jihad @jaesmail Twitter profile

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1 year

Luxury Media is a framework for the economic sustainability of internet-native media. It's a return to patronage – we are not paying for utility, but rather are funding the story, the taste, the culture, and its proliferation.

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jihad

@jaesmail

8 months

@spectatorindex How exactly do you evacuate a hospital in a war zone?

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@jaesmail

4 years

Reminder that on July 1st Israel will begin its illegal annexation of internationally recognized Palestinian land and America is not only letting it happen, but helped develop and endorsed the plan... ...and nobody is talking about it.

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3 years

I genuinely get excited to drink coffee in the morning is that sad

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@jaesmail

2 years

Biggest takeaway from ETH Denver is that everyone is in a bubble. So much is happening in DeFi, DAOs, and NFTs independently that it’s impossible to keep up with everything. Find a niche. Go deep. Build cool stuff. Repeat.

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@jaesmail

2 years

DAOs will make mental health a $1 trillion market

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@jaesmail

2 years

@tobyshorin that’s no mouse that’s a cow

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@jaesmail

2 years

“DAOs as community-driven startups” is a mental model that leads us to build shitty, inefficient organizations. “DAOs as networks” is a mental model that will change the world as we know it.

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2 years

burna boy album might be AOTY

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2 years

The lack of “good DAOs” is not due to a lack of tools, it’s due to a lack of desire to do the work required to effectively coordinate.

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@jaesmail

3 years

DAOs are fertile ground for experimental economic and social policy. Every social science PhD should be alllllll over DAOs right now.

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@jaesmail

2 years

Lesson from SXSW: The people want more DAOs.

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@jaesmail

3 years

what if American crypto folks just pooled 10,000 ETH and handed it to the IRS so that we don't have to do taxes this year

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@jaesmail

2 years

Saying “I want to launch a token/DAO!” is like saying “I want to start a startup!” Student entrepreneurship programs are full of people who think the *idea* of startups is sexy, but don’t have a purpose or problem to solve. The whole DAO space is kinda like that right now.

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@jaesmail

2 years

Social media as we know it is dead. We’re left with algorithmic ad networks. The next wave of social media will look like small groups of friends curating and creating media together, with network-scale interactions dictated by a protocol. Sound familiar? :)

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@jaesmail

2 years

babe you good? you haven’t tweeted any meaningless takes on DAOs lately

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@jaesmail

8 months

Reading PG essays in middle and high school is the reason I work in tech today. It is increasingly isolating being a Palestinian-Muslim working in tech, so seeing someone as influential and widely loved as PG speak to the plight of the Palestinians is refreshing.

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A grim month: 31 Israeli and at least 3600 Palestinian children have been killed since October 7.

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@jaesmail

2 years

i need a crypto conference where everyone goes to bed by 9pm

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@jaesmail

5 years

lol not all of them

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5 years

A unique name is a competitive advantage

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jihad

@jaesmail

9 months

nah this is crazy lol

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jihad

@jaesmail

2 years

What if… not everyone is cut out for contributing to DAOs? What if… people don’t wanna “self manage” or govern they just wanna check some boxes and get paid? I’d argue that’s the vast majority of folks — even of the folks who are in DAOs today.

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@jaesmail

2 years

full-time DAO folks: what’s your daily routine? what personal rituals have you built into your schedule? how do you avoid the chaos of every day looking completely different?

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@jaesmail

3 years

MAMA WE MADE IT

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@jaesmail

2 years

The best cities are walkable. You can get wherever you need to go very easily, take in the scenery, randomly meet folks on the street, etc. What is “walkability” in digital communities?

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@jaesmail

8 months

lol CEO of Figma alienated an entire community of designers bc they wanted civilians to not die

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@jaesmail

7 months

ICYMI: tech bros more outraged over corporate governance drama than genocide

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jihad

@jaesmail

3 years

Twitter has helped me enormously, but I’m now at the point where it’s doing more harm than good. The fact that the web3 space is so dependent on Twitter is a large part of the reason for FOMO-culture... that’s what Twitter incentivizes. Rethinking things for 2022.

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@jaesmail

2 years

DAO tools are getting more funding than DAOs themselves because they’re more legible to VC money. The more legible a DAO tool’s business model, the less likely it’ll succeed in the long run.

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@jaesmail

2 years

DAO categorization only makes sense in the early days. The biggest DAOs will all build protocols, produce media, and provide services. The social layer on top of it all is where the fun really happens.

