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Farcaster

The Friend Tech tweets expose the cultural rift between CT and FC

CT is PVP and at times cripplingly cynical - but ideas are battle tested in its adversarial fire

FC is more optimistic but the "Just Build It" vibe can ring hollow and poor ideas are championed for positivity's sake

Would love to find a via media

Ideas that are battle-tested in CT will end up being good ideas…for a CT audience.  Unfortunately this audience can be fickle and cynical.

If we want adoption, we have to go beyond CT.  Which means founders need to be testing their ideas in many places.

CT is not “the world”.  It’s one market.

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

I agree, testing out ideas in the state of Connecticut doesn’t always work. But then why do so many food companies use New England as a test market for developing products?

CT gave us Vanilla Coke, RI gave us the KFC Doubledown 

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