85% of writing a book is not really the writing itself.
It's thinking.
And then organizing the thinking.
"The writing" is the last mile of stylistic edits.
But no amount of stylistic edits can take the place of writing with poor thinking.
More than ever, Web3 companies & creators need help.
And this bear market rewards those who:
• Keep showing their worth.
• Keep doing cool shit online.
• Keep doing stuff no one can ignore.
Your content is your job insurance.
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You can't beat the top creators at their own game.
They have 10x your experience, network, and skills.
But you can outperform most people at any game by doing one thing:
Be creative.
Let everyone else drown in productive tactics and read on:
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If you’re interested in Twitter growth, here’s another helpful thread template I recommend checking out:
The Lessons Learned Thread
This template thrives on The Golden Intersection:
• Share a lesson learned
• And a personal story of how you learned it
Why is ERC6551 an important building block?
(Long Form Tweet: on a section from my latest essay)
If we think of NFTs like packets of data that are stored immutably on the blockchain, then any action that is taken in the digital world could be memorialized as an NFT on the blockchain.
For example, let’s imagine how this might work for a loyalty program.
+ You are a part of the loyalty program of a popular coffee chain. In that ecosystem, you have an NFT profile picture that represents you in that ecosystem’s digital space.
+ Because you are an active community member, you get rewarded with (different) NFTs that serve as badges for your accomplishments. Actions that you take, such as buying a coffee, engaging in a community contest, posting x-number of times in a forum, etc can all be memorialized as NFTs — think of these as digital receipts for your actions.
+ Those NFTs representing your accomplishments are normally sent to your wallet. But there is no direct link to the NFT profile picture, which means there is a break between your identity (the NFT profile picture) and the actions you took (digital receipts). Also, once you get more badges, the user experience around your wallet becomes pretty clunky.
+ With ERC6551, the NFTs that represent your participation in the loyalty program can be owned or attached to your NFT profile picture instead. And as you participate in different loyalty programs, with ERC6551, you have “different drawers for the receipts you receive across different ecosystems.”
The big idea is that ERC6551 enables provenance at the NFT level. With provenance enabled at the NFT level, anyone else can take this provenance information, further segment it and build other things on top.
For example, if another coffee chain wants to reward the NFTs that have collected a set number or specific types of badges from the first coffee chain, they can do so easily in a world with ERC6551.
The 1st step of any ghostwriting engagement:
-Audit-
• Do they have a podcast?
• Do they have a newsletter?
• Have they written a book?
• Do they regularly write on social media?
• Have they appeared on other people’s podcasts?
• Etc.
All this is "approved content."
Volume wins.
But publishing is like playing the lottery.
No one knows what'll happen.
So, what's the strategy?
Publish more.
And answering one of these 5 writing prompts could be the winning ticket that lands you on the front page of Reddit.
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Reminder to self:
Focus is not about giving something more of your attention—it's about giving everything else less.
And this often requires giving up an uncomfortably large number of things so you can give the main thing your attention.
GM to 🫵
What is the @azurbala reawakening about?
Dropped an essay highlighting lessons from the turnaround of Azurbala, from v1 art reveal that caused backlash to the revamp of the project.
🧵 tomorrow (snippet below)
Only the fierce 👇
Helpful reframe for beginner writers:
You do not need to be an expert to write about something.
You just need to be one step ahead of someone else (and help them take that next step).
It's why 3rd graders always love to learn from 4th graders (rather than 8th graders).
Gm to 🫵
Protocols aren't always technical
Protocols = rules of engagement, frameworks, set of instructions that ties something together
Opepen is a Meta Protocol in this sense, it's a framework for others to build upon ... which has inspired a community to create
00': Brands thought they were at the starting point of influence.
10': Brands started attaching themselves to existing cultural contexts.
20': Brands co-create culture, representing an experience rather than an image.
Something I commonly overestimate:
How many things I can take on at once.
Something I commonly underestimate:
How much effort it takes to do one thing well.
I helped a tiny bit with this beast of a decentralized writing project
it's been amazing to watch it come together and now see it in the wild
ginormous props to @tinyrevver for her relentless work as the head editor on it
I've never once scheduled a tweet yet have 330k followers
People say you need systems to build an audience
Idk, I prefer the raw rush of real-time inspiration
I don't:
- wait for peak traffic hours
- curate content way in advance
- Schedule tweets
Way more fun this way.