Writing This During Hurricane Milton (right now!!)

I have a lot of alone time the past day or so, hurricane coming through. My thoughts go to, “are we really advancing our ways exponentially? Are we really catapulting into the future of the world?” I am on my computer, typing as I would in the 1980s. Smaller computer, faster but I am typing. 

There are voice apps to use, A.I. assistants, but I am still putting a message out in similar ways as all days before. You are reading or listening to this submission/ blog/post/article/tweet from wherever you are on whatever type of device you use.
There are the few who are running the show, whether you are in what’s considered Web 2 or Web 3. Business is business, profits are money and money is power. It does not make a difference, in my opinion.

Yes, using a DAO structure is different than traditional business, however, a friend mentioned in conversation that it’s still people. It’s the people and their actions, values and principles that make the difference.

I see most people today attempt their traditional beliefs and practices in a non-traditional space building a non-traditional business. And it’s their own business!! My dives down a plethora of rabbit holes has allowed me the advantage of observing the best adapters to creating/recreating their business in non-traditional manners and the worst. 

I am guilty of using old fashioned techniques. I am guilty of going too far with the non-traditional practices in creating Onboard60. Finding a happy medium is the key.

As someone said, and I now say, I am an early adopter in some areas, learning experientially. My exuberance, fear of missing out, being left behind and curiosity for learning and shiny new things, I embarked on a trip around the social media platforms, protocols and networks that were building their place in Web3. 

I say building because if you have been around this crazy space of what people call Web 3 you know people come and go, projects come and go, bad actors are found out, scammers revealed, we get rugged, scammed, and maybe, just maybe, find those genuine misfit toys that we fit perfectly with, the authentic souls, wanting to make a difference in someone else’s life, not necessarily filling their own pockets.

My journey has led me from one side of the pendulum to the other and now, I am somewhere swinging in between. The motion is not as extreme, and I can relate it to a gentle rocking of sleeping on a sailboat under the stars. I experienced that once, always remember the feeling. 

No longer pin balling from one network, protocol or social media platform, I am settling down on ones that I have found true genuine connections with people. It’s not necessarily Web3 or a decentralized media but more of a balance, a mix. 

Earlier I said happy medium. At one point I had an anxiety producing, stressful to me, large social media account with 28 thousand followers. I got to where I did not know if I could post one more video. 
I made the mistake and revolved around the media platform and the content I created to get results for what I was attempting to accomplish.
It affected me mentally and emotionally. Burn out and breakdowns.

I deleted the account and started a smaller 30+ follower account. My anxiety dissipated; I connected on a more genuine level with people around me. Rather than having a platform control me, I took back control.

Nowadays, I am focusing on establishing Onboard60 in traditional and nontraditional media with conscious techniques of posting. This calls for a lot of self-discipline on my part. I enjoy the nightly scroll, lol.

Outside I can hear the wind gusts wrestle the palm trees. I went to the canal behind my apartment this afternoon during the dead calm moments. The moments the sun is out, it is still and trees unmoving, before the hurricane and dark clouds coming around pelt you with rain from the outer bands circle back.

The water was unusually high due to all the rains. Living on the Atlantic side, 30 minutes north of Miami on the coast in Boca Raton, I feel safe.

The only concern is the flooding, the water. The debris and projectiles, cars floating away, and the alligators, and occasional manatees coming inland to the canals and waterways. It happens.

 I was informed that I have a well-rounded set of skills. I have been running as fast as I can for so long, I forgot to assess what I do have to offer. I have been self-criticizing what I haven’t done and what I am deficient in and not focusing on what I have.
I have a newly formed look on how I am going to grow Onboard60. The vision and mission constant, the foundation solid, it is time to become a community with all the bells and whistles. 

I can admit there were times my lack of skills could have been attributed to my fabulous professional skill of procrastination combined with fears of many that turned out to be illusions. For someone who is so fearful, I have acted on so many things and as I type, there are 90 plus people who get this!!!!!When people say, it is all in your head, believe them. I have completed, continued and challenged myself along the way doing it scared.

Now is the time for this blog/article where I talk about what I am doing and entice you to click on a link to buy something. Yes, I will, but first, let me tell you why.

I learned how to make NFTs in December of 2021/January2022. Purposefully to use cryptocurrency to get money directly to those that need it in my area. I work as a server in the hospitality industry in South Florida. Covid hit us hard, hurricanes, and the hospitality industry itself has never made a comeback.

Each year the management asks for everyone to pitch in, donate to give money to the back of the house, dishwashers, salad preps, etc. I live in a seasonal town and our business has been dead calm. The people who are asked to pitch in, donate are hurting just as much as who they want to give to.

My idea. Raise $1000 by Christmas.  I am posting my A.I. art pieces on Magic Eden (working on it, up by October 16th). I am doing a virtual live auction in the metaverse at the end of October and again at the end of November with of course me screaming about it every chance I get. 

I also post on Orb (App Store) where people can mint (buy) the post directly from the post, art, NFT, music. The sale/profits of any pieces will be collected and swapped for USD and distributed to my coworkers. I am posting one A.I. art piece a week until Christmas on Orb, a platform that cross posts to a few other ones. I am actively updating my Zora collection, and some pieces are available right now.

Initially this was my first project, an idea, what kept me on TikTok. It’s been a long road to get back here to the beginning which is nothing like the first beginning. It’s time to get money to those who need it.

I will keep you informed and send blogs with links to art over the next few weeks and invite you to go to the App Store to download Orb or peruse Zora. For now, I am preparing to go to my birthday hurricane party.

A reggae rasta fusion live music, free food, with crypto onboarding event hurricane party a block from where I work.

I never imagined crypto onboarding events in my neighborhood, much less during a hurricane and on my birthday. Touching on birthdays, getting older. Wow, just wow. I am really a senior citizen, mannerisms, mindset and friggin senior citizen off the wall comments. This whole article/blog if I reread it, may be a senior citizen ramble. You tell me.

I am going to the hurricane party tonight because it’s a special occasion but I have moved into the phase of my life that I don’t go to hurricane parties much anymore, I take hurricane naps.

Be Safe!!!
No matter what, be fabulous!!!
 (finally got my “be fabulous” tattoo) 😊
Sandra Abrams
Onboard60, founder
https://stan.store/onboard60