Birthday Musings

Opens November 5th 2022 on his 35th birthday, born in 1987 in Hawaii, thanking everyone for birthday wishes, still surreal to get one from William Shatner.

Recounts attending the Web Summit in Lisbon with 77,000 people across five halls, meeting the Queen of Jordan and Olena Zelenska, and wanting a Cardano presence in 2023.

Birthdays are for reflection after a tough year of 16-to-18-hour days across six companies, from Cardano to synthetic biology with glowing plants and regenerative medicine.

The Hoskinson Health clinic opens in two months at 10,000 square feet, later 50,000, with SPECT, MRI, a 256-slice CT, DEXA, a compounding pharmacy, hyperbarics, a CLIA lab, genomic sequencers, and a clinical pathologist.

Admits he has not taken care of his health, gaining weight and losing hair and looking older than 35 from stress and travel, and resolves to focus on physical and mental health in 2023.

A bitter, angry year from unfair books, criticisms, and politics, citing The Intercept's report of the DHS colluding with Facebook and Twitter on a disinformation censorship board that erodes free speech.

Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition started a decentralized-social-network conversation buzzing at Web Summit where CZ was, and that the coming years are about restoring freedom of Association, Commerce, and Expression against propaganda.

Propaganda turns good people into surrogates, so mentioning a trigger word like race, abortion, COVID, or education makes them parrot a talking point and hate you if you contradict it.

Warns that conversations are no longer possible and that the age of deepfakes and AI is here, so most of what people believe will soon be curated by non-humans programmed by people with agendas to manufacture consent.

His dad is running for the hospital board in Gillette Wyoming, campaigning harder than most congressmen, since his family likes to win.

Recalls being on stage at Web Summit with crypto critics who do not understand that foundational things are under debate, your freedoms, voice, vote, identity, how money works, and sound money versus 8-to-12-percent annual decay.

Companies control everything from information packets to operating systems to curation, and that the few have formed an oligarchy enjoying total control over truth, with crypto as the last barrier.

Asks what motivates him despite wealth and endless trolls attacking his knowledge, integrity, and weight, and answers that he stays as long as there is something existential to win in a long-haul effort.

The next five to ten years are the most formative in human history, deciding how every government works and whether humanity survives or descends into a you-own-nothing dystopia, and that he has a seat at the table.

Despite criticism about missing features, like the false claim Cardano has no notion of time, people are building and the movement grows stronger every day, so they are still in the game.

The technology keeps evolving with side chains coming, fun announcements at Scott Fest and the Lausanne Cardano Summit, the age of Voltaire nearly here, and then fourth-generation chains, so there is more good than bad.

Shares his birthday wisdom that optimism not cynicism is the secret to a good life, illustrated by focusing on the history and magpies of a dilapidated 13th-century Lisbon castle rather than its state of disrepair.

He has the resources to get healthy and run clinical research, pulling dozens of anti-aging papers weekly and even cloning his own mice to replicate David Sinclair's studies.

Cardano has written over 150 papers heading toward 200 and 300, pushing the industry's state of the art, which is why maximalism never made sense, since extended UTXO and Plutus are the only secure path for Bitcoin smart contracts.

Optimism drives partnerships but it is hard when the loudest and most toxic define communities and call you a criminal rather than disagreeing, so he wants to change how he communicates in 2023 to bypass that.

Says he will use Twitter differently, upgrade the AMA experience with others involved, scale the social channels, and discuss the MBO at Scott Fest, plus smart-contract and consensus standards via the Extended UTXO Alliance.

Wishes ecosystem stewards would manage their communities' excesses since toxicity hurts their own projects, and shares the lesson that people hate an idea of you they conjured, so do not try to convince them, just be yourself.

Notes those unfair books are becoming movies where an actor will play a fantasy Charles, but says divorcing yourself from the need for acknowledgment and love is liberating so few things can hurt your ego.

History will vindicate what he did, and laments that an Ethereum Foundation core developer admitted they refused to consider Cardano's research because he created it, harming their own ecosystem and proof-of-stake research.

His projects are thriving, from the Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics with Lean for mathematicians almost out, to the ranch and bison, to Nessie's restaurant under construction with a Loch Ness trip for gift-shop souvenirs.

The best part of being him is he still has time to grow and meet heroes like Lex Fridman and hire people whose papers he read like Phil Wadler, and that everyone can live their best life.

Closes that you only get one life so maximize it, that every day you choose whether it is a good or bad day, and after a year of bad days he chose a good one, thanking everyone for being his extended family.