Hi Crim , I read the entire post over 7 coffees and a couple of lines of cocaine 😂. Sorry to hear about the family situation . I'm in the same boat myself with the father and it's not pretty. You may know me as the evil Valueplan putter downer but I have always considered you as the "Good" project manager and many others have commented the same. I know I go in on this project alot to say the least but I have known your face since Steemit and even though we rarely ever spoke, I know you work hard for the Hive blockchain and whenever you are at conferences I think the Hive Community know we are in good hands. You have Hive's best interests at heart. I know you might think I am mental but if Hive ever went down the road of hiring a DAO(DHF) manager like say @clayboyn at Splinterlands, I would like to think that the majority of the chain would put your name down in an instant including myself.
♦️ keynotes, talks, appearances, spaces, podcasts, presence: as before, I do in person and voice and video outreach, education, devrel and bizdev on average three to six times a week. In 2024 alone, 100% of my personal, paid vacation time from my IRL career was given freely and spent fully on just live in person stuff for Hive— above and beyond remote and online tasks; well over a full month of just beeing[intentional] accessible 24/7 all over the world, vocal and charismatic about what we're doing here and why it matters, as well as pulling people, projects and events into our orbit and forcing their hands into the tech. This has replaced my great love of personal and adventure travel, which I'm chewing over currently, but also my downtime, or anything I want to pursue in my life that isn't Hive.
You have this down in your "Good" section but should it be in the "bad" section??
Going and spending three days awake overseas while running on coffee and one meal without ever seeing the hotel room and then getting thrown into an auditorium to fill in for an MC, pulled into four impromptu meetings and a recorded interview and then getting on to a plane and hoping you get a chance to kiss your partner hello before you're on to the next is actually sooooo much easier than worrying about what the right approach to this all is, unironically.
This used to be me in a past job and when I complained beside an middle age guy in a pub in a place called Fethard one day and he had these wise words for me. And I always laugh about it but it was a sliding doors moment in my life.
And I thought to myself , I am a big fucking eejet. My boss wasn't even asking this of me. This guy is dead right so I stopped killing myself. Turns out the advice was the only time I ever spoke to a billionaire who owns Sandy Lane in Barbados so it really made me think about how I organised my life. There is no decision matrix here. The choice is simple. Just be like fellow Canadian wrestler Brett Hart. Just do the Wrestlemania's and not all the Monday Night Raws. 😃
If I were a smart woman, I would really pad this section out and go into hefty detail to really underline my worth to the chain and better explain how awesome I am.
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