Jon Pretty

Long live Love, down with guilt by association, fuck da twitter police and also, Jon is awesome You might think the hour is late and I'm drunk and you're right, and you might think I'm attention seeking or maybe just backing a scala tribe and you're wrong. Do read on (1/n):https://twitter.com/propensive/status/1271558572741197826 …

About 2 people in the world know that, but I have coincidentally spent the past week between the sledge and the anvil with two groups of people, trying to balance between their stance and their interests, because a professional situation forced me to

I have tried to be ethical, empathetic, intellectually honest, conduct myself in a professional manner and ultimately even put my personal interests behind, in an effort to bridge these two groups together so that everyone can walk away happy and with minimal damage

It's been the most tiring and terrible week of my life, ever since I had to walk away from my ultimately painful and defunct career in BigCorp consulting. I'm sitting here on the balcony in Ruse and drinking beer, but lemme tell you I feel like shit

And I fell like shit because every time you have to balance between two or five fuckers that cannot get along and conduct professionally and ethically, in an effort for everyone to walk away happy, you walk away damaged

Back to the point of the retweet, somebody - and I'm not saying who - cause it's a lot of fuckers - stirs up shit, old shit, repeated shit, the same shit in Scala every x weeks, for some small value of x