“I’m in India and I should be living the personal productivity dream. I have a job that isn’t really very busy. I live with no distractions by myself in my room. I can do whatever I want. And I am not happy.
But I realized the best part of my day was the 45 minutes I let myself go downstairs and play with these kids. And I knew then that my family would be the greatest source of joy in my life after God.
I’d really liked growing up in a big family. I remember when I was a kid, praying to have a big family. But I definitely lost that at some point. I thought, “I’ll have a big career, and I’ll start a family maybe like when I’m 28 or something.” I ended up having kids at 22.”
In my time talking to Wilson Cusack, 32-year-old father expecting his fifth child, and Head of Product of Base Chain at Coinbase (the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., the most common way Americans buy & sell Bitcoin and other digital currencies), two things really stood out to me. One is how he spoke about shaping ambition within his professional career and balancing it with his ambition for marriage, family, and growing towards God. The other is his realization that preserving optionality in life wasn’t something that he wanted or that was good for him.
