Writer · Eugene, Oregon
Dean Patrick
I write about money, addiction, faith, and growing up. Author of the memoir God Money: Lost and Found in the Crypto Wilderness, now at work on a novel, Somewhere Outside Me.
Books
All excerpts →God Money
At twenty-one, I dropped out of Stanford to launch a cryptocurrency hedge fund. The night I announced it, I was locked in a psychiatric ward for drug-induced psychosis. A memoir of ambition, addiction, and the long way back by way of a Zen monastery.
Somewhere Outside Me
Growing up under his father’s rage in Silicon Valley, George Pavlovski takes refuge in writing. Then a dying mentor challenges him to consider whether his dream of becoming an artist is just another way of hiding from the world.
Start here
- The Wayless Way: Finding Freedom Beyond Ambition
My painful, beautiful journey from hedge fund manager to broke writer by way of Zen.
- Bitcoin Is God Money
The cypherpunks believed they would live forever, and so built a monetary system instantiating that philosophy.
- Becoming Stupid: Finding Joy and Meaning in Life and Work
The secret is that it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it wholeheartedly.
Essays
All 8 →- Charlie Kirk and the Death of Moral Clarity
Why Embracing Non-Violence is the Foundation of The Good Society
- Dispatches From A Struggling Writer
My novel is coming along just fine, thank you.
- The Wayless Way: Finding Freedom Beyond Ambition
My painful, beautiful journey from hedge fund manager to broke writer by way of Zen.
- Two Years and Thirteen Silent Retreats Later: A Zen Retrospective
What is this strange warm feeling in my belly? Ah! Happiness.
Crypto & Technology
All 9 →- Bitcoin Is God Money
The cypherpunks believed they would live forever, and so built a monetary system instantiating that philosophy.
- DePIN Explained: What Are Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks?
A day in the life of a 2028 rideshare driver, and how token-incentivized networks are bringing Web 3.0 into the physical world.
- DePIN Is Where Crypto Gets Real
A slow revolution building a new layer atop internet and energy systems, and returning power to the people.
- Meeting Vitalik and the Web 3.0 Vision
Every ambitious person’s life in America is a complex, often irreconcilable interplay between greed and idealism.