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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Why is it so hard for me to get crypto culture? I get lots of communities easily, get a good sense of their norms and landscape, but for some reason I have repeatedly failed at this with crypto, despite having e.g. held crypto for 7 years, worked on an ico and been to devcon. 1/
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
But crypto is consistently intimidating and makes me feel like I'm missing something important and I am too afraid to ask questions - or when I do, the questions aren't tied to anything meaningful enough for me, so I forget and don't actually learn.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
There's something about crypto that feels anti the way I typically learn, and I don't know exactly what it is. I have trouble "feeling" it like I feel other vaguely technical skills I've learned, like webflow or survey design. It's pretty disappointing cause I really love crypto.
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Argonaut
@enigmahammer
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@Aella_Girl
Maybe the issue is trying to feel it?? crypto culture pretty clearly models the early culture of the internet which was less “feel” based and more logic based? It was and has always been the domain of male nerds. Similarly now most core groups self style themselves as “autists”
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@enigmahammer
Sure, but I still feel like I can 'feel' things that aren't emotions based - I 'feel' an okay grasp on basic statistics, and feel a sense of what I need to do and learn to get a better grasp on it; the concepts are familiar, within reach
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@gxonio
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@Aella_Girl
Perhaps because there's a quasi religious element to it that goes beyond the pure technology. And worse, the religious element lacks cohesion and is constantly shifting and mutating with the environment to protect itself. It's almost a living entity more than a tool.
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Schism
@raskolnehkov
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@Aella_Girl
Crypto feels demonic, like it's either a hoax or will be the only thing that matters in 10 years and we're living in the before time, before this monster was birthed. But that might not be rational :)
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Thomas
@thomasverhagen
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@Aella_Girl
I recognise the vibe, similar to the vibe I experienced in the policy-making monetary economists scene pre-2007. Perhaps its a necessity in the voodoo-business of monetary credence? I don't know, just a hunch.