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Lessens Learned
Doing something different and just for fun. I tell myself to be wrong is to learn and improve, but that's very hard to do in practice
One of many news things to try is shameless promotion. I'm terrible on promotion on the account of never doing it. Why can't my projects just speak for themselves?
So far, I have shared this project on /r/programmerhumor and it's discord server in reddit. It got about a 300 visitor bump and a few pull request from that. The pulls come more steadily in the long run than the visitor count. I'm not sure why. A later submission to r/coding was very successful and generated a number of comments
I'm on the lookout for other places to spam this project.
There are a few things I expect to go wrong but have not yet.
Programmers ego is something that I'm aware of, it has negatively impacted projects and mafe me blind to my mistakes. It's something that I'm on the lookout for but has not impacted this project so far, perhaps because people don't feel invested in it.
The problem that I expected are not the ones I encounter.
I'm questioning myself how I handled the first issue. Personally I find "Block Chain Technology" a fad. Every thing it does is already used effectively to solve real world problems with content addressable resources and nonrepudiation. Yet they create a new "technology" that's looking for problems to solve. Even if the inefficiencies of proof of -work- waste and global repetition. Human society will always be built on social contacts, not mechanical contacts.
But for most people, it's just something fun to play with. Also my personal experiences of society is different from other, I can't fault those who seek a way out of their current social contracts.
So should I be more welcoming to them? I should definitely keep a more open mind to whatever suggestions they give