The beggining of the knowing

I am now in my 30s, but everything started in my early 20s, when I started to structure myself as a TradFi guy (even though, I am still kinda one of those). The stock market, the financial risks, the banking and above all, the money, was the most important concepts I wanted to know for sure.

So, the internship in a brokerage I got by winning a kind-of-a-nerd-writing-contest for a well known regulator institution in my country, just gave the perfect opportunity to start with the knowing of those delicious financial concepts.

Bonds, stocks, investments, pricing, interest rates, were the first glares of knowledge I started to absorb. And of course, those concepts were addicting. The job enviroment was not the best, but of course I was young and that didn’t matter at all (now I know that indeed does).

As little I knew back then was the most important things that could ever happened to me. Why? Because the unknowns knowns of that time were the source of the curiosity I used to absorb everything.

Then, 2 years later, the thirsty curiosity for new unknowns knowns was the main reason I dare to quit. But, of course, I didn’t quit at random. There was another kind-of-a-nerd-writing-contest from where, once again, I won an intership. This time in a risk assessment firm. Touché.

Those new juicy financial risk concepts were the new mainstream in my life. The way that those unknowns knowns were filling my not-so-much-shy knwoledge, let me introduce to myself to a new understanding of the human behavior: we are not that much good at finance and overall, at using money.

The knowing

By that time, the now well-known book The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness was not even thought to be published (as far as I know). So, I didn’t have a broad understanding of why we do the things we do with our money. What a shame.

Wrapping up my thoughts and meaningful chatter inside my head, I was able to notice that I might know something that could be useful for my sorrounding people. So, I started to ask questions. Some questions not well received, some others very smile answered.

Then, I knew it. I was meant to be the “learner” but in a different way. The good old way: learning-by-teaching way. So I decided to begin to teach some of the core concepts of what I was ripping my head off these last couple of years.

But as you might already realized by yourselves in your own life, the also well-well-know Impostor Syndrome came to action. And yes, it was so much devasteting as yours maybe. So, I did quit. But this time it was a resounding quit.

I didn’t want to know about sharing anything to anybody. Why? Simple because I was ashamed of myself and my lack of encourage. So, a couple of years must have to passed to enlight to myself the last piece I needed to know.

The last knowing

After all the effort, all the thirst for knowledge for financial concepts and all the experience gathered during my starting days, the concept finale was missing.

And it was so easy to realize about it.

A self, non centralized, type of money was the answer for it: bitcoin. And as simple as that all the crypto-bro world came to me. Bitcoin at first, Etherium second and all the crypto ecosystem was the last knowing I did want to know. I was hopping down the rabbit hole.

It was scaring to start learning about what was missing in my knowing path. Because, of course you are scared of stuff. Even more if that matter is what you like the most. You want to nail it. But, how? (I think I already answered that, but here it comes).

So, yes, I am learning. I will keep doing it. I already know so much enough than the common individual using fiat. And I am grateful for that. I will come back to teach to my people once again.

The deciding

As I write these words, I am scared, but decided. I will come back like never before, knowing I know my unknowns, thirsty for new knowledge, but now focused on DeFi concepts and all the crypto ecosystem.

With crypto, all my desires for knowledge are being fulfilled. And becoming a cliché learner-by-teaching individual is the way.

I am decided now to teach about crypto and DeFi. And I think I made that clear… right?

One day, when she was searching between Andromeda and The Milky Way, she found something very interesting. Some sidereal beings that were prowling through the space were returning from what was known as an Axis. They explained to Asymptote that this axis was a very important element for understanding the Universe, which would be discovered much later by beings called humans. The representation of that element was only seen by those who had an incredible ability to question its existence. And, as it was not for wonder, Asymptote lived her life on that questioning.

Asymptote was dazzled by that discovery. The sidereal beings explained to her that that drawn Axis had been an imaginary projection of the Universe. They warned Asymptote that the Designer of the Universe had not defined if it would ever have an established purpose, so that they only appeared when He arranged for them to carry out some maintenance work on that axis. Asymptote without any hint of doubt, she hastened to answer that, since she was infinite in the Universe, she would begin the search for that end not determined by that lazy Designer. The sidereal beings only exchanged glances and drew a knowing smile.

Without further setbacks Asymptote began to sail towards the axis that was drawn very close from that astral point. Her smile was huge, she had never met anyone else like her. Someone infinite. Of course, she was forbidden to go to the end of the Universe. When the Designer of the Universe created her, she had outright forbidden it, because if she did not comply with that mandate, that Designer would put an end without discussion to her eternity. But Axis was different, it was only a few light years away, from her perspective. Little by little, Asymptote began to accelerate. Her speed increased as her emotions did. She was about to hit the speed of light, and suddenly, she almost crashed into a pair of planets that were orbiting a nearby solar system. She made up her mind to be more careful, though she didn't expect to slow down the speed she had achieved. Her smile resembled a rainbow that she had known when she crossed near a place called Earth.

Asymptote was getting closer and closer to that axis. In a desperate move to get closer and faster, she made a quantum leap, leaving a wormhole in her wake. In her moments of despair, and due to her immense inner energy capacity, Asymptote had left behind her millions of wormholes throughout the Universe, which, with a little patience, can be found watching carefully to infinity. At the end of that quantum leap, Asymptote felt within herself something that she had never felt, since the beginning of her existence. Her energy was consumed with immense luminous combustion, she was, wherever she passed, the most visible sidereal element from far away. Every time she saw that axis approaching, she hurried a little more each time. Three millennia had passed, which for her was but a moment. But she could not see a significant advance. Asymptote was aware that the Universe was gigantic. But that seemed like a joke to her. Something infinite, like her, was unattainable. It had never happened to her.

From that moment on, Asymptote would never stop pursuing her motive. What she believed was the destiny of her existence. From then on, Asymptote, the closer she gets to her Axis, the more she tends to the infinity of the Universe. Legend has it that if you see a comet in the night sky, it is Asymptote still desperately seeking to reach her Axis. Her destiny.

The End

Here is Asymptote looking for Axis through the eternity of the space.

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