An Introduction

or: how I left LinkedIn and started somewhere else

Please allow me to introduce myself - I spent the last eight years focusing on having a presence on LinkedIn as a mathematician and CTO interested in blockchain, cybersecurity, cryptography, and intellectual property. And the Microsoft platform served me well in that capacity until now.

I built up a substantial following from my videos where I walked through the Finnish forests explaining blockchain concepts, and articles about digital signatures, software development in startups, and what is involved in inventing technological stuff.

At the beginning of the year, I noticed that LinkedIn was no longer a place I liked to hang out, having gone the way of Facebook and Instagram under the inevitable process of “enshittification” as explained by Cory Doctorow.

Doctorow described enshittification as a three-stage process: first, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. LinkedIn is currently at stage two, and as I am a content creator happiest in stage one, it was clearly time to move.

Moving to a new platform requires a new commitment, so I plan to:

• post daily

• leave plenty of notes (if I understand correctly, these are like tweets)

There won’t be much if anything behind a paywall for now, so don’t take a paid subscription unless you like my stuff and feel like rewarding me financially.

Let’s see how this new adventure goes!