Something's cookin' in crypto

I noticed that the profile image links were broken for a time and that usually mean that they are testing something in the UI somewhere. Perhaps communities are rolling out? It has been almost 3 years to the day that I heard the news for the first time that "communities are coming" as I had written a post about content discovery...

... almost there?

One of my tasks at work for this year is to review and renew a customer training experience for the company that is targeted at end user adoption and utilization. It is essentially a collection of short video contents that help a user learn about the basic functions and possibilities and gets them up to speed at a level that allows their curiosity to wander and explore. It is a pretty good task in my opinion as it is much like what is happening here and much of the process overlaps in some way.

Resource management systems at the corporate level can be quite complex to set up and configure on the back end, however the end user experience has to be quite intuitive and easy to ramp user uptake. This is a challenge in a competitive industry, especially when trying to introduce new ways to do things that move away from what has been done the last 30+ years.

As said, I find the overlap between my work and Steem highly interesting, which if anyone remembers, is why I took this particular job in the first place as I think they are unknowingly heading along a path of convergence with blockchain. Not only that, the blockchain that they most resemble is Steem. Now I don't know about the technical aspects in detail, but from a mindset point of view - the similarity is uncanny.

However, I think that this isn't unique and believe that there are many distributed points spread across various industries that are thinking outside the box and moving toward the block. They might not intentionally be doing this, but due to the way industry and society share and manage information, it is highly likely that there are many people working simultaneously on similar problems without knowing it.

This has actually been one of my business' competitive advantages over the years due to me having clients across a large cross-section of fields. Each of them believes that their R&D department is working on the cutting edge, without having insight on the other R&D departments doing much of the same thing.

There is benefit in this as what it means is there are different approaches to find solutions that are all released around the same time and made public to be tested and compounded against one another. In the end, the strongest ideas (and best marketed) survive and standards form around them.

@acidyo posted a clip from the presidential candidate Andrew Yang about how US states need to come into line and standardize the way they handle crypto currencies. And when asked if he was in favor of monetary freedom,

"People who are investing in these currencies are finding a way to do so and make use of their investments and I don't think you could impede it with regulation if you tried."

Andrew Yang seems to get it.

The standardization will of course come as the industry looks to cement itself in the population, as that requires a certain level of ease of use and simplicity for adoption. But, due to the nature of the blockchain being able to support all kinds of businesses at least at the financial and supply chain management layers, there can be a lot of variation too.

And, because of this flexibility, mobility, illusive nature and the skill to continually transform, it is very hard to pin down. This standardization across the states mentioned is essentially the first admission that they are not going to be able to control it, so they are looking for ways to work with it. Sure, currently it is somewhat controlled, but in time and as economic mass grows on the projects that can transfer wealth in seconds for free across the world seamlessly, they will have to find ways to grow with it so that it can be included in their economic resources.

In the past, Wars were fought to gain territory for resources and of course, human capital that can work and pay taxes. But in the digital world, the territory is unbounded and can continually grow like the ecosystem of Steem, and the citizens who work globally every time they log on, have a lot more options available to them in how they handle their digital assets.

As I see it, there are many factors coming to a head across the world in the domains of technological, financial, economic, governmental and social reforms. And they are all pointing toward a world that is facilitated by blockchain and digital currencies. This takes time of course and there are many moving parts in play as thousands of points are approaching the problems they face from different perspectives and using different tools, frames and minds - but, it will all end up in the information pool eventually to do what information always does.

Spread.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]