2018년 12월 31일 월요일
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2018년 12월 2일 일요일
What Sets Cent Apart
[Also published on Cent]
Most people who know me - so, friends, wife, family, fellow Centians - know that I'm obsessed with Cent.
If I'm not on Cent, I'm most likely thinking about Cent big picture.
I love talking about Cent too. That's why I live for the daily Cent team calls each morning Monday through Friday.
Outside of those calls and weekend evenings when I'm out eating and drinking with my wife, the times when I can really talk about Cent with others have been pretty few and far between.
But I think that may be changing, finally.
Other users are starting to get as excited about Cent as I've been. Like really, really excited.
Out of this growing sub-group of Centians, I've actually had the opportunity to speak with a few of them on calls over zoom and Telegram.
Those calls have been happening more and more frequently and the discussions with those individuals have been awesome.
Outside of product suggestions (most of which are eerily similar with the planned updates on our internal product roadmap) I've particularly enjoyed hearing how others fundamentally see and think about Cent in the wider app landscape.
Talks with @Joel have been particularly inspiring.
I can't remember if he said it over a call I had with him last week or if it was a comment he made during his very entertaining Friday Drinking Show, but something he said about how thinks about Cent really helped crystalize my own thoughts on what truly sets Cent apart from other apps and platforms out there.
To paraphrase:
"Facebook is everyone you know in the real world.
Instagram is everyone you want to be or everything you want.
Twitter is every topic you're interested.
Cent is full of everyone who *really* gets you."
I'm still working through the phrasing to best express what I really mean, but that comes closest for now.
One of the consistently delightful experiences I've had using Cent is being able to really engage with other users and having those users not simply remember me, but remember what I said by quoting or paraphrasing me in their own posts and replies.
That isn't common. Not on the internet, and not even in the real world. But man is it invigorating and special.
Getting into a real discussion, or receiving real substantive feedback, or having another user really hit a homerun for you in terms of matching or exceeding your expectations - all of that is fuel for living thoughtfully and being creative.
I'm curious how all of you see Cent big picture. Let me know if anything I've said vibes with you, or if you have a better way of expressing what I want to say or just a different perspective all together.
P.S. Shoutout to @charlesx for the dope Telegram sticker. You are all kinds of talented.
Most people who know me - so, friends, wife, family, fellow Centians - know that I'm obsessed with Cent.
If I'm not on Cent, I'm most likely thinking about Cent big picture.
I love talking about Cent too. That's why I live for the daily Cent team calls each morning Monday through Friday.
Outside of those calls and weekend evenings when I'm out eating and drinking with my wife, the times when I can really talk about Cent with others have been pretty few and far between.
But I think that may be changing, finally.
Other users are starting to get as excited about Cent as I've been. Like really, really excited.
Out of this growing sub-group of Centians, I've actually had the opportunity to speak with a few of them on calls over zoom and Telegram.
Those calls have been happening more and more frequently and the discussions with those individuals have been awesome.
Outside of product suggestions (most of which are eerily similar with the planned updates on our internal product roadmap) I've particularly enjoyed hearing how others fundamentally see and think about Cent in the wider app landscape.
Talks with @Joel have been particularly inspiring.
I can't remember if he said it over a call I had with him last week or if it was a comment he made during his very entertaining Friday Drinking Show, but something he said about how thinks about Cent really helped crystalize my own thoughts on what truly sets Cent apart from other apps and platforms out there.
To paraphrase:
"Facebook is everyone you know in the real world.
Instagram is everyone you want to be or everything you want.
Twitter is every topic you're interested.
Cent is full of everyone who *really* gets you."
I'm still working through the phrasing to best express what I really mean, but that comes closest for now.
One of the consistently delightful experiences I've had using Cent is being able to really engage with other users and having those users not simply remember me, but remember what I said by quoting or paraphrasing me in their own posts and replies.
That isn't common. Not on the internet, and not even in the real world. But man is it invigorating and special.
Getting into a real discussion, or receiving real substantive feedback, or having another user really hit a homerun for you in terms of matching or exceeding your expectations - all of that is fuel for living thoughtfully and being creative.
I'm curious how all of you see Cent big picture. Let me know if anything I've said vibes with you, or if you have a better way of expressing what I want to say or just a different perspective all together.
P.S. Shoutout to @charlesx for the dope Telegram sticker. You are all kinds of talented.
2018년 11월 30일 금요일
곱창 & Homebrew
[Also published on Cent]
It's Friday evening and I'm on my way to meet my wife at one of our favorite 곱창 houses in Chungmuro, an old neighborhood tucked inside central Seoul that used to be the equivalent of an old Korean Hollywood when it was home to the Korean film industry back in the 60's.
