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💡 Lessons from Chris Dixon on the 2000s

🔗 Source: Toys, Secrets, and Cycles: Lessons from the 2000s

TLDR:

• there is a strong correlation between (a) rich product design spaces and (b) what smart people find interesting (weekends, dinners, etc)
• product and financial cycles evolve mostly independently
• the timing is mostly dictated by product cycles, which follow their own internal logic and tend to be more predictable than financial cycles

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💡 Lessons from Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs

🔗 Source: The Real Leadership Lessons

TLDR:

• Focus
• Simplify
• Take Responsibility End to End
• When Behind, Leapfrog

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💡 Lessons from Kevin Kelly's "1,000 true fans"

🔗 Source: 1,000 True Fans

TLDR:

• To make a living you only need 1,000 true fans (in terms of orders of magnitude)
• If you can generate $100 per fan and yield $100,000 p.a.
• But (!) you need to have a direct relationship with the fans and capture 100% of the revenue you generate
• Aggregators (like Amazon, Netflix, eBay, ...) find that the long tail of sales equals or outweighs revenue from top selling items. So, aggregators work to generate sales in the long tail of products with search engines, recommendations, etc. (that's good for the 1,000 true fans approach).

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💡 Lessons on operating in a downturn

These are insights shared by various people on operating in a downturn. These notes are incomplete by nature, but I'm sharing this to learn in public.

Contents:

1. 💡 Lessons David Sacks (Craft Ventures)
2. 💡 Lessons from Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm.xyz)
3. 💡 Lessons from Y Combinator

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💡 Notes on the crypto identity space #1 [April]

Celo-specific:

• Celo Desktop Wallet added namespace resolution (code here)
  • ENS [on Ethereum]: resolution through Ethers.JS, with Alchemy as the JSON RPC service
  • Nomspace [on Celo]: resolution through Ether.JS by specifying ENS resolver contract on Celo (ENS clone)
  • Unstoppable Domains [on Ethereum]: resolution through custom Alchemy API specifically for UD
• KycDAO (Celo-friendly project) launched a pilot with non-transferable NFTs
• EIP-721 NFTs without transfer function (in this case)

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⚙️ Attestation Service Performance

Two observations (during the period of December 1, 2021 to April 24, 2022):

• the validator "Alive29" at 0x28B5 has (unfortunately) been in the bottom 10% of attestation issuers with <50% success rate
• the validator "Mimetic Polyalloy" at 0x1E554 has been in the top 10% of attestation issuers with >70% success rate.

Here is a visualisation of the validator success rates compared to the validator average:

• Alive29: often at or below average

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💡 Lessons from Paul Cowgill (Foundation.app)

🔗 Source: Web3PMs x Paul Cowgill, Head of Product at Foundation

Foundation.app company:

• 25-ish people
• remote-first
• NFT creator platform

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💡 Lessons from Natalya Thakur (Knox)

🔗 Source: Web3PMs: Conversation with Natalya Thakur, Co-Founder and COO, Knox Networks Inc

TLDR:

• Focuses on allowing commercial banks to map their digitial assets (reserves) into a programmable system (not blockchain-based, but uses cryptographic primitives).
• Software layer for traditional institutions (e.g. commercial banks), but not token itself and not account-based.
• Basically specialises in partnering with public sector ("relationship-based industry")
• Natalya used to work at Celo (!) "ecology of money"

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💡 An incomplete Celo onboarding document

Watch Celo Tech Talks on YouTube

Some are a little older, but I found them very useful. Here are a few that might interest you:

• Celo Stability Protocol Walkthrough
• Price Oracles
• Keeping Phone Numbers Private

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💡 Lessons from Alchemy PMs

Source: Web3PMs - Alchemy Product Panel (Youtube)

TLDR:

Alchemy core thesis:

• building on low-level computers (CPU, RAM, ...) is difficult, so developers build on an OS
• building on core internet protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, ...) is difficult, so developers build on AWS +
• building on bare-bone blockchains (nodes, RPC, ...) is difficult, so developers build on Alchemy