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158 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 25 Nov \ parent \ on: How I'd pitch a script upgrade bitcoin
The context is, vaguely, every failed fork proposal. More recently a lot of the covenant proposals. It causes a lot of thrashing which I have genuine empathy for. However, afaict most of the problem is:
- it's extremely hard to accomplish a fork (past folks with tons of political capital made it look easy ... and it has gotten harder)
- developers under-appreciate how hard it is to do sales (and blame the world instead)
developers under-appreciate how hard it is to do sales (and blame the world instead)
Much truth. Technical people underestimate how difficult non-technical work actually is. As I've grown older, I've appreciated the importance of social skills like making clients feel comfortable, making a sales pitch, and leadership skills like inspiring people and maintaining a good work culture.
These intangibles are hard to measure, but they are undoubted valuable and difficult to do. Personally, I'd rather sit in front of a computer and code. I very much appreciate being able to offload the social responsibilities to someone else.
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I'm still under-indexed on sales et al, but I know the huge blind spot is there.
Same here. Because of that, some of my best (research) work has been the result of collaboration where I partnered with someone who was better at sales, hustling, networking, etc, whereas I provided a solid technical foundation. Sales is important in research too.
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