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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
Argonaut
@enigmahammer
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@Aella_Girl
It encompasses a lot, and combines a lot of fields...Can you be more specific about what you don’t get? The technology itself? cultish love for the technology? social contract implicit in creating something out of thin air? opting out the of system? meme culture? tribal nature?
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