The past few months have been a time for reflection, education and awareness. From viral infection, to societal plagues like prejudice and stigma with all the ugly forms it comes in. I felt convicted to do more and step outside of my comfort zone to not only succeed at chasing my entrepreneurial ambitions, and take my time back to put where I believe my community, family and self needs it most. 

The truth is I let myself burn out, I did not know how to vacation, and when I did I would use my time being “productive”. Which is one of my best and worst traits. This year has been my best and worst year in so many ways, I feel as though I’ve been asleep to so many issues in my life and the society around me. Only focusing on how I am going to succeed, and not always looking around me to figure out how I can make us all succeed. The truth is I can not solve the world's problems with software alone. It takes a lot of people's attention and effort on a daily basis.

Truly my attempts have been half baked at best, from calling local elderly homes to see if they have enough resources and getting lost in the commitment, to the departure at my previous employer and many respected colleagues at Triverus to take a leap at something that was risky and it fell through. I have felt lost over the past few months but knowing my mission still has not changed; to reflect on my decisions, educate myself on history spanning from black history, my own/societal emotional intelligence, all the way to distributed systems and over complexity we often hear as we want a banana but we get a Gorilla holding a banana.

With all that in mind I decided after a lot of time letting my fears of failure keep me from working my ass off to build a company that provides tangible value through product solutions whose code is publicly made available for review and competitive use decoupling innovation and solutions provided.

I am working with many trusted colleagues to secure real income and employment while still keeping IPFS infrastructure and productization at the forefront of my ambition. Re-establishing a known constitution for my organization to ensure I have a starting place that unifies our societal constructs of governance and cooperation. Starting as of last week a good friend and colleague met, we’ve decided to ramp up to weekly meetings to discuss the first entry point into the cloud software as a service market; Public HTTPS and secure IPFS node CDN.

I believe with transparency, and a focus on an audience for market capture we will be able to create a “George Lucas” approach for creating many isolated products using public technologies and even proprietary technology for the more complex malware scanning operations.  Think Google’s Alphabet company but with zero subsidiary/contractual links unless the products work well together yet remain sovereign entities to ensure the product and user is always put first in a manner we all can be proud of.

If you are reading this close to its publication you can clearly see we are just getting started. For now this is a one man band with many others joining in the sound of progress as we solve how to monetize and provide clear ethical boundaries on behalf of our users and industry.

Yours in business and community,

Stephen Traiforos