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@jaesmail

2 years

"DAO" is a scissor label. Outside of protocols, most of the organizations we're building in web3 are Tokenized Communities. This essay attempts to outline what tokenized communities are, what characteristics they embody, and why they're valuable.

Forefront

@forefront__

2 years

🍃Fresh off the press. Web3 has introduced a new type of organization: Tokenized Communities. In this essay, @jaesmail explores what tokenized communities are, what characteristics they hold, and why they are valuable. Read ↳

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@jaesmail

2 years

Every DAO best practice is 10x harder to execute than it seems. The best DAOs do the “simple stuff” right.

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@jaesmail

5 years

I did a research project on the lack of diversity in #entrepreneurship last year. It ended up turning into a study on "why non-white, low-income, and lower-middle-class people don't take risks." Wanted to share it here: /1

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@jaesmail

2 months

@drewcoffman skill issue

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@jaesmail

2 years

The best DAOs are built by members, not founders. The more that founders need to do to keep the network afloat, the less likely it is to succeed.

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@jaesmail

2 years

okay im officially fomo-ing into Denver

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@jaesmail

2 years

so much of crypto thought is limited by the fact that people in this industry only read about crypto

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@jaesmail

3 years

Don’t think anyone could leave MCON and not have absolute conviction that DAOs are going to change the world for the better

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@jaesmail

4 years

COLLEGE STUDENTS ARENT ELIGIBLE FOR THE STIMULUS CHECK LMAOOO F THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

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jihad

@jaesmail

5 years

yo so what am i supposed to do

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@hazarwlabgad

5 years

whenever i get pissed at my parents i remind myself that at least they did not name me jihad

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jihad

@jaesmail

4 years

PSA: Northwestern just gave us free Adobe Creative Cloud for the quarter since we no longer have access to school computers!

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jihad

@jaesmail

2 years

Personal update: After a long bear market of failed jpeg flips, I've decided to leave web3. It's clearly a scam. Follow me for updates as I work in public on my neobank that makes money by shafting poor people and selling their data to actual banks! Oh and I'm moving to SF!

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@jaesmail

3 years

I wonder how many people from college muted me once I started tweeting about DAOs LMAO

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jihad

@jaesmail

4 years

Credit where credit is due, northwestern actually handled this situation pretty well

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@jaesmail

4 years

who’s eager????

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jihad

@jaesmail

2 years

The narrative around NFTs has yet to catch up to the tech. The narrative around DAOs is leaps and bounds ahead of what we’ve built so far.

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@jaesmail

2 years

personal update: i’m raising a $100M crypto fund whose thesis is to only give money to founders who aren’t egomaniacs! i know this will work bc it seems like everyone else is doing the complete opposite! LPs hmu

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@jaesmail

2 years

gonna start a book club for people who like the idea of a book club but won't actually read the book

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@jaesmail

2 years

Ah yes, let me just use my other name!

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jihad

@jaesmail

3 years

Emergent organizations require alignment on values, and supporting public goods is the inherent and necessary outcome of that alignment. Exploring thoughts from Islam, @otherinternet__ , @austinrobey_ , @divine_economy , and more.

Survival of the World-Building Factory

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jihad.mirror.xyz

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@jaesmail

2 years

"DAOs are digital nation-states" isn't a crazy thesis. Big Tech companies are already as powerful as nation-states, they're just universally autocratic. DAOs open up the design space to encourage more democratic governance.

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@jaesmail

2 years

life is a balance between being serious about your goals and not taking yourself too seriously

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@jaesmail

8 months

The implication here is that the Palestinians are either too dumb or too violent to develop their own cities (and ultimately nation). Like… am I being inflammatory? What else could this tweet mean?

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jihad

@jaesmail

2 years

Most investors have no clue how to think about investing in DAOs. Most DAOs have no clue how to positively engage external capital. The DAOs that make it possible for investors to make money while still prioritizing contributors and members will win.

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@jaesmail

1 year

DAOs have a massive supply of funds, with low quality demand (ideas). Creators have limited supply of funds, with high quality supply of ideas. We need to bridge the creator and community economies.

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@jaesmail

2 years

for the record, tokenized communities =/= DAOs some tokenized communities are DAOs. I use the term as a replacement for "social DAOs" because most of them aren't DAOs but all communities are social.

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@jaesmail

5 years

“Northwestern as an institution unequivocally rejects BDS.” “As always, Northwestern remains firmly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.” LOL this is a joke.