For those who don't know, 곱창 is the small intestine of cows and in Korea we grill it on top of cast iron skillets until the intestine casing gets golden and crispy. It pairs sublimely with soju and happiness.
Anyways, as I am riding the Seoul metro I'm listening to the latest episode of Patrick O'Shaughnessy's always excellent podcast with guest Hunter Walker. For the third time.
Hunter Walker, formerly of Second Life, Google AdSense and then YouTube before co-founding the VC house of Homebrew, is thoughtful as hell. He's blowing my mind with insights into maker platforms that seem ready made for Cent.
Like I said, Hunter was an original member of the Second Life team, a massive online world started back in the early 2000s that lets users build economies around user created digital anything.
I know it's a stretch, but as I'm listening to them talk, Cent is seeming more and more like Second Life, just instead of an economy built around primitive solid geometry, Cent is building an economy with ideas and thoughtfulness.
It's Friday evening and I'm on my way to meet my wife at one of our favorite 곱창 houses in Chungmuro, an old neighborhood tucked inside central Seoul that used to be the equivalent of an old Korean Hollywood when it was home to the Korean film industry back in the 60's.
For those who don't know, 곱창 is the small intestine of cows and in Korea we grill it on top of cast iron skillets until the intestine casing gets golden and crispy. It pairs sublimely with soju and happiness.
Anyways, as I am riding the Seoul metro I'm listening to the latest episode of Patrick O'Shaughnessy's always excellent
Hunter Walker, formerly of Second Life, Google AdSense and then YouTube before co-founding the VC house of Homebrew, is thoughtful as hell. He's blowing my mind with insights into maker platforms that seem ready made for Cent.
Like I said, Hunter was an original member of the Second Life team, a massive online world started back in the early 2000s that lets users build economies around user created digital anything.
I know it's a stretch, but as I'm listening to them talk, Cent is seeming more and more like Second Life, just instead of an economy built around primitive solid geometry, Cent is building an economy with ideas and thoughtfulness.
2018년 11월 26일 월요일
Check out this week's BOTI (11/19~)
Check out this week's BOTI on Cent and get paid for sharing the best things that appeared on the internet last week.
2018년 11월 19일 월요일
Check out this week's BOTI bounty on Cent
This week's BOTI bounty got off to a quick start.
Check it out here and reply with the best of the internet last week for a chance to earn money.
Check it out here and reply with the best of the internet last week for a chance to earn money.
2018년 11월 17일 토요일
Universal Trustworthiness (2/2)
[This post was first made on Cent here]
First of all thanks to @kwame, @Ezincrypto, @GreenGiant, @agfnzn10 and @Reol for your thought provoking replies to my previous post. You all basically helped write this post🙏
In this follow-up post I want to look at 'thoughtfulness' or the ability to act civilly and provide value, which I see as potentially becoming *the* fundamental indicator used to establish a universal standard of basic trustworthiness.
But first I want to talk about Cent. Cent has, on the whole, one of the most thoughtful groups of users around. Hacker News, as well as the commentariat at avc.com, wolfstreet.com and maybe Quilette are the only other places on the internet that I know of with majority thoughtful users.
There are way more thoughtful people out in the internets and in the real world too. They pop up from time to time on Twitter or Reddit as well as in the real world in the workplace or on the street. And then they disappear, with only the memory of their thoughtfulness left in your mind.
What is setting Cent apart from those sites and real life instances, though, is that we are aggregating those thoughtful users by way of selective rewards. Although it isn't perfect yet, thoughtful replies (when delivered in a timely manner) are nearly always rewarded while trolly spam replies from users like @Kamran are not. Importantly these thoughtful replies are rewarded based on a wise crowd of users who are constantly sorting (i.e. evaluating) replies.
I see the series of thoughtful replies that Centians are getting rewarded for as forming a pattern of universal trustworthiness. It's universal for a few reasons. First of all because the transactions linked to the rewards for thoughtful replies can be recorded in public on the Ethereum blockchain, thus potentially creating a simple, publically verifiable data set of individual trustworthiness. Secondly, this constantly updating data set could be used by other sites as a way to screen new users who haven't used their site and/or don't have a reputation yet. Thirdly, individuals would be able to carry their thoughtful reputations with them anywhere - reputation, at least in this basic but incredibly significant form, would no longer only exist in other peoples heads.
