The Web3 Era

INTRODUCTION

As a child of immigrant parents growing up in Toronto, Canada, I saw a lot in terms of the hardships that moving to a new country can bring to a family. Especially when English as a second language did not exist. So for my parents to learn a new language and culture in their forties while focused on subsistence for the family, it was a lot to take in.

The one bright spot was the community they were a part of at that time. A small Korean community of other immigrants started to form around a Christian church. This gave my parents a way to escape from the daily grind of life as an immigrant in Canada and remember the common things that they shared with like‐minded people who had similar upbringings.

This is where my story starts – communities and how they played a part in my early childhood to how they developed me as an adolescent and then a full‐grown adult.

Music was a big part of life after my father passed away when I was 12 years old, and the concerts I attended when I was still in high school are formative experiences I've had growing up. One of the bands I listened to often and enjoyed going to see was the Grateful Dead. I still enjoy dropping a few of their greatest tracks on my Spotify playlist and cranking up the volume…

The folklore, which the band adopted in their name, of the virtuous traveler who comes across the corpse of a man who died without paying his debts still strikes me as one of the noblest lessons in humanity. Spending every last penny to ...