I didn't read much of the The Art of The Start by Guy Kawasaki. I breezed through the acknowledgments and didn't even flip the page on the first chapter. I did what was written and read so far, a section labeled
Read Me First
And I did. He was right. This was a great place to start especially given that I wanted to share this to a haphazard blog post in less than 7 minutes.
"The reality is that you need both microscopes and telescopes to achieve success."
Microscopes
I feel are everywhere. I think I take a telescopic view most places, which contradicts the oft stated, frequently duplicated microscopic views. So which is which?
Well, as it relates to crypto, the microscopes come out during bear markets and bull, now that I think about it. It's everyone saying this project will fail, those tokenomics won't work, or that fully diluted value is way too high.
Scrutinize, scrutinize and scrutinize some more. Everything small becomes massive under the microscope. And I already started with the concession that you need both, so before people jump to say, "Well, they're right," let's discuss the other side.
Telescopes
and their views bring the future closer, as Guy wrote. It's true. I saw STEEM as the best platform to blog on 7 years running, even if my actions didn't match. Some of my best theses involved the inevitability of some pieces of crypto tech, like self-custody wallets, Social Finance, and the best part, some of these wild valuations during bull markets.
For something I didn't read up until a few minutes ago, I realize that this book, like many others had much more value to me being read, even in brief part, than sitting on shelves collecting dust. So I'm glad I push myself to complete these things under these deadlines. Better than my microscope catching all the attention, while my telescope collects dust.