That feeling when you’re stuck, open up an old drawing on the iPad you forgot about, and the ideas start flowing
Keep everything 🎨
Even the ones you think suck and don’t matter
You never know what they can lead to
Also they’re just fun to have to document
i failed pretty hard at my first startup--it sucked!--and am doing pretty well on my second.
the thing i wish someone told me during the first one is that no one else thinks about your failures as much as you do, and that as long as don't psych yourself out you can try again.
Tweeting about the “current villain” is ineffective at solving the actual problem.
It is really effective at making people feel like they’re solving the problem.
In reality, it just drives engagement to the people discussing the villain instead of solutions to the problem.
How does Manifold make money?
1/ We get this question a lot - and wanted to share an update with the community on what we’re thinking and how we plan to move forward. 🧵
We just tricked Dillon Danis into promoting a fake NFT project. We paid him $1,000 to post, he didn't disclose it was an #AD, and posted copy that literally spells out S.C.A.M. 💀💀
YouTube just started splitting shorts revenue with creators and Twitter is now sharing revenue below tweets with creators… never been a better time to get into making content!
townhall yesterday!
I do wonder if there’d be more hype if the big updates were scattered over weeks
Versus all big updates at one time
Feel like it’s easier to rally folks around one big headline at a time vs 6 big headlines at once
New PFP. New Chapter. Same Blue Cat.
See you at our Town Hall streaming LIVE on YouTube tomorrow Feb 1 at 3PM ET: https://youtube.com/live/4MDg6UQaAEw…
13/ "But the artist made so much money from the edition!"
OK, so what? I am pretty sure all the edition buyers voluntarily spent their money.
If you don't want to collect an open edition, don't do it.
If someone else does, why do you care?
Some games don’t need NFTs. Not everything needs an NFT. I was playing Hi-Fi Rush yesterday and I didn’t see much of a reason as to why it would need NFTs. I just enjoyed playing. Not everything will be a web3 game and it doesn’t need to be. Gaming NFTs are one tool in the box.
🧵 1/ Steve Jobs Last Legacy
Steve Jobs (56) died of pancreatic cancer on October 5, 2011, a billionaire with a fortune of about $7 billion, and here are some of his last words ...
′′In other eyes, my life is the essence of success, but apart from work, I have little joy.
Ness's OE did around 1,404 ETH of volume on primary
in contrast, the highest volume collection today has had around 944 ETH in volume (Doodles)
degens like the art