People Pleasing

I'm going to be changing hive soon, and I'm excited. Can't wait to get started.

The game theory works as planned. People are acting just as I expected.

Some, I'll admit, have raised my eyebrow in a Spock-like internal confusion whilst trying to maintain control -- however most are acting as I have predicted.

It's interesting how this whole experience has changed me. I've went from chasing fame through approval to just doing what I feel like doing.

The previous me would have rather died than sat for nine months in my discord hearing people tell me that I was delulu.

I used to in a way seek the approval of others.

I really thought I had stopped that, yet there I was catching myself cringing at even the thought of going against my community.

I've always listened to them, and did what they said -- I mean after all the community has saved us from disaster so many times; sometimes we've been lucky to escape with a project at all.

Yet what happens when an idea comes to you that's so "out there" that people won't really understand it until it gets fired up?

Well, then you become delusional...

Until you're not.

This has been quite the experience for me; standing at the forefront of an idea, ready to hit the ground running as everyone around me is telling me that I'm crazy, or just not believing me that I have anything thought out.

And usually, from what I've seen, hive communities are fiercely loyal, fairly placid, understanding of mistakes, ready to help; until of course no-one knows where they are headed.

And no-one understands it.

Then I have to take full control then; lead by furious passion, leading not through collaboration, but singular direction.

I've never done that before.

If I admit it to myself I quite enjoy it. Watching people laugh at me, watching all the confusion, watching -- sometimes the vitriol.

Yet knowing that underneath all will be well in the end.

For I'm about to heal hive.

That's a really strong statement -- and one I fiercely believe in. The theory checks out. Social, political, and economical -- it's already working.

The real theory will begin when I get started.

Some will love it, other's are going to really hate it.

But the beauty of it all is?

There's nothing you can do to stop it -- and we're coming for you.

Oh yes we are.

This is also something I've never done before. Built slowly, with love and care.

Beforehand I was always chasing Leo's success yet lacking the funds and team to develop anything significant.

Hat's off to @khaleelkazi -- for all the shit he gets on here, at least he's building something.

But the problem with crypto is everyone expects stuff built in an instant; products built in a flash, and even as builders we often find ourselves building really fast and missing corners so that we appease the fans.

But I refuse to do that anymore.

Trust takes a long time to build, love even longer, so we build slowly, and for the future.

I refuse to be rushed into anything anymore, or manipulated into making deals.

I have a singular mission and that is it.

For now I am a leader of the future, and not one of the present.

I used to love mindfulness; it really helped me deal with the present, but then it's completely useless when you build for the future.

Perhaps this is my next stage of life.

Today I'm throwing my people pleasing on the flame.

Of course I still like to please my friends!

Alas, no more pleasing the masses or trying to appease them.

No more.