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You might have heard of 1000 true fans: hardcore diehard fans that will do anything to support you. Having 1000 true fans is an alternative path to a success but it’s also a more like outcome than trying to hit a lottery with a bestseller of your creation. I have also read enough about 10000 followers: where the first 10k followers are the hardest for one’s growth on the social media platform and it’s crucial to have the right audience. Not necessarily, die hard followers but committed ones. I’ve also stumbled upon 1 true believer, 1 reply guy aaaand your brand as the most amazing 1 brand.
There reasoning for that is simple as I’m leveraging all what other mentioned approaches have yet applying it to what matters the most. I’m not sure about you but I know I need connections and relationships in my life. And simply, the greater the quality of those - the greater my life is. Although, they are usually formed around some common area of interest, great quality relationships of all kind they extend beyond that initial realm. Moving on into core meta intricacies that are going to be defining concrete and actionable steps later on.
First of all, connecting for the sake of connecting. And while there’s nothing wrong with asking for some favors, getting some benefits or offering your services to someone from the get go - that’s not the approach that I’m talking about and remember that there’s some room for flexibility. My usual guides are curiosity or inspiration. I just listen to those and go from there. It might end up look like me asking a question about someone’s work, their outfit, our common interest, their idea that is contrary to mine or me sharing how they’ve inspired me, even though it might be our first time talking or chatting. That also means that this type of connecting is not going to always work out. On the contrary, sometimes people might not respond, sometimes they might not be willing to engage into a deeper conversation or just don’t react at all for whatever their reasons. What matters is what I have a choice over - my action - and where that is initiating from: my preferences are curiosity or inspiration.
Besides this intimate approach, I’m letting additional qualities such as humor and uplifted energy shine in groups settings. It fosters a different level of connection and facilitates a nice core common ground where people are familiar with each other so it’s more safe and pleasant for both parties to engage in more intimate, smaller group or 1on1 chats.
Ultimately, there’s no one fits all rule. Yet it’s important to take time to explore oneself and become aware of one’s purposes for connecting through a practice of noticing and then experiment with various approaches.
Enough of this meta personal perspective, let’s get to more concrete and actionable steps. While it’s applicable in life, this is an illustration of how I’m going to be choosing being more intentional in my process of fostering my strong quality connections within web3 as an example.
Starting with finding good communities or taking note of already existing communities I am a part of. Partially with some luck, I’m already a part of EVMavericks (Mainnet DAO) and ethfinance subreddit. I’ve met some amazing people in there and with some I still have yet to connect. Reaching out to some from whom I’d like to learn more about their passions, their perspectives, history and lessons within crypto and what excites them! With others, I’d like to talk more about some degen stuff, art and life events.
I’m also looking into new communities such as mfers or being active in the other ones that I have access too such as ethlizards, Neo Tokyo, Art related discords, etcetera. Looking also into people and new different communities in those good discords and on twitter with people who I resonate with.
Being part of many other chats and groups let’s me have access to many other people yet it’s important for me to be more intentional and connect with people who share my values even within the crypto space. Remember, it’s about the actions that we choose to take regardless of outcomes.
Looking forward to my new future genuine connections and strengthening my existing friendships!
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What is one of your favorite things you have ever written? Please link in comment and I’ll look forward to reading some words from some of you who read some of mine. Don’t overthink it, just link it. Thanks
https://open.substack.com/pub/kaloh/p/are-nfts-a-modern-tulip-mania?r=lqmc2&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Thanks, learned more about tulip mania. Question: did the value of the bulbs fluctuate based on age like a car would on mileage but with an accelerated timeline? “comparing NFTs to tulips is like comparing apples to pears” — it’s at least apples and oranges haha Satire was more sophisticated back then:
https://www.philmohun.com/full-time-part-time/
Nice framework. Particularly liked these bullets at the end. Found myself using not completely accurate but 1-word hooks for the 4 types of projects, in order — commitments, jobs, hobbies, experiments — jobs feels like the weakest fit for short-term full-time but the rest seem reasonably representative I think
Thanks. That’s the issue with the post — it’s not catchy enough. Maybe I’ll refactor it someday.
https://paragraph.xyz/@kanfa/ip-protocols-part-1
Universes as protocols, Emotional Value Locked, I like the analogies here. And the contrasting of restricted vs permissionless protocols. Thanks for sharing
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I like this article, and think there could be great potential: https://kaizendao.com/medias/next-step-nft-utility/
Thanks, somewhat intriguing though not sure I fully understand. One or two simple examples of how you could envision this being used in practice might help myself and others, but of course can leave it as is and maybe someone sharper than I and motivated in this specific domain will stumble upon on it and run with it
Not sure if my “favorite” but this is a gem back from 2010 https://www.businessinsider.com/57-things-ive-learned-founding-3-tech-companies-2010-10
Thanks for sharing. There’s some glitchiness with that link so here’s an archived link for those who want to read without the struggle: https://archive.is/2GZC5
This is really good, but the page seems to have annoying loading errors
2015 Tweetstorm re: Twitter https://twitter.com/betashop/status/551371900526395392?s=46&t=1d3oeft7YJ1_vY8fckCCEQ
Seems like you wanted Twitter to be a bit more like… Farcaster
https://www.amazon.com/Leaving-Arizona-Justin-Hunter/dp/1952050022/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=edfd7195-552f-43a7-91b2-a9b7707a30ef
Free sample?
A lot of the literary magazines that published the original short stories are now defunct, but here is one of the stories from the collection: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/56812724/issue-10-january-2017/33
https://www.amazon.com/Leaving-Arizona-Justin-Hunter/dp/1952050022/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=edfd7195-552f-43a7-91b2-a9b7707a30ef
https://caseyjr.org/2015/01/26/life-to-come/
This must be cool to reflect on as now the father of an 8 year old(?) boy. Part of what I like most about writing and publishing online has nothing to do with sharing but is simply that it enables me to someday go back and read from my younger perspective, and for my kids or their kids to do the same. Awesome passage:
Thanks! It’s the stuff man. Love your approach to publishing. Been more discriminating with mine, though that may have been to my detriment.
Love the idea of passing along a collection of books that helped shape you. Having recently become a parent I’ve thought about books I loved growing up but not taking as far as starting a little collection to pass on. I think I’ll change that
It would also be nice to create a playlist, wide and varied, so you can leave a sound.
Great cast prompt 🫡 https://www.wysr.xyz/p/harvard-business-school-a-veteran
Thanks, I remember reading this around the time I first got on Farcaster. I don’t remember all that it was about but I remember I was glad I read it!
Really appreciate that!
I wanna share this post/article that I originally wrote in January. Let me know whatever resonates or comes up for you. And as always, I'm sooo down to connect so feel free to reach out! https://paragraph.xyz/@696eth/100-friends