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rok-sivante in #witness-category • 7 years ago

Without question, you've got my vote.

I thought I may be too opinionated to be an adviser for entrepreneurs looking into the blockchain hypetrain… It certainly has affected and limited my opportunities as a wannabe adviser and content producer in the space, since my investment thesis now mainly resides in these underdogs.

While you’ve framed this as a potential drawback, I see it as a strength.

Sometimes limitations serve well to refine focus where it can be most effective.

Any entrepreneurs serious about bridging into blockchain realms would greatly benefit from your “opinionated” perspective, as there’s already enough B.S. hype. Yes, there might be a limitation of opportunities - but it’s one that will serve you well to filter out those who wouldn’t place proper value on the expertise you’ve invested in developing. Quality over quantity.

The space doesn’t need more cheerleaders on the hypetrain. The constructive criticisms you bring are priceless, for they address very significant issues that others may be ignoring due to over-enthusiasm and biases of their own which fail to factor in key systematic weakness of other projects. You’ve made a commitment to upholding an integrity and quality in what you offer - that is a foundational key to success which shall serve all you do business with extraordinarily well.

Should there be opportunities that pass because someone wanted to develop on other platforms they thought would suit their needs better, oh well. There are certainly plenty of other advisors who may assist them. Meanwhile, your commitment to focusing in on Steem and Tau provides a huge deal of strength for any clients/partners who do align and shall enable you to serve them to a degree of excellence that would not be possible otherwise - while also serving Steem & Tau.

Ethereum (and others) already have thousands of others in its service. Your insight, intellect, and skillsets can likely be far better leveraged and have a much greater impact focused towards Steem & Tau, two projects with outstanding potential that need your service much more than those on the hypetrain loop. While the focus might limit your opportunities, it’s also likely to ensure those you do create are of a higher calibre - and you are likely to create outstanding opportunities for others in the process that could not come had your focus been on maximizing the quantity of your own.

As for being “opinionated…” there are very valid reasons for the opinions you present. Should anyone not respect and value them, they’re probably not people you’d want to work with anyways.

There's no conflict of interest running as a Steem witness in massive support of Tau. Both of these projects can greatly benefit each other.

Absolutely.

May take a while to build the bridges, though there’s great value in the network & culture that have been growing here. Certainly, there’ll be much to tend to in both the conceptual and technical designs of how to integrate, though what’s been developing via Steemit could certainly be a huge leverage point for Tau, and what capabilities Tau could enable for Steemit’s communities may create massive opportunities for leveraging the value collaboratively generated via Steemit.

Still so early on in the game, yet fascinating possibilities ahead… 🙏

7 years ago in #witness-category by rok-sivante

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kevinwong 7 years ago (edited)

I guess I got a bit FOMOed by letting go of some big projects, but just can't bring myself to recommend something I can't anymore, which seems to be 99% of whatever's out there now. It's somewhat risky and definitely quite a bet to place it on just a couple of horses. Eggs in a few baskets vs eggs in many many baskets situation.

Still so early on in the game, yet fascinating possibilities ahead… 🙏

If you noticed ever since we joined Steem back then, we've seen a lot of energy and enthusiasm, ideas floating around and all. Then it slowly fades off like the rest of the crypto market. I think connecting the dots is something decentralized networks are still pretty bad at. It's not centralised like iOS / Android appstores or Facebook communities where people can find what they want to use easily and safely. But at least Steem has been able to do it fairly better than the rest of the market. I think Tau is when "connecting the dots" is taken to the next level in bringing the thinkers and doers.

Thanks a lot for the pick-up by the way :) - is that the right word? lol

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rok-sivante 7 years ago (edited)

Eggs in a few baskets vs eggs in many many baskets situation.

Perhaps. Though then again, consider it as a relationship. Yeah, some people might be able to juggle multiple girlfriends and that can work for everyone involved. But generally, you'll probably be able to build alot more deeper, intimate relationship with one person, focusing on growing and nurturing with them, versus trying to sleep with every hot chick on the block. (Or raising one or two kids properly, rather than adopt a whole village of orphans). [Weird metaphors, coming out at 1am after a beer. lol.]

I think connecting the dots is something decentralized networks are still pretty bad at.

Perhaps. But then again, being able to connect the dots in regards to complex systems is somewhat of a rare skill. Most education systems train people well in specialization - focusing in on isolated systems, rather than exploring and understanding the interconnections between them. i.e. health. What are the interconnections between biology, chemistry, physics of brainwaves, genetics, psychology, "spirituality," and how all that internal stuff relates to the external of relationship dynamics, cultural programming & memetic trends, societal crises & evolutions, economics, etc, etc...? Not too many people could answer that question. We might have some great specialists that are well-versed in sanctioned components of those systems - but when it comes to the skill of connecting the dots to domains of knowledge outside of their experience... 🤯

And bear in mind: we're still in the primitive days of blockchain. (As has been compared to the Netscape era of the internet). Being right at the beginning, this is unchartered territory. Not all can be expected to see what creative possibilities ahead - such may be more a somewhat shamanistic task for those whose learning and experience has reached across & down a breadth and depth of dimensions enabling them to understand the dynamics of complex systems - from the technical to societal, cultural, economic, and beyond. "Connecting the dots" is a rather rare skill exclusive to the few visionaries who can see the bigger picture of future potentials.

And even then, there's a gap to be bridged, as the visionaries aren't always the ones with the technical capabilities to get into effective action into turning those possibilities into realities. (For example, I can see the potentials - but am rather fucking clueless on how to really manage the communication of those visions and organize competent entrepreneurial teams in such a way that they could be brought to life, perhaps just getting a sneak preview and doing my best to share pieces of the puzzle, in hopes some readers might take parts and do something with them.)

I agree that Tau could be a massive game-changer in those regards, though - where contributions to discussions like these could be connected into others thinking & working in the same direction, leveraging off eachothers' input and having the AI element fill in the gaps and facilitate certain executions of ideas. I also sometimes wonder if I'm one of the handful of crazies who may be too far ahead of the times, the full visions not to be realized under after we're gone. lol.

Thanks a lot for the pick-up by the way :) - is that the right word?

Wouldn't be a pick-up, in terms of a car ride, flirtation/date, or upper-drug-buzz, though I know what you're referring to, perhaps as a morale-boost or simple encouragement... :-)

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