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.