Thanks for the response, nice analogy.
Sticking with your frame, consider me a narrative prospector.
The truth is we don’t know what these things are - we all see things differently, we each bring our own perspectives and project our own experience. Crypto is a mirror.
The more we probe and trigger and debate our varying perspectives, the more likely it is we will stumble steadily into some narrative coherence as a collective.
I am deeply skeptical of top down brand building such as Polkadot Summit - Brand Refresh Workshop when it comes to coordinating these emerging organisations (organisms?) - the most useful thing is they generally demonstrate how little people do actually agree on, and in that you often get interesting signal at a more abstract level.
I agree - but in part. Often it is not the ‘experts’ who stumble on a rich seam of some new resource, since they are actively looking for something specific and may well miss or discount other ‘discoveries’ that later prove to be of fundamental importance.
For what it’s worth, I see things roughly as you do - despite the business critique.
I don’t particularly buy the ‘app’ story, I think it’s a lazy fit following ‘Web2 analogies’ - rather I see blockchain computation as a much lower level and more abstract concept: