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Honestly lately have been feeling less interested in crypto and more interested in other hard/frontier tech industries. I don’t even think it’s a market thing because I was very interested all throughout this last bear. It just doesn’t feel as intellectually stimulating anymore personally, even if I am just as bullish. I find myself more drawn to craft and innovation in the world of atoms

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Maybe put differently, I enjoy it but don’t feel like I’m learning much anymore or being exposed to new ideas

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This is not an anti-crypto tweet, this is me navigating my own interests and areas of learning. Don't get it twisted https://warpcast.com/six/0x85b149b8

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Feel this too. Less interesting, few new things being built, mostly circle jerks, lots core ppl in their intellectual comfort zone instead of radically innovating on 1st principles. Let aside usual scams and grifters who’ve always been there. V tempting to pivot to AI lol. What other tech frontiers u are looking it n interesting?

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I’ll just leave this here: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/08/25/you-should-be-working-on-hardware/

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Feel this v hard - struggling with what is the end use case + feels like a lot of spam.

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I think this is consistent with trends in fintech through the 2010s. For a few years, everyone wanted to invest in or work at companies like Stripe or Plaid or Marqeta. Over time, innovation began to slow because the core breakthrough innovations had already been built. Fintech is no longer the “hot” industry but it underpins a wide range of important products ranging from Airbnb to Chime. I view crypto in a very similar way. It was the game changing new technology for a few years and now it has become more normalized. It doesn’t at all diminish its impact, but changes the set of people who work on the problem.

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This cast marks the official start of the next bull run. The big one. Thank you for your service 🫡

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I very much resonate with this. But my reasoning may be a bit different. And I wouldn’t see hard/frontier tech as much as I’m aware of the benefits of directing energy towards the world of atoms. The real reason is that AI will be able to replace most tech jobs in the next 5 years. The return on effort for humans will be meshing any possible digital system with the real world.

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10 years in crypto this year. Have seen multiple bear markets. Worst bear market losing smart people to other spaces. FTX really set things back a few years. Will come back, will just need a next generation of people to come of age. Ultimately, AI will be captured by the companies with the most capital. So crypto will continue to be the frontier for software tinkerers.

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Hell yeah I support this

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Many of us entered the space years ago for different reasons. Some of those goals have been achieved, some have been made irrelevant. Take a break, come back when you have new reasons that are still important and relevant. :) This is where I'm at right now, but I've taken many breaks to come to this position: https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth/0x4a649fcf

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Similar, but it's more like I don't think crypto is an end point but rather a tool to solve certain issues. Would rather focus on the specific issues

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On the hard tech one, there's a reason Elon and Palmer are the two working examples. Maybe the Gundo people will prove everyone wrong, but hard tech is 10-100x harder than software and there's a reason that post-economic founders are the ones that seem to make it work.

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This is the way

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Brent Fitzgerald

The excellent @shazow.eth sent me here because he's picked up the same vibe from me. I've noticed I go through these kinds of mentality shifts constantly. Sometimes I do move on to a new area, other times I find something fresh in the existing one. Key thing is you're aware of what is giving you energy and you're introspecting on why. What's changed or hasn't changed? My guess is you *could* find intellectual stimulation by going deeper. But the fact that you're not means you're ready for some breadth, or some different area of depth. As reference, my two forward looking interest areas right now are ZK + AI. But a cmd-tab away is a pretty normal dapp I'm writing for a grant project, and it's still kind of fun because I just like building things. So I'm very much in between still. Also, it's ok to kind of revel in these limbo periods when they happen. Sorry if this is too advice-y!

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Carlos Matallín

This really resonates, I was sharing something similar recently https://warpcast.com/matallo.eth/0x1eb42435

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Same feels. The get rich fast narrative is turning the whole industry into a giant casino. Any innovation or product development has been shifting to serve quick profits, often at the cost of product quality. It then reinforces the narrative > people with similar minds join the game > vicious cycle. I'm still hoping to see change by keeping on building. Perhaps what we need is time. We all builders need to remind ourselves why we got into crypto/Web3 in the first place.

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who knew atoms could be so bullish?

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