“What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.” - psychologist Ernest Becker
Becker: Man is driven by an essential dualism.
He needs both to be a part of something and to stick out. He needs at one and the same time to be a confirming member of a winning team and to be a star in his own right.
The problem in America is that our fascination with the tools of management obscures our apparent ignorance of the art.
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The faster we move away from random strings of letters and numbers as the default for wallet addresses, the faster we will reach true mass adoption.
Humans are error prone, which is exasperated by having wallet addresses that are difficult for humans to comprehend, share, and remember.
This isn't the first time that we have seen this problem in history.
Historical timeline to know:
1969: ARPANET processes first message
1971: Email created
1983: DNS created
1984: .com domains + 5 others available
1986: Domain registration becomes public
It took almost 20 years from the first message on ARPANET to public domain registration.
During today's show, there will be opportunities for people to get a shout out on-air, jump on the livestream with us, and one person will get flown to Miami to hang with us for a day.