Where do I build?
How do I build?
What do I build?
Who do I build with?
Let's explore what building in the metaverse may look like! 🧵
Let's start with the 'where':
Discord: Your Command Center
- Create conversations and find people with similar interests
- Exchange ideas, mature them, share them with other people
- Create a workgroup, plan, and carry out your idea (start small)
Twitter: Your Distribution Channel
- Put yourself out there and shoot your shot
- Use all its features (twitter spaces, engagement)
- Talk about things that excite you (passion >)
- Like attracts like (be nice and others will reciprocate)
- Package content creatively
Now, let's tackle 'how':
- Ideas are good, but the work lies ahead
- Form a team with people who share your vision
- Write a flexible plan, divide, and conquer
- People like to help people who help themselves; do what you can with the resources you have, people will notice!
Next is 'what':
Topics
- Education (crypto, defi, nft, finance)
- Entertainment (content for vibes and memes)
- Informative, analytical, and insightful
- Gameplay and ecosystem
Why I dropped out of my computational biology PhD program to take on @AxieInfinity and Web 3.0 full-time.
A thread 🧵
AIM chatrooms, community-driven forums, early online gaming, and emergent content hubs. This was my experience with Web 1.0, and was the internet that I came to know and love. Here, most of the value went to the network periphery: users and builders.
Then, circa 2005, Web 2.0 came along. Although it accelerated the adoption and accessibility of the internet and internet-services en masse, it created a siloed framework where most of the value went to centralized entities.
A shift from a pure watch-to-earn model to the current model for scholarship issuances was a difficult decision, yet necessary. Here's why (a thread) 🧵
A pure watch-to-earn model, at least in our implementation, did not foster the community we set out to make. It created an unhealthy expectation that subbing would 'guarantee' a scholarship (despite explicitly and consistently advising AGAINST such a mentality).
Our previous model made sense when our community was small. We were able to reward several of the most active community members with scholarships, and directly engage with those members to ensure our values were aligned.