@dfern.eth
People ask me all the time why I don't work in crypto. It's because I know myself:
1. I know I would burn out from the volatility, I can't divorce myself from my work
2. I only really care about Ethereum ecosystem, and don't have the energy to debate others as to why everything else is simply NGMI
3. I also prefer continuity & leveraging my background, namely electrical & computer engineering w/ applications to BCI/neuro/bio/imaging/drug discovery
I can imagine other fields where I would also burn out from volatility, like pharma, for example.
Even academia (ideally; or at least used to be) a bimodal job where the steady income of teaching would moderate the volatility of research.
Might be cope/ex post rationalization, but I think more people would be able to contribute more to volatile areas like crypto if they didn't have to go 'full crypto'. I'm thinking: something like Google's 20% time. OTOH, if you know you've got lightning-in-a-bottle (thinking of Polymarket & Hyperliquid), then maybe you should go fulltime with it.
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