Every reward that goes to a reply becomes an objective data point signaling that the person behind the reply is a thoughtful person, or at the very least is capable of being thoughtful which is no less important. The same goes for everyone else. Overtime as the frequency of rewards as well as total earnings from thoughtful replies increases for individual users, that transaction history which can be saved to a public blockchain becomes an even more reliable signal of thoughtfulness and thus trustworthiness.
What more could anyone ask for when they are trying to make the decision to trust someone at first than an easy, reliable way to discern whether or not they're dealing with a thoughtful person or not?
Until now it's been impossible to tell, at least initially, whether or not someone is basically trustworthy. There has been no easily verifiable indicator for that. You can't quickly tell that by looking at a persons CV. Maybe their history of social media use or carrying out a reference check or two could color in some of who they are, but that is usually impractical and takes to much effort. I see Cent as potentially leading the way on creating a new paradigm for reputation (despite this never being a direct aim) because it is helping to create the basis for a universal trustworthiness in aggregating and constantly evaluating thoughtfulness.
First of all thanks to @kwame, @Ezincrypto, @GreenGiant, @agfnzn10 and @Reol for your thought provoking replies to my previous post. You all basically helped write this post🙏
In this follow-up post I want to look at 'thoughtfulness' or the ability to act civilly and provide value, which I see as potentially becoming *the* fundamental indicator used to establish a universal standard of basic trustworthiness.
But first I want to talk about Cent. Cent has, on the whole, one of the most thoughtful groups of users around. Hacker News, as well as the commentariat at avc.com, wolfstreet.com and maybe Quilette are the only other places on the internet that I know of with majority thoughtful users.
There are way more thoughtful people out in the internets and in the real world too. They pop up from time to time on Twitter or Reddit as well as in the real world in the workplace or on the street. And then they disappear, with only the memory of their thoughtfulness left in your mind.
What is setting Cent apart from those sites and real life instances, though, is that we are aggregating those thoughtful users by way of selective rewards. Although it isn't perfect yet, thoughtful replies (when delivered in a timely manner) are nearly always rewarded while trolly spam replies from users like @Kamran are not. Importantly these thoughtful replies are rewarded based on a wise crowd of users who are constantly sorting (i.e. evaluating) replies.
I see the series of thoughtful replies that Centians are getting rewarded for as forming a pattern of universal trustworthiness. It's universal for a few reasons. First of all because the transactions linked to the rewards for thoughtful replies can be recorded in public on the Ethereum blockchain, thus potentially creating a simple, publically verifiable data set of individual trustworthiness. Secondly, this constantly updating data set could be used by other sites as a way to screen new users who haven't used their site and/or don't have a reputation yet. Thirdly, individuals would be able to carry their thoughtful reputations with them anywhere - reputation, at least in this basic but incredibly significant form, would no longer only exist in other peoples heads.
Every reward that goes to a reply becomes an objective data point signaling that the person behind the reply is a thoughtful person, or at the very least is capable of being thoughtful which is no less important. The same goes for everyone else. Overtime as the frequency of rewards as well as total earnings from thoughtful replies increases for individual users, that transaction history which can be saved to a public blockchain becomes an even more reliable signal of thoughtfulness and thus trustworthiness.
What more could anyone ask for when they are trying to make the decision to trust someone at first than an easy, reliable way to discern whether or not they're dealing with a thoughtful person or not?
Until now it's been impossible to tell, at least initially, whether or not someone is basically trustworthy. There has been no easily verifiable indicator for that. You can't quickly tell that by looking at a persons CV. Maybe their history of social media use or carrying out a reference check or two could color in some of who they are, but that is usually impractical and takes to much effort. I see Cent as potentially leading the way on creating a new paradigm for reputation (despite this never being a direct aim) because it is helping to create the basis for a universal trustworthiness in aggregating and constantly evaluating thoughtfulness.
Product Update: Cent Has Filters! (11/15)
If you’ve been on Cent long enough, you may remember the good old ‘live switch’ - a switch that was once in the bottom right of the app, and could be switched ‘on’ to display live bounties or ‘off’ to show every post.
Many of our newer users have probably seen others mention the live switch longingly, imploring the Cent team to add it back either in the Cent Telegram channel or in a post right here on Cent. But beyond that, there have been far more requests asking us to provide filters to help deal with the increasing daily influx of posts to Cent.
Users have been finding it tricky to see new posts before they get buried by even newer posts. The growing numbers of bounty hunters have been struggling to keep up with all the new bounty posts. Likewise sorting - particularly the sorting of later replies to older bounty posts - has become nearly impossible to keep track of.
We heard you guys, loud and clear — and now the answer is here.
