The reason I draw parallels to the hobby computer industry is because the same kind of niche user base exists: people who are willing to put up with super leaky abstractions, exposed wires and rough edges, to make a spreadsheet or draw a circle. Much like Apple's vision of the "bicycle for the mind" of personal computing, crypto needs its own story to tell. And money isn't compelling enough, that's just an application. If you were to distill the unique attributes of crypto, and then amplify that sole distillation into a single message, as what is the ultimate purpose of crypto? You would say that it gives you autonomy, freedom to move, to interact across borders, with a unified store of trust. If personal computers took off because they were the "bicycle for the mind", crypto will take off as the "passport for the mind"

Crypto is the "passport for the mind"

I almost broke my neck nodding in agreement to how @cassie describes crypto's purpose.  

It reminded me of something I wrote last year about my path from my very normie background of B2B SaaS and DevOps to finding crypto.

In hindsight I realized the common thread guiding my career path was "a gravitational pull towards more autonomy, empowerment, freedom, and happiness."

No coincidence Cassie's description includes autonomy & freedom>> "gives you autonomy, freedom to move, to interact across borders, with a unified store of trust. "

Once you get your passport for the mind, there's no looking back.

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Crypto is the "passport for the mind"

I almost broke my neck nodding in agreement to how @cassie describes crypto's purpose.  

It reminded me of something I wrote last year about my path from my very normie background of B2B SaaS and DevOps to finding crypto.

In hindsight I realized the common thread guiding my career path was "a gravitational pull towards more autonomy, empowerment, freedom, and happiness."

No coincidence Cassie's description includes autonomy & freedom>> "gives you autonomy, freedom to move, to interact across borders, with a unified store of trust. "

Once you get your passport for the mind, there's no looking back.

https://paragraph.com/@adrienne/desperately-seeking-autonomy-my-journey-from-leadership-to-devops-to-blockchain

Cohost of /gmfarcaster, a live stream Farcaster news show.  Engineer. Mom x 3.