BLOCKCHAIN, SHMINERCHAIN!
I have been zen moving a lot of writing/content lately. It's my usual way of balancing out my energy by focusing on the process but not the outcome. Outcomes are benchmarks for gauging where the focus should be placed during the process.
I was doing some deep thinking, real macro stuff. My mind took me back to the dot com crash and early internet days. I came across a video I must have seen three or four times; it's of Jeff Bezos in 1999 talking about Amazon:
Aside from the fact he looks like that Nicholas Cage face meme here if you listen carefully, you can hear history subtly repeating itself.
The interviewer kept throwing the same question at Bezos about how his company fit in with this radical new thing called the "Internet." Bezos finally got tired and said: "INTERNET SHMINERNET!" - Bezos did not give a rats ass about how his company fit in with the internet; no, he focused on what mattered the most, customer service.
Bezos knew that it didnt matter how badass this new internet fad thing was, if it didn't help bring a better customer experience, it was worthless.
That brings me to the blockchain, and how everyone and their mother is trying to cram a square blockchain peg into a round hole (usually retail investor's asses) to try & grab every last dollar they possibly can.
Ask yourself: "Does blockchain make our user experience better?" - If the answer isn't a resounding, YES!!! then GTFO!
The internet is amazing, but if amazon.com weren't easy & convenient to use, it wouldn't have survived. Like with the internet, just because you're apart of the "blockchain revolution", doesn't mean you will be a big winner... didn't you hear the revolution isn't televised anyway?
The internet made Amazon what it is today because users can click a few buttons and have a package delivered to their front door.
Without the internet, you have catalogs and late night TV infomercials.
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And the blockchain brings the same raw potential as the early internet did for businesses of all kinds. The age of tokenization, sovereign data, and abundance are upon us! But, just like with the potential of the early internet, our focus should be on the user experience first and build from there. Remember, BLOCKCHAIN, SHMINERCHAIN! The end user doesn't give a damn about your fancy tech; they care about enjoying your application.
Everyone has access to the same tools now; those that build easy to use badass apps/dapps could become the big thing!
Fully agree! This is why I moved away from steemit.com to steempeak.com.
This is also why I'm using a tool like SteemReply to engage with users (introduction post here). BTW, I would really love to see this tool merge into existing front-ends to avoid jumping from one site to another.
Steemreply has been buggy and slow for me lately. Is there a secret cure for that?
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Please contact me on steem.chat or on Discord so we can have a look at what's going and fix it if required.
Good to know that door is open for SteemReply, I would so love to see it implemented in @Partiko! So going to pester @crypto.talk about this when he returns 😝
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exactly keep focusing on the user experience until youve blurred the lines so much that they dont even know that they are using blockchain in the first place then you have a winner
Exactly, sometimes we need to look at the efficiency and consumer joy and satisfaction deprived from the blockchain, exactly as Jeff focused on certainty and not fancy or what would be internet worthy then the Amazon history wouldn't even be a prerequisite for what we mean today. We can't keep stressing that only time will make steem better, but some people just wants that perfection before they consider steem a prospect, which is totally lackadaisical and disheartening.
Extremely well stated, love that you referenced that interview! I have been saying the same damn thing since landing here, the simplest providing the most functionality will be the successor!
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Good point.
The best blockchain is one that people don't realize exists.
I find myself posting and engaging on Steem, but consuming on Reddit. I like Steems potential and user engagement compared to reddit, but dislike it's lack of content.
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Always motivating man! So many stepped on Steem in the past, it's still here and stronger than ever.
Video plays perfectly. One thing I would like to see on 3speak is being able to speed up the video.
You can speed up or slow down video on 3Speak, little icon on the bottom right of the video.
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Voice is having a similar content like STEEM have but we will might be get voice token of it. I don't know that will be tradable on which exchange later on or something like that.
And thing is going on with voice is they have some restriction in crypto space that they will not allow any bot spam something LIKE that let's see how it will be work later on.
Upvote and resteemit done sir..
So glad I started using steempeak, the ability to write post and save them to bookmarks a much needed addition to the platform 👍🤗
Blockchain SHMINERCHAIN is the believe in terms of yes. I think so that's whay all the steemian are here to do a great things with it. And hope for the best in next coming years.
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ShamWOW! You get it.
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