My First Week Working for @0xPolygon

This week is my first week working for @0xPolygon!

I committed to taking a year long mental health break from Feb. 2022 to Feb. 2023 and have completed that.

So what am I doing there and why do I think Polygon has a lot of potential despite its problems?

— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) March 16, 2023

2/ I left Flashbots in Feb. 2022 because despite thinking previously that I had my mental health issues under control, I did not and needed more time to work with my doctors and therapist to improve myself. I am forever grateful to the Flashbots leadership and co-workers,

— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) March 16, 2023

3/ particularly @phildaian, who were supportive of me and my challenges. Throughout the next 12 months I worked with my mental health team to get my medicines right and learn how to be less obsessed with crypto and working. Crypto has been my life since 2014 (arguably 2011) and

— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) March 16, 2023

4/ it isn't healthy to be in a 24/7 cycle with a ton of cool people and technology and no off switch.

I spoke at Devcon6 last year about this for anyone interested: https://t.co/zserZEwcPY

— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) March 16, 2023

5/ Last October, members of Polygon's leadership approached me about working for Polygon full time. I have been an advisor to Polygon since the beginning and even had calls with @MihailoBjelic well before launch about the ideas and vision of Polygon. These past 2 years I've been

— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) March 16, 2023

6/ advising them I have seen them grow tremendously and succeed at many aspects of their goals. Although the plan last year was for me to eventually join Polygon, I completed my break first. From my time interacting with Polygon I can definitively say the following:

— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) March 16, 2023

7/
1. Polygon is aligned with Ethereum's values and Ethereum's success.
2. Polygon believes that there is no silver bullet to scaling, which is shown by what they work on and open source to the community.

— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) March 16, 2023

8/

3. Polygon and some of those representing Polygon have not communicated the above very well to the community & at times has been overly combative.
4. Polygon plans to take steps to better communicate their commitment to helping Ethereum scale with community at the forefront.

— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) March 16, 2023

9/ I do not want to imply that I am responsible for fixing or shepherding any of those 4 points. You should not trust me that any progress will be made on their end because I want people to be convinced by the changes Polygon makes rather than my word.

— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) March 16, 2023

10/ At Polygon I will be primarily working with the governance team while also helping where I can across other areas of the organization. Although it is week 1, I am thrilled at the kindness and competence of those I have met so far.

— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) March 16, 2023

11/ You may be hearing more from me about Polygon, but what I more want to accomplish is helping Polygon and the rockstars in the org find their voice in social media and beyond, which means I will be retweeting many of my teammates and shilling their discussions :)

— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) March 16, 2023