LeftFooted's Antics

LeftFooted's Antics

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


Do what you can, with what you have, and don't apologise

13 Dec 2025 1 minute read 5 comments LeftFooted

I don’t want to sound like a massive d-bag but I’m writing this on a train, but in first-class coach, and while having prosecco. It’s actually relatively cheap, mainly because I booked way, way in advance. I can’t afford to fly business - maybe onc...

My Solana Seeker has just survived its first stress test

9 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Yesterday night, I'll have to admit I may have been inebriated, I was inexact with the way I placed my cup of coffee at 2 AM, which means I accidentally tipped over it my iPhone, which in turn means my iPhone very nearly slid off my desk, and in orde...

A change of pace (and of mind)

9 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

I like writing. Duh. But the thing is, writing for a living isn't the same as writing for fun. Every day, I wake up and I know I'm going to have to write XY amount of articles, and I know I won't have full editorial freedom over that. And these art...

The 'if you can dream it you can do it' mindset is at least half BS, but the truth is in the middle

8 Dec 2025 3 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

I was getting on a bus today, something I do almost daily, and two women stepped on the bus right behind me. They were alike, in some aspects. Unlike me, they were both locals, maybe not from the same town but definitely from the same country. The...

Life has seasons

4 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

About three days into the pandemic, I had the third zoom call in three days with a person I had been seeing before it all went south. We shall call this person, Human Being Called Faith, because that's the rough literal translation of this person's...

LinkedIn puts me in a bad mood: surely I can't be the only one?

1 Dec 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

People often say they hate social media or they only use it because they 'kind of have to', which always sounded like BS to me. If that's the case why is (nearly) everyone on them? It's like p*rn. No one watches it, and yet p*rn sites are the most v...

Hot take: airplane seats shouldn’t recline the way they do

24 Nov 2025 2 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted

The view from the cheap seats ain’t bad. I have to like it. There’s no alternative. I can’t afford to fly business. I’ve only done it three times. I’m looking to change that btw. I’ve been trying to cut down on quantity and raise the bar on quality...

The US has a problem (duh)

22 Nov 2025 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted

The US has a lot of problems, but there's one in particular that bugs me out every time. If you travel to just about any place in the world, you sit down at a restaurant or a bar, or you walk into a store or whatever, and the price you see is what y...

I was finally able to put my Solana Seeker to good use

22 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

I've been using Solana Seeker since taking delivery back in August and, for the most part, I've used it as a backup phone. So far, I found a few things I like, and a few things I don't like. And one thing it does a little better than my iPhone. See...

A real estate investor and reality TV star reminded us of something we tend to forget

16 Nov 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

In a podcast with Graham Stephan (yep, the guy that used to 'promote' FTX), real estate investor and reality TV star Jason Oppenheim said something simple, but something that's also true, and something that we tend to forget. Oppenheim said that the...