Primero

Last month, I finished a freelance gig for a client abroad. They paid me in crypto. That was when the headache began: just trying to cash out my own money. Every option felt like punishment: – Banks were slow and chopped huge fees. – P2P vendors could ghost or inflate rates. – Other apps buried me with hidden charges. By the time I finally touched my money, a big chunk was gone. Money that should’ve covered my garri restock (and if you know, you know). I’m sure I’m not alone, you’ve probably felt this pain too. ↓

A LETTER TO MYSELF (I wanted to make this an article, I just don’t like the stress…) thinking about “growth” as a concept lately… movement basically movement doesn’t always look like progress, sometimes you’re moving to escape something sometimes you’re searching and sometimes you just have to keep going, because staying still would mean becoming comfortable with a version of yourself you’ve already outgrown. there are moments you don’t have the energy to explain yourself, you stop forcing conversations, and you just…. watch, learn. in that silence, you start to understand yourself a little better. that’s where this came from “the realization that leaving a place, a routine, an old version of yourself, doesn’t mean you’ve abandoned the destination”. sometimes you’re just taking another route. there was a period i was emotionally drained, i had things i wanted to become, places i wanted to reach, but wanting something and having the capacity to pursue it are two different things. i used to think discipline meant continuing no matter how you felt, now i think self-awareness is knowing when something inside you needs attention. you can keep moving and still quietly lose the reason you started. “Then” is not “Now”. environment changes, people change, priorities change. even the things you once wanted look different once you’ve lived a little more. so why would an old version of me understand a new season? i’m starting to see life less as a straight road and more as a series of environments. some teach you how to win. some teach you how to lose. some force you to sit alone long enough to finally hear your own thoughts. none of it is wasted, even doing nothing was doing something to me. it was changing how i see things. maybe that’s what growth is. not constantly becoming more. sometimes it’s becoming different. you learn something and your whole approach shifts… you build something and the process exposes what you didn’t know…. you fail and your definition of success grows up a little. build to learn. i don’t want to wait until i know everything before i start, i’ll never know everything. the building is the education. you start with an idea, make mistakes, realize it was incomplete, fix it, try again. eventually you become someone capable of building something better, because the first attempt taught you what books couldn’t. leaving the scope of web3, this is im simple relationships, career, creativity, identity, basically everything. we spend so much time looking for the perfect direction before taking the first step. maybe direction gets clearer after movement. maybe you just enough courage to move, enough humility to learn, and enough awareness to change course when reality hands you new information. the world keeps handing you new information. you either update, or you keep living by an outdated version of reality. and holding onto who you used to be can become its own kind of stagnation. there are things i don’t believe about myself anymore. things i thought i understood that i barely did. and i like that. saying “i don’t know yet” leaves room to explore, to ask better questions, to start again without treating the last version of yourself like a failure. so basically, I’ll say going doesn’t mean running. It means movement, toward the person you haven’t become yet. sometimes that’s visible: building in public, taking risks, creating. sometimes it’s invisible: disappearing for a while, questioning everything, figuring out what still matters. both count. we’re not supposed to stay the same just because people got used to an old version of us. there’s always another layer, another lesson, another mountain, another way to look at the same problem. So go when you really need to heal. go when the environment no longer fits who you’re becoming. go even without the entire map. just don’t confuse a change in direction with the end of the journey.

imo, web2 and web3 marketing are fundamentally the same. the channels and tactics may differ, but at the core, it’s still about having a strong concept, being creative, understanding people, and finding new ways to capture attention. looking past the usual web3 playbook, concept, creativity, and the thirst to explore are what really matter.