LeftFooted's Antics

LeftFooted's Antics

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


Michael Saylor used to have a business that might surprise you

9 Jun 2025 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted

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

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

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...

Your daily reminder that we're all at the mercy of centralisation

31 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

I have a few YouTube channels, including one which is growing quite nicely at a very steady - albeit slow - pace. I sometimes invest some cash in it with promotions, and that was going well. Until it didn't. A few days ago I uploaded a video which...

Things that used to work but kinda don't anymore

25 May 2025 3 minute read 7 comments LeftFooted

When you work in the media, you may work for your boss, but you report to algorithms. If you're a writer, you have many bosses on top of your CEO or director or whatever: Google, Facebook, and so on. It's the name of the game. I started writing a...

Life is the sort of thing where stuff you don't want to happen... happens

22 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

This is going to be a personal but fcuk it. A few months ago, shortly after my break-up with my former partner, we shall call this person UX Designer, I met someone else, we shall call this person Recently Divorced. I met Recently Divorced in Octob...

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...