Welcome to my autobiography for March 10th, 2025. The big thing I did today is I submitted five SNS DAO proposals on Internet Computer Protocol. When you add all of these up, I collectively asked for around $15,000, actually even more than that depending on the token prices moment to moment, somewhere from $15,000 to $20,000. I split them and asked for something like $3,000 to $4,000 from each DAO in exchange for delivering six months of videos.
I've promised a guaranteed minimum of three dedicated videos talking only about that project, and then at least eight shared videos where I'm talking about that project in a key position along with others. Realistically, I will over deliver as much as possible because I asked for token allocations in all of these. So if I get a bunch of tokens and then the price goes up, that's certainly good for me, isn't it? But I asked for these after taking months to think about what are the very best projects in Internet Computer Protocol.
The projects I chose
I've come down to OpenChat, GoldDAO, Trax, DecideAI, and ICPSwap, as well as WaterNeuron, but WaterNeuron is still fooling around with creator grants, so I'll let them work on that. Once they figure that out, then we'll see. I want to be marketing and sharing the very best ICP projects because there's a ton of crappy ICP projects, just like, in my experience, 99.99% of crypto is useless. So I want to get the very best ICP projects.
I've got people that have a lot of ICP following me, and most of them do not have hardly any other coins on ICP. So I'm seeing that there's a big opportunity for all of us. The very best projects on ICP deserve investment because they're helping add value to ICP, and investors may get some very nice returns in those projects as well as in ICP. I want to be clear this is what I believe and what I'm doing, not financial advice for anyone else.
I've been thinking about doing this for months, trying to figure out what I should offer and talking to different teams. I tested out doing a video here, a video there. I tested doing a bunch of smaller videos for a lot of projects. I tested doing a month-long bigger project for OpenChat. And the conclusion I've come to is that the real value I can deliver is to do consistent marketing over time. But I don't need to shill a project every day.
I tested for OpenChat and ICP just doing constant videos every day. With OpenChat, I do ICP videos every day anyway, but I'll do those for free because the tech is so good and the investment opportunity is so crazy amazing. But for the projects, I don't need to show OpenChat every single day. What will really help is, over a six-month timeframe, for me to consistently keep OpenChat on my viewers' radar, not just mention that it's on my website, but to also do a deep dive on the project itself.
Why I'm sticking to just these
I also realized I don't want to just take money from any project. These projects will be enough work that I won't want to do other sponsored videos. I want to just stick to these and then share them every chance I get. In life, often it's like you either need to focus on the best of the best and just forget about the other stuff. It works really well in a marriage. You find one great woman or man to date, and just stick with them over a long period of time. That's going to be much easier than anything else. Now you've got to grow together and keep working and evolving. But in crypto, six months is a long time. So for six months, I'm really excited about these proposals.
I actually did these relatively quickly. I think it took less than an hour to submit all five of these. I already had neurons for all of them except DecideAI. So I took some of my DecideAI off ICPSwap, stuck it in neurons, and submitted it. But I already had neurons for all the rest of these I submitted off of. I'll wait till tomorrow to check the feedback on these.
I tried to keep these proposals as simple as possible too. In the past, you think putting this massive effort into something is better, but often what works is to put a little bit of effort in consistently and to keep things simple for people. Often the more you complicate things and write deep, long paragraphs and white papers, people don't even read it to start with. So genius, to me, is simplifying. Here's my offer. Here's a one paragraph offer of what I'm going to do. And here's my YouTube and my X link. At this point, most of the people on Internet Computer Protocol are aware of Jerry Banfield videos. If you want the videos, you already know about it. So I'm really excited that I got these proposals done. This was the main thing I did today for work.
A full day around the proposals
I also filmed one autobiography video, but I had a full schedule today. I took the kids to school. Then I looked at OpenChat messages, listened to some ICP videos from Dfinity. Then I went and did a power yoga flow, which was great. One of my mom friends was there, and I got to talk to her. She hadn't been there in a little while, so I got to catch up with her.