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@jaesmail

3 years

BAYC and Punks are incredible communities and signals — but what’s the message? That you got in early? That you were wealthy enough to get in? The real fun will be an NFT community that nails niche, meaningful signaling and values.

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@jaesmail

2 years

Community shouldn’t be an extension of the core team. Core team should be an extension of the community.

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jihad

@jaesmail

1 year

an upscale cafe with a non-alc bar open until 3am with live music and open mics and lots of cozy seating for groups

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@jaesmail

3 years

Building a DAO is more like building a country than building a company

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@jaesmail

3 years

The biggest concern for long-term survival of a DAO: making sure contributor #100000 has the same opportunity for ownership as contributor #1

david phelps 🐮🏰🃏🐘

@divine_economy

3 years

my timeline here is 10 years, not six months—I’m wondering why people keep joining five years from now

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@jaesmail

2 years

my favorite part about DAOs is how there is so much thoughtful discussion around best practices and then nobody implements them and then people are like "see this is why DAOs don't work!"

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@jaesmail

2 years

less DAO to DAO, more DAO with DAO

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@jaesmail

2 months

I am grateful that I get to work with principled technologists every single day who would rather support me to do my best work rather than grilling me because I dared to speak up for my people.

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@lessin

2 months

On the Questions To Ask When Trying to Hire Kids Who are Currently Enrolled at Elite Universities…

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@jaesmail

2 years

I just want to see one – ONE – crypto "takedown" article that considers the perspectives of non-Americans. Like sure, crypto could be a scam/useless/etc. when you're strictly sitting in your White liberal American bubble.

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@jaesmail

13 days

if no consumer crypto app has gone “mainstream” yet, what do all these web3 marketing agencies charging $30k+/mo do exactly?

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@jaesmail

3 years

damn there goes my entire personality

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@jaesmail

9 months

This is a wild and Islamophobic statement. This is not about Jews vs. Muslims, this is about an occupier and an occupied people.

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@shaunmmaguire

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There are ~15M Jews in the world and ~2B Muslims Very quickly the Jewish voice will be drowned out

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2 years

this is the web3 equivalent of a snow day

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@jaesmail

2 years

Keep coming back to this essay. Mind blown on every read. Who’s down for a hyperstructures discussion group?

jacob

@js_horne

2 years

New essay: Hyperstructures The nature of crypto protocols opens up expansive new models to create free, invaluable and unstoppable public infrastructure. I define Hyperstructures, and why they will form the basis of the internet for decades to come.

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@jaesmail

2 years

I don’t think you understand what solarpunk means

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@IanCinnamon

2 years

Announcing @VillageGlobal ’s Solarpunk Podcast Series— focused on space, defense, and technology 🎙 @LucasBagnocv & I kick off the series w/ @wolfejosh , founder and GP @Lux_Capital , who funded @anduriltech , @saildrone , @epsilon3inc , @appliedInt , & more

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@jaesmail

1 year

We’d be 10 years ahead as an ecosystem if everyone in crypto was forced to go to business school lol

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@jaesmail

2 years

One of the first markets that DAOs will absolutely dominate is the consulting market. DAOs will not only own 50%+ of this market in the next 10 years, they'll also grow it at an insane rate as more folks realize worker-ownership is the way.

Shaan Puri

@ShaanVP

2 years

First, it will be some ole fashioned "kiss your cousin" incest. Stage 1: Crypto companies will hire serviceDAOs to do work for them. Stage 2: Eventually you'll see ServiceDAOs working with traditional companies. They will eat into the $250B+ consulting market.

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@jaesmail

3 years

DAOs are open source organizations.

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@jaesmail

3 years

Negotiating with DAOs? Not fun. Not fun at all.

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@jaesmail

8 months

A child got murdered in his own home in Chicago today. A Palestinian-Muslim kid. His landlord killed him, and critically injured his mom, saying “you Muslims must die.” That’s the direct impact of the propaganda being spewed on this app and around the world. Allah yarhamo

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@jaesmail

5 months

I turn 25 today. Back home with family and feeling blessed. At least 10k children have been killed in Gaza over the last 109 days — they’ll never see the age of 25. For my birthday, consider making a donation to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.

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@jaesmail

3 years

We like the koala spies @KoalaAgencyNFT

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@jaesmail

2 years

i wonder if all the people on my feed will go back to talking about roam research now

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@jaesmail

9 months

Zora Rewards just handed a bunch of consumer crypto founders a business model on a silver platter.

