cypherpunk

Genuine workplace convo today:

Them: What's your WhatsApp number so we can coordinate better on this project?

Me: You can reach me over Teams (corporate's choice, not mine). I try not to use WhatsApp or other Meta products for privacy reasons. I have a deep philosophical disagreement with their ad-driven, data-harvesting business model.

Them: Oh, I see. We can agree to disagree, then. I'm a capitalist and I like making money. Meta has been the best-performing stock in my portfolio this year.

Me:

PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Aviator, diver, ETH maxi, nexialist | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

It’s a little exhausting  when this happens. It’s a whole conversation to explain why I use Signal instead of WhatsApp and Warpcast instead of Twitter and why I’m not on Insta or TikTok. Average person doesn’t care and seems to think it’s weird that I do.

I just wanna scrunch Read, Write, Own into a ball and shove it into their brain and say “Here!”.