rileybeans
@rileybeans
i have a sort of confession this summer i decided to stop writing my weekly newsletter. i stopped feeling like i had anything important to say. it is true i get bored easily and need new things to excite me (Gemini), but i also just wasn't feeling like it was especially helpful for me. now when i do get the inspiration to write it feels more aligned, more thoughtful, more filled with care. along those lines, because I rarely write about technical topics I've been thinking about crypto as a writing angle less and more for curation of ideas, as I'm sure you've seen here. I think about tech in general as a path toward love and being and that should align much more often than it does. maybe this means I'm at a sort of crossroads but I think more than that it just means coming into a type of realization/actualization that keeps me on the outside. all this to say, i feel very dumb and I'm not sure of the path to take next, so we'll see how this turns out.
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bradq
@bradq
Your inner voice telling you that you are dumb is sabotaging you. 🫂 The journey has many winding roads and feeling like an outsider doesn't mean there's a problem, it means you may be about to make a shift and it means you will be reminded what being an outsider feels like so you can emphathize in with others in your next chapter.
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rileybeans
@rileybeans
I'm not sure what I meant by that last part 😂 however I do appreciate this assessment and you. thank you
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bradq
@bradq
If you mean what I meant by the last part, I think that when we feel like outsiders it's a good reminder when we do our 'next thing' or 'next topic' that we remember there are lots of outsiders that need us to bring them in. We so easily become insiders to stuff that it's good to be reminded what it feels like to be an outsider so we look out for them.
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rileybeans
@rileybeans
yes, my goal over the last few years has been to connect with as many new people and share with them what I can so they don't get caught up with the wrong crowd or narratives and instead to bring them along on whatever journey I'm on at the moment. but for all the other years prior I've always felt like I'm just on the outside looking in on all these circles.
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