Paul Scrivens

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Made $1M by screwing up

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@makersmob

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The algorithm weakens you. It can easily make you believe that the next nugget of wisdom leading to your success is just one tweet away. So you scroll. When that tweet fails, you scroll again because you can't miss the ONE tweet that will change everything.

"Grassley, 89, is set to become the longest-serving current senator in January, replacing Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, who is retiring. He would be 95 at the end of the eighth six-year term he won Tuesday. " This is dumb.

Single Dad Chronicles Day 5. Today was clean up day. Each has done one container and just need to each fill up one more. They are now staging a coup. I fear a hunger strike is coming.

Single Dad Chronicles #2 (wife had to fly back to Florida for a bit). Kids allowed me 30 minutes of extra sleep this morning. Stayed in bed until 4am. 6 AM proceeded to have a balloon volleyball match in my bed. I have begun to wonder when they added 7 more hours to the day.

It’s 8am. I’ve been playing with my 3 & 4 year olds for 4.5 hours now.

And they'll have the exact roadmap and can tweak it just a bit to get things out faster. So then the question becomes what is the moat that could be built that would slow other people down if trying to replicate my success?

The first-mover advantage is overrated in the sense that you're actually doing testing for your future competition. This is what I've come to accept with

@oddwonderful

. No matter what I've built, competitors will sprout quickly when it becomes successful.

I’m being recruited 😩

One of the sick joys of being a solo founder is seeing what bigger teams do, wanting to do something similar, and figuring out how to make it happen within your constraints.

Think about Apple marketing. It's never about the tool. It's about the result. NFTs aren't mainstream because nobody presents the result that many find desirable. Everyone is still selling the screwdriver telling people to just look at it.

The next phase of NFTs is about selling what a person can build with the screwdriver. The better the vision the more successful the NFT. The easier it allows someone to build that vision the more successful the NFT.

The first phase of NFTs was about selling screwdrivers. The prettier the screwdriver, the better it was. The more people that owned a specific collection of screwdrivers the more desirable that collection became. But now people are going what do I do with this screwdriver?

Like I said at the beginning, this current iteration of NFTs isn't very fun. But it's a start. I want to see where we can take things. I want to see where we can take things.

Also, if you're new to NFTs and want to have an easy entry, I've launched something called the Epoch Pass where you can get 6 NFTs (aka 6 playable characters that you own) for $50. You can check that out here: oddwonderful.com/pass

This is about owning your joy. I could talk about this forever but this thread is long enough. For me, it starts with Lore so if you want to dive into that kind of stuff check out the

site.

You can create lore around your character. In the future, you'll be able to discover new Worlds and Lands and own them as NFTs. Imagine if JRR Tolkein said he wanted you to build Middle-earth with him? And you got to play it!

But there will be 1000s of people playing the game who also want to build. Why not allow them? If you're an artist you can do art it will be auctioned off with proceeds going to you. If you want to tinker with AI art then you can and get rewarded with bounties.

What does this mean in reality? We can start with AI art. This is a sample quest page. That beautiful image was done by Midjourney. Over time there will be 1000s of pages like this and there aren't 1000s of artists working with me.

Collaborative is the fun part. Because the Universes that are being built are text-based, that means they aren't held to a specific aesthetic. And since I'm a single-person team it makes more sense to allow builders to build instead of saying "wait for me to finish".

1. Has to be browser-based and playable on any phone. 2. It has to be text-based so you can play it while waiting in line. 3. It has to be quick. 4. It has to revolve around story. Not you randomly going around killing monsters. 5. It has to be collaborative.

And that brings us to my collections. I've put them all under a single umbrella called

@oddwonderful

And what do I plan on doing? Make a game that people will want to play. Before you roll your eyes let me tell you the criteria of the game.

Your character can stay with you for the rest of your life. Or you can pass it down to your children. Or you can sell it. You decide what to do with it! There are a million more things that could be done that I'm sure you could imagine.

But what happens if your character is attached to an NFT? That means it is on the blockchain. Think of this as a public ledger. That means that even if I create a game that lets you use your NFT, so can anyone else.

If you've ever played a game that you loved, then there is a feeling of regret when the game is done or stops evolving. Then another game comes out and you have to create a whole new character. The legacy of your former one is gone.

But can't I do that without NFTs? Yes. But if done correctly NFTs allow me to OWN the experience and that's the difference. What do I mean?

Again, nothing that would make you go "oh I get it now". And it's understandable. So why did I bother with NFTs? Because I'm a kid. I like to escape and NFTs have the potential to do that.

If you have a small imagination you can start to see how many different cool things you can do with this. Most of the utility though is limited to staking (like putting it in a bank) to earn some tokens or gain access to certain Discord channels.

First, what is an NFT? To keep it simple just imagine an NFT being a baseball card that you own. As long as it stays in your digital wallet then the world will know you own it.

For the most part, NFTs are lame. And this is coming from someone that launched a collection a year ago. Some produce 10k cartoons and then you can watch them sit in your wallet and hope the price goes up. I get it. But NFTs can be more. Let me show you.

At my age, especially as a creative, when any new thing comes about my first instinct is to ALWAYS think of why it shouldn't exist. But given enough time I can switch my thinking to how can I use the tool to create something better.

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With any new tool, you should view it through the lens of "can this help me provide a better experience?" With AI art the answer is yes. Odd Wonderful is a team of one (@alphaboopie ). So what can I do to build immersive worlds quickly? Start with AI art.

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Fellas I’m gonna help you out. If your girl doesn’t like cornbread then she isn’t your girl.

I'll talk about this more tomorrow, but I'm on a path to get you to look at NFTs differently. Because quite frankly what collections do now make no sense to any of you. I get it. But let's see where we can take these things, shall we? oddwonderful.com/pass

I wonder if I'm more productive in the Fall/Winter because I can wear my hoodie. My hoodie is my superhero outfit. I swear I transform when the hoodie and headphones are on.

Every morning when I take my kids to school I see the older kids wearing crocs… And I’m left thinking “Is PE not a thing anymore?” Because back in my day, you wearing crocs you’d be first one out of dodgeball. Ain’t no lateral movement in those things.

Show 'n Tell was the only business class we needed back in school.

One of the most impressive things about Steve Jobs was his ability to force people to move toward his vision of the future. Especially when they couldn't see it for themselves.

Bad copywriting feels like selling. Good copywriting feels like listening.

"None of us know what we are doing." Don't believe this lie. You better know what you're doing. You might not know the result that comes from it. But you best know what you're doing.

The dream is to create a product with the life of the Air Force 1. Doesn’t need to lead the pack. Stays around forever. Loyal tribe. Can always count on it.

Wish I could set Twitter where I could see tweets without replies until after I post my own reply. Can’t tell you how many times I have something great to say but then read replies and think “damn, these people are generic.”