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So yesterday I'm standing on my porch waiting for a ride and I pull out my phone and I start scrolling through Twitter and I read something that this isn't necessarily anything out of the ordinary, but I read a tweet from a friend who let's just say did something good like. Insert good thing here that a developer does on Twitter has a hot tip tweet launches course is a sap a blog post you name it and I immediately felt bad about myself just a little bit not anything crazy, but just a tiny bit of bad and I recognized it and I took action.

I changed my environment and I opened up. My followers on sorry the people I'm following on Twitter and I unfollowed every single person that I follow on Twitter close my phone put it back in my pocket and things have been a little bit different since that time. So let me unpack all of that. What led to this?

Why did I do it? What does it have to do with Livewire? That kind of stuff. So I've been feeling let's say in a slump. I've been in a bit of a development slum. You know, I'm working on Livewire I'm slogging through issues not glamorous work dealing with Muddy issues and people around me my friends.

My peers are launching things and it seems like more than ever. Does that feel like that to you like this, especially the spots you guys and some of those I think of them as the Europeans, Because they're European but all of those guys Frakes Frank screw his Entourage, they're all launching things like every other day and every time that happens, I feel I'm happy for them.

And I should say I should be happy for them. But I feel a little bit shittier about myself. Not a lot but a little bit sometimes it's worse than other times and when I'm feeling good about myself when I'm launching things. I can handle it better, you know that stuff happens and I'm fine with it. I feel good about it.

The hard part is when it's your friends. So people closer to me recently have launched some things and it has it. Just kind of weighs on me in this odd way and we know this this is how social media works. We all share the best of what we have to offer we see that we compared it to ourselves. And we feel bad about ourselves and that's what it's just kind of been for me and that's been weighing on me, and I've actually been noticing it.

That I've been feeling less good about Livewire. I've been feeling less good about my development skills about my ability to focus the things I've been putting out all sorts of things are just sort of picture start to sometimes I know what it's like when I'm in a good Zone and I know what it's like when I'm in a mad Zone and this is the bad Zone and I think most of it is caused by Twitter.

Honestly, it's caused by me watching my friends and people around me. Doing better than me, at least it seems that way and I should be able to cope with this and you know, I do and a lot of times, you know, there's a lot of ways to get over pumps like this one every life just happens for me and waves and I know that they'll be another hi.

But I can do things to mitigate that I can meditate I can intentionally. I can remove the Twitter app for my phone. I've done that a bunch of times and I can intentionally go on Twitter last so I can you know, whatever I can meditate on why I should be happy for these people and you can get all crazy and Buddhist about it and recognize that the only person.

The only thing that recognizes any difference and has any need to compare as your ego, and that doesn't actually exist. So if anybody's looking for some heady stuff, that's that's a that's a tactic of mine. But in reality what I needed to do was change my environment. So this is what this episode is about is changing your environment making things happen in your life.

Easily by changing your environment. This is this is all wrapped up in the like make the change easy then make these you change it's one of those deep fundamental truths