All users should now see two new dropdowns located in the top center of the app. Clicking the left tab will give you three filters to choose from: Top, New and Live.
Top (the default setting) displays a mix of the latest and greatest bounty posts alongside posts that have received the most seed money from other users. Clicking New will show all posts (bountied or otherwise) in reverse chronological order. And finally the Live filter will display every single live bounty in reverse chronological order so the newest bounty posts are featured first.
Each of those filters can then be augmented with a time filter to only display posts made within one of four specific periods of time: Today, This Week (default, for now), This Month and All Time.
We hope these updates make browsing on Cent even easier.
Stay tuned for continued improvements over the next few weeks, and most importantly, please keep all of the amazing feedback coming.
Cent on everyone.
2018년 11월 14일 수요일
Digging Into Comments on Cent
[This post was first published on Cent here]
There were many reasons that got me excited about Cent early on. But more than anything my selfish desire to use Cent as a way to incentivize real interaction with my writings was probably one of the biggest reasons I got so excited.
For so long - literally months and months - I talked about writing on Cent, and now it's been more than a week since I've switched to publishing my daily musings exclusively on Cent. And it's been better than I ever imagined.
Of course the initial replies have been there - about 10~20 per post - as I'd expected, but the real magic to me has been the back and forth interaction below the replies in the comments with fellow Centians like @kwame, @geekkid, @zianzam, @egg, @fizzgig656, @vineet15 and @framore.
What's magical and exciting about those conversations can actually be summed up in one of my sorta long winded replies to @zianzam which also happened to inspire this whole post today to begin with.
Again it's probably too long and maybe not the clearest, but these daily posts are all just attempts at expressing what's top if mind for me each day. I'll keep trying to get better.
"It's been so surprising to receive seed money from other users so quickly. When I set out to publish on Cent I never expected anything other than replies actually.
But what has me most excited is the relationship between me as content creator and the consumers of or readers/repliers to my writing.
Right now my bounties are attracting people to read and engage with me, and for that they are receiving some money. But if we continue to have these exchanges everyday, after 6 months or a year that could mean that my core readers and repliers will have accumulated a non-trivial amount of money.
On top of that if I am able to earn a little more than I pay to my readers in bounties (which is not unreasonable given my current average bounty level) that could mean *we* will be able to go from zero to one in terms of creating an economically enriched collective of like minded individuals.
What could *we*, as a strong collective, be able to do with that new found economic power?
My assumption is that we'd be able to do whatever we want. Setup an irl meetup in Tokyo to discuss how to scale our operations. Fund a special interest of ours and hire an agency to further an agenda. Whatever.
The possibilities are kinda endless, but my case is just one small example. There are so many more bigger and for sure way more consequential latent collectives and interests just waiting to form.
The fact that something like that can potentially be brought together in a way that mutually strengthens everyone involved financially as well as qualitatively is just super exciting to me."
There were many reasons that got me excited about Cent early on. But more than anything my selfish desire to use Cent as a way to incentivize real interaction with my writings was probably one of the biggest reasons I got so excited.
For so long - literally months and months - I talked about writing on Cent, and now it's been more than a week since I've switched to publishing my daily musings exclusively on Cent. And it's been better than I ever imagined.
Of course the initial replies have been there - about 10~20 per post - as I'd expected, but the real magic to me has been the back and forth interaction below the replies in the comments with fellow Centians like @kwame, @geekkid, @zianzam, @egg, @fizzgig656, @vineet15 and @framore.
What's magical and exciting about those conversations can actually be summed up in one of my sorta long winded replies to @zianzam which also happened to inspire this whole post today to begin with.
Again it's probably too long and maybe not the clearest, but these daily posts are all just attempts at expressing what's top if mind for me each day. I'll keep trying to get better.
"It's been so surprising to receive seed money from other users so quickly. When I set out to publish on Cent I never expected anything other than replies actually.
But what has me most excited is the relationship between me as content creator and the consumers of or readers/repliers to my writing.
Right now my bounties are attracting people to read and engage with me, and for that they are receiving some money. But if we continue to have these exchanges everyday, after 6 months or a year that could mean that my core readers and repliers will have accumulated a non-trivial amount of money.
On top of that if I am able to earn a little more than I pay to my readers in bounties (which is not unreasonable given my current average bounty level) that could mean *we* will be able to go from zero to one in terms of creating an economically enriched collective of like minded individuals.
What could *we*, as a strong collective, be able to do with that new found economic power?
My assumption is that we'd be able to do whatever we want. Setup an irl meetup in Tokyo to discuss how to scale our operations. Fund a special interest of ours and hire an agency to further an agenda. Whatever.
