Thanks for making this. We used co-screen so much that when you shut down, we had to build our own.
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Now I understand that the project was not that valuable but it would have been nice if I could have run it as a lifestyle business.
There should really be a more transparent way that projects like this, canihazip, gitignore, redis, and a bunch of other projects can be sustainably run.
This thing was clearly a poker game that was co-opted by a ton of narrative changes into what it is now. I'm not saying that the co-opting and narrative changes are bad because I think the underlying function of trestles digital uniqueness is brilliant, but looking at the code tells a different story than what a lot of people would have you believe.
[1] - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/4405b78d6059e536c369...
Bitcoin was simply designed to be an in game currency for a poker game, but the narrative has been co-opted by so many people that it’s become something else.
Would love any feedback at tokenlaunch@gmail.com
Then our teacher gave another analogy. He asked if people would rather have natural ice or human-made ice in their water. He broke down that the human-made ice could be frozen in a freezer to a custom size/shape, be a lot cleaner, consistent in how you make it, and chemically no different than H20 than naturally occurring frozen water. As you looked around the lecture hall, you started to see people’s brains unlock. He went on to explain cost efficiencies, ethics, challenges with conflict diamonds, and how you could make a perfect diamond at a fraction of the coast.
After a 30 minute lecture, he asked the question again. Surprisingly, the majority of the women still wanted natural diamonds although the number was less than the original amount that raised their hand. That was the point where I realized the strength of diamonds product branding.
I moved to Silicon Valley and have never looked back.
I've been programming since I was in high school (started on TI-81 in 1996), I'll be 40 this year and I still LOVE LOVE programming. BUT the only reason I do love it is because I've reached a level of mastery where I pretty much get to choose what projects I work on and the _people_ I work with. Steve Jobs said something back in the 90's that Ive heard other say about the variance in skills of developers vs other jobs[1].
You're burned out because you're working with low quality people and it's way easier to move yourself to an ecosystem where people are more excited about the future than it is to change your peers. (P. T. Barnum also says something similar to this in Art Of Money Getting, published in 1880 [2])
Also, contrarian advice — almost every one of my friends has switched to a manager track. I'm currently in the process of building my own company and most of them can't provide any value at this early stage. They don't read anything on how to become effective managers, they aren't socializing in any communities, they aren't attending any conferences on people management, not reading any books as life long learners, they say things like "I'm technical" and "I know enough to be dangerous", but they can't materially contribute to helping me build my product outside of testing and light UI feedback.
So my two things would be:
1. Move to a better environment (Doesn't have to be SV but some place where there is a community passionate about things you are).
2. If you're going to eject out of coding, eject to an owner, not to an employee.
[2] - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8581/8581-h/8581-h.htm#link2...
[1] - https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-accidentally-blocks-own-p...
[1] - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fm56p5rV1t2Euh6WLtBFKGqI...
[2] - https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/commit/1b1381ccb89a342ba...
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