Alex Wittenberg

Adequate documentation of knowledge and processes can help new members orient themselves in the community, understand how to get involved, and stay involved. These resources are very useful when provided in tandem with new member programming.

Incentivized liquidity is when a protocol will pay you in their native token for helping supply liquidity to their trading pools. For example, the Curve 3Pool, which contains USDC, USDT, and DAI, is currently only earning 1.55%, but sometimes ranges as high as 10%. Why is your yield so much higher there? Because you're getting paid in CRV tokens.

Tax Laws: Wider conversations need to be had by regulators that take into account the global permission-less nature of the products, services, and experiences at the core of DAOs, but also understanding of the rapidly changing nature of DAO token value and utility. 

The Catholic legal scholar Cathleen Kaveny has argued that the reason so many of them are so unhappy—despite being generally very well paid—is the convention of the “billable hour,” which obliges them to treat their time, and thus really themselves, as a commodity to be sold off in sixty-minute chunks to clients. An hour not sold is automatically... See more

You’ll get good at anything you commit to. Most of talent is bullshit. Don’t worry about getting good, worry about seeing if you like the process of getting good. If you’re only going to enjoy something when you’re good at it, you’re not going to stick with it. You’re looking for what you also enjoy sucking at. 

So much for the fat protocol thesis, we might say. The platforms of web3 start to look a lot like the p2p platforms of web2 and web1: the Pipes, the Airbnbs, the Ebays that win markets by capturing liquidity for rare, non-fungible items and services, their strong liquidity moat giving them strong commissions.

The big recent example of this is LooksRare. As Cobie explained in his post on the topic, half of the farming rewards were available to early investors whose tokens were still locked. So while retail investors might have been under the impression that they were earning most of the fees of the platform, they were actually going to the early... See more

Except that these safety mechanisms are just band-aids that try to cover up deteriorating work conditions. They throw to the real question here: Exactly why are so many truckers getting drowsy on the job? 

Marketing is the story insiders tell outsiders to influence them in some wayLore is the story insiders tell themselves to manage their own psyches