It's like the embodiment of "nice guys" but for startups.

Thanks! Hey you know, I'd like to respond to everyone, but since you asked: it never really did work out. When I try to write up a summary of the highs and lows that got me here, it ends up being long and negative so I’ll save it for a blog post. I’m in a committed relationship in a home we share together and get a lot of love and support from my family. I couldn’t ask for a better upbringing. So there’s a lot of guilt there that I let opportunities slip by. But I mainly wanted to reply because I’m sorry I compared donating plasma with prostitution, I don’t believe it’s like that, and it was wrong to write that. Something has been bothering me about the idea of selling oneself in one form or another, and I think what I was trying to say was that when people do what they must for self-preservation, then that's noble and we shouldn't be so quick to judge them when we haven't walked in their shoes. If anyone reads this someday, please don’t be too hard on yourself. Don’t remember only your mistakes like I do.

As far as the future goes, I just got out of a 4 year stint at one of the better consulting agencies in town so am back to contracting. I’d like to be part of something bigger than myself, with a grander purpose like ending labor as we know it. I believe there is a bright future in the gig economy and that eventually we’ll be able to work as needed, sustainably. Once we have something like a global jobs service so that labor security is always available, it will put pressure on corporations to raise wages. That should prop up the late-stage capitalism we’ve found ourselves in long enough that robot labor can take over when the singularity arrives around 2040 and provide UBI for everyone. It’s either that or dystopia.

With all these things, it’s hard to tell anymore if I’m talking about myself or the world. So I’ve been coping a lot and battling depression off and on. But I’m also grateful to be alive in such interesting times.