“A good forecaster is not smarter than everyone else, he merely has his ignorance better organised. “ — Anonymous Talk is cheap, but it shouldn’t be when it comes to predicting the future. In fact, it should be expensive and should always have a cost. That cost is what one…

“The resurrection of the body need not be postponed until death. It can happen at any moment.” — Robert Anton Wilson Nearly a year to date after my first 5-MeO-DMT experience, I decided to journey back to the realm of the toad. In the twelve months that had passed, a…

“We don’t smoke that shit. We just sell it. We reserve the right to smoke for the young, the poor, the black and stupid.” — R. J. Reynolds executive’s reply when asked why he didn’t smoke according to Dave Goerlitz, lead Winston model at R. J. Reynolds Doctors recommend Camels…

“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.” — Aldous Huxley The most influential teacher in my life growing up was my high school history teacher. I had already had an interest in world history, but…

“Songs are as sad as the listener.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer After I was sentenced in federal court, I went through transit from a county jail to the federal system. Sometimes called “diesel therapy,” the process involved going through a central processing facility, similar to the distribution networks of Amazon…

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” — Kahlil Gibran I had a tumultuous relationship throughout college that ended in flames right before I went to prison. It consisted of hurt feelings, insecurities, and multiple breakups that were punctuated with subsequent periods when we were…

“When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.” — Epictetus Months before I was arrested I was at a show with my partner that I sold drugs with. The band Orgy was headlining and I couldn’t wait to…

Last year on vacation I was driving in New Mexico on my way to the Bisti Badlands. Bisti, if you’re unfamiliar, is one of the most surreal natural landscapes I’ve ever seen. At times it felt like I was on an alien planet. The colors of the earth, the rock…

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.” — Kurt Vonnegut Though crypto is a much larger space now, from time to time when I meet new people I’ll get the question, “When did you get into bitcoin?” For most people, this is…