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Other Internet Announces $1M Grant from Uniswap Grants Program. The Uniswap community has shown itself to be resilient and progressive beyond the immediate purview of being a funding body. (more)

Simon Owens: The gritty reality for Substack’s middle class. In November 2019, I turned down a six-figure job so I could continue working on this newsletter. (more)

Packy McCormick: Idea Legos. Ideas can build on each other like legos, just like software. Ideas are composable. (more)

Nat Eliason 281: Marketer to Programmer in 6 Months. I already published an article about learning Solidity, so this will be more focused on where to start if you have similar goals of making a significant career switch (more)

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Carra Wu: Investing in Friends With Benefits (a DAO). Programmable blockchains are interesting for the same reason that innovation on smartphones spiked after opening up development to third parties via app stores. (more)

Steven Johnson: The Books That Defined My 2021. These are not necessarily the best books I read in 2021, and many of them didn’t actually get published in 2021, but they are the books that I spent the most time thinking about over the past year. (more)

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Elena Verna: Six rules of hiring for growth. Do you have strong product-market fit and feel ready to ramp up your investment in growth by hiring your first full-time growth person? (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: FDA Votes on Molunpiravir. While Paxlovid Remains Illegal and is expected to remain illegal for at least several weeks, the FDA did manage to finally meet to discuss whether or not to legalize the other Covid-19 treatment pill, Merck’s Molunpiravir (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 9/17: Done Biden His Time. The question then becomes, what is he gonna do about it, under what authority, and what will happen when he does it? (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 Prediction Markets at Polymarket. We now have some useful prediction markets up on Covid issues, so it’s worth looking at what they say and thinking about what other markets we could generate (more)

Lisa-Marie: Digital Garden Design. As it tends to happen, one day I fell down a rabbit hole. About two years ago, I became interested in becoming better at reading. I read the book How to Read by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren [1] and somehow that led me into exploring how to take better notes [2] which led me to the commonplace book [3] which led me to learning in public [4] which then led me to digital gardens[5]. This was an interesting turn of events because at the time I started to think about the concept Histofuturist/ism — exploring past realities and imagined futures. I became interested in knowledge sharing and documentation as the final component of the strategy for change I created which included Intellectual Will (self-discovery) and Collectively Upward (collective growth) (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Omicron Variant Post #2. It’s now been three days since Post #1 ((2021-11-26) ZviM Omicron Variant Post 1 Were F-ed It's Never Over). The situation is evolving rapidly, so it’s time to check in. (more)

Re-organizing Wiki pages to improve Shared Language and understanding - Sense Making. (driver of Digital Garden frame) (more)

Gordon Brander: Weird web3 energy. Epistemic Status: careful speculation. I can feel a hunch forming, but I’m less confident of my conclusions in this post than in the other two. (2021-09-18) Brander The State Of The Web (more)

company behind CryptoKitties https://www.dapperlabs.com/ (more)

like a sales funnel, except about user tasks which require multiple steps to complete https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/task-completion-funnel (more)