ago I lost everything I had in crypto and it wasn't through my own inexperience. Today I finally quit my job and won't ever need to work for a boss again in my life. It's not because Bitcoin hit $80k today. It's not because the market is surging again. That part is pure coincidence (or maybe the heavens being kind to me 🤗). I planned this move for years. I didn't quit based on what I will earn in the next run (that's foolish as it's unpredictable). I quit based on what I already have and earned. I kept my job as long as I could and didn't quit even when I was long past 6 figures and above. I quit because I can with what I have today. Anything more in the next year is pure bonus. I haven't been able to rest and enjoy life for all the past few years (juggling a full-time job, crypto after hours, maintaining a family, real-life obligations). I finally belief I slowly can (the grind won't completely stop but it'll get easier without the job at the office). At the same time I bought a property in Portugal this year and will have fully moved in 2 months from now (courtesy of the beneficial Portuguese crypto tax system). Living close to the beach truly is a life hack. There's no real point of me telling this all and frankly maybe a lot of you won't care and that's fine ofcourse. But most importantly what I really wanted to share: Whether you lost everything. Whether it was because of your own fault or inexperience or someone else's. It doesn't matter. You can come back from everything as it also happened to me. I'm 7-8 years in crypto and 4 years ago I had to start from 0 again. 3-4 years down the drain (I did keep the experience though). At the same time I could have never retired early without crypto (I'm 32 years old). This space can be horribly brutal, but it can also be life-changing. I hope every single one of you can achieve the same 💙 Nova out 🤝 (a young retired individual)