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optimist & blockspace salesman

Paris, France

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biggest lie i believed for the longest itme was that success just comes without hyping yourself up and promoting yourself to the point of being uncomfortable put the spotlight on yourself you have to believe you are doing cooler shit than anyone else

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friend in consulting told me an air conditioning company is paying his firm $3M to create a “metaverse strategy”

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Concept: a friend office. Get group of friends who all have remote jobs. Move somewhere nice and inexpensive. Rent a cheap, convenient office space together. Work at different companies but together. Perks of social interaction, hanging with friends, but cheaper!

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Stanley's president was CMO of Crocs: 2 for 2. (credit to @kylascan )

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Today is my last day at Google! It’s bittersweet: I’ll always be grateful for the APM community and for the opportunity to start my career here... but I could not be more excited about my next adventure: I’m joining @nbatopshot !!! 🏀🍾🎉

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PSA if you actually want NFT consulting I will do it for a lot less than $3M

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when the venture analyst position asks for your education and this is the dropdown list

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guess I picked an interesting time to be an unemployed 23 year old

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insane UX

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I think Sisyphus would be much happier if they had a big number at the top of the mountain that incremented with each successful rock push, and also if they let him spend those points on fun stickers for the rock

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this makes 0 sense to me

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I wrote my first long essay! There's been lots of buzz around the Passion Economy recently, so I decided to dive into why it matters and why now is the perfect time to get involved. Here are the 4 big trends ⬇️

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🎨 The Passion Economy: Why Now?

Or, why you might want to become a creator!

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I think crypto founders dont fully grasp that if your project has financial speculation in it, this is the type of user you’ll eventually attract, regardless of your good intentions happened to Top Shot, Art Blocks, etc.. it’s difficult to build a genuine user base after

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@DavidEpstein a quick visualization - crazy!

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today is my last day @dapperlabs ! I’m starting something new soon.. let’s jam on ideas!

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but you probably won’t hear back until October 1, 2022

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anyone want to join an NFT-focused gen z group chat

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why was I trying to define my personal brand and mission at age 20, tech is a disease

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crypto has created a generation of people who think they deserve money for being early and contributing zero value to anything

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PSA: If you have an edu email address you can get Masterclass for $1 for one year !!!!

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first day @nbatopshot :) 🏀

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at this point On Deck might as well just announce a fellowship for creating new On Deck fellowships

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"what's the password for your wifi" "it's on the router" the router: À̶͎͔͎͔̮͙̟̯͝X̵͇̳͆̂͛̽͒̈́̀̕2̷̧͔̘̥̗̎͆̊̎̇̚͝ͅ0̶̘̳͆̑͐̊̈́B̴̺̣̞̭̦̫͙͂̚͝ͅY̸̟̗̺͒̒̀2̴̞̜̺̮̪̞̞͔͖̓̃̈́̓̑̐̕9̴̡̳̔̽̎͑͘0̶̨̳̜̘̞͕͖͔̆̑̿ͅ8̸̟͉̝̝̹̍̌̃̉̑̕-̷͉̖͇̱̺̥͕̦̎̊͛̇̽͠A̸̩̐̅2̷̢͚̹́͒̚3̵̭̥̳͇̗̹̪̯̱̅͊̔̏̄̈̚4̷͎̱͂̔̽͊̕͝7̵̧̫̺̣̗̥̬̗̏͋̓̈́̊̕ͅB̸̘̯̀̌ͅX̶͑

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why are tech people so obsessed with gen z rn

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a little project i worked on this week - feeling lucky? mint a random free nft on zora network! it reveals after you mint

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I want to start a co-op of very ambitious young people We could help each other continuously improve and do cool shit

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either the bull market is about to start or we’re gonna get shilled the worst open edition mankind has ever seen

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obsessed with my collection

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is @goblintownwtf the first big project to do a nft? goblins really are innovating.

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I just got my team assignment! I’m going to be joining @GoogleStadia 🎮 as an APM in one month! I’m so excited!

