Thinkin about how a lot of younger artists nowadays are drawing and finishing way more pieces now than a lot of artists throughout history have done in their lifetime only for all that effort to culminate in a singular moment of uploading it to social media and starting all over
If you could redesign and fully customize your university education, what would it look like?
Mine:
- Comp Sci
- Public speaking
- How to build a team
- How to work with a team
- Digital marketing & brand building
- Accounting basics (balance sheet, taxes, mortgages, etc)
improving your art doesn't mean you have to *just* practice drawing. Whatever else you pursue in life adds to that repertoire. Did you study architecture? Great, now you have a leg up on backgrounds. Dance? Now you can better understand the movement and the feeling behind it
There will always be people in your life who will throw stones in your path, but only you can decide if you're going to build a wall or bridge with them. Always remember you have a choice and that you're the architect of your life. Build yourself a good one.
I'm long on people who actually give a shit about the long-term values, mission and ethos of the crypto industry Mercenaries and profit maximalists have their place but short-termism is just so uninteresting
We are Recruiting and going to choose a few very special people to test an alpha of an NFT app we have intel on that’s dropping in a couple days. If you really love NFTs let me hear your war cry and it could be you. This is the way.
The market consistently underestimates category leaders and overestimates the odds sub-scale competitors will catch up, or even noticeably hurt them. Those with the greatest scale can economically justify reinvesting the most in product, R&D, tech, talent. Scale begets scale.
Back in the days when the previous team did a dutch auction, these hit the minimum price and not many people were minting. I minted 500 of them to show support. Slowly they minted out, and people were laughing at me for giving more free money to cole, I guess kindness pays off.