Lately, I've been feeling dissatisfied with my frontend dev job.

For one, I feel like I'm severely underpaid ($2500/mo). Two, I don't feel bullish on the team's ability to raise funds or successfully bootstrap liquidity needed for the project.

Here's why:

• I feel like my feedback falls on deaf ears.

• The team lacks focus and good judgment from the leadership.

• They consistently fail to triage problems, tasks, responsibilities and even goals are vague and unclear.

• Despite such confusion and lack of clarity there's a weird underlying expectation to somehow be autonomous. They offload ambiguity and call it autonomy and ownership.

When I reflect back on the times I felt like my work was genuinely enjoyable and fulfilling:

1. I felt I was learning something new and pushing right at the edge of my abilities. Not so hard that the work feels impossible, yet not so easy that it felt trivial.

2. The work felt like my contributions were meaningful.

3. I made many mistakes, but I learned and grew exponentially from each one.

But in this job, I feel like I'm literally stuck for the sake of paying my bills. Needless to say, I feel like I'm not learning anything new or growing professionally in anyway.

I'm craving that sweet spot of challenge + meaning.

I've been reading Walkaway lately and it resurfaced my cypherpunk side who's absolutely discontent with the current state of the web and the most of the world in general.

• The original dream of the peer-to-peer internet feels like it’s dying.

• Surface-level apps in crypto have devolved into degenerate gambling.

• This isn’t the world I want to live in, let alone build for.

Reading the work of core devs in Ethereum and adjacent blockchains, I felt the opposite vibe at the infra layer. With deep seated values of privacy, curiosity, resilience.

Combine those values with my love for rust and lust for money, blockchain infra seemed like the perfect next step.

What's there to lose anyway?

Lately, I've been feeling dissatisfied with my frontend dev job.

For one, I feel like I'm severely underpaid ($2500/mo). Two, I don't feel bullish on the team's ability to raise funds or successfully bootstrap liquidity needed for the project.

Here's why:

• I feel like my feedback falls on deaf ears.

• The team lacks focus and good judgment from the leadership.

• They consistently fail to triage problems, tasks, responsibilities and even goals are vague and unclear.

• Despite such confusion and lack of clarity there's a weird underlying expectation to somehow be autonomous. They offload ambiguity and call it autonomy and ownership.

When I reflect back on the times I felt like my work was genuinely enjoyable and fulfilling:

1. I felt I was learning something new and pushing right at the edge of my abilities. Not so hard that the work feels impossible, yet not so easy that it felt trivial.

2. The work felt like my contributions were meaningful.

3. I made many mistakes, but I learned and grew exponentially from each one.

But in this job, I feel like I'm literally stuck for the sake of paying my bills. Needless to say, I feel like I'm not learning anything new or growing professionally in anyway.

I'm craving that sweet spot of challenge + meaning.

I've been reading Walkaway lately and it resurfaced my cypherpunk side who's absolutely discontent with the current state of the web and the most of the world in general.

• The original dream of the peer-to-peer internet feels like it’s dying.

• Surface-level apps in crypto have devolved into degenerate gambling.

• This isn’t the world I want to live in, let alone build for.

Reading the work of core devs in Ethereum and adjacent blockchains, I felt the opposite vibe at the infra layer. With deep seated values of privacy, curiosity, resilience.

Combine those values with my love for rust and lust for money, blockchain infra seemed like the perfect next step.

What's there to lose anyway?