\NERD RAGE! how I got a Russian oligarch's yacht kicked out of a port in Turkey, raised hell, struck a blow for Ukraine, got seen more than a million times plus irritated a bunch of powerful people using this one weird old trick.\ A true storySo the TL;DR is down at the bottom. But if you want to #DisruptLinkedIn, then walk with me. This was next-level crazy: the biggest story I ever accidentally wrote. I knew it would get seen.I didn't know it would get seen roughly 1 million times on the low end, raise hell for a bunch of powerful people, strike a small blow for Ukraine, and in all likelihood end up costing a Russian oligarch plus the British harbor operator Global Ports Holding, about…meh. $13K.But it's not about the ones and zeroes! It's about the Fourth Estate, what it was meant to do, what it still can do, when writers write for passion not for profit. We can still comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable using this one weird old trick, and here's how that went down,In threein twoin one and a halfin one and two thirdsin back to one and a half againIn early 2022 I was scared and angry.Scared because I'd just pulled off yet another head-snapping career pivot, and now I had to own it. Scared because, on 24 February, Russia's national government assaulted a sovereign nation and launched what was said to be the first major land war in Europe in more than 70 years. Of course America had launched three or four land wars in that space of time. With disastrous results. Don't be that guy. And now people were talking about nukes. It felt like the world was coming unglued.Kremlin propaganda was so hack and so disgusting. The unapologetic greed, punch-drunk cruelty, transparent male inadequacy and aggression. I'm not trying to sound all p'gressive here, but to quote '90s Tori Amos, the man with the loaded gun thinks he knows so much.