We Just Got in a Fight. With Ourselves. Over an NFT Project.

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TL;DR

• Doodles just launched a new feature, where users can dress their Doodles NFT avatars in different jackets, pants, and shoes (making it their own).

• Which is a cool feature! But what's it all for? So you can have an avatar that stands out in the metaverse?

• The metaverse isn't really a thing yet...so this feels like a solution to a non-existent problem.

• Here’s what we realized: technology has always outpaced human nature (it takes us a minute to get used to things and adopt them into our lives).

• Getting solutions today, for tomorrow's problems might seem stupid at first...but that's ok! It'll make sense in time.

Full Story

Do you ever get in fights with yourself?

We just did.

What started it? This new functionality for the Doodles NFT project.

Our reaction went something like this:

That's cool! Wait, no, that's stupid! But we like it...even though it seems kinda useless.

Basically, Doodles just launched a new feature, where users can dress their Doodles NFT avatars in different jackets, pants, and shoes (making it their own).

Which is a cool feature! But what's it all for?

...so you can have an avatar that stands out in the metaverse?

The metaverse isn't really a thing yet...so this feels like a solution to a non-existent problem.

Here's how we mediated our internal discourse...

Back when the internet first entered our homes, similar questions might have been posed:

Why would I use email? I know (maybe) one or two people that use it. I'll just keep going to the post office thank you very much.

Apply that to this situation and you get something like:

Why would I update my metaverse avatar? I know (maybe) one or two people that use it. I'll just keep going to Instagram thank you very much.

The takeaway?

Technology has always outpaced human nature (it takes us a minute to get used to things and adopt them into our lives).

Getting solutions today, for tomorrow's problems might seem stupid at first...

But that's ok! It'll make sense in time.