I find myself rooting for others often. I can't lead their lives for them, and to be frank, I have my own problems. In passing, my girl joked if I would pay her to sit and listen to my ramblings and help revise content for sharing on X, for my memecoin project.
I laughed in an exaggerated way, and took it a bit further, using my exaggerated mirth to cover up the bulge of a vein on my forehead. But I asked an excellent question. "Who pays me?" I asked, if I can get paid too, to which my partner replied, "Personal fulfillment."
Maybe I scared her with how hysterical I became, maybe she appreciates the wisdom, but I went in that direction for a bit and shared with her, that the work itself rewards me because nothing else will. Making an effort and reviewing the fruits of those labors is about all I can expect from these endeavors of mine.
I don't blame anyone, but I was eventually quite right about my last trade, even if I was holding a pittance compared to what I once was since I moved on from working with certain people and reassessing my time. Yes, I stuck it out for a fraction of the 366 days of accumulation, and at some point after that, that particular token rose to the magnitude of 3200%. I don't have much to say to people, other than that not only was I right, I was a fool for listening to anyone other than myself. So as her tongue-in-cheek comment lightly touches a nerve, I temper myself by saying to her, out loud to myself as well, "Don't forget $TURBO."
While I'd like to remedy the curious situation my lady faces with her father, as I said before, it's not within my powers. I have a different puzzle.
For one, I'm encouraging about 3,000 lurkers to remain engaged by sharing about us outside of Twitter. I was looking at a paper that says about 75% of members in online communities do not post publicly, while 25% do. Those 25% could be considered "mods", the visible ones who post and share. The rest aren't inactive, they simply don't add to the group discussion. The study then focuses on how those silent lurkers are actually a benefit to the community and their participation can be fostered despite the absence of visible contribution.
As I write this, the Citra IPA I'm drinking gives me goosebumps and tightens my chest as if I'm eating almonds, a mild allergen to my system. Those hoppy bitters really pack a wallop.
So, as a visible contributor, I find it upon myself to engage the silent majority in a manner that raises our project, so more can join us. I mentioned the other day, that some people's conviction wavers as the projects sits at the same market cap for an extended period, but I guffaw at his doubt. Maybe the first time, his comments would rattle my further. But after what I've been through, his pettiness cannot shake my core.
I'm willing to be the last man standing behind this as I failed to do more for my previous projects. What's more is that I'm not, so I only need to ignore the vocal minority clamoring about inaction from leaders and burrow deeper into insights of value.
How would you best activate a large group not exactly speaking up, but watching and paying attention?
So, my first and simplest strategy is to remind everyone, they don't need to be the next key opinion leader with 100,000 followers. It's cool that they see our posts, read them and do things their own way for the project. Not everyone enjoys the scrutiny of the public eye. Believe me, I don't.
It's just that I don't trust anyone else to get my story down the way I lived it.