The possibilities are kinda endless, but my case is just one small example. There are so many more bigger and for sure way more consequential latent collectives and interests just waiting to form.
The fact that something like that can potentially be brought together in a way that mutually strengthens everyone involved financially as well as qualitatively is just super exciting to me."
2018년 11월 13일 화요일
The Napster of Crypto
[This article was originally published on Cent here]
> Most of us kind of agree on the thrust of history. The key is to understand how we get there. The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be. ~ Sean Parker
A lot of people are on Cent because they agree that things should be different.
Social media is exploitative. Content creators should get paid more. Users likes are worth something more than free. Cryptocurrency is going to change the world.
Sorta like what Sean Parker meant by that opening quote, we all kinda agree that it would be much better if social media actually paid content creators and users, well, anything. And we all suspect that crypto will be a major key in unlocking a future where that and so much more will be possible.
But without a transition strategy, those visions and beliefs of such a future are nothing more than dreams.
Since Day 1 Cent has been focused on becoming a rocket ship towards that future, and everyone is welcome onboard. Allowing anyone from anywhere to earn crypto is *the* mission. And we won't stop until we put crypto in the pockets of every single man, woman and child on earth.
There will be a lot of other products that could serve as transition strategies though.
And thanks to the post that @Ezincrypto shared today, it looks like the crew at Volca Tech have come up with an amazing product that does just that. The linkdrop tech at Eth2.io has made sending crypto to *anyone* as simple as sending a url. No crypto wallet? No problem. The url you send that contains the ETH will trigger an automatic download of Trust Wallet.
As a way to play around with this awesome development and help demonstrate the power and possibilities of it, I've embedded some extra sexy ETH in the guise of an unassuming hyperlink hidden within an old blog post of mine. Click the right link, and the ETH is yours.
So, what transition strategy do you all think will give us that extra push into the history we're thrusting towards?
> Most of us kind of agree on the thrust of history. The key is to understand how we get there. The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be. ~ Sean Parker
A lot of people are on Cent because they agree that things should be different.
Social media is exploitative. Content creators should get paid more. Users likes are worth something more than free. Cryptocurrency is going to change the world.
Sorta like what Sean Parker meant by that opening quote, we all kinda agree that it would be much better if social media actually paid content creators and users, well, anything. And we all suspect that crypto will be a major key in unlocking a future where that and so much more will be possible.
But without a transition strategy, those visions and beliefs of such a future are nothing more than dreams.
Since Day 1 Cent has been focused on becoming a rocket ship towards that future, and everyone is welcome onboard. Allowing anyone from anywhere to earn crypto is *the* mission. And we won't stop until we put crypto in the pockets of every single man, woman and child on earth.
There will be a lot of other products that could serve as transition strategies though.
And thanks to the post that @Ezincrypto shared today, it looks like the crew at Volca Tech have come up with an amazing product that does just that. The linkdrop tech at Eth2.io has made sending crypto to *anyone* as simple as sending a url. No crypto wallet? No problem. The url you send that contains the ETH will trigger an automatic download of Trust Wallet.
As a way to play around with this awesome development and help demonstrate the power and possibilities of it, I've embedded some extra sexy ETH in the guise of an unassuming hyperlink hidden within an old blog post of mine. Click the right link, and the ETH is yours.
So, what transition strategy do you all think will give us that extra push into the history we're thrusting towards?
2018년 11월 12일 월요일
The BOTI at Six Months
I didn't know it when I posted this week's BOTI, but thanks to fellow Centian @dileep I found out today marks six months from when I first posted my Best Of The Internet bounty on beta.cent.co.
Weekly participation has been creeping up, and I receive way more comments from users than I'd have ever imagined telling me how much they enjoy and look forward to the BOTI each week.
That's so freaking cool.
Well here's to six months and hopefully 600 more.
Weekly participation has been creeping up, and I receive way more comments from users than I'd have ever imagined telling me how much they enjoy and look forward to the BOTI each week.
That's so freaking cool.
Well here's to six months and hopefully 600 more.
2018년 11월 11일 일요일
Question: How are you keeping up with all these new posts on Cent?
[This was first published on Cent here]
Well, it looks like Seeding🌱 and the ability to post for free have really started to take off.
But now that a ton of new content is getting posted each day, I'm finding it all a bit hard to keep up with. Despite having upped my overall replies, comments, and total sorts, I still feel like I'm missing a lot.
The biggest frustration I've been experiencing is that I'll see an interesting looking title as I'm scrolling down through all the new posts, but forget to come back to it.
