vinney on Nostr: If you have the patience and resources and resolve to stick around through the ...
If you have the patience and resources and resolve to stick around through the adoption period, you will be among the lowest time-preference, most experienced greybeards of the eventually-adopted thing.
The experience accrual part I think is an obvious net good. But the fact that being resourced enough to survive the adoption period implies that you were well-resourced _in the previous paradigm_ gives me pause... Does it mean you were a natural entrepreneur and survivor, always seeking real value in whatever landscape you find yourself? Or were you a parasite, coercing the old paradigm and contributing to its demise?
I'd like to think the latter character doesn't have what it takes to honestly preserve through an early adoption phase. But if there are enough opportunities for grift along the way, they might.
The experience accrual part I think is an obvious net good. But the fact that being resourced enough to survive the adoption period implies that you were well-resourced _in the previous paradigm_ gives me pause... Does it mean you were a natural entrepreneur and survivor, always seeking real value in whatever landscape you find yourself? Or were you a parasite, coercing the old paradigm and contributing to its demise?
I'd like to think the latter character doesn't have what it takes to honestly preserve through an early adoption phase. But if there are enough opportunities for grift along the way, they might.