some of the trouble in reasoning about "strategy for ethereum" is in the tension between:

(1) "strategy is choosing what not to do", and 

(2) ethereum is a large decentralized ecosystem with surface area that reaches both broad across the world and deep into it

I work for Ethereum at the Ethereum Foundation.

I wonder how external factors influence Ethereum's strategic choices?

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not a dumb question at all, and none of this is straight forward :)

Sorry! I meant, how do things like new laws, tech developments, market trends, or what competitors affect Ethereum?

but now when I think about it, it it's pretty straight forward. Everything is in flux. Sorry for the dumb question a bit off topic.