I am grateful for the wealth that is inside of me.

A man who could rewire a house was never unemployed for long — in four countries, across thirty years. The tools fitted in a bag. The knowledge fitted in his head and cost nothing to carry across a border.

Capacity is the one holding that can't be frozen, repossessed, or devalued by somebody else's decision: what you can do, who trusts you, how you behave in a crisis. It's a strange sort of wealth, producing nothing at all until it's used, and then producing everything.