THE MAN BEHIND THE EYE PATCH
Hello, Kin here 👋
I go by Kin, as in next of kin.. because I value family and find my fellow Americans by extension a collective identity that I just vibe with. I finished my late 20’s spending 9 months in Southeast Asia.. had the time of my life but realized America has something you can’t find anywhere else. I went from almost being an ex-pat to a nex-pat, a new wave of patriot with a flair of punk, skate or die/shred the gnar ethos ready to enter the arena.
Deep down I'm a poet/artist but a product guy by trade, oddly fit to heal our nation.
You don’t need another billionaire in office, you want a poet-skater-marketer-tenor millennial with audacity, someone who can get everyone singing Happy Birthday in tune.
Since I'm apparently a politician now, here's two truths and an obligatory lie.
I once gave soup to the Soup Nazi (from Seinfeld, but I don’t call people that). I won a staring contest with a leopard deep in the bush of Botswana and can blow spit bubbles and catch them.
I make a mean gumbo.. and ya know, gumbo tells a great story.. about America.
I’m holding gumbo nights around the country as I walk for office on foot, train and scooter. We’re gonna restore civility over a meal and make the greatest gumbo ever told. Help host one!
Trump once yelled at me.. to take HIS picture! The vanity. Funny story & true.
Not that I’m salty or nothing. Don’t worry Donald, when you lose I’ll pardon you.. in exile to your idyllic golf course in Scotland, Napoleon style. You fought hard, why not retire?
I used to sell trash cans.
My marketing work sold $10,000 trash cans to Donald Trump, and I don’t even believe in garbage. All I see are resources. They were outdoor furnishings for his golf courses made of recycled milk jugs. I will turn trash into treasure, trap carbon emissions and ween us off the disposable lifestyle. Here’s’ a pic of me from back when. Photo booth time!
Then I sold doors.
Now I sell them door to door, as shear opportunity. Was marketing manager of a millwork distributor in Milwaukee where I helped build a configurator capable of 50,000 permutations of doors. There’s some serious “inside baseball” with doors.. although I always said I’m in the business of privacy more so than just building products. Look at that beard!
RUNNING ON THE PUNK TICKET
Stay Punk
I lean into this persona of sorts, “Kinchasa”, a web3 revolutionary with bonafides. As soon as I get into crypto by way of NFTs, I realized this was the vanguard of the revolution. It’s the next great “abstraction” of value. Translation: I’m not saying go by Bitcoin, I’m saying Bitcoin will improve everyone’s live within a generation of its existence, e.g. 4 – 9 more years.
The Things I've Seen
My life experience and perspective as a young American uniquely prepares me for the challenges ahead.
2000
The "Y2K Bug" is imminent
What a joke. The clocks rolling over into the new millennium would wreak havoc? Hey uh, I found the bug.. it’s that our time and earning potential are fixed linearly, money is broken and wages without merit pay is slavery. Proof-of-Work is the answer.
2001
September 11th attacks
I look up from my Nokia phone to see the twin towers collapsing in citizenship class. I just beat the game snake.. bricked out every pixel on the screen, ate the last apple. You know what happens when you “win” in Snake? You eat your ass and you die. We’re still playing snake.
2008
Housing Collapse, Great Recession
Finished an associates degree before my undergrad and upon graduation the bottom falls out. I was lucky to land a job in marketing as many of my peers could not given the state of the economy. The banker execs proceed to hand themselves bonuses for a job well down. Hence my vendetta with traditional finance and why I’m a web3 revolutionary.
2009
Satoshi Nakamoto Invents Bitcoin
Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous person or persons, inscribed into the first block of the Bitcoin Blockchain “Chancellor on the brink of 2nd bailout of banks.” A message now enshrined in what is in essence digital marble, the most durable, censorship resistant database ever devised along with the hardest money ever conceived.
2016
Donald J. Trump is Elected
I’m abroad gallivanting around Southeast Asia for 9 months and toward the end, witness the rise of Trump demonstrating that yes, anyone can in fact become president regardless of direct experience within politics. He proceeds to shake our institutions to their core, yet we withstood it. Again, I’ll pardon him.. in exile to his idyllic golf course in Scotland.
2017
Google Invents the Transformer
A paper put forth by the Google Brain team titled “Attention is All You Need,” gave way to Transformers. These were later extended by OpenAI and others into GPTs (e.g. ChatGPT) which allow access to man’s greatest store of knowledge, the web, without even having the ability to read or write with voice dictation. We stand on the shoulders of giants. This is big.