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This is a very oddly formatted post coming from a company. It's pretty hard to read or follow, with lots of memes and screenshots interspersed. I'm not exactly

This is a very oddly formatted post coming from a company. It's pretty hard to read or follow, with lots of memes and screenshots interspersed. I'm not exactly sure what they're saying at all.

suprfsat 5y ago
They said "Communism is clearly the future." but left their peril-sensitive sunglasses on so it didn't stick.
lkjaelkj 5y ago
They just want some of the sweet web VC money. I mean, when you have federal prosecutors turned 'web3 investor' why not? Total shit show.
- PaulHoule 5y ago
  Note the "Are we wrong..." kind of phrasing and use of unspecific hypnotic language right out of Milton Ericson. This is aimed to provoke FOMO in the clueless; people like us will read this and realize the author is clueless but the clueless will struggle to find the wisdom here and assume they aren't getting it because they don't understand the text, not that the text is meaningless. It's like that puff piece on crypto that was in the NYT last week.
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chomp 5y ago
I can only guess, but it looks like they want to ride (and got VC funding to ride) the Web3 hype wave, but they don't want to be lumped in with "the other Web3 people".
- PaulHoule 5y ago
  It's consistent with what you see in other insider communication about "Web3" in that words and symbols are used in isolation from each other and without any attempt at weaving them into a narrative. For instance the official site for Bored Ape Yacht Club shows a bar with a neon sign that says "FOMO". Near the entrance in Decentraland there are pictures of the Doge and other internet memes. It is not about communicating a message in the conventional sense but rather like plucking a string and having it vibrate another string of the same length by resonance.
  - flir 5y ago
    It's William Gibson's future, and we're just living in it.
LukeEF 5y ago
It isn't really saying anything - just trying to give a look at an ongoing internal dialogue about web3, which i suspect is pretty widespread. Devs often don't like permissionless blockchain and crypto, but do like decentralization and moving away from giant beasts like Apple, Google, Facebook. The Socratic method of back and forth points can help to stimulate critical thinking. Thou maybe that has failed in this case!
- PaulHoule 5y ago
  Marketing communications on a blog need to be better planned than this. I'm a bit of an expert in the graph and document space and sometimes I have been in a position to recommend or specify a product. I see it as a very crowded space, terminusdb is going to have to work to convince me that it's worth my time to really understand their offering, never mind that I should put my reputation on the line by advocating for it. The blog is a place where a company like that can demonstrate that it is going to do the right thing for customers, employees, vendors, investors and other interested parties. As it is I'd be a little embarrassed if I was recommending their product to a client and had to make excuses for them and tell clients "really there is a good team behind it, ignore that blog positing, it is just a fluke..."
darkwater 5y ago
Firefox on Android and it looks pretty slick in my opinion.
trynewideas 5y ago
On the contrary, this is exactly the kind of post I'd expect from a web3 company.
- PaulHoule 5y ago
  The sad thing is they are not a web3 company. Someday the last post on their blog might be "we are proud to admit that we got acqui-hired" and it will all be because their customers, employers and investors left because of this blog post and the thinking behind it. The management team should stop what they are doing now, remove this post from their blog and make a public apology to all their stakeholders.

This is a very oddly formatted post coming from a company. It's pretty hard to read or follow, with lots of memes and screenshots interspersed. I'm not exactly sure what they're saying at all.

suprfsat 5y ago

They said "Communism is clearly the future." but left their peril-sensitive sunglasses on so it didn't stick.

lkjaelkj 5y ago

They just want some of the sweet web VC money. I mean, when you have federal prosecutors turned 'web3 investor' why not? Total shit show.

PaulHoule 5y ago
Note the "Are we wrong..." kind of phrasing and use of unspecific hypnotic language right out of Milton Ericson. This is aimed to provoke FOMO in the clueless; people like us will read this and realize the author is clueless but the clueless will struggle to find the wisdom here and assume they aren't getting it because they don't understand the text, not that the text is meaningless. It's like that puff piece on crypto that was in the NYT last week.
- deleted 5y ago
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chomp 5y ago

I can only guess, but it looks like they want to ride (and got VC funding to ride) the Web3 hype wave, but they don't want to be lumped in with "the other Web3 people".

PaulHoule 5y ago
It's consistent with what you see in other insider communication about "Web3" in that words and symbols are used in isolation from each other and without any attempt at weaving them into a narrative. For instance the official site for Bored Ape Yacht Club shows a bar with a neon sign that says "FOMO". Near the entrance in Decentraland there are pictures of the Doge and other internet memes. It is not about communicating a message in the conventional sense but rather like plucking a string and having it vibrate another string of the same length by resonance.
- flir 5y ago
  It's William Gibson's future, and we're just living in it.

LukeEF 5y ago

It isn't really saying anything - just trying to give a look at an ongoing internal dialogue about web3, which i suspect is pretty widespread. Devs often don't like permissionless blockchain and crypto, but do like decentralization and moving away from giant beasts like Apple, Google, Facebook. The Socratic method of back and forth points can help to stimulate critical thinking. Thou maybe that has failed in this case!

PaulHoule 5y ago
Marketing communications on a blog need to be better planned than this. I'm a bit of an expert in the graph and document space and sometimes I have been in a position to recommend or specify a product. I see it as a very crowded space, terminusdb is going to have to work to convince me that it's worth my time to really understand their offering, never mind that I should put my reputation on the line by advocating for it. The blog is a place where a company like that can demonstrate that it is going to do the right thing for customers, employees, vendors, investors and other interested parties. As it is I'd be a little embarrassed if I was recommending their product to a client and had to make excuses for them and tell clients "really there is a good team behind it, ignore that blog positing, it is just a fluke..."

darkwater 5y ago

Firefox on Android and it looks pretty slick in my opinion.

trynewideas 5y ago

On the contrary, this is exactly the kind of post I'd expect from a web3 company.

PaulHoule 5y ago
The sad thing is they are not a web3 company. Someday the last post on their blog might be "we are proud to admit that we got acqui-hired" and it will all be because their customers, employers and investors left because of this blog post and the thinking behind it. The management team should stop what they are doing now, remove this post from their blog and make a public apology to all their stakeholders.