If there's one thing I've learnt this past decade, it's to never trust the business-ey/market-ey business partners. I've been and seen multiple friends get screwed over.

keyoxide proof: $argon2id$v=19$m=64,t=512,p=2$5kEvatMzZq6QvScHbGrzfQ$1VWiVhPm20vknVEgxneyyA

It's sad when I see how a person I respect(ed?) evolve from humble, to confidently humble, to confident, to over confident and then to arrogant. The trajectory of what comes next is worrying and saddening.

So I'm slowly moving over to Mastodon at kopiti.am/@ridz84 It's less about vibes and more about decentralisation, data ownership, etc. Might blog about this someday. Will still lurk and make the occasional post on Twitter since some folks are still here though.

OKRs for the coming week done. I can already feel the gg-ness of my goals for 2022 lol

the suits hiding behind hoodies claiming to play for the team are the most sinister of threats

Just realised why they chose this style

Been into stoicism lately and picked these up since I've also been listening to @RyanHoliday's podcast quite a bit

while everyone is fawning over metaverse(s?), I'm fascinated listening to @NickMilo sharing about the ideaverse

Declaring email bankruptcy today after 5 years. Seeing some of the emails from 2017/2018 really brings back memories. Both good and painful. So... Ermm... If anyone's emailed me in the past 5 years and I never got back to you, you might wanna reach out again. Haha

Grow slow, grow strong, grow quietly. That's how I wanna do this.

I see so many ppl in this thread think that 'holding on' and grinding will always result in success. And that 'giving up' makes one a scammer. Startups do genuinely/non-maliciously fail for reasons more easily identifiable on hindsight. I also think one can give up responsibly.

Hello @FortuneFriends_. This morning I told my mom I bought a bao and she asked me if can eat or not. #baofollowbao

With markets having gone into a slump n ppl are sad, I finally decided to check out some of the web3/nft/whateva space. Assumption is the projects out for easy money have left/down-geared. The @CryptoBengz folks have been genuinely cool. Their hodlr perks gonna make me fat(ter).

Was listening in to the Twitter Spaces @CrowdFJ hosted and glad to hear @ArvinkNft talk abt the liberal use of the label 'scam' on failed projects. Just because one lost money doesn't make things a scam. Equating a missed shot/fuckup with an actual scam legitimises the scammers.

Seems I've reached that point in my life where listening to classical music is what I need to listen to while thinking/working

I want to work on something sustainable that's truly mine, built from scratch, funded and scaled organically. The other party in a recent held the view that it's not possible these days - That everything has to be done at scale with VC money. I don't want to believe that :(

When things destabilise, the reactions I observe never fail to remind me that most people don't know what they're putting their money into and the fears that are born from being uninformed become self-fulfilling doomsday prophecies.