Emilie Kormienko
@emiliekormienko
community designer @startupy.
Emilie Kormienko
Web3 (2020+) is read, write, and own. People create, consume, and own the upside of their work through tokens. Web3 is built on peer-to-peer networks of computers that talk to each other without middlemen.
odysseydao.com • Odyssey DAO - What Is Web3?
Choose co-founders that you would work for, not just with: Another component of well-being is making sure that your relationships, including professional ones, stay strong. While Reitano is the CEO, he says the best way to choose co-founders is to find people that you would not only be willing to work with — but for — as if they were your boss.... See more
Kim-Mai Cutler • Taking Care of Your Health While Running A Startup
Even after an idea becomes sufficiently popular to survive in the world without a host, it’s still difficult for creators to escape them, because ideas bond to their hosts in the form of reputation, like a virus that lives in one’s body forever. Reputation is the aggregation of ideas that have swarmed your body. Reputation is a list of your chronic... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • The tyranny of ideas
Your tokens are stored on a public address. Your ability to access them requires a key (or your seed phrase). You need to keep your seed phrase safe to protect your assets. Never give your private key to anyone else.
Using two-factor authorization for your exchange account is necessary.
Be wary of phishing attacks where hackers send a fraudulent
... See moreLedger • How to keep your crypto safe | School of Block
Minimizing friction is merely one means to a great user experience. The goal of any design is not to minimize friction, it’s to help the user achieve some end. Reducing friction is often consistent with that end, but not always.
Eugene Wei • Seeing Like an Algorithm — Remains of the Day
Algorithm-friendly design need not be user-hostile. It simply takes a different approach as to how to best serve the user’s interests. Pagination may insert some level of friction to the user, but in doing so, it may provide the algorithm with cleaner signal that safeguards the quality of the feed in the long run.
Eugene Wei • Seeing Like an Algorithm — Remains of the Day
Qualities of great strategy: p roblem-oriented: clearly identifies the problem; i nsight-driven: rooted in insights, both quantitative and qualitative; actionable: outlines concrete actions/investments that will solve this problem; focused: has a small number of high-leverage bets; cohesive: create a clear path from the problem to the solution.
Lenny Rachitsky • Getting better at product strategy
C. THI NGUYEN: Twitter is doing two things simultaneously. One thing it’s doing is it’s flattening all the kind of rich reactions you have into likes. So already you have not only a binary filter— like or dislike— that pushes you in the direction of aggregated numbers instead of a few deep connections, but you also get this timing filter where... See more
C. Thi Nguyen • Are We Measuring Our Lives in All the Wrong Ways?
A cryptocurrency is just like a digital form of cash. You can use it to pay friends for your share of the bar tab, buy that new pair of socks you've been eyeing up 👀, or book flights ✈️ and hotels 🏨 for your next holiday. Because cryptocurrency is digital, it can also be sent to friends and family anywhere in the world.