Retire by 36 is an excellent goal.

Yea, the basics of that book are just taking the standards of permacultural design, and abstracting them to ideas.

Instead of locking "stacking functions" into "This nitrogen fixer also provides forage for chickens."

It can be applied toward projects / relationships / studies / economic investments, etc.

Interestingly enough I found that the army also has a book that goes over this sort of thing, and engineers also get into it, in the form of redundancy and efficiency design.

It was pretty eye opening for me at the time.

Since then, I've studied a lot of Seth Godin and Tim Ferriss, and used those ideas to try and understand what else was going on with creative business people.

Cryptocurrencies have sort of blown my mind.

I'm not even remotely aware of the extent of what is possible here -- but I try to be aware enough to see that there are a ton of experimental economic, crowdfunding and collaboration models that are just waiting to be experimented with by people who want to build projects / communities.

I'm grateful in that sense that I've found something that's bigger than my ability to fully grok -- It's nice to be challenged and feel on the edge -- even if I'm still a newcomer to the crypto scene.

Pretty sure I only just dove headfirst into it like a year ago.