Hey everyone 👋
I'm AquaWolf, and I've been on quite a journey.
I've been coding since 2016, and let me tell you, it's been a wild ride. Coding gets a bad rap sometimes, but it shouldn't. To me, coding has always been a treasure.
There's nothing quite like the feeling of creating something from nothing, or solving a complex problem that's been nagging at you for days. That rush of satisfaction when your code finally runs smoothly—that's how coding used to feel all the time for me.
But things changed.
In 2021, I got swept up in the crypto bull run. I helped launch various NFT projects, including DAW (Desperate Ape Wives) on ETH and TheLostKingdom on FTM. We're talking millions in sales and thousands in trading volume. It was exhilarating, but it came at a cost.
I lost control over my well-being. An avalanche of work and stress buried me. I was coding for 12 hours a day, smoking weed just to cope with the pain. And still, it wasn't enough.
The industry just let it happen. No one seemed to care about my health as long as the money kept flowing.
Coding, which had once been my joy, became a chore. Something I fell behind on. Something I cleared out, not cherished. Rather than delighting in it, I was just dealing with it.
But you know what? Even after all that, coding still remains a wonder to me. It's powerful. It's creative. It connects people across the globe and helps millions earn a living.
The magic was still there, just buried under a mess of burnout and neglect.
So I decided to make a change. I left it all behind and became a digital nomad. I traveled from the Amazon in Peru to the beaches of Thailand and the spiritual heart of India. I experienced ayahuasca 8 times in peru and 4 times in Thailand, spiritually died multiple times on DMT and mushrooms, kambo, san pedro, and went on various shamanic journeys over the course of 2 years
It was a redo, a rethink, a simplified, potent reintroduction to my passion and my Self, i was lost and i found my Self in all of it, everything i was looking for outwardly was within.
A fresh start, the way it should be.
This journey became my love letter to balance and growth. I purged a lot of trauma, did a massive amount of shadow work, and finally found the peace I was looking for.
Now, I'm no longer afraid to share my story. I'm a Senior Full-Stack developer, yes, but I'm also a shaman, a time traveler, a hacker, a tinker, a delusional optimist, a truth seeker, a data broker, an AI researcher, and a polymath.
To everyone out there feeling lost or burnt out: there's hope.
In the chaos there is always balance to find
This is my journey, and I'm still allowing the expansion to continue. May it inspire you to find your own balance in this wild world of technology and beyond.
