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My visuals help you live a happier and more productive life. I show the world's best ideas and mental models from a new perspective. Project by @MaciejBudkowski

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Joined January 2021
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This is a Thread with all the Mental Models I visualized so far. 👇👇👇
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We've been building @KiwiNewsHQ for 7 months now and have created a vibrant community of 1,300+ monthly readers and 200+ curators. This experience taught us a lot about bootstrapping a high-quality crypto community so here are a few lessons we learned on the way. 👇👇👇
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So yesterday, we launched a free Kiwi Dilemma NFT mint via @ourZORA on @BuildOnBase. But why would we even have a mint about some kiwis? And why one is bitten so hard? The story started 6 months ago and even @VitalikButerin got involved at some point… 👇
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gm @web3talks is in the current @gitcoin round. so far we recorded 47 episodes with founders from projects such as @ourZORA, @zapper_fi, @farcaster_xyz, @GnosisDAO, @WalletConnect & many more. if you'd like to support our project focused on web3 founders, donate via the link 👇
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"It's really complicated to manage many identities with the same email address. And this is a problem that is going to become more and more apparent as people interact with different chains." @t_boeckmann on why we need web3 email and why first users found @Mailchain_xyz useful
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- Why do we need web3 email? - How does it work and who were the first Mailchain users? - How they integrate identity solutions like @ensdomains, @LensProtocol, Unstoppable Domains, & others this & much more in Ep.46 with @t_boeckmann, Co-Founder & CEO @Mailchain_xyz Links👇👇
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"So, to be honest, in 2020 and for about the first six months of Zora, we actually were selling physical goods." @dg_goens on the early days of @ourZORA and how they auctioned DOGE meme NFT, onboarded Gucci to NFTs, and organized drops for bands like Disclosure Full episode👇
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- How Zora started by selling physical goods and how they pivoted, - Story behind the @BuildOnBase 700k+ mints campaign, - Why they decided to work on @nounsdao builder, marketplace & API, this & much more in Ep.45 with @dg_goens, Co-Founder & COO @ @ourZORA Links below👇👇
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Reading books hasn't changed for hundreds of years. But what if reading could be a more interactive, RPG-like experience where early readers get the same upside as the author? Check out @caelmux - a cyberpunk novel where each reader’s NFT vote shapes the hero’s journey. 👇👇👇
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"Focus that we had on user experience, on security, on privacy, all of those things really aligned well with the values that they had as a community. All of those things meant that it was an easy conversation." @mg on talking with @StaniKulechov about @LensProtocol integration
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"It's relatively simple if you're a user - fire the app up, initiate your keys, punch in the address of whoever it is that you want to send a message to, and send. And from the developer standpoint, all of the heavy lifting is just handled by the SDK." @mg on how @xmtp_ works
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- What were the early days of @xmtp_? - What web3 native features they developed? - How they built a developer community around their protocol? - How they started handling DMs on @lensterxyz? this & much more in our Ep #44 conversation with @mg Links below 👇👇👇
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Just recorded @web3talks Ep #46 with @t_boeckmann, Co-Founder & CEO at @Mailchain_xyz. We went on a backstage tour of a web3 mailing protocol and learned about the tradeoffs, integrations, solving SPAM & more. If you don't want to miss the episode when it goes out - subscribe👇
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"There's a lot of debate around how Twitter & other networks monetize. Maybe there is a world in which some of my posts are token-gated, and you can't read them unless you have one of my NFTs." @julien51 on ways social media could monetize their feeds via @UnlockProtocol
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"The first few events that were using Unlock for ticketing were events that we organized." @julien51 on how dogfooding helped @UnlockProtocol to get their first users, plus some other methods they used in the early days.
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Just recorded @web3talks Ep. 45 with @dg_goens, Co-Founder & COO at @ourZORA. We spoke about Zora's early pivot, @BuildOnBase mint, building artists' community, betting on new products & much more. The episode will be out in two weeks, if you don't want to miss it - subscribe👇
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- How @UnlockProtocol educated the NFT market since 2018, - How dogfooding helped them to acquire their first users, - How they delivered ticketing for @EthCC, - What they've learned from running a DAO, this & much more in our Ep #43 conversation with @julien51 Links below 👇👇
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1) "Within one minute, you get these Euros on chain." 2) "It will be just another trade on CowSwap or Balancer to get exposure to those assets (S&P 500 1:1 backed tokens)" 3) "VISA card that's also a hardware wallet." New @gnosischain projects described by @StefanDGeorge
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"So we built this for ourselves, and then without even asking us, and even without being aware that there's a security audit or not, people started using it." @StefanDGeorge on the early days of @Safe
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"Today, we have an abundant amount of cheap blockspace and fast blockspace, but there's very few decentralized blockspace. And that's what we double down on." @StefanDGeorge on why the world needs another chain and what's @gnosischain vision Full episode links 👇👇👇
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- How was building on Ethereum in 2014? - How they built, grew & decentralized @Safe? - How @gnosischain became the #2 most decentralized chain, and why have you probably already used it? This & more in our conversation with @StefanDGeorge from @GnosisDAO Links below👇
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