Another week has passed and the uncertainty in the world continues to be at a maximum.
I'm trying my best to turn my back on most of that — because it's just depressing — and concentrate more on what can actually be controlled, as opposed to bad news that nobody really has any control over.
Instead, I'm turnign my thoughts and energy towards something small and "local" like my Hive goals and I am slowly re-formulating some kind plan to help reach those goals for 2026... on which I'm already running a little bit behind.
But hey, who the heck was able to predict that everything was going to fall off a cliff?
Anyway, I've decided to gradually and methodically take a more in-depth look at some of the different opportunities we have to invest in projects here on Hive.
One of the things I would like to do is just kind of go from Community to Community and explore each one to see what it's about and then write some sort of detailed report about it... because most of the time when I try to find out information about a project and/or Community details seem to be scant and far between.
In other words, why not try to assemble the information I have a hard time finding?
There's also the issue that many projects — even the solid and viable ones — get started with a lot of fanfare and a lot of information but then there's virtually never an update after that... and everybody's just left in the dark.
Personally, I think that is no way to run a project, because you immediately end up with people losing confidence... which could easily have been avoided with a few well-placed updates.
And that's particularly true for a project that has great fanfare when they are launching something and then as soon as things don't go quite as well as expected there is no statement about "how we're going to address the issue" or even just a statement saying "oops, things weren't going as well as expected so we're going to have to cut yields in order for the project to survive."
Instead, the founders usually just go silent, like they don't want to deal with the shame of the reality of what they're actually dealing with... but the truth of life is that all things run in cycles and some things get to go really well and some things end up not going so well. That's not rocket science!
I believe that "information and dialogue, even if it's negative" is far better than "no information." You just have to hope that those who decided that you had a good idea in the first place, still think that the idea is good but recognize that sometimes things don't turn out exactly as fast or as well as expected.
Bottom line is that it's often the fact that projects fail and go under because people lack patience rather than because the projects are shitty. So that's one of the things I'm poking around in and will continue to look into for a while. It may be quite challenging to actually unearth the deeper bones of some of this stuff... but it's worth a try.
On that light note I think I am going to go off and get started! Stay tuned for more!
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