This is a big deal. Things are moving in the right direction.

Mmm:

The cost of a startup is hard to measure, calculate, or even prepare for when you first begin your long and difficult quest. It’s more closely akin to preparing to summit Mt. Everest as a first-time adventurer but without a lot of good advice and no roadmap.

Just like the host asked Erik Voorhees about the psychology of Satoshi Nakamoto, I have studied and thought long and hard about their motives and gathered quite a bit of inspiration.

I used to capture changes to the product in a canonical changelog but left all of that behind over the years.

I spent way too much money on this and I wanted to at least surface it before I leave the blog entirely. YEN has an amazing brand and I’m proud of what we’ve built, both visually, technically, and more importantly our culture. Our culture, as a team and as a community, is fucking nails.

The following content has been untouched since early-2019. It’s neat to see some of the great content / positioning work that we did.

When I did a massive restart we had, at the time, a number of community members who were ardent supporters, fans, and community members.

As we continue to slowly make our way through product development — which will invariably shift a bit as I transition due to epic changes — I’m still trying to push out features that have been in development for a bit of time to honor the work that my team has done.

I shared some candid thoughts about the next steps for me and the project (and my life!) in the last video of the YEN YT channel:

I was generally okay with Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub at the time because I was solely impressed with their senior leader. But I was reminded recently of MSN’s history of complying with China’s demands around censorship and control and what I know more than anything is that culture > any one, single leader.