Comment by @carstenpoetter • Hey
ok, very random thoughts on this. absolutely not coherent.
the basic assumption of Thompson and Gruber is right, of course: users will always choose the e
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- Ah sorry I just saw this!
Yeah, I dunno about the “lame reporting” — as someone who was consuming as much tech reporting and blogging as possible back then, especially with the help of Slashdot, Digg, Twitter, and podcasts like TWIT, my observation has been that we’ve always had great reporters and analysts, actually. Who those people are changes all the time, though, which gets to my point:
Everyone is in a bubble, at some scale. No matter how good you think someone is, including yourself, there’s almost certainly information you or they are missing. I’ve found it immensely beneficial to constantly evaluate and recalibrate my information sources’ biases and knowledge gaps.
Vitalik is about as in the weeds as it gets w/Ethereum, an yet even he has missed things that are obvious in retrospect. Being technical often requires a level of focus which blocks out information which is obvious to others.
If you’re developing a web3 app, convinced of the virtues of decentralization and data ownership as many here are, and you’re wondering why people aren’t flocking to your app…perhaps it’s because you’re in a bubble about your ideals and missing what really matters to users.