If we rewind a bit to some of my older YouTube videos, before I quit YouTube, you'll hear me talking about where I thought the ball was going with "social media." I said that freedom of speech will be taken an inch at a time, eventually, miles will be taken before people are aware of what's happening, sadly by that time it is too late.
It’s very frustrating to witness the inches being taken from us, and spending lots of time spreading awareness about what is going on just to fall on deaf ears. People quit one centralized site for another, jumping from the frying pan directly into the fire.
I was asked by a good friend, why are people joining the "x" platform (parler, etc) instead of Hive? This is a great question and not one to be shrugged off with "DYOR, they should know" - It's easy to have a most elite attitude of, well they are just idiots, they are quitting a centralized platform and joining another centralized platform"
Sometimes the hardest part of fighting a revolution is stopping people from fighting themselves. Saving people from themselves has always been the crux of any change. It's not easy understanding the tech behind blockchain, web3, etc. Most people just can't comprehend whether it be not enough time, or their brains are not wired that way. I place no blame, I've lived in Mexico for the better part of a decade and don't speak Spanish, some say it's easy, for me it's not so much.
Centralized sites make money for an owner, the owner has the responsibility of turning a profit, thus hires marketing teams to get the word out about the product. With decentralized systems, we are all owners, and it is easy to say, "well someone else will get it done"
Here is a short story called "Whose Job Is It, Anyway?"
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.
It can feel overwhelming for someone wanting to grab the bull by the horns and put the project on their backs during hard times. Some feel the need to do so much, when in fact, trying to do too much can be just as negative EV as doing too little. This is due to burning out. The key is to find a way to push yourself to grow while remaining consistant. Sprinting during a marathon looks cool for the first 20 minutes, but you'll look a fool for the next 4-5 hours.
Are you giving it you're all in life, or are you satisfied with "good enough?" The thing about good enough is, we never know what's enough until that final hour, until it's all on the line, then we know if it was enough. And how bitter a feeling to go the journey, to travel the path to the end just to find out you are an inch short and it's too late to go back and get more prepared. that's why I'm a fan of overkill, better to be a mile over than an inch short.
Justin learned all too well, it's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Fear and failure must be your best friends, they help progress you. They act as a report card back on your shortcomings. You take a person that can earn a dollar, they are forever wealthy because no matter what happens they know how to get it back. Comfort zones are dead zones because your truest potential will never be matched in the safety of a bubble.
Remember, “the people who move mountains always begin by carrying small stones.”
Every Hive tweet, every time Hive is spread via word of mouth, s small stone is carried. What looks like a hill right now, will be seen as a mountain later on. Consistency is the mother of success.
My goal in the short term is to remain consistent with our grassroots twitter movement, rewarding users for carrying their small stones. It's a community effort.
My medium to long-term goal is to get DAO proposals put up & to help get funded to hire professional marketing teams to get out the press, make connections and get Hive in the faces of those that need to understand it. Bitcoin has been around for 10 years but just in the last few years have we started to see "wall street" enter the picture. It's not enough to tell someone about Hive, they must experience it. Procrastination is the mother of failure. Keep carrying those stones, as the Bitcoin OGs did, and eventually, the light bulbs will start to click in mass, and resource credits have the potential to be seen as gold.
"No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me you desire a fig, I will answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
I say we are at the bearing fruit stage, as Hive is already so useful to so many. However, once we ripen how sweet it will be to have been an early Hive adopter.
The status quo is censorship is ok. We must break the status quo. The belief of the individual can override thousands of followers. Most projects and people for that matter try to "fake it to they make it" with fake volume, DAUs, etc. Hive is literally the exact opposite of this, we, if anything, wear our faults on our sleeves and we are as real as you can get. Hive is a no nonsense chain that isn't built on hype, but fundamentals.
This revolution isn't about getting rich quick or how "active" this blockchain is or that chain is. Life is on the wire, a monument to come. The future is coming, we cannot stop it from coming. Right now, we have the most valuable asset on earth on our side, time. But it's running out. And right now, you might just be sitting there, and to make the first step towards greatness is always the hardest step. There is one thing harder than that though, it's later in life and you look back on your life, and the windows of opportunity to change the world have closed, and your ability to enact change is gone. And you look at your kids and the world they have to live in, and you think back at the times you could have made a difference, however small. What we do in life is never forgotten, and the older you get the more you remember the "what ifs." And you will be forever stuck with the thought of "what if I could have made a change?" To live the rest of your days not knowing, in resentment.
The difference between the winner and the loser is the winner shows up. The winner gives themselves a consistent chance to win. Luck is bestowed on those who work the hardest. Opportunities show themselves to those that are most prepared.
You're not small, you're a part of something much bigger, and together we can change the world.