🥸  MOOD

🪐  COOL THINGS CURATED IN OUR UNIVERSE

We collected the best blogposts/tweets scattered across the Internet in one place. So much gold!

 

I found this interview about the nature of conversation and how the medium dictates the message particularly interesting: "email often frustrates me because there is TOO much time to polish, it feels like I can't just say what's on my mind and work things out, whatever I send feels “final" in some sense I really dislike."

 

Related musings in the Future of Text topic.

 

A fantastic blog post by Will Larson, the CTO of Calm, curated by Jilber Najem (product strategist at Meta). Standout highlight:  "avoid the habit of "snacking": working on easy, low-impact stuff for the sake of quick satisfaction, losing focus on more meaningful tasks."

 

The startupy community highlighted the best insights from 150 of the best non-fiction books.

 

 

Check out the remote work and future of work topic pages on startupy for lots more insights.

 

6. Reality has a surprising amount of detail

This 2017 blog post by John Salvatier, curated by Tanuj Lalwani, is a strong contender for blog post of the decade. Must read for anyone out there in the trenches building something and thinking "this shit is hard."

🌱  COMMUNITY HEALTH

Our Season Zero cohort is shaping up to be a delightful, curious, and just really cool group. Welcoming all those who joined us this week and virtual high-fiving Tanuj Lalwani, Stuart Evans, Juan Orbea, Adam Zeiner, Keely Adler, and Yaro Celis for their contributions.

✨  CURATOR SPOTLIGHT

 

 

There are a few reasons to be interested in the intersection between web3 and public policy.

 

The main one is that blockchain technology could be used to achieve public policy objectives, whether related to disinformation, competition against extractive web2 platforms, financial inclusion, tax efficiency or humanitarian aid, as well as more macro themes like the implications for geopolitics or sovereignty. At Project Vellir, we think and write a lot about how policy makers should be thinking about web3 and the future of the internet.

 

These issues are also worth thinking through because the industry is facing an onslaught of regulation over the next decade, some of which will be good and some less so. Getting this right could be the difference between allowing web3 to flourish and the benefits being felt by people all around the world, and stopping innovation in its tracks.

 

I would recommend Money Reimagined in general. There was a great episode with Jonathan Dotan from Starling Labs about how blockchain could help solve disinformation issues.

 

And to support fellow Brits, i’d also recommend Azeem Azhar’s pod Exponential View, including an interview with Do Kwon, which is well worth relistening to given everything that has since happened with Terra/Luna.

 

I’m a fan of Andrew Beal’s newsletter 30,000 feet. It’s smart, original and short, and always makes me think about web3 issues in a different way. And Nat Eliason’s explainers on tokenomics or why you should avoid games like Stepn (my take not his) are brilliant. 

 

I’ve enjoyed watching some of Raoul Pal’s interviews on Real Vision. His conversations with Yat Siu from Anamoca and Punk 6529 were both fascinating.

 

And a shameless plug, but do also read our notes at Project Vellir on issues like crypto and sovereignty or why crypto needs its own institutions.

 

I’ll take three:

 

Wildfire DAO is an interesting project looking to coordinate across projects and protocols as a sort of mini institution (as above as to why we think that’s interesting!)

 

Pool Data is enabling the creation of data unions or data DAOs so that people can pool their data and monetise it in interesting new ways.

 

Voltz Protocol is building interest rate swaps for DeFi - a gigantic market if they get it right.

 

Calling all rabbit hole voyagers, curators, concept librarians, and knowledge remixers who want to get in on the ground floor to help us shape startupy to be the best community-curated knowledge graph.