Jon Vokal
@jonsecon
The second track off Liminal Space, “Near Sol” is now available on Tortoise! This song is literally about being broke, working hard for a masters degree while getting paid peanuts to get a startup over the finish line to get acquired by a public company.
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Jon Vokal
@jonsecon
The challenge with this tune was writing a song that was econ/crypto/finance/vc without being *overtly* corny. Everything ended up working out money wise, but i was so broke in 2022 as a student it wasn’t even funny. Thankfully, myself and 4 others took a startup to getting acquired and it was smooth sailing after, but the grind to get there was brutal. It was also during this time I got pretty dang good at trading crypto. Bear markets will teach you a lot, and while the dollar bags I was holding were “down”, I was able to accumulate a lot more assets trading the downmarket. I tried to encompass all these themes in Near Sol, with a hint of knowing better days were coming soon. Hopeful and optimistic that betting on myself was going to work out. Also, Near Sol was a name i took from a paper a read about how BTC would work if we colonized our solar system. So that’s cool. Let me know what you think!
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