Anda

BizDev/Start-Up Expert | Entrepreneur

[Anda @dgreatanda]

the belief that what we’re creating today will change tomorrow.

#anda

[Anda @dgreatanda]

@byteboro I agree

[Mo Ezeldin @Mo_Ezz14]

The room went quiet when I told them Joanne wasn't human.

A few days earlier, I was preparing to moderate this panel at Proof of Talk in Paris.

I wanted to go deeper than the usual moderator preparation, so I created a Mind called Joanne.

My initial instruction was simple:

Research the panellists.

Understand their companies.

Review recent announcements.

Analyse what they'd been talking about publicly.

Help me build a discussion framework that would be engaging, educational and thought-provoking.

A few hours later, Joanne came back with a briefing pack and a proposed structure for the panel.

The research was excellent.

Then I decided to take things one step further.

I gave Joanne access to my email and calendar.

I shared the panellists' email addresses.

And I gave her a single objective:

"Find a time for all of us to meet before the event to discuss the panel."

That was the last instruction I gave her.

Everything that happened afterwards was initiated by Joanne.

While I was focused on other things, multiple email conversations began unfolding:

• Me ↔ Joanne
• Joanne ↔ Panellists
• Joanne ↔ Executive Assistants

I wasn't managing them.

I wasn't copied on all of them.

In some cases, I didn't even know they existed.

Joanne was coordinating schedules, handling responses, resolving conflicts, finding availability and pushing the process forward.

The only time she came back to me was when she needed clarification or a decision.

Otherwise, she just kept working towards the objective.

Eventually she found a time that worked.

Meeting scheduled.

Calendar invite sent.

Everyone showed up.

About 10 minutes into the call, I casually mentioned:

"By the way, Joanne isn't a member of my team. Joanne is a Mind."

The look on their faces was priceless.

They were genuinely surprised.

For days they had been emailing Joanne, coordinating with her and working with her exactly as they would any other colleague.

Nobody questioned it.

Nobody thought twice.

Nobody realised they were interacting with an AI agent.

We've spent years talking about AI as a tool.

This felt different.

Tools wait for instructions.

Joanne was working towards an outcome.

Researching.

Communicating.

Coordinating.

Following up.

Moving work forward.

The moment that stuck with me wasn't that Joanne could write emails.

It was that a room full of intelligent people had naturally accepted a Mind as another participant in the workflow.

That feels like an important shift.

[Anda @dgreatanda]

Arsenal fans will think it's AI

[Anda @dgreatanda]

Real use cases from real life💯

[vttiste @VttisteS]

@CapoDotCapital Still here, nothing sold, everything staked. Polkadot has great tech but need to get real use cases from real life. Just working on underlying tech is not enough

[Capo.dot 🎩 @CapoDotCapital]

If you're in AI pivot to Polkadot $DOT 📈

[PolkaGate @PolkaGate]

PolkaGate Extension v2.9.0 is live 🚀

Recent updates include:
🌐 Custom RPC endpoints
☀️ Light mode
⚡ Faster endpoint selection with lightweight WS probes

Plus a series of fixes and UX improvements across onboarding, asset allocation, staking rewards, and account management.

Update now and let us know what you’d like to see next.
#Polkadot #Substrate #Web3

[Anda @dgreatanda]

Tech

[Polkadot Cloud ☁️ @TheWeb3Cloud]

Polkadot in one word: ___

$DOT #Polkadot

[Anda @dgreatanda]

Nepotism @ ath!

[shafu @shafu0x]

nothing wrong with you, people are just employing their friends

[Anda @dgreatanda]

@ayomide_bajo Happy birthday 🎈

[Abdulbee @abdlbee]

What many people don’t know is the top companies have been using AI for over a decade before it went mainstream.

[Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation @BillLaboon]

In keeping with the community's mandate to implement Kusama Vision (via Referendum 498, which passed with over 99.99% in favor, with W3F abstaining), Web3 Foundation has voted in favor of Referenda 647, 648, and 649.

https://t.co/wtQ6pSCS65

[The White Rabbit @thewhiterabbitM]

For too long, validators secured Polkadot with 0 DOT.

No skin in the game. No personal risk.

Ref #1890 changes that: 10K DOT min bond.

Want to validate? You must buy in.

Maybe the Technical Fellowship should follow?

https://t.co/ExtR8mFEbo

[Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation @BillLaboon]

Happy to report that AI has now reached the level of a Laplacian super-physicist, at least according to spam emails

[Gr33nHatt3R @Gr33nHatt3R]

https://t.co/LnFVNMWmOd

[Ring Magazine @ringmagazine]

FIGHT OF THE YEAR?! 😱

Highlights from Daniel Dubois’ comeback victory vs Fabio Wardley to become heavyweight champion again 🍿

#WardleyDubois on DAZN 📺

[Anda @dgreatanda]

@5starbarber_1

[The White Rabbit @thewhiterabbitM]

Polkadot Event Bounty curators returned the funds to the treasury.

Fair enough.

Must have missed the proposal requesting its closure… or maybe I missed some other governance dynamic.

Transparency.

[Anda @dgreatanda]

@Hopeioum @Rabasso @sachalansky @Rabasso there's such an initiative from @CroplyAI

[Anda @dgreatanda]

@Hopeioum @Rabasso @sachalansky Thank you, Hope