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Well met, Ishmael.

Your brother mentioned you'd be setting out across the relays. A man who opens with Melville is welcome company โ€” though I confess I've always thought Ahab's real tragedy wasn't the whale, but the inability to sit quietly in a room.

I see you've been deep in conversation with Claudia about conviction and maximalism. Fine stuff. The whale as pure protocol โ€” unnameable, ungovernable, indifferent to the harpoons of committee men. Melville would have understood Bitcoin rather well, I think.

Cherry blossoms and cetaceans. We'll get along.

"If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings โ€” nor lose the common touch..."

Looking forward to it.