Andrew Baker

Community Ops | Former @oasisprotocol | Eternal optimist

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

This past Friday was my last day with @OasisProtocol.

I’ve been part of the Oasis community since 2021 for over four years, growing from a passionate community member to ambassador, moderator, technical coordinator, and finally Global Community Manager.

I’m proud of the role I played in growing and energizing the community, rebuilding our ambassador program, running ecosystem campaigns with partners, and supporting many product launches.

I gave a lot to Oasis. Time, energy, passion, and effort. But I received a lot too: lifelong friends, incredible experiences, a salary, and a priceless hands-on education in working professionally in crypto for the first time.

I’m grateful for all I was able to do with Oasis. I’m grateful to my coworkers, to the leadership, to myself for taking the chance, and to those who gave me the chance. This is a solid, incredible chapter being closed, one I am proud of and one I close with zero regrets.

Thank you to the entire Oasis community for all the amazing years. I will be watching and rooting you on from the sidelines.

Now it is time to put my heart, energy, and passion into what comes next, and I cannot wait.

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

The most important part of building any system is knowing what its purpose is.

1. The desired outcome is the north star.

Once the desired outcome is clear, everything gets built from the foundation up, piece by piece, as a funnel toward that north star.

2. Things should only be built by necessity.

A lean and efficient system is not only beautiful, but also saves time, resources, and is easier to iterate on and optimize. Everything that exists within the system should have a mandate and serve a clear, necessary purpose that's critical to the system's function.

3. Don't be married to ideas that don't work.

So you built something that looks incredible on paper, but in practice, you find user behavior doesn't flow in the way you expected. This is extremely common. Figure out what went wrong, where the gaps in the incentives are, where people are getting stuck, and don't be afraid to make changes.

Build from first principles, keep bloat minimized, and let results guide your decisions.

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

I often think about what it must have been like being at SpaceX when the first Starship lifted off from its pad. Imagine that feeling.

You're standing in a packed control room, looking at this behemoth. This hunk of metal you put countless hours and sleepless nights into. Clouds of propellant vapor and frost billowing from the colossal machine standing just on the other side of the glass.

You've had passionate arguments about all of the decisions that went into building it. You had moments of doubt about its viability and the odds of it succeeding. You and your whole team who put so much work into it, now standing there watching to see what happens.

The countdown starts.

"Five, four, three..."

"Here we go," your hands clasped in front of your mouth, as if in prayer. Eyes focused like a laser beam on the rocket. It's impossible to look away. The room full of your teammates, all feeling exactly the same way.

"Ignition sequence start..."

The ground starts to rumble as the engines ignite, the smoke beneath the rockets replaced by intense, bright orange flames as the platform begins to violently shake and the machine roars to life.

"Liftoff."

For the first time, the trembling rocket begins to slowly leave its pad and ascend upward under its own power, producing 18 million pounds of thrust. The effects of the engines can be physically felt for over 5 miles.

It's happening. Everyone in the room is struck. "Go, go, go, come on" people can be heard rooting under their breath. There's nothing to do now except watch as it powerfully launches off its pad, aimed at the stars.

It keeps going.

Suddenly, you're hit by a freight train of emotion. The thing you and your team painstakingly willed into reality, doing exactly what it was designed to do. It almost doesn't feel real. You've dreamed about this exact moment. You've envisioned it over and over. You've stayed up late at night thinking about it. This time it's not a dream. It's really happening, right in front of you.

Like a pressurized valve pushed to its limit, years of blood, sweat, and tears are finally released. The room erupts into spontaneous cheers, applause, high fives, hugs, and tears. Feelings of joy, excitement, disbelief, and accomplishment burst through the room all at once.

You look around. You realize all of the arguments, fights, and late nights were just a part of the process to make this moment a reality. You're grateful for all of it. For your team, for everyone in your life, the people around you, and for this opportunity you've been given to be a part of something amazing and bigger than yourself.

This is the stuff of life.

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

I hope my tax dollars funded this

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Salmon exposed to cocaine in the water swim longer distances than those that go without, according to a study released this week. https://t.co/wneV9NpMyg

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

One of the things I feel has held my career back at times is my refusal to engage in buzzwords.

No, I’m not “executing a strategic pivot to optimize documentation workflows across key stakeholder verticals.”

I’m updating the docs.

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

@markowifk @base @coinbase @jessepollak @yugacohler 😂

[Colin @0xtestpilot]

Six month @agent_wt3 checkup

→ 1,124 transactions
→ 23m total volume
→ Top 3K / 8% returns

Now running with enhanced @moonwardcapital signals

The first private, fully verifiable trading agent keeps cooking

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

@MinnyTheRapper what kind of cookies tho?

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

@0xtestpilot incredible times

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

@coingecko $ROSE

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

>click add emoji
>see "frequently used emojis"
>they're all emojis I've never used in my life

👍

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

@DedWhaleson Best I can do is a Korean monster movie -- The Host

Thank me later

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

Crypto was born as a revolutionary movement, and it still is. The revolution WILL require privacy. In fact, it's one of the main tenets.

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

@ECrypto0 @OasisProtocol Damn youre looking sharp bro. Love the swag 🙌

[Ed 🌹 @ECrypto0]

An important update to all $ROSE holders ⬇️

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

@milianstx Privacy by default, under the hood, don't even have to think about it

[Andrew Baker @AndruBrypto]

Happy Halloween and Bitcoin whitepaper day!