Jerome Bettis

A new NFL Hall of Fame class was inducted this weekend, which got me thinking about great players from my childhood.

Jerome Bettis and those parallel arms came to mind:

There was something poetic about how he set himself up for the handoff, anticipated where he was heading, and then rumbled downfield.

Ladainian Tomlinson and Le'veon Bell deserve a mention.

Ditto Warrick Dunn, TJ Duckett, and Michael Turner (no bias here).

I know what I need to rumble into, and that’s participating onchain.

I started listening to a biography of Mark Twain, and Ron Chernow describes the financial troubles of Twain’s dad, who purchased thousands of acres of land in Tennessee around 1835 at the price of 1 cent per acre (~37 cents today).

In 2025, big ticket items like real estate will only become more expensive, which means young people will continue to feel the need to take risks to achieve financial goals.

This trend, plus:

• New investing avenues enabled by tokenized assets; and

• An internet where money increasingly follows the things that’re able to attract attention (h/t Ezra Klein and Kyla Scanlon) …

… and we may find ourselves with a more accessible (but “wild west”) financial system that enables people to simultaneously invest, gamble, lend, and earn … all on top of their traditional day jobs.

Will this be a good thing?

Time to find out.