We Start Where We Are
If we only have the courage to see our reality and believe we can be more.
Thanks to Paul Chaney, this didn't happen to me this time. Which, given the pandemic, could well have been the case.
Thanks to Jeremiah Owyang's research and posts, and Peter Shankman's 'poke', I came to realize what is really happening.
Thanks to Don Tapscott's book "BlockChain Revolution", and his related course on Coursera, I was able to dig into the tech, it's relationship to trust (one of my cornerstone research/practice topics), and the broader state of the ecosystem.
But over the last few week's I was afraid of talking about my insight, my idea, and my emergent plans. I've been able to talk to a lot of people smarter than I around blockchain and Web3, like Schlomo Rabinowitz, Charlie Cox, Jennifer Navarrete and other's who have been pushing this forward.
And as Ken Burbary said in the Twitter space I hosted yesterday, (parahrasing) the challenges of Web 3 are the same challenges we faced with the rise of desktop computing, web 1, web 2 and even social media. The tech is incredibly powerful and useful, but the user experience is crap. And I'd add that the language is so inside baseball that it literally is speaking a foreign language instead of using people's 'native tongue'.
And with a Cambrian explosion in the midst of happening right now, and the course of our society being set once again by emergent technologies and those who are building them, now is the time to get involved in the conversation. To not only learn and contribute, but to positively shape our future for everyone's well being. To be more inclusive, fair, and supportive of human rights.
So in laying the groundwork these past few months by studying, reading, watching videos, taking classes and talking to smart people around the world, I realized yesterday I am not another gold digger. But someone returning to my life's purpose of making the world a better place by bringing people together and showing their is a place in this uncertain future for them. By working to give these people a seat at the table, a voice in "the room where it happens."
So it begins. Not with a formal press release. Not with a beautiful custom website. Not with any funding.
But with a series of serendipitous events, and the courage to step into them with my best intentions, the power of my beliefs, and my experience having seen this rodeo before.
With the power of a single post by Paul, and an open conversation that has informed and educated me even further in the last 24 hours then I did by myself over weeks. The power of a community. The power of those who can see beyond what is, to create what can be.
This is what I am looking to do on March 1 in hosting an online virtual unconference for Web 3.1
Will you join me? Or sit this revolution out?
Stay connected with this effort, join our discord, and please help me make this something special to bring the various stakeholders across the ecosystem together, along with the people, the markets, they seek to serve in conversations and collaborations that will shape our future and focus it on our human needs rather than the institutional demands.
Let's once again create a better future for all of us. Join us now…