I'm not sitting here doing nothing.
To the common eye it might seem as if I am sitting on my backside watching TV but i'm actually working towards the future.
I downloaded Instagram lately to my phone for a project that I was working with and found out that it was a black hole of wasted time.
Free time that is making Meta more money instead of making me more money.
That's the opposite of where I want to be going. Time is valuable and while spending an hour watching horrific accidents, sports clips, idiots and cute dogs is a nice distraction for an hour it's wasted time.
And over a full week that could be 5- 10 hours of watching the same crap over and over again in a different form. I admit, It's very addictive and I'm not even a big fan of these apps. God help those people putting 20 -30 hours a week into watching these videos and wasting their life away.
I don't expect to spend my every waking moment in front of the computer or trying to make money. That's another extreme and not a healthy obsession either. I have a life, a family, hobbies. Healthy parts of a work life balance but there is also dead time. Time spent sitting on the couch where a lot of people open up their phones and kill time.
Time isn't something to kill. It's a valuable resource that we are lucky to have and that is in short supply.
Any dead time is time that could be put to use.
Instead of getting hooked on Insta, I'm doubling down on my Hive activity. Filling that dead time with productive activities. Posting, commenting and building up my reputation and portfolio where other people are still watching dogs doing tricks.
There has to be a tipping point at some stage in the world when our apps reach a more polished level that have the same entertainment value as their predecessors. Then when their is a monetary layer added to the top of that and a wider suite of apps all linked to that monetary system that mass adoption will be explosive. It just takes a few good apps to start that process and show people a better alternative.
We are still a long way off seeing big numbers join the eco-system but what feels like dead time in crypto adoption is actually time to build and strengthen the eco-system.
Time that could be wasted watching token prices or put to good use and keep developing our offerings. Get ahead of the wasters and the moaners. The ones who only turn up when times are good.
They think that a bear market is dead time. We know differently.