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On Leadership

I have challenged myself to create a short video, each weekday in May, about one small thing we can do to develop our leadership. See embedded posts below:

Wallet Delegation

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Wallet Delegation

“I been hacked. All my apes gone” has entered into the meme hall of fame after spreading like wildfire across all of Twitter. For those of us that are learning to navigate the space, we have quickly realized that crypto infrastructure is minimal and UX, abysmal. Many of us feel

Justice & Relational Proximity

Justice & Relational Proximity

Cornell West often says that “Justice is what love looks like in public.” It seems clear he is talking about something real and something more than a sentiment or a feeling. Love is an action and it is related to justice in an interesting way. Aristotle wrote, in his Ethics,

TokenProof | IRL Verifier

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TokenProof | IRL Verifier

I got @TheWell813 set up on TokenProof which is an IRL verifier. You should set yours up so we can verify your 813 Jolly Roger at in person events!https://t.co/Qt44a2vlci Do it from the computer. It will guide you to the phone installation once connected through the

Unchecked Piracy

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Unchecked Piracy

Pablo Picasso is widely quoted as having said that “good artists borrow, great artists steal.” Whether it's right-click save, copy and paste, or countless derivatives, there is much to celebrate about such beautiful and unchecked piracy. Below is an Open Edition NFT project that we dropped as a

Boredom, Grit, & Flow State

Boredom, Grit, & Flow State

Date: July 2019 Subject: Jon Sanders Field: Information Technology In my interview with Jon Sanders a clear theme emerged related to learning, flow state, and his posture towards the unknown. Jon recounted story after story of learning new things and putting himself into situations that forced him to have to

Existential Givens

Existential Givens

Irvan Yalom is a renowned psychiatrist and psychotherapist who has made significant contributions to the field of existential psychology. One of his most influential concepts is that of the "existential givens," which refers to the fundamental aspects of the human experience that we all must confront at some

Paypal & Metamask

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Paypal & Metamask

ConsenSys, a market-leading Web3 company announced that U.S. MetaMask users will be able to purchase crypto (ETH) from within the app using PayPal. MetaMask will be the first Web3 wallet to leverage PayPal to drive more successful on-ramp transactions. Initially available to select PayPal users in the U.S.

It's Only Waste if We Waste It

It's Only Waste if We Waste It

"Waste" is a term that is often used to describe materials or resources that are no longer useful or needed. The concept of waste, however, is a subjective one. What is considered "waste" is often dependent on cultural and societal values. Waste is only waste because

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Visa & Crypto

While this series has done its best to introduce readers to some of the basic concepts and intriguing projects we have found over the course of the year, it is also worth highlighting major brands that have taken the Web3 space very seriously. There are countless examples of big brands

The importance of being a pedestrian.

The importance of being a pedestrian.

So we asked the AI ChatGPT to write and article on the importance of being a pedestrian and here is what it had to say! "Pedestrians, or individuals who travel on foot, often get a bad rap. They are sometimes seen as a nuisance to drivers and are frequently

From the AI chatbot

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From the AI chatbot

Another amazing technology that is emerging alongside Blockchain, VR, AR, and the like is artificial intelligence. The OpenAI ChatGPT bot has been making quite a splash over the last week or so. You've probably seen some examples in your social media feeds. In case you are not familiar

Florida shouldn’t tolerate the killing of so many pedestrians

Florida shouldn’t tolerate the killing of so many pedestrians

The following article was written by Robert Griendling and published as an opinion article in the Tampa Bay Times. The article communicated very real and existentially threatening challenges that are faced daily by local pedestrians. As Our own series is encouraging readers to 'be pedestrial' in both the

On Objectifying the Poor

On Objectifying the Poor

We have a tendency to objectify the poor. Poverty is, in many of our minds, a cause to be addressed or a condition to be relieved of. We want to make poverty history without ever making it personal. We might donate money or even take a trunk load of sandwiches

COIN | A Founder's Story

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COIN | A Founder's Story

On Friday, Amazon Prime unveiled a new documentary – Coin: A Founder’s Story – charting Coinbase’s ascent to America’s largest crypto exchange, as well as the backstory of how the company was built by CEO Brian Armstrong. Coinbase has played a substantial role in making cryptocurrency accessible and safe

Work & Play

I serve as the CEO for The Well, a Tampa based non-profit that is walking with many of Tampa’s most vulnerable neighbors, among whom there are a multitude of homeless and unemployed folks. The reality is that these neighbors, just like the rest of us, have basic needs like

Hurricanes & Neighborliness

Hurricanes & Neighborliness

This week was almost entirely monopolized by preparations for Hurricane Ian. While Tampa was once again spared a direct hit, the threatening storm closed almost all businesses and sent everyone into prep mode. Storms, like other times of crisis, really expose something inside of people. Some of us become selfish

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Big Green DAO

In the mid 90s, two brothers started building on a new technology called ‘the internet.’ Their idea was simple: create an online version of the Yellow Pages called Zip2. People were skeptical to say the least. During one particularly heated meeting with a 50 something year old owner of the

The Sobriety of Suffering & The Protest of Memory

The Sobriety of Suffering & The Protest of Memory

In a wonderful (and difficult) book called The Way of Suffering, Jerome Miller begins his geography of crisis by reflecting on memory. He observed that memory takes place at a sub-conscious level. We do not make decisions about what we do and do not remember on a day to day

VeeFriends & a16z

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VeeFriends & a16z

Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z), a venture capital firm founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology and the next internet. With more than $7.6 billion raised across four funds, the a16z crypto fund invests in web3 companies

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City Building

This week, instead of writing about a project, we wanted to share this TED talk by Scott Fitsimones. This talk seems like a great way to tie together some of the things we have been discussing in this series. We have covered DAOs and dug even deeper into CityDAO, which

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The Merge

The following is adapted from ethereum.org 🚀Soon, the current Ethereum Mainnet will merge with the Beacon Chain proof-of-stake system. ⛏This will mark the end of proof-of-work for Ethereum, and the full transition to proof-of-stake. 🌱This sets the stage for future scaling upgrades including sharding. 🌳The Merge will reduce Ethereum&

The Ordinary & the Radical

The Ordinary & the Radical

If you remember back to the very first article posted to the Be Pedestrian column, we wrote: The word pedestrian can serve as a noun or as an adjective. While the adjective use of this term is often a pejorative, we are quite fond of this overlap of identity and

Organization Spotlight

360 Eats

Organization Spotlight While traveling abroad in 2015, Cameron Macleish continually witnessed the omnipresence of grocery store dumpsters brimming with copious amounts of untouched nutritious food. Macleish found himself suddenly aware of the brutal truth that companies were sending wholesome foods to landfills rather than supplying it to the ever-growing food