I'm curious how my fellow Centians are handling all these new posts (and bounties too - it looks like we're averaging around 25~30 live bounties each day)?
If you're experiencing any challanges due to the explosion in new content like I am, please describe those pain points, but more importantly please share any potential solutions you may have that we could implement to make your Cent experience even better.
Well, it looks like Seeding🌱 and the ability to post for free have really started to take off.
But now that a ton of new content is getting posted each day, I'm finding it all a bit hard to keep up with. Despite having upped my overall replies, comments, and total sorts, I still feel like I'm missing a lot.
The biggest frustration I've been experiencing is that I'll see an interesting looking title as I'm scrolling down through all the new posts, but forget to come back to it.
I'm curious how my fellow Centians are handling all these new posts (and bounties too - it looks like we're averaging around 25~30 live bounties each day)?
If you're experiencing any challanges due to the explosion in new content like I am, please describe those pain points, but more importantly please share any potential solutions you may have that we could implement to make your Cent experience even better.
2018년 11월 10일 토요일
Forging Deep Relationships Across Continents
[This article was first published on 11/9 on Cent here]
One of the many amazing attributes of the Cent team is the ability of each and every member to collaborate and stay in sync across multiple continents and opposite time zones.
At any given time, over half of the Cent team works remotely.
@max and @cameron are based in SF, but travel frequently. @pavan moves between SF/LA as well as the East Coast. I'm in Seoul. @rayma is everywhere. And @dgerm is East Coast based.
Every weekday at a fixed time, @pavan sends out a url that let's us all join a Zoom call. We use those daily calls to discuss how we can keep improving Cent, to set individual tasks in order to implement planned product improvements, and to share any updates regarding on-going tasks or issues related to Cent.
Outside of those typically hour-ish long Zoom calls, Slack keeps us all on the same page. If Zoom calls are primarily product focused, Slack is for everything else. Literally everything, from philosophical rants, to jokes, questions, clarifications, info sharing, appointment setting and customer support.
Just the other day @pavan, @rayma and I spent like 5 hours where we were each individually taking turns managing a super challenging user-related issue while simultaneously communicating with one another on Slack about it.
While the issue itself was super challenging, that's not what I want to focus on. What's most amazing to me was how, through that shared mutual experience that the three of us battled our way through, despite each of us being separated by thousands of miles of land and water, we actually became closer.
Or at least I totally feel closer with them. We've still never met face-to-face, but I'd literally go to war for them any day. And I'd say that for the rest of the team too.
The Cent team is tight af. With each passing day our bonds are getting stronger and our relationships deeper. It's just mind blowing how this is possible despite all living in different places around the world.
One of the many amazing attributes of the Cent team is the ability of each and every member to collaborate and stay in sync across multiple continents and opposite time zones.
At any given time, over half of the Cent team works remotely.
@max and @cameron are based in SF, but travel frequently. @pavan moves between SF/LA as well as the East Coast. I'm in Seoul. @rayma is everywhere. And @dgerm is East Coast based.
Every weekday at a fixed time, @pavan sends out a url that let's us all join a Zoom call. We use those daily calls to discuss how we can keep improving Cent, to set individual tasks in order to implement planned product improvements, and to share any updates regarding on-going tasks or issues related to Cent.
Outside of those typically hour-ish long Zoom calls, Slack keeps us all on the same page. If Zoom calls are primarily product focused, Slack is for everything else. Literally everything, from philosophical rants, to jokes, questions, clarifications, info sharing, appointment setting and customer support.
Just the other day @pavan, @rayma and I spent like 5 hours where we were each individually taking turns managing a super challenging user-related issue while simultaneously communicating with one another on Slack about it.
While the issue itself was super challenging, that's not what I want to focus on. What's most amazing to me was how, through that shared mutual experience that the three of us battled our way through, despite each of us being separated by thousands of miles of land and water, we actually became closer.
Or at least I totally feel closer with them. We've still never met face-to-face, but I'd literally go to war for them any day. And I'd say that for the rest of the team too.
The Cent team is tight af. With each passing day our bonds are getting stronger and our relationships deeper. It's just mind blowing how this is possible despite all living in different places around the world.
2018년 11월 7일 수요일
The Magic of Cent
[Note: the following was first published on Cent here]
Cent reminds me a lot of the internet when it first appeared. It's a digital primitive that can allow for - not to mention mean - many different things to many different people.
So, what clicked for you when you were like, "Wow, Cent is crazy awesome?"
In other words, when you first heard about Cent, what future possibility got you most excited?