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@jaesmail

2 years

It feels like we're missing this massive category of media between "crypto 101" and "thinkboi pieces about modular blockchains and DAO contributor funnels." What are the web3 topics and stories that aren't reaching the people who need to hear about them?

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@jaesmail

5 years

“is there a ji-... is there a mr. esmail in the room?”

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@jaesmail

8 months

The tech community is roasting PG for simply observing the atrocities in Gaza. He didn’t even take a stance. Tells you all you need to know.

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8 months

There's one thing everyone agrees on: "We are using fire that has never been seen before in the Gaza Strip." — IDF officer "There was a huge bombardment in the north of Gaza strip on a scale we’ve never seen before." — BBC reporter

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I feel like everyone is afraid to just flat out say that people in crypto – at least most builders and people with money – aren't cool. I think a lot of the mechanisms for funding art and culture we've built are pretty interesting and novel! But that doesn't matter because

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Crypto has been so dissapointing in terms of allocating capital to intelligent longer term creative endeavors and new platforms, that aim to reach beyond the echo chamber of 500 men. Perhaps there will be a second look at funding and business models but I’m not optimistic rn.

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@jaesmail

2 years

What’s in your cart for @gitcoin GR13? I got: - @TheDAOist_ - @chaserchapman (OTOS) - @cbahub - @commonsstack - @surge_women - @DreamDAO_ ...what am I missing?

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@jaesmail

2 years

who wants to get paid to write ecosystem-defining essays on tokenized communities pls DM me

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@jaesmail

3 years

Questions to ask yourself: - If Israel truly wanted a two state solution, why don’t they allow for free economic development in the occupied West Bank? - If the occupation was truly a safety concern, why doesn’t Israel allow NGOs to step in?

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@jaesmail

3 years

Yesterday, @jackbutcher minted "HR 3684," an NFT whose proceeds will be donated to @coincenter to continue defending open blockchain networks in the U.S. Minutes later, we launched a PartyBid (PartyPAC) to collectively bid on the NFT. I'm slowly realizing the significance...

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@jaesmail

3 years

Currently working on a subDAO proposal for a couple of DAOs and wow... the design space is so wide open. Regulation is annoying, coordination is hard, but there’s still soooo much left to explore it’s unreal.

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2 months

It’s really disturbing that people in tech either: 1. Accept the violent politics of their idols or 2. Just don’t care For all the talk in tech about “agency,” the majority of this industry looks no further than their career.

Veena Dubal

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Critically important piece by @gilduran76 about what the wealthiest & most powerful people in San Francisco, including Balaji, are envisioning for our futures.

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4 years

Thank God I never went to office hours!

The Daily Northwestern

@thedailynu

4 years

Four staff members at the Kellogg Global Hub have now tested positive for COVID-19. There’s been six cases total on the Evanston campus.

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@jaesmail

3 years

This time feels so different. Can’t let this energy die. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

agitator in chief

@soit_goes

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Chicago's Palestine solidarity March is several thousand strong and is half a mile long.

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3 years

these words... they mean nothing

Yahoo Finance

@YahooFinance

3 years

Dropbox founder: we are gearing up for the metaverse by @BrianSozzi

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@jaesmail

2 years

re: Vitalik’s DAO essay I think we’ll see: 1) DAOs that look like governments (protocols) 2) Tokenized communities (funding) 3) Companies, Service DAOs, and projects (building) We’ll increasingly see protocol DAOs separate capital allocation from protocol governance.

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@jaesmail

9 months

Anyone can mint anything on @ourZORA for free – the first collector pays gas to bring it onchain. In exchange, the first collector gets a share of protocol rewards in perpetuity. We built a site that helps you spot First Mint opportunities and earn more by supporting new (and

Forefront

@forefront__

9 months

Mint fast. Earn more! // Powered by @ourzora rewards

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@jaesmail

1 year

Sometimes you need to write essays as a reminder to yourself. I took some time to reflect on self-promotion, intentionality, and ego on the internet.

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@jaesmail

3 years

Ingredients for a successful DAO: 1. Awesome people 2. An uncomfortably ambitious mission 3. Strong dedication to shitposting If you have all 3, you will win. See: OlympusDAO

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2 years

Corporations tend toward monopoly. DAOs tend toward forks.

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@jaesmail

2 years

Idea: What if Forefront hosted debates between web3 thinkbois/girls. Audience votes on winner. Loser gets a non-transferrable loser NFT sent to their wallets.

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2 years

sometimes I’m like “damn everyone has done so much in their careers i’m so behind” and then i realize i’m a child

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