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Sometimes people feel shame about their substance use. Sometimes people feel badly and turn to substances, or use substances gradually and find that they can't stop. Every one deserves to be fully accepted, loved, and to feel better. And sometimes it seems impossible to feel that within one's self. I hope it becomes easier to talk about one's experience with another. A friend, counselor, family member, a kind stranger. The boxes on internet sites. Even when one feels only darkness, another person can light a match to illuminate a tad bit. Small steps, over time, add up to better. It's slow and hard. And recovery can be like that. But it can be better. Always.

Yep, will be a serious liability of BTC. I wager it will take some for the risk to actualize. The crypto craze continues until it doesn't. And when it plummets, devoid of any legitimate value, it will fall hard and prove just another blip on the screen for those who aren't laughing to the bank now.

There is a pervasive brain-washing in valley startups that hits employees the hardest sadly. In my experience, the more successful ventures tend to propagate fear, anxiety and aggression in their culture almost as an unspoken point of pride. I've seen organizations led by all sorts of alleged valley legends fall into this category, regardless of how enlightened HR is.

Some of this may come from people overly identifying with their work roles - and when those work roles come with a mild hero complex due to rising success and the promise of riches/prestige - egos thrash around at high speeds. Part of this phenomenon is the almost manic behavior you see in some entrepreneurs/investors/leaders as they buzz around like bees to the honey.

People need to take a step back from this capitalistic bubble and remember that we are here to do jobs and that employers must respect not just time boundaries but psychological boundaries as well. We can do great work and produce tools that have real impact on the social and economic welfare in the world, but never, never, never at the cost of our wellbeing.

Very sad what happened to this fellow.