This is how anything new & useful gets made in the digital and physical realms! That's also how we learn the fastest = from the market. Notice - you have to start! Otherwise nothing matters.
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Do crypto and web3 mean anything anymore? “Crypto” and “web3” labels tell me very little about what a product actually stands for. They’ve become umbrella terms for wildly different things built using blockchain technology without keeping initial ideological promises. Does crypto guarantee decentralisation? No. Does it guarantee privacy? No. Does it guarantee self-custody or sovereignty? No. Yet we still use these labels as if they tell us what users are getting. Increasingly, blockchain is becoming underlying infrastructure. Like AWS, Google Cloud or HTTPS, people don’t need to understand it to benefit from it. They care about what it lets them do. That can be viewed as progress. But it mostly lost the promise of decentralisation, self-custody and sovereignty... 👇
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Tinkering is great. It just isn't a business. But I don’t mistake it for building a business or company. Tinkering should be fun. It doesn’t need a reason to exist except for you enjoying it. Building a business can be fun too, but it needs a reason to exist and distribution channels to get to those who benefit from its existence. Two different things, even though they look almost identical at the start. One of them you can do forever. The other one has to eventually work.
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