golf

"you only get better when you are honest about your failings"

Good take. 👏 Appreciate the thoughtful critiques.

a golf analogy:

crypto builder culture feels like a bunch of golf buddies who give each other 5 mulligans a round + never count penalty strokes

they've convinced each other that they're 15 handicap players when, in reality, honest scoring has them shooting 100+ every time

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lol yes there are maybe like...30 people on here who know enough about golf + crypto to get the analogy

but it is a really good one because golf is entirely a game of "you vs you"

you can cheat in so many different ways to give yourself a lower score if you want, and many people do

there is a huge problem with "vanity handicaps" (people who say they shoot a certain score on average, but once they are put in tournament conditions it becomes clear they were not following all the strict rules)

so if you really want to get good at golf, you have to be brutally honest with yourself and count all your bad shots 

otherwise you inflate your ego lying to yourself about how good you are, then get exposed when other people are really watching and keeping track of your score

I haven't a clue about golf so this analogy went right over my head, but I can certainly say I've had more than my fill of the kind of unfounded optimism that fuels so much of crypto. I just roll my eyes at it these days.

I'm much more interested in honest, no-nonsense, unflinching reckonings with crypto's many failures. Fortunately we do have some people who do that here, and I appreciate them.