my most comprehensive interview on this process was with John Vallis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odrFNIAC8ag

on getting started in bitcoin and LN, you have to get familiar with different types of wallets, send transactions to yourself and to others, and use bitcoin. if you're not fascinated with it by that point, the power of using money without intermediaries, then you probably shouldn't be involved in bitcoin. there is pure magic in that experience of USING bitcoin.

publishing a book was a labor of love. i had to sacrifice a lot personally and otherwise to make it happen. but i had a story to tell that i believe has never been told before, and that motivated me to put it out.