J.a.d.e.
Is this Just Another Damned Excuse?
Full confession, I am an narcissistic asshole and a prick. Perhaps that is why I took a certain delight in the increasingly indifferent Medium posts from Einstein; the ..um, I actually have no clue what his title is with Jade, but if you’re reading this, you probably know who I’m talking about. But as a now self confessed narcissistic asshole and a prick, I respected his game. Real recognize real, and he could be a a real narcissistic asshole and a prick.
It didn’t bother me none, I felt I understood the reasoning, if not the frustration he displayed in the mildly hostile approach to communicating with the thousands of people whom had already handed over their money.
As for me, I’ve been lucky, and have been able to be able to develop a community of friends who are always finding those little nuggets of alpha, or offering up sage wisdom or advice, and I had long since accepted I was on the smartcoin boat ride until we get to the end, to the iceberg or to the port, I’d be one of the last ones on the ship.
I kinda popped off last week in a surprisingly well received sort of open letter to Einstein. To be honest I had no clue what I hoped to achieve with that post, I honestly dont know why I do a lot of things. But I know exactly why I was in smartcoin. At first it was money. Simple as that. Gimme the gains. But as I started digging down the rabbit hole I’ll be damned if I didn’t learn a thing or two.
Most of this is new to me. I come from a background of art and heckuva lot of cannabis smoking. But I’ve spent my lifetime writing about what intrigues me, and what motivates and inspires people, not just the individual but especially in small pockets of counter culture. What intrigued me about smartcoin was I could feel the groundswell of a movement. There is nothing quite as exquisite to be there when the crowd gathers and a reinterpretation of reality is dished out like electric Kool-aid at Winterland (someone out there LOVED that metaphor) But just like the acid tests, to an outsider; what was happening was predicated on substance, a bunch of druggies doing LSD or a bunch of narcissistic degen asshole pricks thinking they can change the game of centralized banking and load up on the grossest shit on earth; excessive wealth.
Oh, you didn’t think you are also a narcissistic asshole and a prick? I’m sure central banks feel otherwise. As do venture capitalists, ponzi developers, and your cousin Brad who “actually WORKS for a living…”
The truth is just because something can be true doesn’t mean its the only truth. I don’t think of myself of either of those things, and I hope that others dont feel that way about themselves, and for me Einstein isn’t actually a person, its a character. And just like my own character, OneThirdNerd, I assume he’s probably a pretty close representation of the person who sends the post, but onethirdnerd is kinda a narcissistic asshole and a prick because we reflect the world around us. And guess what kind of people the world is actually full of..
But those of you who have communicated with me over the last 3–4 months and those of you who I’ve become friends with in Discord hopefully don’t see me as that kind of character, or person either. We have had so much tremendous success in Chikn that is has actually spilled over in to the real world for me; where I’ve been happy to reside as a professional failure.
Failing gets a bad rap if you ask me. Like losing in a game of chess you stand more to gain from the knowledge of your flaws in strategy than you do the thrill of victory. I’ve told people I failed so many times I eventually fail at failing and somehow succeed. When I look to the heroes of creative inspiration and vision that I admire from the past; I tend to focus on their failures. This isn’t to humanize them, or to give myself a boost of “see, they did it too” confidence. It’s to see what came after. Like, you ever have something work the first time that you didn’t expect it to and you spend the rest of your life wondering when it will come crashing down in an epic blaze of glory? (I know the code monkeys out there feel that one)
I’ve failed at a lot, and so has smartcoin/jade. Everyone saw that connection coming so lemme go ahead an really make the point and list off some of those failures in chronological order, and being as how there is so many, this will be an incomplete list. Memecoin. Massive prize in USDT. “This is a side project, not part of the game” Airdrops, wallet reps, leaderboards, like I said, I can’t even list them all.
And this brings me to today, this morning as I happily defended the arrival of the imminent Medium post for the explanation of the SMRTr LP swap, and the NFTkey, and the future of Jade on the AVAX chain. Well, it turns out I failed again. I had apparently missed some middle of the night update in discord and a revision had been made to the medium post and yeah, turns out its next week instead.
