Emilie Kormienko
@emiliekormienko
community designer @startupy.
Emilie Kormienko
How might I find deeper happiness? The science points to an answer in the abstract: Find more community. Deepen your connections with others. Be with others in meaningful ways. Find rituals to organize your life. It will boost your happiness, give you greater joy, and even add ten years to your life expectancy, science suggests.
Casper ter Kuile • The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do
With or without NFT, blockchain, and crypto, the key to any business is providing value to someone. Do that, and it will all make sense.
Al Alany • I Consulted Over 50 Crypto Projects — Almost All of Them Do Not Know What They’re Doing.
On the face of it, crypto and nation state sovereignty are mutually exclusive. Their logic and rationale are inconsistent: one is based on the idea of a dominant central authority, while the other is build on a consensual network of decentralised users.
Jonno Evans • Project Vellir - Private Site Access
Habits and
A game’s essence revolves around playing it. Create a game to be played, not to make a profit out of it.
Al Alany • I Consulted Over 50 Crypto Projects — Almost All of Them Do Not Know What They’re Doing.
Any idea that is sufficiently different from your current worldview will feel threatening. And the best place to ponder a threatening idea is in a non-threatening environment. As a result, books are often a better vehicle for transforming beliefs than conversations or debates.
jamesclear.com • Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
Saying no doesn't mean you'll never do anything interesting or innovative or spontaneous. It just means that you say yes in a focused way. Once you have knocked out the distractions, it can make sense to say yes to any opportunity that could potentially move you in the right direction. You may have to try many things to discover what works and what... See more
James Clear • The Ultimate Productivity Hack Is Saying No
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
C. THI NGUYEN: If the wonder of real games is the possibility of flexing through this wide landscape of possibility, then the gamification of activities in the world is doing two things to us. One, it’s funneling our values down one particular pre-established path for a real world activity, for something that’s connected out to politics and the... See more