Absolutely transformative experience allowing me to develop my skills while also helping me access new tools, knowledge, insight, improvements, capabilities, systems design theory, metasciences like astrophysics and epigenetics, as well as the literal cure to cancer being revealed via hard work, discipline, collaboration, commitment to the process, frustrating complex problems, political differences, solved only by the greatest minds of the next generation strategically being placed together under close watch by the greatest minds of the generations who saw the system falling apart for years and decided they were going to do something to fix it in a way that warrants a smile on everybody’s face. good weed. good business. cool people. horrible leadership team. perverse design. good intent, wrong signal. instead of allowing past mistakes to hold us down, we learn from them, collectively, as a functional unit, with authority, power, and a history to be respected. hostility warrants action, but more importantly, understanding, and a constant desire to improve. for the good of me. my children. my brothers. my sisters. my aunts. my uncles. my cousins. my grandparents. their ancestors. and the future generations. we will not remain complacent in a system designed to keep us complicit & silenced.