I’ve spent the last 2 or so years lurking on VC and Crypto Twitter, ghosting in Discord channels, and furiously digesting blog posts from writers and investors like Packy and Rex. Like many interested in Web3, I drank from the proverbial fire hose. Over time I’ve begun to feel my learning curve flatten. I believe this plateau has occurred for two reasons:

1. Consuming information in a vacuum: Ideas are only as good as the pressure that is applied to them. It’s very hard to push the boundaries of ones’ own thinking without active and open discourse. Using others as a sounding board to surface and debate 2nd order questions is an invaluable part of the ideation process (it’s also considerably more engaging and fun).

2. Decision paralysis: Too many interesting topics, too little time. I’ve fallen into the trap of letting my intellectual curiosity follow a frenetic and scattered path, bouncing around from one topic to the next, without sticking the landing on any. Web3 moves fast and it’s impossible to stay on top of everything, but you can become an expert in something.

The result of these failures is an 80% understanding of many disparate concepts. There’s a popular saying attributed to Einstein that goes “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” There are too many topics that I cannot explain simply which I would like to. Writing, I believe, will help mitigate the flaws in my current mental process and hold myself to a higher standard going forward. So this is my promise to write.

Publishing is intimidating. You expose yourself to potentially looking the fool, with records of your foolishness made permanently available online. Packy, who I respect and admire enormously recently got dunked on for failing to explain a real world use case for blockchain. How Packy handled the situation made me respect him even more. He raised his hand, admitting the mistake and doubled down on researching the topic. Packy’s humility, his curiosity, and his willingness to be wrong have seen him succeed.

I plan to write about topics that excite me - in Web3 or otherwise. I will get things wrong and I hope to be challenged. With any luck you’ll learn somethin. Either way, I will.

Stay tuned.

I’ve spent the last 2 or so years lurking on VC and Crypto Twitter, ghosting in Discord channels, and furiously digesting blog posts from writers and investors like Packy and Rex. Like many interested in Web3, I drank from the proverbial fire hose. Over time I’ve begun to feel my learning curve flatten. I believe this plateau has occurred for two reasons:

1. Consuming information in a vacuum: Ideas are only as good as the pressure that is applied to them. It’s very hard to push the boundaries of ones’ own thinking without active and open discourse. Using others as a sounding board to surface and debate 2nd order questions is an invaluable part of the ideation process (it’s also considerably more engaging and fun).

2. Decision paralysis: Too many interesting topics, too little time. I’ve fallen into the trap of letting my intellectual curiosity follow a frenetic and scattered path, bouncing around from one topic to the next, without sticking the landing on any. Web3 moves fast and it’s impossible to stay on top of everything, but you can become an expert in something.

The result of these failures is an 80% understanding of many disparate concepts. There’s a popular saying attributed to Einstein that goes “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” There are too many topics that I cannot explain simply which I would like to. Writing, I believe, will help mitigate the flaws in my current mental process and hold myself to a higher standard going forward. So this is my promise to write.

Publishing is intimidating. You expose yourself to potentially looking the fool, with records of your foolishness made permanently available online. Packy, who I respect and admire enormously recently got dunked on for failing to explain a real world use case for blockchain. How Packy handled the situation made me respect him even more. He raised his hand, admitting the mistake and doubled down on researching the topic. Packy’s humility, his curiosity, and his willingness to be wrong have seen him succeed.

I plan to write about topics that excite me - in Web3 or otherwise. I will get things wrong and I hope to be challenged. With any luck you’ll learn somethin. Either way, I will.

Stay tuned.