Ryan Sean Adams

I enjoyed your book so much and I've enjoyed some of your previous writings because so much of what you talk about on Bankless, which people think of Bankless as a crypto podcast, but what is crypto?

It is finance.

It is money.

What is money?

What is finance?

It is a game.

So much of crypto takes place on another game engine that we call social media, Twitter, X. It's all games all the way down.

Got it.

This is why I feel like there's so much to learn from you, Ashley T. Excellent.

No, this will be a lot of fun.

I want to talk to you about games and social scalability and all of the interrelated things.

But actually, maybe the place to start, give this some salience for bankless listeners, is the way you start your book.

There's a story in the first chapter of your book about someone that I personally identified with and maybe some bankless listeners might identify with as well.

This is a student.

She's an overachiever.

She's obsessed with her body mass index or GPA.

She's the child of immigrants.

Her parents pushed her to get 4.0s through school.

She's a competitive golfer trying to get in the most highly ranked prestigious university.

Basically, life gave her a set of these scoring systems.