Now, first off I've been kinda a rebel since forever, and certainly after I read about many of the things that hit us in 2020 even back in 89 or earlier!

The GFC made me even more determined, both at not going along, but also to build within the shitty fiatverse.

I've been on maybe a dozen boards, had around half of that titles in small companies and teams that I was the architect of, and also got a tiny sum as seed money once, along with a very well reputed brand.

For a few years I was trying to "break into" the big fiat pools this way, when I was at the height of my game I could walk around the city & have realistic thoughts on getting to any corporations that I saw the logo of, it was a great boost, but it didn't last.

Mainly due to me not being cynical enough about wokism and the general rot of the West, and now that there is literally nothing left to work with there I can finally burn those bridges.

I've spent a lot of time, money and energy to build my medium size network, but in retrospect of course I see that it was all built on the turf of Microsoft of all possible gangster organizations... So, what to do?

Now that the tides are turning for real I'm OK with having waited it out since 2020, especially now that we have Nostr! My plan is to gradually comb through my old contacts, discard those forever lost in wokism, and hopefully recruit those who are worth spending time on to Nostr and Bitcoin.

What I am putting all my energy into these days is to buidl what I've got planned for a long time here on SN, on Nostr and whatever platforms that are fully uncensorable, before I might have to plug into the shitty fiatverse.

Nostr and SN has been great for me as a sane sounding board, and some days here the sats even pay for at least my lunch!

Now can I scale this, and remain free and totally uncontrollable in this fight? Maybe! If that is possible I'll never look back for sure, but realistically it would be unwise to not at least try to plug in some fiat too.

Fiat platforms like Substack would fit me well, but so far I've seen, and feared, their inherent ability to mess with my thinking, plans and priorities. So they need to be last on my list of possible revenue in the form of micropayments!

Writing in public here is also a very good way to make sure that I follow through, it focuses the mind and sets ambitions in stone: Rebel Nomad will always buidl on fully uncensorable platforms and revenue sources first, that I can promise the universe and you all in here :-)