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@aniiyengar they really suggested a 17% tip on your taxes

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we need radix ui primitives for crypto

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my brother in christ all you need to do is close your eyes and think of nice things

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tech bros: ur career is ruined if you don’t live in SF also tech bros: I’m moving to Miami bc a california state assemblywoman doesn’t like capitalism :(

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Downside: security concerns for company, lower productivity

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I’m starting my first full-time job today 👨🏻‍💻! What advice do you wish you’d gotten at your first job?

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nouns should send 200 eth to a compound governor contract with the following rules: - same proposing / voting rules as Nouns, except lower quorum - shorter voting periods (~ 3 days) - contract can only fund ETH, max 10 ETH allows for decentralized, faster small grants, low risk

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Passion Economy Thread 🎨 An ever-growing thread of people, companies, and ideas in the Passion Economy as I explore and learn more! I'll also add my own questions and ideas as I go, hoping to start conversations - jump in! 🌊 (Feel free to correct any mistakes too)

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the farcaster brooklyn elite have discovered bonding curves

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anyone know other sites designed like Berkeley Graphics? i'm obsessed

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@surayashivji I’m really just scheming to make sure college never ends

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oh ok

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moment of silence for the east coast folks who went to sleep

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every time I think about it I am so happy I left Google for so many reasons

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we're moving to m*ami

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I have no idea how I’m going to do my taxes

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This all still feels a little surreal! There’s so much to be said about @dapperlabs & the future of blockchain, NFTs, crypto… Instead, here’s a (not so good) haiku: Blockchain will be big ⛓ For now it’s a lot of fun 🎉 Had to help build it 🔨

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ok for real if you are a developer and want a $10,000 grant to explore web3 pls lmk

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I’m 100% in on the future that @dapperlabs is building and I just had to be part of it. Maybe I’ll share more later, but for now.. let’s get to work! Thank you @rohamg @arthcmr for the opportunity 🙏

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New grad pro tip: don’t compare yourself to people who graduated 10 years ago

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Been thinking a bit recently about my life since leaving the Goog. A few people asked so I thought I'd share some thoughts on why I left and why I'll be forever grateful for my decision.

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every time I think about it I am so happy I left Google for so many reasons

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the fork is exposing how few people actually get what Nouns is about

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with about 3 hours left, over 50% of nouns are forking. that's a huge vote of no confidence on leadership. hope all founders take notes and learn something from this.

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a farcaster memecoin just raised 20 ETH in 24 hours for a community fund and you don't think we're going higher?

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farcaster energy is contagious rn much higher signal to noise ratio

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@andy8052 not really tbh, just vibing rn

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set up a page on mogu to track the Nouns fork (link below) interestingly, a very small number of holders make up a bulk of the nouns leaving

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whatever happened to this? got $150k to make beans, no updates on the sites linked and can't find a social media presence

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selling $10 open edition NFTs is increasingly starting to look like a valid business model

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post-4844 base is better than solana basically instant txns with no failures

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My favorite part of this blowing up has been all the people that cleverly point out that this is similar to a co-working space.. It is! But... with your friends!

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nouns hack week ended last night! we got 2️⃣9️⃣3️⃣ proposals in just one week 👀 sharing a few of my favorite props here to make the voting easier reminder - there are 3 tracks (developers, art, and IRL/weird) and two grand prize categories (current and new contributors)

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moved to LA i don’t have a mattress or a chair but at least I have lots of jpgs

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i think nouns media / content should look more like how batman is used - many versions for different audiences, but with the same core character: - comics (source) - gritty movie - animated kids show - regular pg-13 movie

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quit your job and go work at a startup

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last class of HS: dramatic last bell, throw papers in the air, sign yearbooks, go to the beach last class of college: leave zoom meeting, then you’re in your childhood bedroom alone

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i told you

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the farcaster brooklyn elite are launching a meme coin

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if you’re a young crypto dev and want to work on Nouns please hit me up :) I have things we could work on together that I don’t have time to do by myself happy to give pointers

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@BvuePD what is the point of joining protesters if cops like this are allowed in our city

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This 200lb white cop topped and choked out a black woman over a title transfer. THE COP WORKS FOR BELLVUE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN WASHINGTON STATE! WHO IS HE? BLACK LIVES MATTER

