Web3’s Mental Health Traps
13 Traps to Watch For and How to Fight Them
16 min readApr 6, 2022
Disclaimer: If you are struggling with mental health, please consult a professional.
The web3 ecosystem is bustling with unbridled energy, enthusiasm, and excitement.
Look no further than crypto Twitter to bear witness to the amount of activity in the space, buoyed by the untapped opportunities it presents, reminiscent of the early days of web1, or even, the American expansion into the then wild west.
Lifestyle guru, Tim Ferriss, says that many of his web2 friends have “dropped everything” to cultivate careers in web3.
In fact:
- Airbnb’s SVO of policy left for a crypto VC fund.
- YouTube’s former head of gaming left to join Polygon Studios.
- Amazon’s GM of AWS Edge is now at CTO at Gemini.
- Lyft’s CFO ditched his ride for OpenSea.
Silicon Valley is no longer the edgy tech frontier…web3 is.
But all of the novelty, excitement and seemingly unequaled opportunities presented by the space can leave us vulnerable.
