Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Why are Farcaster builders so optimistic when X, Y, and Z bad things exist? My brother, bad is the default. It’s entropy. Failure is the most likely outcome when building something new. If you’re not a definite optimist, you’ve got no chance in making it happen. Even if you’re a rational person, you have to be willing to suspend belief just enough to make the bet despite all the bad. And then it’s just week of week progress and try not to die (mostly figuratively). For years.
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Mac Budkowski ᵏ
@macbudkowski
Crypto founders community is generally very optimistic You have to, if you decide to bet your career on building an alternative to Big Finance and Big Tech. I often forget about it until I speak with my non-crypto founders friends who work on some boring B2B SaaS because "there's no way to compete with Big Tech".
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Father Morwen
@alditrus
I love how counter-culture/punk it is now to be an optimist. The bad boy Ricky from across the street that your daughter has a crush on is a techno-optimist and defi founder because pessimism and cynicism is the status quo. 🤘
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wisdomlego
@daniel-hurley
This thinking is pervasively in every vector of modern human conscious. It's becoming wildly popular to spew the rhetoric of "what the problem is" and "how its unsolvable" but then continue on with life making decisions and judgments based on this notion of weakened agency that is expressed socially via an armchair. "Capitalism eats". "Democracy is phoney". " Big tech already won". It doesn't even matter the ideology. Its extremely annoying to be spewing rhetoric how there is nothing that can be done. And then, while at it, continue to trample the values that we declare to be self evident. I want to live in a world where what is self evident take a modern version of the values. The technology revolution has its issues of healthy integration with human social fabrics. I just want to actually be talking about the technology of the future and how it relates to society 2.0. PS. Farcaster is the best, only, place for this kind of discussion
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