Today is the launch of the site Kadeaus.com. I have owned the domain for years but many things have caused me to move towards really utilizing this domain.
Most of you guys who may still follow me probably met me through Google+. I would say Google+ was the peak me on social. I felt that platform was well designed with an amazing community of sincere, like-minded intelligent individuals where intellectual conversation could flourish. during this period I was diehard Googl-ee. I bled the Google Colors. “Live by the Google, Die By The Google” someone once said to me on Google+. once the company became Alphabet I watched the company I once loved just have everything service ripped from its social spine and then the social aspect of it start down the road of sunsetting and this started the sunset of my social media life. I attempted to get on different social networks and recreate the community that was lost however I just could not motivate myself to do it. I really couldn’t fully explain why but it just wasn’t happening for me.
As time went on my interest in the Cryptocurrency skyrocketed and eventually stumbled upon subsection of the cryptocurrency community that didn’t want to be apart of the end fighting and tribalism of the space. I noticed that these few people started carving out a their own corner where anyone can come regardless of their tribal allegiances and can interact together in this carved out corner. Eventually these people started building things. Successful things that this corner community wanted. I officially realized then I wanted to be apart of these corner people. They later went on to build an amazing site that created the social spine that was needed on so many levels in our space and this led me down a road of nostalgia for Google+ so I joined the movement.
While being apart of this community I learned a lot about myself, the way I have ran businesses in the past, and how I managed (or miss managed) communities in the past. Even though I join the community for a completed different reason, I have collected so much knowledge in the last 6 months on communities management and participation, that I have started to build a community myself. and this site is the beginnings of that.
I dedicate this particular post to John Saddington. He probably will never see this, but just the few conversations we had about community have really opened my mind to an aspect of the world in which I have never thought to observe. and It has better prepped me for the next decade. I find it interesting that my whole life I have never taken a moment to stop and look at community and give it a good Analyzation. I think a lot to this has to do with the fact that I spent a lot of time fleeing the community I grew up in and so there may had been an overcompensation attempt to avoid finding myself in the same type of community again that I really just didn’t give it a change.
The post is mostly just a ramble. Just to see if I can explode my thoughts onto a page because I really haven’t doing a good writing like this in so many years. But it’s time I return to my roots and focus for a bit.
If you have stayed here this far, thanks for reading my Random thoughts.
