Last night I was staying at a hotel in Kennewick, WA, after driving there to rescue my daughter's broken-down car.

I stopped in the parkng lot to have a smoke and ended up in a long conversation with a guy drinking some beers on the tailgate of his pickup.

He mentioned something about protests or protesters, and I had to ask him what they were protesting this time.

We both had to admit that I don't watch the news much. Once he mentioned it, I did recall seeing some things about Israel, but it definitely wasn't front of mind.

And in this moment I felt that I was doing something very right.

We went on to talk a bit about hope, and I brought up monetary policy and bitcoin. He admitted he knew someone who retired very young from bitcoin, but hadnt looked at it seriously for himself - and couldn't understand why the price had gone up so much, and didn't think it would go up that much more.

By the end of the conversation, he was talking about taking everything out of his retirement accounts (he was approaching retirement age) and buying bitcoin. I doubt he was serious, and he'd had more than a few beers, but maybe I planted a seed he'd remember later. I didn't encourage him to roll over his retirement into bitcoin all at once, but rather to do it slowly - much better chance he might learn some things as he does it.

Now this is ending like our conversation, we just walked off our separate ways. GN.