Photo by Steve Johnson on UnsplashQuotes are taken from The $12 Million Stuffed Shark by Donald Thompson. St. Martin’s Publishing GroupHow pricing art is correlated with human insecurities"Judging art is supposed to have less to do with the content of a work and more to do with an instinctive sense for what the artist has to say. Kirsten Ward, who is a physician and psychologist, says that art has the greatest impact when it makes the thinking part of the brain talk to the feeling part." "The...

Photo by Steve Johnson on UnsplashQuotes are taken from The $12 Million Stuffed Shark by Donald Thompson. St. Martin’s Publishing GroupHow pricing art is correlated with human insecurities"Judging art is supposed to have less to do with the content of a work and more to do with an instinctive sense for what the artist has to say. Kirsten Ward, who is a physician and psychologist, says that art has the greatest impact when it makes the thinking part of the brain talk to the feeling part." "The...

Follow inspiring thinkers and creators on Twitter. Definitely follow people that have the same passions as you. For me, that’s poetry and music.Engage on Twitter. Share your journey! Comments, likes, and retweets are all free but use them wisely! Be a cheerleader for someone and uplift other people’s work.DM artists or collectors. Get in touch with people you're genuinely interested in learning from. Ask thoughtful questions that inspire thoughtful answers and meaningful conversations. D...

Follow inspiring thinkers and creators on Twitter. Definitely follow people that have the same passions as you. For me, that’s poetry and music.Engage on Twitter. Share your journey! Comments, likes, and retweets are all free but use them wisely! Be a cheerleader for someone and uplift other people’s work.DM artists or collectors. Get in touch with people you're genuinely interested in learning from. Ask thoughtful questions that inspire thoughtful answers and meaningful conversations. D...

Turn off DMs from server members Spam messages are unfortunately a major problem and also a source of scams on Discord. Go to a server dropdown menu, click 'Privacy Settings' and turn off "Allow direct messages from server members.Learn to use the Quick Switcher keyboard shortcut CTRL+K, or ⌘+K This keyboard shortcut allows you to quickly navigate to your favorite channels in Discord. In no time you'll be using this to breeze through your alpha channels to stay in the know. Lea...

Turn off DMs from server members Spam messages are unfortunately a major problem and also a source of scams on Discord. Go to a server dropdown menu, click 'Privacy Settings' and turn off "Allow direct messages from server members.Learn to use the Quick Switcher keyboard shortcut CTRL+K, or ⌘+K This keyboard shortcut allows you to quickly navigate to your favorite channels in Discord. In no time you'll be using this to breeze through your alpha channels to stay in the know. Lea...

Whether you use a pseudonym, grace us with your irl face, or rock your favorite NFT, the power of web3 is that the choice is ultimately up to us! Here are a few—but certainly not all—reasons why we change our pfps. To hide our irl identity for privacy The vast range of activities on the internet has expanded so much that we are living almost all of our lives online. Working, playing, socializing, and more are all experienced on the same screen. Having a separate identity between work and play...

Whether you use a pseudonym, grace us with your irl face, or rock your favorite NFT, the power of web3 is that the choice is ultimately up to us! Here are a few—but certainly not all—reasons why we change our pfps. To hide our irl identity for privacy The vast range of activities on the internet has expanded so much that we are living almost all of our lives online. Working, playing, socializing, and more are all experienced on the same screen. Having a separate identity between work and play...

Curious Addys' goal is to become the one-stop-shop educational learning app for NFT beginners!Their main goal is to become the 'Duolingo' of the NFT space where people who are new to NFTs can learn about the culture, the community, crypto slang, practice buying and selling NFTs, and more. Led by Ben and Mai, both combined have vast experience in the tech industry and crypto industry. Mai was previously a senior engineer at a Silicon Valley startup and VP President of Marketing ...

Curious Addys' goal is to become the one-stop-shop educational learning app for NFT beginners!Their main goal is to become the 'Duolingo' of the NFT space where people who are new to NFTs can learn about the culture, the community, crypto slang, practice buying and selling NFTs, and more. Led by Ben and Mai, both combined have vast experience in the tech industry and crypto industry. Mai was previously a senior engineer at a Silicon Valley startup and VP President of Marketing ...

Time in web3 is weirdWhile the days can feel long, the NFT space moves really fast. Participating in a drop last week can feel like a decade ago. A lot of the time it’s difficult to not only sift through the information but to also really absorb and comprehend it—at least that’s how it’s been for me. To help process each day, I’m embarking on a #ship30for30 challenge where I’ll be writing 30 atomic essays, or micro-essays less than 300 words, about web3 and NFT related content. Here’s what I ...

Time in web3 is weirdWhile the days can feel long, the NFT space moves really fast. Participating in a drop last week can feel like a decade ago. A lot of the time it’s difficult to not only sift through the information but to also really absorb and comprehend it—at least that’s how it’s been for me. To help process each day, I’m embarking on a #ship30for30 challenge where I’ll be writing 30 atomic essays, or micro-essays less than 300 words, about web3 and NFT related content. Here’s what I ...

the Eponym I minted called 'sumptuous'Last week, luck brought me the special chance to mint an Eponym! Eponym by ART AI is an elegant text-to-art generative algorithm that turns any words or phrases into beautiful pieces of 1/1 art. How it works:You input your own selection of words or phrasesAI creates art based on your text inputYou decide to either mint that piece or keep regenerating until you find one mint worthyWhen I jumped on, mints were in the last 1000 so I was on a missio...

the Eponym I minted called 'sumptuous'Last week, luck brought me the special chance to mint an Eponym! Eponym by ART AI is an elegant text-to-art generative algorithm that turns any words or phrases into beautiful pieces of 1/1 art. How it works:You input your own selection of words or phrasesAI creates art based on your text inputYou decide to either mint that piece or keep regenerating until you find one mint worthyWhen I jumped on, mints were in the last 1000 so I was on a missio...

Photo by Richard Horvath on UnsplashHow does Meta come off as both shocking and unsurprising at the same time? On one side it's cringy af but on the other, it's certainly signaling big horizons for web3. This massive rebrand from the corporate social network tech monster many of us hate and some of our family members still love certainly feels like a gigantic shift in the space, but is it a good one?Facebook is positioning itself to not be obliteratedThe metaverse has been here and ...

Photo by Richard Horvath on UnsplashHow does Meta come off as both shocking and unsurprising at the same time? On one side it's cringy af but on the other, it's certainly signaling big horizons for web3. This massive rebrand from the corporate social network tech monster many of us hate and some of our family members still love certainly feels like a gigantic shift in the space, but is it a good one?Facebook is positioning itself to not be obliteratedThe metaverse has been here and ...