notdevin

Stated preference vs revealed preference, it’s a magical concept. The key is to always listen to the actions and not the words. Today @dwr.eth unfollowed me because I dared question the value of coinbase. While I never came here for followers, I did come here because of Dan and his vision, I was bought in, and the unfollow represents a clearly revealed preference. 

I no longer believe social has a place in this world, it’s a race to the bottom. The primitives of social are valuable but they are no longer rare or unique nor are they even that difficult to recreate. The community is difficult, but that stopped being awesome around Farcon 2 when the bots began to take over. 

My only question now is what to do with my account? It’s listed for sale, but I wonder if Merkel would prefer I give it to a sock puppet or bot farm account, clanker 2? I imagine the VCs are getting a bit chippy at the adoption curve, gotta feed the machine and all

I agree directionally with most if not all of what @notdevin.eth said today about Coinbase, social, and crypto today. It's not that different in sentiment from things I've posted or what I've seen any number of people post, it just wasn't sugar coated. Crypto needs more critics from within, and we should all be more tolerant of those who have what seem like cynical, jaded, or disenchanted overly negative takes.

If I’ve upset you with my words then 2 things are probably true:

1) you’re fragile
2) you’re careless with your identity

Head of Engineering at Courtyard.io, bringing physical collectibles onchain. nf.td/joe /courtyard /backend

I appreciate the words Joe.

I don’t come to denigrate, but I will call it as I see it. I know we can do better than this. I may not always get my takes right, I hope to be corrected when that occurs lest I make a mistake longer than necessary. 

We are not in an industry with a good reputation, banks will take you as a cannabis customer before they take you as a crypto customer. The fact that everyone here in crypto doesn’t know or see that as a problem while they’re stealing from each other based on who balks at the game of Russian roulette first is participating in the problem in my opinion, a view I can hold while not hating them for doing it.