... and even to the idea that I think most of the most interesting ideas won't look like old things on the blockchain. The most exciting thing about web3 to me is the possibility for weird, creative, wild new things:

Luckily, I could go on podcasts and give dumb answers for the next decade and it would have no impact on whether web3 becomes as impactful as I think it will be.

What's important is what gets built, and I'm going to keep amplifying the most interesting ones.

tl;dr:

- hats off to

for a blowout debate win - trolls using logical fallacies to win internet points can suck it - don't let my dumb ass represent a whole space full of much smarter people

Rough weekend, but back this week with a piece on... optimism.

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i liked this. my two suggestions for an eventual appendix (& questions i wrestle with)

1. How to help people be optimistic when they are currently & personally impacted by hard, systemic & complex issues

2. How to be an optimist without transforming into a zealot

Both good calls that I’m thinking on and don’t have great answers for yet but like the follow up/appendix idea

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a weekly roundup of optimistic stories? Yes please! This was a deeply fabulous exploration of optimism. Forwarded to every cynic I know and love. Thanks!

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I enjoyed this! My two Qs:

1) on journalism, don’t the papers of record need to cover what’s happening *now* more than what might happen in the future? which lately is war, pandemic, gas prices not by their choice? 2) how do we handle “optimism”wielded as a rhetorical cudgel?

on #1, I’m not sure the public is better served by news orgs *not* reporting hard truths or bad things happening as pessimistic.

on #2, I am concerned the dogma of optimism can be wielded as a rhetorical cudgel that is as cynical, or more, by labeling opposing views pessimistic.

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While I agree with the general point, the inference that nuclear is somehow 'less dangerous' b/c of the contrived stat of "deaths / TWh' is highly misleading.

You have to look at the total toll of the disasters, and the total morbidity and mortality