Readit News"Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?" -Jeff Bezos
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2010/05/30/2010-baccalaureate...
"Fierce nerds" can be valuable. Sure. But the folks who truly stand out in my mind are a level higher. They're the ones at the top of their game, who know how to demand & command excellence, without being jerks about it.
I'm reminded of this episode of "The Chef Show" where Jon Favreau compliments Roy Choi behind his back. He tells Bill Burr that he had followed Roy around for a full day, going to all his restaurants and food trucks, and not once did Roy raise his voice to his staff. It's pretty cool to see how much admiration one artist/leader has for the other, not because of their technical skills but because they choose to be kind.
I don't think we need to settle for being "fierce nerds".
wiggumspiggums commented on How people learn to become resilient (2016) newyorker.com/science/mar... · Posted by u/singold
Trauma is the natural state of the universe. To think life should be free of trauma is a hyper-modern and sheltered view of the world enabled by our extreme comfort provided by modern technology and the invisible labor from less privelidged people and those who lived and died before us.
Trauma is the natural state, and our resilience has and always will be a defining characteristic of successful people... Of whom we are descendents.
I'd recommend checking out a book called "The Body Keeps the Score". It talks about how people's minds and bodies can stop functioning normally due to traumas like sexual abuse, war, etc.
I would have thought that since traumatic experiences have been around forever, humans would have adapted to dealing with those better by now. And yet the medical evidence laid out in this book seems to show that healing from traumas is difficult. To me, that means there is something "unnatural" about trauma (or at least the most awful cases).
I'm probably not doing the book enough justice. Here's the goodreads profile for anyone who wants to explore further: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-...
wiggumspiggums commented on Ask HN: Where do you find potential customers to validate your idea / MVP? · Posted by u/showsover
Start with your personal social circle, and/or 1st level referrals from your personal social circle. It's what Steve Blank calls "Friendly First Contacts". If you can't figure out a way to get useful feedback / sign of a reason to move forward from this group, then pivot or give up.
The other option is "spend money to blast your thing to a wide audience and hope for the best." Buy Reddit ads, Facebook ads, LinkedIn ads, Google ads, whatever. The downside to this is: it costs money (potentially a lot) and doesn't generate necessarily generate quality feedback because the people you're targeting aren't invested in helping you.
Also: read The Four Steps to the Epiphany or The Startup Owner's Manual.
+1 for 1st level referrals. But folks within your own social circle can be tricky because it might be hard to figure out their true opinion if your idea sucks. When a friend has sought my feedback, I find myself balancing between trying to be honest with being supportive and open-minded. I'm sure people have done the same to me.
I like that these students are making a statement and trying to put pressure on universities to have greater integrity and accountability for making admissions truly merit based.
I'm working on a project to create NFTs that consume tokenized carbon offsets. We call them "carbonized" NFTs.
A carbonized NFT is meant to act as a carbon sink. The mechanics of the carbon sinking can take many shapes and forms, which we’ll be experimenting with as we launch new artwork. But here is how our inaugural series “The Genesis Stone” captures carbon.
First, the buyer mints The Genesis Stone with Base Carbon Tonne (BCT) tokens. BCT are tokens which can be swapped with carbon offsets from the real world that have been bridged on-chain called TCO2. There are various flavors of TCO2. BCT allows them to be swapped interchangeably to allow for better liquidity.
Next, we at carbonized.xyz would go to a protocol called KlimaDAO to bond BCT in exchange for KLIMA tokens. KlimaDAO’s mission is to be a “black hole of carbon”, so the BCT is removed from the open market and stored in its treasury.
To summarize, the buyer receives the NFT, the creator gets KLIMA (in this case carbonized.xyz) and KlimaDAO gets BCT. Again, this is only one way in which a Carbonized NFT can work. We will be exploring other methods in future launches.
Mainly I am posting here to drum up interest in our first NFT launch. But would love to hear thoughts and feedback!