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Is it the idea or the person?

24 hours ago @balajis.eth suggested using mods and NFTs to enhance Farcaster. A mere mention and now there’s a live working group motivated to tackle it. If a rando shared it, would it have inspired so much action? Probably not. The true effect of “influencers”. We are influenced.

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It’s neither the idea or person, it’s the environment:

This space has cultivated a culture of manifestation. If you pose something in this space, guaranteed someone is doing it, done it, or coordinating with someone to do it 

Many of us aren’t “influencooors”— we just get shit done 

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You’re taking one very specific case on WC, when the past few months on this platform has been “influenced” by folks who do rather than someone like Balaji mentioning a thing 

You can look at @launch for the litany of ideas built here and the casts associated with how and why it was made

I have to disagree. Person (P), idea (I), and environment (E) could all be variables, but person outweighs them all. Something like P^5 + I^2 + E. This is evident in several situations from social to VC funding. 

And especially in this case, the working group didn’t exist before the statement was made.