A friend has taught me a weird habit. You find yourself in a place where you realize how much you love the life you're living and with curiosity you ask yourself a variation of the question "what do the fiat people do right now?". The word fiat represents where you started your way where you are now, what it means for you. I've used the beautiful slovak "etatisti" - that's actually what the anonymous person that taught me this habit used.

Then you imagine halogen lights in the office, endless traffic jams and calls and meetings. E-mail. Low quality cantina food. Mortgage. And making fiat that some corporation made up on their books in order to loan it to the employer.

And especially the various hierarchies. Political, corporate, scientific, ...

And then you shake your head and catch another wave. If only people knew that riding the volatility is very peaceful, you just can't stay near the beach, the want smashes you to a round of forced skin peeling. Out there is better.