LeftFooted's Antics

LeftFooted's Antics

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


Everything is expensive

22 Jun 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted $0.05

I'm now in one of my favourite cities in the world on business. The flight was paid for, as was the hotel, but I've snuck in an extra four days in the country to go to a different city I like, to catch up with friends, and obviously that's on me. T...

Quality is art, quantity is science

22 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.04

My mentor once told me when it comes to content, quality is art, but quantity is science. Translated, it doesn't really matter how good you are, the more content you put out there, the better. I think YouTube is a great example. I follow YouTubers...

Elon Musk wants to turn X into a financial app

21 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.10

Elon Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino have confirmed their goal of turning X into a superapp with financial services. The idea is to create something that's a lot more than just a social network. Speaking to the Financial Times, Yaccarino said the go...

Pavel Durov is allowed to travel again (sort of)

21 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.04

So in the end it went exactly like Pavel Durov told Tucker Carlson. Pavel Durov, who's been on house arrest (technically, sort of, he can freely move about France, more or less) since his controversial arrest in Paris last summer, will be allowed to...

This is where the next tech battle will be fought

13 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.03

A lot of people talk about AI, and rightly so, I get it, but there's another tech problem, a tech battle if you will, that's not gonna have to be fought. As I'm writing, I have about 30 tabs open across two browser, and all of these tabs are using u...

Michael Saylor actually owns a yacht named after one of his failures

12 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted $0.05

In the mid 1990s, Michael Saylor began buying domains because he thought he might turn them into successful businesses. Which he did. Some of his domains sold years later for tens of millions. However, one of these domains failed. It was Usher.com,...

Telegram's Pavel Durov gives first interview since his arrest

12 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.05

Pavel Durov, co-founder of Telegram, gave his first interview since his arrest in Paris last year. On August 24, 2024, Durov was arrested at Le Bourget Airport in Paris on various charges, but the real reason was never made clear. Durov essentially...

Michael Saylor used to have a business that might surprise you

9 Jun 2025 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted $0.06

Michael Saylor spent about an hour and 30 minutes talking to Jordan Peterson. In the podcast/interview, he obviously talked about Bitcoin, but he also talked about his other businesses. He's had a fascinating life. Most people know him as a Bitcoi...

In random order - 4 rules I follow in life

9 Jun 2025 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted $0.04

Never volunteer for anything. I learnt this from Reacher. In the novel series, Jack Reacher famously never volunteers for anything and he follows this rule because apparently that's the soldier's rule. And the more I thought about it, the more it m...

Random thoughts on the Musk vs Trump beef

6 Jun 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted $0.07

I want to make it plain, I try my best to not let political stuff cloud my judgment. I also firmly believe that politicians matter less than we think. Politicians never do the things they say they're going to do, not because they're liars (well, als...