When we think about "builders," most of the time we're thinking about building contractors who build entire neighborhoods, or large building firms that are putting up skyscrapers in our downtown cities.
If not that, perhaps we're thinking about corporate builders, the Jeff Bezos'es is and the Bill Gates'es of the world who build corporate empires.
Of course this is what we hear about — perhaps because these are the kinds of heroic journeys that we aspire to — but the vast majority of us are only builders on a very small scale.
With that perspective as a backdrop, I am definitely a builder. But I have virtually no resources, only determination and patience. Is that enough, as long as your expectations for the outcome remain realistic?
I think about my journey with Hive and Inleo, and I recognize that everything I have ever done here has been on a very small scale.
Not only are my efforts here extremely part time, they often include long breaks because other parts of my life are screaming for me, but I'm still applying as many principles of building as I can.
From my perspective, the whole point of building is to take something that might not be significant at all and through diligence, ingenuity, work and determination turn it into something more significant.
That typically means having a lot of patience so you are willing to not only wait for the things you "sow" to turn into something bigger and better that might be worthy of harvesting, but it also means having the patience to navigate poor seasons and failures without giving up.
At the moment this community is very excited about the fact that we're in the middle of an excellent growth season as part of the Inleo project. But just because things are going well doesn't mean that you get to sit back and just let everything be on autopilot. Even though the efforts might seem minuscule by comparison, there's no reason to abandon your middling interests just because one of the things you're interested in is on a moon shot.
The other day I wrote on a thread that I have always really preferred writing articles and sharing my thoughts and observations in longer posts rather than in short little bits.
Much as I like the idea of supporting the short form initiative — and do my best to contribute now and then — no sense of loyalty can magically turn it into my preference… working thoughts out and putting them down longhand remains what comes naturally to me.
Perhaps that makes me a bit of an old fossil in a world where everything seems to be moving faster and information is delivered to us in ever smaller segments.
Meanwhile, I have much gratitude for the fact that I chose to hang on to the 500 LEO tokens that were an airdrop back in the earliest days of the legacy chain, before the Hive split. I still have those, as the core of my stake... and perhaps that's also part of what it means to be a builder: Hang onto something promising, in case it someday becomes a big deal!
Thanks for coming to visit, and do leave a comment if you feel so inclined! Engagement matters!
