2518 sats \ 1 reply \ @kodylowactual OP 6 Jul 2023 \ parent \ on: Hi! I'm Kody, Head of Developer & Product Support at Fedi. Ask Me Anything! bitcoin
Haha thanks I'll take that one as a compliment. I get really into what I'm working on when I know it's meaningful and important. When I was leading Marines it was about helping and serving them and making sure i did everything I could to prepare and train them and myself, so didn't have time to do other stuff I might've liked to like coding. Pretty common quip in infantry is that if the Marine Corps wanted you to have a family or social life they would've issued you them . I only started coding on my last active deployment because COVID happened and we weren't allowed to do anything we were locked in our rooms and I had tactical operations center watches for like 12-24 hours where nothing happened because everything in the world was locked down.
You work hard and stay focused so in the event we end up in a sticky situation we don't have to go through the rest of our lives thinking "Well if I hadn't taken that vacation or weekend off or whatever maybe John would still be alive".
Working on Bitcoin I get the same feeling, we've got this incredible opportunity to bring property rights to billions of people and if we don't succeed I don't want it to be because I took time off or didn't push through. It makes me really annoying to work with for people who try to lead a balanced life haha.
You work hard and stay focused so in the event we end up in a sticky situation we don't have to go through the rest of our lives thinking "Well if I hadn't taken that vacation or weekend off or whatever maybe John would still be alive".
So true. I have no military experience but I would say I am quite fascinated by the military with its strategies, discipline, moral, camaraderie, weapon handling etc. or just war in general. After reading "Chickenhawk" from Robert Mason I was intrigued and was determined to read more books about wars and would say I now can relate more to what veterans (at least Vietnam veterans) experienced. Obviously, I will never be able to completely relate to it (since I think you have to experience war itself to be able - like with many things) but reading books about it still helps, I think. Next book will be "With the Old Breed" from Eugene Sledge and "Helmet for my Pillow" from Robert Leckie.
Do you have any book recommendations about war?
Also, sometimes I regret that I didn't join the Army for a few years after I finished school. To experience at least a small part of all this stuff I am now reading about myself. I know it sounds wrong and naive to say "I want to experience war itself" but I think I just can't put it well into words how I feel about it. I think I just want to understand the people who experienced war better. Can you understand what I mean? Is that weird? lol
Sorry if off topic and you didn't expect to get into this topic here. Your sentence just resonated well with me and what I read about the military so far. I hope I don't sound too naive about this stuff, haha
Thank you for your service even though I am not from the US :)
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