Then I went to play tennis. The weather was being real questionable. It rained. I play on clay courts at the racquet club, and it rained decently for a few minutes, and I'm like, crap, I don't know if I'll get to play. But last time I played at the racquet club, the clay was so dry it was like a dust bowl, sliding dust all over. So I tell the guy I'm playing with, hey, I'll go check the courts out and see if they're playable. And he said, all right, I'm coming too.
We get there and the courts are just barely playable, and there's a lot of people still playing. Then it starts drizzling, and then it has a full down rain for a minute. Everybody leaves on all the courts. We were just about to leave. We'd played until like seven games into our set, but we're like, let's just see if we can finish this out. So the rain finally stops, and it takes us an hour and 40 minutes to warm up and finish our first set. Often, with this same guy I play with on Wednesday, we can warm up and he's beat me two sets in an hour. So an hour and 40 minutes for us to go six games each and a tiebreak, plus having to wait for the rain. We decided to work on playing another set.
I slipped and fell down twice because the very back, like eight feet beyond the baseline, right next to the fence, the clay had gotten a little muddy. I chased the ball back there and slipped and fell down and got clay all over my leg. And then by the clay right next to the little table and roof thing between each tennis court, I fell down just walking right next to the table. The guy with me is like, should we stop? I'm like, no, I'm good. I can fall down. It's not a big deal for me to fall down. I haven't fallen down like that in a while. That was kind of funny. I was laughing. I'm glad my body's in good enough shape that I can fall down a couple of times and I'm not like, oh, I can't feel my legs.
The first set, I lost a tiebreaker at 6-6. The other guy kind of fell apart in the second set. He was down 4-0 and he's like, I think you're going to win this 6-0, let's just wrap it up today. But last week we went 7-5 and he won, then he beat me 6-0 because I fell apart. So it's funny at lower levels of tennis, the consistency is huge.
Massage, the kids, and rest
After that, I came home and just did these proposals, then recorded one autobiography video. I wanted to get into doing the taxes, but by the time I ate lunch and washed the dishes, I ended up just doing these proposals and then going to my massage. The therapist went incredibly deep on my diaphragm and my legs. I literally cried at one point and felt like I released some old emotional pain. I had a great chat with her, and I'm grateful it's my third massage with this new therapist. I'm going to schedule with her as long as she's in town. But she may be leaving town to go out of the country for an indefinite amount of time in a month, so I'll be back to looking for another one potentially. But for next month, I don't have to worry about it.
I was laying on the massage table thinking how insane it is that I'm trying to figure out what I should do for my next therapist when, for the next month, I've already got one. That's pretty silly, isn't it, how our minds will solve problems that may not even come up?
Then I came home and spent some time with the kids, cleaned up the house, and took the kids for a walk. I got a little pissy with my daughter on the walk because my son, holding the old dog, goes sprinting after this other dog and pulls away from my six-year-old son. My daughter and I each attach a leash to the young dog that pulls like crazy. Then my daughter wants to go one way, my son runs off with the other dog the other way, and I'm holding a bag of poop, standing in the middle of the street. My daughter's like, no, I want to go this way, and she refuses to move. I got whiny. I'm like, really? You're ruining this dog walk for me. Ruining this dog walk. And then I apologized. I'm like, I'm sorry for being so dramatic on the dog walk, but next time we need to pick a walk leader. We need to put someone in charge of the walking route so that my son and my daughter don't get me stuck in the middle.
After the massage and putting the kids to bed, I went to sit and talk with my mom for about 30 minutes. Then tonight was the night to take a bath. I like the candlelit bath at night after a massage, a real great time to relax. I threw a couple of cups of rose petal Epsom salt in the bath, soaked in there for 20 or 30 minutes, and then stayed off my devices after that so I could have a super relaxing bedtime. I read some of this book about natural eyesight restoration and some of the Seth book. If you want to follow more of the crypto side of these days, that's all collected in my ICP Crypto playlist. Laura and I got to bed at 10:20 p.m. So that's some serious rest and relaxation.