LeftFooted's Antics

LeftFooted's Antics

Here... I just write about the most random stuff


It can only get worse

7 May 2025 1 minute read 5 comments LeftFooted

I got a push notification from Curve, a debit card provider and payment card aggregator, with a message from one of their customer service operators. Long story short, they need to verify some data. To be fair, they did send a couple of emails, whi...

Hail Mary

5 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

English is a great language for a variety of reasons, one of which is the fact it has so many quirky expressions you can use. As I'm writing, I'm about to send a Hail Mary text - not gonna say what it's for, but it's a Hail Mary, it either works or...

Things I've learned

4 May 2025 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted

With exceptions, no one owes you anything Luck, chance and coincidences exist, but they also depend on your actions No relationship (any kind, not just sentimental) is never really over If you like doing something, do it Say thank you and please mor...

The things we do for crypto

29 Apr 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

I made it to Dubai for Sui Basecamp and some other crypto stuff. Here's my night so far. I landed late in the evening and waited for a shuttle bus which was supposedly supposed (sorry) to take me to my hotel. Except, it didn't. It wasn't there. I...

The absurd anomaly Instagram created (the one no one's talking about)

16 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Instagram is a great tool. But also a s***y one. But it is what it is. It's here, and it's not going away. It can be useful, and it can be harmful, and it exposes us to a lot of things that wouldn't have happened 20 years ago. For better or worse....

The government reserve 'they don't tell you about'

8 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Everyone's talking about a crypto government reserve, but the US government has reserves of a lot of things, from gold... to cheese. Commonly referred to as 'government cheese', the US government 'hodls' 1.4 billion pounds of cheese, stored in a cav...

Stop throwing good money after bad

4 Mar 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

There's an expression I like that goes, "stop throwing good money after bad". Like so many other expressions, it's grammatically weird, and you wouldn't say out of the context of the expression, but I love it. To 'stop throwing/not throw good money...

Is it just me?

27 Feb 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

The other day I caught up with a friend after a while. "How's work? Still writing?" he asked. "Yep," I said. "So what do you think about AI?" he asked back. This is a recurring thing. When I tell people I write for a living they always mention AI...

Would you buy a beer made by a smartphone brand?

22 Feb 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Nothing, a cool budget smartphone brand with excellent marketing and nice UX, has recently launched a new beer. It's called Nothing 'Beer', and it's a light lager with 5.1% ABV. I haven't tried it, it's only available in the US at the moment, but I...

Tragedies always come in three, don't they?

17 Feb 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

They say that tragedies always come in three. Which they do. Yesterday morning, I woke up to some pretty bad news. Really bad news, if I'm honest. The sort of bad news that make your head tilt down a little, and your face grow dark, and your eyes c...