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weirdly high upside in organizing information you don’t need to invent just start by remixing

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honestly sometimes it’s really hard to tell whether people in the DAO space are incredibly thoughtful and smart or just liberal arts academia pseudo intellectual grifters

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pretty much same TVL and active addresses. one has significantly better dev buy-in, retail applications, partnerships

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if you don't like the game but you want to win, find a different game, it's really that easy

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hack week by @tothemaxy

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YC startups be like “yeah so PG didn’t like our college social network idea so we’re pivoting to a super cool space, building accounting tools for corn farmers”

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nothing unites usc students like an opportunity to cancel classes

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we started a pod about crypto and life on the internet !! 2 episodes are out 2 more coming soon 🫡

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excited to share a fun project i'm working on with @anquetil -- 👾infinite money glitch👾 an interview show about all things internet culture -- szn 0 starts with our friends @divine_economy @gaby_goldberg @levychain @chaserchapman first ep here 👉

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it's interesting watching people play the twitter game much better than you and trying to figure out if you should play the game like them and get results or just do your thing

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struggling with Nouns burnout

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Since I wrote this essay last week: 23 ➡️106 subscribers (450%) 450 ➡️ 609 followers (35%) 2,500 article views 📈 lots of learning (1,000%) 😊 Whether you feel like an expert or not, you should write online! It's fun!

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I wrote my first long essay! There's been lots of buzz around the Passion Economy recently, so I decided to dive into why it matters and why now is the perfect time to get involved. Here are the 4 big trends ⬇️

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this is the first opepen artwork i've been interested in owning. great stuff @ripe0x

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014 "zopepen" by @ripe0x opt-in:

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if you've been funded by Nouns, you can now write an onchain confirmation that your work was completed!

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an actual question I want the answer to: 1 like, 0 replies dumb rhetorical question: 93 likes, 19 replies

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why are tech people so obsessed with gen z rn

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you know shit is crazy when you agree with Ben Shapiro

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No, Trump has not already won the election, and it is deeply irresponsible for him to say he has.

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We’re closer to Thanksgiving than the beginning of lockdowns

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keep nouns weird

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@DavidEpstein I think I would have actually guessed a smaller drop! I had the (wrong) impression that a good chunk of the country was doing business as usual (outside of coasts/cities). 180,000 travelers today (5% of last year's travel) feels insanely low! What would have been your guess?

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drop your ENS.. no promises but may be useful in the future

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not a huge deal but this isn’t quite true we did something even more interesting in my opinion: - raised ETH after launch - used ETH to buy Higher, add to liquidity pool - earn fees from mints into the party - buy more Higher - give out grants to community members in $Higher

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🎉 Party Time Another rising pillar for scenecoins is Party, a platform + protocol combo for streamlined onchain groups The $HIGHER community used @prtyDAO to coordinate their token’s launch transparently 5/9

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“but not like that”

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Let the people trade.

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rewards seem underutilized on Zora chain so far interestingly - i'm already #4 first is zora, not sure what 0x277c is

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a little project i worked on this week - feeling lucky? mint a random free nft on zora network! it reveals after you mint

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doing a lil commemorative NFT to celebrate the first season of Infinite Money Glitch! when @zach__davidson and i take over @thesamparr and @ShaanVP in the charts you can use this to prove you were here first :) + get cool stuff via the newsletter mint:

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getting back into 2017 martin mode

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another year of Spotify Wrapped, another year of no one copying a brilliant marketing strategy

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new personal site

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people still looking for funny memecoins on Base are going to be really disappointed average user on Base does not want to buy a dog coin with a 24/7 telegram chat, that's now what CB team is pushing either it's a different market with different products

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nouns hack (& art) week week of march 27 everyone in and out nouns works on new crazy ideas attract new builders prizes awarded through prop house every community / subDAO can plug into the week & create their own prizes

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nouns hack week prop is up, sponsored by @explorergrants ! hack week is a headless event, there is no organizing team 99 ETH in prizes, 30 eth mobile app track, 24 ETH grand prizes, pool to supplement other DAOs' prizes, all through prop house

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breaking news the logo is (definitely not) (officially) a capybara

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