
Asturion
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este era uno de los que decía. otro esta temporada en el sadar, y el otro también en el sadar la pasada temporada cuando jude mandó a tomar por culo al sinvergüenza del árbitro.

I had my own experience with deep disillusion with the web3 industry specifically during the metaverse craze, of which I was part at the time due to RMRK. Some things compounded from before from personal life, and this was just the straw that broke the camel's back. It was in Paris at an NFT conference. I will never forget when I entered the venue and saw a guy who connected a trampoline to a counter which counts how many times you jump, and called it a metaverse. My panel talk was up next, and as my co-speakers were all gushing about their own products and the industry, furiously masturbating in a circle, I was already over the edge. When it was my turn to talk, I said it's all a Potemkin village, there are no users, no one cares about tech and everyone who's left - a maximum of a few thousand users - are here for the gambling. I pulled the curtain back and revealed the sausage making process of this hot dog factory. The talk should still be online somewhere I think. Anyway, I said the quiet part out loud and after the panel, which left half the audience shocked and half of them pleasantly surprised because they weren't used to someone talking straight, I quit. I left my current company, left web3 behind, and stopped trying. I went to "heal" and re-align. I had been swimming upstream for years at that point, lying to myself, trying to maintain ideals in the face of pragmatic logic, so the self-confrontation hit me like a bag of bricks. It took a good year and a half, two ayahuasca trips, weightlifting, and finding and forming a family to get to healthy point and come back to work. I'm at am amazing position now. I love the tech I play with, and while I have apprehension about the coming AGI future, I also enjoy the tech wave for all that it is - it enables me too, after all, and my MacOS apps are actually selling, which is a dope feeling. But the human component of healing is absolutely essential - I wouldn't be anywhere good without my wife who is my anchor, my opponent, and my support. We deeply respect, challenge, and learn from each other every day. I wouldn't want to grow new little humans with anyone else. Everything I do all day every day is just to give them a better future. (Granted, as @thekitze wrote, there's a component of cataclysmic anxiety there, knowing that software dev is on a deadline and you need to make bank for them as fast as you can while you still can, and this will need healing later too, for sure)

When I fell into a deep depression after selling TOMS, I tried everything you can imagine, and along the way, I learned some big misconceptions about healing.






















