Before I got into crypto, I was a writer. It’s probably more accurate to say that before crypto I was a student and a teacher. In February, 2020, when I first got into DeFi and fell down the rabbit-hole (shoutout RabbitHole, for the 50 $aUSDC I earned completing one of their early quests), I had recently completed an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Columbia University. I was teaching CNF to college freshmen, on a one-year teaching fellowship, and life felt simple. I didn’t really know what a token was, Covid-19 was mostly still a rumor, Synthetix was the only place to really yield farm, and I wasn’t incredibly old (30) yet.