RE: questions for my fellows on the quest, April 3rd
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How was your morning today? What did yo have for breakfast?[sic]
It was aight. I woke up at work, so there's that. I'm currently chugging a very large iced coffee that I used to wash down an egg-white, cheddar, tomato, spinach, and avocado sandwich. It's one of my favorites and helps pick me up for the beginning of a busy day.
What do you think when you hear or see the word politics?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
How do you participate in politics? (i.e. voting, attending council meetings, contributing to campaigns)
I vote, have contributed to campaigns, but honestly I think the most important thing I do politically is offer up the option that people don't have to choose one of the binary choices in the ruling dual oligarchy. As an independent I lead by example and vote my conscience, not my affiliation.
Do you believe politicians represent people?
Yes. They represent themselves. Lizard people are people too.
Do you think differently about crypto than politics? How?
I believe that crypto could end up like politics as many good things do. What starts out as a good things is slowly corrupted over time due to a natural underlying tendency to centralize power. Crypto is resistant to this but not immune as is evident by mining pools, DAOs, etc.
Do you participate in crypto? (i.e. trade, on-chain governance, DAOs, finance or create content?)
I participate in governance, trade, DAOs, development, and very rarely content creation.
How do you think crypto affects people? How does it affect you?
I don't think it does affect people for the most part. Right now it feels like a speculative value proposition with a huge potential upside. Albeit, it does seem to draw just as much negative attention. At this point it feels like a coin flip.
Describe the most useful tool in your possession at the moment. What does it help you accomplish?
Myself. No one has to be a bigger advocate for me than me. It took me a long time to learn this and have enough confidence to execute. I don't mean this in an arrogant way. At this point in my life I'm very much into taking huge calculated risks, and I hold myself accountable for my success and failures here.
Describe a concern you have about crypto or politics.
Politics:
Tribalism has essentially ruined independent political thought, allowing the narrative to be controlled by far fewer views. This binary nature is poison, and exacerbates extremism, as there are no more moderates (ultimately the compromisers of the system). I'm not saying I agree with moderates per se, but they are the catchall that more resembles a true political consensus.
Crypto:
Shit is too hard man. I spent years working with people with severe developmental disabilities, and psychiatric problems. One core tenet to behavior change was that it had to be both easier and better. I think a lot of crypto solutions are better but they sure aren't easier. How does crypto plan on making things easier? I've heard for years this is coming but it is yet to be seen.
How does that matter affect the next ten years?
I don't think crypto or politics has ten years left on the books if the current systems aren't evaluated and the needle is moved towards addressing the large garbage fires within them.Italic
Thank you for you responses. Even if I had all day it would take a while to respond to it all— but that’s hardly the goal here.
Your inputs will help form my talk I give at the end of this month, where I may mention HIVE and its effect on individuals.
For that, I’m grateful for the time you took out to answer.
Cheers, brotha 💪🏾
It's all good man. I have one to work on myself. I'm only a week away. Good luck.