The Paradigm Culture Wars

Nathan Baschez with a thoughtful essay about overcoming Web3 bias 🧠

A taste:

If you’re excited to join the new paradigm but you’re worried you’ll look like a fool if it all comes to naught: don’t worry about it and dive in! My only advice would be to focus on building, and keep the “collecting” / “investing” to what you can easily afford to lose…

Whether you’re a believer or not, the root cause of most mistakes people make when dealing with new paradigms comes down to two things: fear and arrogance.

We fear we’ll miss out, that we’ll fail, or that we’ll be judged and rejected.

And when we’re not afraid, we’re arrogant. We think the new thing is obviously bullshit, or obviously amazing, and it decreases our attachment to the actual truth.

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