Cent reminds me a lot of the internet when it first appeared. It's a digital primitive that can allow for - not to mention mean - many different things to many different people.
So, what clicked for you when you were like, "Wow, Cent is crazy awesome?"
In other words, when you first heard about Cent, what future possibility got you most excited?
2018년 11월 5일 월요일
BOTI Monday
Today is BOTI Monday on Cent where I post a bounty to incentivize users to submit tge best of the internet from last week.
The top 10 submissions receive about a dollar each, and top submissions are voted on by users who get paid for their voting (or what we call sorting) efforts.
Check out the BOTI here.
The top 10 submissions receive about a dollar each, and top submissions are voted on by users who get paid for their voting (or what we call sorting) efforts.
Check out the BOTI here.
2018년 11월 4일 일요일
Get Passionate About Something, Early
[Note: the following was first published on Cent here]
I really liked the post fellow Centian @Arnorth24 made yesterday.
Not only was it their very first bounty post on Cent (which is super dope in its own right, cuz circular crypto economy) but it reminded me of when I first got passionate about Cent and how that eventually led to me joining the Cent Team.
A little over a year ago I came across beta.cent.co, a little known site that had launched on mainnet a few months earlier. It had just been included in a list of notable new dApps in the must-read Token Economy newsletter. I was hooked from my first visit.
For the next few months leading up to Xmas I became a Cent power user. I was posting all the time, and even used some of my earnings to attach a few bounties to posts.
And then on the plane ride back to Korea from the states on New Years Day, I penned my first blog post about Cent. It was way too long, but it was super earnest and encapsulated my passion for Cent perfectly.
After I published that article I posted a bounty seeking suggestions from fellow Centians for how @max and @cameron could improve the site. And I emailed the two co-founders. A couple times. No response.
Nonetheless I continued to use Cent and write more about it. Then one day I penned a few fictionalized pieces detailing the future I imagined Cent potentially creating for its users. I sent another email with a link to the twenty or so articles I had written about Cent by then. And this time I got a response.
After a couple of calls with the two co-founders, I was offered the chance to join the team. We threw a few numbers around before agreeing on a figure. Then after making sure I could get paid in ETH, it was official: I was now a part of the best team in crypto.
As someone with a non-technical background who works a full time job in corporate HR for a major Korean conglomerate in Seoul, the path to working for a crypto startup wasn't an obvious one. Were it not for my passion that I channeled into writing about Cent (which I still do btw - this is my 114th time writing about Cent) I never would've had this opportunity.
So @Arnorth24, I know you're looking for some potential side hustles or part-time gigs. But if my case can be any example or help to you (and anyone like you), I hope that you find something new that not a lot of people have found (yet) that you can get really passionate about it. Then you just need to pursue the hell out of it.
I really liked the post fellow Centian @Arnorth24 made yesterday.
Not only was it their very first bounty post on Cent (which is super dope in its own right, cuz circular crypto economy) but it reminded me of when I first got passionate about Cent and how that eventually led to me joining the Cent Team.
A little over a year ago I came across beta.cent.co, a little known site that had launched on mainnet a few months earlier. It had just been included in a list of notable new dApps in the must-read Token Economy newsletter. I was hooked from my first visit.
For the next few months leading up to Xmas I became a Cent power user. I was posting all the time, and even used some of my earnings to attach a few bounties to posts.
And then on the plane ride back to Korea from the states on New Years Day, I penned my first blog post about Cent. It was way too long, but it was super earnest and encapsulated my passion for Cent perfectly.
After I published that article I posted a bounty seeking suggestions from fellow Centians for how @max and @cameron could improve the site. And I emailed the two co-founders. A couple times. No response.
Nonetheless I continued to use Cent and write more about it. Then one day I penned a few fictionalized pieces detailing the future I imagined Cent potentially creating for its users. I sent another email with a link to the twenty or so articles I had written about Cent by then. And this time I got a response.
After a couple of calls with the two co-founders, I was offered the chance to join the team. We threw a few numbers around before agreeing on a figure. Then after making sure I could get paid in ETH, it was official: I was now a part of the best team in crypto.
As someone with a non-technical background who works a full time job in corporate HR for a major Korean conglomerate in Seoul, the path to working for a crypto startup wasn't an obvious one. Were it not for my passion that I channeled into writing about Cent (which I still do btw - this is my 114th time writing about Cent) I never would've had this opportunity.
So @Arnorth24, I know you're looking for some potential side hustles or part-time gigs. But if my case can be any example or help to you (and anyone like you), I hope that you find something new that not a lot of people have found (yet) that you can get really passionate about it. Then you just need to pursue the hell out of it.
