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Really fascinating exchange between Molly White, the crypto-hating 'journalist' behind Web3 is Going Great, and Lyn Alden, a prominent market researcher and strategist.

Vastly different POVs and starkly constrasted communication styles.

h/t to deana for the find

Really fascinating exchange between Molly White, the crypto-hating 'journalist' behind Web3 is Going Great, and Lyn Alden, a prominent market researcher and strategist.

Vastly different POVs and starkly constrasted communication styles.

h/t to deana for the find

https://x.com/LynAldenContact/status/1816619584679477704

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Thought so too, they were both pretty dismissive of each other and I thought it was a weird hard stance for Lyn to take. 

But I thought the exchange was refreshing. Especially after having recently watched the Taylor Lorenz x Chaya Raichik interview.

Just read through it and based on my own experience, I felt like Lyn was a bit dismissive. To pretend like there’s no sexism in tech because your lived existence different is pretty myopic. 

I did appreciate the level of discourse — nice to see the respectfulness not normally in existence over in the bird app.

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I think it’d be easy for a good journalist to poke holes in lots of Lyn’s arguments because there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary.

I don’t consider Molly to be a good journalist, having read through dozens of her blogs. Perhaps she could be a better debater than author, hope we get to find out. 

Agree that we need critical takes (something I honestly wish we’d see more of on this app), but Molly to me feels like she’s always just looking for something to hate rather than sussing out actual news stories of substantive value. A lot of what she posts is just regurgitated from mainstream media with a big dose of “told you so”.

That said, I also don’t make it a big point to read a lot of what she writes so I’m happy to be wrong here.

I honestly love Molly. In an industry that’s so riddled with scams & nonsense, it’s nice to have negative commentary that’s informed. It’s not perfect and it’s a brand for her at this point, but at least we have some research. 

I also love Lyn’s perspective, although I struggle a bit with the “didn’t happen to me” arguments from women.

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There's normally so much lost in translation in written form, but I'm picking up a lot of tone in this thread. Would love to see these two on a pod, I hope it happens, but won't hold my breath.

Saw this in real time. Lyn is just amazing.