Waldorf education focuses on community, handwork (knitting, art, woodworking, etc), storytelling, dance and performance. Through those skills they gently introduce reading, writing, math, science and social studies. Many kids in Waldorf don’t learn to read or write until 2nd and sometimes 3rd grade but by then they can tell stories like you wouldn’t believe and act them out with hand crafted dolls or dance while classmates keep rhythm on drums.

Several years ago I developed the thesis that by the time my kids were grown, technology would make all the skills they teach in school laughably redundant. That lead me to two questions:

1. How do we find meaning in a world where most of the work is done by computers and machines?

2. Given the inflationary nature of our financial system, how can I preserve purchasing power so that my kids (and me) never become dependent on the state when our skills are no longer valued by the market?

….so here I am stacking Bitcoin while my kids dance around the maypole.