2018년 11월 3일 토요일
Cent Publication, Blogger Syndication
Yesterday marked my first time publishing on Cent.
And from here on out, I shall continue to publish first on Cent while syndicating here.
I've been publishing on Blogger since the winter of 2009 without any complaints, but also without anything noteworthy happening as well.
My publishing schedule on Cent will switch to late evening KST time, so that means I will make a placeholder post on Blogger (such as I am doing now) before noon KST each day before updating with what I publish on Cent.
I will probably continue in this way until I hit post number 365 on Blogger. Why? Because that's a boss number.
And from here on out, I shall continue to publish first on Cent while syndicating here.
I've been publishing on Blogger since the winter of 2009 without any complaints, but also without anything noteworthy happening as well.
My publishing schedule on Cent will switch to late evening KST time, so that means I will make a placeholder post on Blogger (such as I am doing now) before noon KST each day before updating with what I publish on Cent.
I will probably continue in this way until I hit post number 365 on Blogger. Why? Because that's a boss number.
2018년 11월 2일 금요일
Writing on Cent is Remembering Together
[Note: get paid to comment on this post on Cent here]
> Writing is remembering.
That is my favorite all time quote from my favorite blog, Fred Wilson's avc.com.
If you aren't familiar with Fred or his writing, he is a VC or venture capitalist (hence the name of his blog, avc) and he blogs everyday.
His writing is really good. It's clear and he shares valuable insights into investing and other things using great anecdotes taken from the companies he's invested in as well as his own life.
But I don't open up avc.com every morning just for Fred's writing - or even primarily because of it - for me it's all about the discussions that take place beneath the daily articles in the comment section.
Reading through the discussions and debates that crop up beneath Fred's articles is more than a diversion or entertainment. It's more like intellectual sustenance. In a way it's almost spiritual. It's food for my soul.
But I've also found that the more I consume the hungrier I grow for more *real* conversation. I want to engage in more discussions. I want more feedback. Way more than Twitter or Medium or Facebook or even my own daily blog has been or is capable of providing.
As a non-famous normie, though, there just hasn't been a way to get that kind of real thoughtful engagement easily or consistently.
And why should anyone - not just me or you - expect others to donate their valuable time? To listen to another perspective? Or understand a different side of an argument? Or listen to a new song? Or read today's blog entry? People just don't typically do that.
But what if you let people know that they could get paid if they read, listen or think deeper *and* engage with your blog, song or argument?
In the case of my daily blog, if I were to attach a bounty to incentivize readers to engage with my writing, my writing would still be remembering for me, but it would turn into a remembering together with others. That is powerful, especially if it's applied to other ideas and content.
So that is what I plan on doing. I'll post whatever is top of mind for me each day and attach a bounty so that you can get paid for engaging below the post. Until tomorrow yall.
> Writing is remembering.
That is my favorite all time quote from my favorite blog, Fred Wilson's avc.com.
If you aren't familiar with Fred or his writing, he is a VC or venture capitalist (hence the name of his blog, avc) and he blogs everyday.
His writing is really good. It's clear and he shares valuable insights into investing and other things using great anecdotes taken from the companies he's invested in as well as his own life.
But I don't open up avc.com every morning just for Fred's writing - or even primarily because of it - for me it's all about the discussions that take place beneath the daily articles in the comment section.
Reading through the discussions and debates that crop up beneath Fred's articles is more than a diversion or entertainment. It's more like intellectual sustenance. In a way it's almost spiritual. It's food for my soul.
But I've also found that the more I consume the hungrier I grow for more *real* conversation. I want to engage in more discussions. I want more feedback. Way more than Twitter or Medium or Facebook or even my own daily blog has been or is capable of providing.
As a non-famous normie, though, there just hasn't been a way to get that kind of real thoughtful engagement easily or consistently.
And why should anyone - not just me or you - expect others to donate their valuable time? To listen to another perspective? Or understand a different side of an argument? Or listen to a new song? Or read today's blog entry? People just don't typically do that.
But what if you let people know that they could get paid if they read, listen or think deeper *and* engage with your blog, song or argument?
In the case of my daily blog, if I were to attach a bounty to incentivize readers to engage with my writing, my writing would still be remembering for me, but it would turn into a remembering together with others. That is powerful, especially if it's applied to other ideas and content.
So that is what I plan on doing. I'll post whatever is top of mind for me each day and attach a bounty so that you can get paid for engaging below the post. Until tomorrow yall.
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