When you spend enough time in a given scene, and get to know the major players, they start to become predictable. You can tell where they’re coming from and where they’re going and why. This can look like cynicism to newbies on the scene. It isn’t. Sadly it’s just priors.
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I’ve now spent a couple of full biz/tech cycles in tech (though admittedly my participation in the 2000 was in provincial Austin) and my suspicion on the “community” side has never been deeper. I’m even (perhaps especially) suspicious of community stuff I’ve helped catalyze.
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I try to stay pretty strongly on the idea maze side (though the specifically technology side of my work is mostly not public) and resist the pull of the half-dozen or so people mazes I’m nominally part of. Including my own.
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It worries me that newbies are so stoked on the community side. Apparently unaware of its dark side. They gush constantly about the wonderful, brilliant, awesome people they’re meeting and getting to know. The ideas are just currency to them.
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