Fish, Sinthome, Ethereum

Written as a personal essay, this piece traces the author's path from psychoanalysis and cooking to work at Lightmatter, and then to Ethereum. It says the author left cooking because they could not see how it uniquely contributed to the world, and left Lightmatter after feeling discontent for unclear reasons. The author describes Ethereum as a frontier that resists definition and is designed to entangle with history. The essay argues that the world computer must solve pressing problems, and that people need to understand the world first rather than looking for problems to fit Ethereum.