I was seventeen years old at the time. I was set to attend UC Berkeley in the fall, so I got invited to fly up on a weekend to attend some sort of orientation they were having for incoming students. I honestly have no memory of the orientation itself, but what I remember is the city of San Francisco.
I forget who it was, but just before my trip, someone had mentioned that San Francisco was supposed to be the 3rd most romantic city in the world. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but by the end of that weekend, and over the course of the next four years, I discovered what a truly amazing place San Francisco was in those days.
It’s been 30 years now, so the details are fuzzy, but I remember taking the hour long flight out of LAX into Oakland airport one Saturday afternoon just before the start of summer. It must have been the first time I’d ever flown on my own, and on the flight I happened to notice a girl I’d gone to church with when I was in junior high school. I saw she was alone, and I wondered if she was flying up north for the same reason I was.
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Man, I miss those days – spontaneous adventure – before cell phones. With modern tech, we’ve gained a lot. And we’ve lost a lot.
One reason why I support eCash is because I believe it will ensure my boys get a chance to have amazing experiences and make lasting memories. Something they won’t have the chance to do if we end up with a world run by tyrants or bureaucrats.
Yeah, big time.
Same reason I support eCash.
Huge potential for things to go in either direction:
1. People with self-custody of their P2P decentralised sound money; with AI and tech used to help bring out their uniqueness and God-given talents. Or,
2. People becoming a homogeneous collective; with CBDCs and AI being used to call the shots. Think: whole society functioning like an airport.
The latter only happens if we don’t endeavour towards the former.
When Cain tells a story, especially one that he experienced, he has a way of writing that just draws you in. I think he keeps you on edge through the whole reading, in a way that draws interest for the next scenerio out of you. Reading it is as good as experiencing it. then he slowly begins to deescalate it in some soul calming manner. That has been my experience.
Ps. I’m still searching for a story of his that’s very similar to this, about him meeting a girl in LA ( I’m not too sure) …
( It might just be this one- because the feeling I got then is very similar to the feeling I got reading this one)
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoy reading them =)
The story feels like the beginning of an exciting movie, the more you read, the more eager you become to find out what happens next