it's better to fade away than to burn out.
I prefer not to risk torching principles in the quest for a brightly-burning fire.
Rather: nurture a few embers under a slow, careful roast. If you can cook the dish fully before the coals are expended, you'll have a satisfying and nutririous dish rather than a heap of ash.
Being too early is just as deadly as being too late.
[Thomas Edison's concrete houses](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Portland_Cement_Company), any startup with a novel product society isn't ready for yet, "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent", etc.
What if Bitcoin - in this accumulation stage - is the first viable backstop to that problem? If an early innovator holds enough bitcoin and the price appreciates just more than their overhead, they can stay "disastrously early" for however long it takes to flip over into "just in time!". And society reaps the rewards of an invention it may never have seen or seen much later.
Bitcoin appears to be providing this service _to itself_ as well. That's combinaton is a goddamn civilization hack right there....
If this is true, we're playing with an **innovation tractor beam that drags the future towards the present unlike anything else** we've ever seen.
GM
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