That’s all well and good when you’re at your first Starting Block.
But I’ve also seen + experienced how demoralizing this singular perspective can have in the face of defeat.
Everyone inevitably faces defeat.
Everyone faces setbacks.
Post by twetch#7355
That’s all to say zooming very far in on this sort of gamification is useful, but after the novelty, humans tend to stray from the beaten path, losing sight of what we were after when we started ‘the journey’, circling deep eddies of our creations.
What the chain says
- Block
- 633 845
- Time
- 2020-05-07T15:50:40Z
- Signer
- 1J6h7Bex83EVCGvamT5LMVm9MECX4bSquW
- App
- twetch
- Type
- post
- Content type
- text/plain
- Name in tx
- twetch#7355
Fields the transaction did not carry are omitted. Open the payload to see the bytes as stored.
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Sometimes we build things that are so useful, so accessible, and so viral, that it spreads through humanity like wildfire, igniting amazing creativity + ingenuity.
But this creates a necessary ‘stagnant ubiquity’.
There are inevitably hidden costs.