Being in the blockchain space feels like we oscillate between dizzying whirlwinds of confusion and vomit-inducing whiplash — and on rare occasions, if you’re lucky — all of that is punctuated by short bursts of quixotic optimism and euphoria.
…and if you’ve gone through those stages multiple times over the years, yet still keep coming back for more like a crazy maniac, you’re likely addicted to that sweet dopamine rush of the potential satisfaction of capitalizing on a bunch of nascent, cutting-edge technologies that most people don’t even fully understand yet.
Heck, even the tiny coterie of awkward nerds and authors of those very technologies, despite being considered “industry thought leaders” — don’t even understand the future implications of their very creations.
Yes, I’m talking about industry leaders & people who invented the tech here — so if you’re some muggle living a fairly mundane life like most of humanity, other than maybe hearing a few superficial references to “blockchain” from your friends or on social media — you’ve got even less of a chance of attempting to understand any of it, despite zealous claims of “blockchain” being THE future or the “most disruptive technology” of our generation.
In other words, our technologies have outpaced our ability, as an industry (and as a society) to understand them — and things are only going to accelerate — so, expect more dizzying whirlwinds & whiplash.
Now, if you’re a blockchain developer that’s constantly learning, and building cool tools and projects, you probably have a much better chance of predicting the future than your average street psychic.
I mean…
Hacking your fingers to the bone and spending lonely sleepless nights trying to figure out how to build something useful, and being proactive about shaping the future of Web3 does have some hard-earned benefits, after all.
But, don’t get too overconfident either.
This isn’t about developers getting the future right.
This is a tiny bit about developers being nostalgic about the past, and being unable to see the future because they’re irrationally high on hopium, yes.
But, it’s mostly about what developers can do to avoid getting the future of Web3 wrong.
P.S: Linked to the longer version since Medium has better readability etc, but wanted to share this with the Dev community, and if anyone has any questions/comments, would be happy to answer in the comments below! 🙂
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