One of my favorite "hey things didn't work out" posts from a web3/crypto project. It was written in 2018 and there's still some fantastic parts in it:
"It’s humbling to be exactly in the right time when this invention cycle took off. If you see a vector in space, you believe in its future, and you’re still at its very beginning, you have the unique chance to do something small that nudges the curve in the right direction, such that the impact gets bolder as things move on and you zoom out. This small thing can be a “yes”, to the right opportunity. It can also be a “no”, to the wrong one."
https://medium.com/paratii/the-end-of-a-cycle-for-paratii-238f70bb909

The most interesting part is I have a habit of going on extreme tangents/monologues in chatrooms - in this particular case I was looking for this "hey things didn't work out" blog post and I searched through more than 28 pages of failed video/YouTube/web3 projects and couldn't find it. I only found it after going through some old notes I made.