I'm reflecting this morning on how life works and how I came to join this network a few days before #[0]. When Snowden went public I was a computer science student just figuring out who I was and what I wanted to do with my life. His story gripped me, both because of the truth he exposed and because of his radical sacrifice to make a better world for the rest of us. His heroism imbued me with a sense of responsibility to use my craft to build a better digital world for my friends and family. To encrypt what we can, and decentralize what we can't. Here I am 10 years later getting paid to do exactly that. It's such a privilege. Seeing him join nostr around the same time feels like in some small way we are walking this path more in parallel and less in sequence. Less like I am watching and more like I am a fellow laborer. I can only imagine how many thousands or millions of people have a similar story. Ed, I just want to say *thank you*, from the bottom of my heart.