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This was a failure on Einsteins part, and in my opinion, a colossal fuckup to not send a tweet or quick medium post, to sort this whole mess out days before the hotly anticipated master plan would appear. CapricornCrypto who was the latest recipient of the 1k USDT prize from Einstein, summed it up like this
So the communication in JADE is broken. Absolutely fucking disgracefully busted. Our fearless leader tweets out cringy baby gurl videos and blames it on the intern. A scam account that has been operating for several months on Instagram began selling Jade NFT’s as part of a prize for a “separate Instagram only promotion.” Ironically, I actually SPOKE to that page admin. The admin told me months ago when I hassled him that he was not official but a paid community project for viral marketing. Then go look at the Jade advertising budget and tell me there wasn’t a line item there for that. And where else would it have gone, another failed idea? (also, for the record, I’m glad to have some of the only official “I got rugged by JADE NFTs,” …dont think I wont turn a profit on those in the end)
If someone is operating a scam account of your company for months on end, thats not the fault of your consumers for falling for it. THATS YOUR BRAND. You have a responsibility to the sanctity of your business name. And in truth, seeing three other scam accounts get shut down both before and after Einstein called this page “not official” made me feel pretty sure that the dude who I was chatting with was actually legit, cause if pages are getting pulled down.. why not that one?
So much failure, so much breakdown of core reasoning, is my job now to make you rich? Like bring you a billion dollar company just getting started and you will kick me down 100k? pssh, I already wrote about that. Wow, crowdsourcing ingenuity, did you come up with that on your own or did you pay for that idea too? Doesn’t matter cause now Dani does it.
So where is our success?
It’s right here. It’s the fact that I popped off on twitter and within minutes I had other people agreeing with me, talking about it, sharing opinions and even my very own Jon Ray of sunshine in the DM’s.
“I encourage you to speak your truth”
Maybe I’m a fuck up, maybe I’m a degen asshole narcissistic prick who feels entitled to compensation that he doesn’t deserve… Maybe we all are. Maybe we are all a bunch of people who have lost our money. And all we have now is this community. I think that’s why I got so pissed to find out second hand about the switch. Yes SWITCH dont give me this typo bullshit and blame it on another intern. I failed to turn my investment into riches with Smartcoin, I own that failure, I failed to make money with Jade, I will own that failure too. But I’m still here, still adding LP, still buying Jade. Because I believe in failure more than I believe in success, because I know that success is a pile of horseshit anyways. You succeed only to be able to try and perhaps fail again.
Focus on the process.
So that is my mantra for life, over and over again I say that to myself, day in and day out. Because I know that success and accomplishment are short lived. Like the post-partum depression an artist will feel after finally selling that piece they labored on for months, we might be defined by the outside world for our accomplishments, but its our failures that shape us.
Now Einstein has come out and had to eat crow before, he’s accepted failure and chalked it up to iteration which is the same thing your face does when it hits the pavement. We have survived not because of economics, policy, rewards, payouts, emissions or airdrops. We have survived because of community.
Moving forwards this should actually be a moot point. As per the last medium post from Einstein we will have regular monthly updates starting on the 1st of Feburary.. actually I haven’t skimmed all of discord yet through 1000 posts so if that has changed someone please update me, and I will edit this medium post as is the standard protocol.
But, what about a reward? I mean not for nothing, if bringing a billion dollar company for the people in Jade to invest in and see fantastic lifelong returns, well.. you should take a look at our coqs, Einstein.
I mean REALLY take a good long look at these big fat coqs and see how much this has brought to the community of people who invested in them. So maybe I’m due 100k… but I dont want it. I mean, I already have it. But hows about a budget for flying a bunch of us smarties out to Barcelona for the AVAX summit in March? I mean..I saw your post ages ago saying that would happen, that wasn’t another failure was it?
Lemme sum this up by saying, if we believe in the concept of the dao, and we believe in this community, then we are Jade ourselves. But.. we might want to make some new hires in the communications/PR department, keep Einstein doing the work he loves and maybe take away the login credentials from the interns.. but I think we can all discuss that over drinks in Barcelona, no?
