I was going through and updating some of my old passwords and logged into Binance for the first time since, well, 2017.
Turns out those 19 coins are now worth around $11,000.
Do nice things and sometimes nice things happen to you 🙂
Payment streaming through
@meanfinance
is pretty great. Set up the timeframe, frequency, and how many tokens to send, then watch as your payment streams over in real-time.
This is the future.
The biggest obstacle facing individuals trying to learn SEO, is the plethora of generic, and often poor SEO advice published consistently by people with zero experience in SEO other than publishing blog posts on how to do SEO 🤷♂️
Today's my last day of work for a month.
One of the many employee perks at
@HubSpot
(1 month off + pay + $5k bonus once you've been here for 5 years).
This will be the longest vacation time in my career. Cannot wait to unwind and enjoy distraction-free time w/ my family.
After 7 incredible years at
@HubSpot
, I've decided to make a change.
I'm going all-in on web3.
I'm extremely excited to say that I'm joining the
@DecentralGames
team as CMO.
Here are some reflections on the past few years and what's sparked the move.
I've been accumulating Frax Share ($FXS) consistently over the past 6 months.
Of all the assets I've been accumulating, I believe $FXS will have the most dramatic breakout soon. Why?
🛠️ DeFi utility
📦 Supply crunch
⚔️ Curve wars
📥 Airdrop hype
Here's a thread explaining...
Great leaders are great storytellers.
If you're bad at creating internal presentations, you'll struggle to progress.
I’ve delivered 100s - if not 1000s (seriously) - of presentations during the span of my career.
Here are 7 principles I use to deliver great presentations 🧵
I purchased my first
@DecentralGames
NFT on November 23, 2021. Since then, I've purchased an additional 5.
As of today:
💰they've earned me $4,000 in passive income.
📈 are worth $40,000 (+147% ROI).
📅 now earn me $150 per day in passive income.
Here's a thread explaining...
ICE Poker Flex and Tournament Mode are officially launched 🚨
Decentral Games is also thrilled to announce a Tournament Mode competition and 6 launch partnerships.
Read to learn more 👇
Interesting: just added
@MattWoodwardUK
's custom Google Analytics segment that tracks any traffic from the sites that Google uses to hire Search Quality Raters. A pretty clear trend from Raters looking at this URL to organic traffic gains.
One of many similar examples.
EVERYTHING WILL RUN SMOOTHLY
EVERYTHING WILL RUN SMOOTHLY
EVERYTHING WILL RUN SMOOTHLY
EVERYTHING WILL RUN SMOOTHLY
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IM DOING
EVERYTHING WILL RUN SMOOTHLY
EVERYTHING WILL RUN SMOOTHLY
EVERYTHING WILL RUN SMOOTHLY
EVERYTHING WILL RUN SMOOTHLY
I love working remote, but having spent this week in the office, it makes me remember how valuable in-person time with your team is. Remote vs in-office is often viewed as all or nothing, but I really think the perfect setup is a blend of the two.
Picked up my first
@PlayCrabada
crab today. Planning on scooping up a few more over the coming week.
Very interesting play&earn ecosystem. I'll share more details on how this plays out for me in the coming weeks.
Thanks to everyone that shared threads/data, etc. w/ me 👍
Me: got lots to get done this morning. Let me go and quickly check in on Google Analytics and then I'll get all my tasks done right after.
3 hours later: down a black hole in GA and haven't even begun anything else.
Currently earning ~$50 per day from the 2x
@DecentralGames
ICE Poker NFTs I've delegated (combined).
I'll have the full up-front cost covered for both NFTs in 40 days from the day of purchase. Pretty amazing ROI.
Planning on buying up a bunch more.
Very significant news in the world of web3 gaming.
Apple allowing
@AxieInfinity
Origins to be listed on the App Store (albeit in LatAm & Asia to begin with) should help pave the way for other crypto-integrated games to do the same.
Some exciting personal news:
@semrush
has just acquired Traffic Think Tank.
It's been a heck of a journey since late 2017, bootstrapping the business, seeing crazy growth, and exiting to a public company that I admire.
More info linked 🙂
On Thursday evening, we welcomed Evangeline Howells-Barby into the world. Watching the person I love go through child birth has to be the most humbling and incredible experience of my life.
Porridge (our dog) is... adjusting.
Is there anything more annoying than searching for an image in Google Images with a transparent background to find that they've simply added a checkered background to the image?!
WHYYYYYYYYYYY
Bringing real-world assets (RWA) on-chain will be the next major unlock for growth in DeFI.
It's a narrative that hasn't come to fruition yet, but this is changing...
Did you know there's >$600mn in tokenized treasuries on chain TODAY?
Why is this interesting?
Bringing RWAs…
Getting emails and seeing tweets etc. from people talking about how this time can still be a great "opportunity" for entrepreneurs. Regardless of whether it is or not, get a grip of yourself. Have some self-awareness and just shut up for a while.
This was a great web3 experience.
I purchased a
@WAGMIUnited
NFT a few months back. Today, I was able to burn it to claim physical merch instead.
Seamless checkout flow and some pretty cool merch, too. A great example of bridging digital/physical engagement.
Kicked off our first metaverse advertising deal with Mastercard last week.
You can jump into one of the branded teleporters in our
@Decentraland
venues to jump straight to the
@Mastercard
Pride Plaza.
🏳️🌈 🏃♀️ ⚡️🕳 ⚡️ 🏃♀️
Going down the rabbit hole of the
@PlayCrabada
ecosystem. Share your favorite threads, tips, thoughts with me - looking forward to learning more about the game 🤓🦀
Just picked up another 3x
@PlayCrabada
6/6 Purity crabs.
Enjoying playing around in this ecosystem so far 🦀
In the coming few weeks I'll report back on ROI and what I learn about Crabada 👍
Been working with the team on a couple of decks to explain the future vision and current performance of Decentral Games.
This slide, showing DG by the numbers is a great illustration of why I believe in the future of what we're building...
The mechanics of play-to-earn v1 are broken.
Projects that have seen significant scale, like Axie & STEPN, are facing major challenges with token inflation.
The lack of personal investment that players have in the game results in large-scale value extraction.
What's next? 🧵
The auto-compounding vaults from
@beefyfinance
are one of my favorite DeFi plays.
✅ no need to manually claim rewards.
✅ no ongoing gas fees.
✅ no useless reward token payouts.
High returns and a great way to grow your holdings of an asset.
Here's a thread explaining...
After being a contributor to
@sengineland
several times over the years, I decided to request more information on partnership and advertising via their website. A couple of hours later, I receive this somewhat baffling and extremely unprofessional response from their CEO 🤷♂️
Since joining
@DecentralGames
near the start of this year, the focus has been on building the foundations of a sustainable game economy.
Now that we have that, we're ramping up our growth efforts.
Here's a quick look at our high-level approach to growing our web3 ecosystem 🧵
Had a freelancer do a small dev job for me on UpWork (~ $500) and at the end, I saw an option that said I could work with the freelancer outside of UpWork - clicked it out of curiosity... UpWork ask for $6,988.80 for the privilege to do this 😂😂😂
What planet are they on?
Started playing in the
@genopets
beta today with my Genesis Genopet. Interested to see how this game evolves.
Think we’re going to see a lot of innovation in GameFi over the coming 6 months 👾👾👾
Benefits of having a newborn right as a global pandemic breaks out:
✅ my stress levels were already maxed.
✅ leaving the house is a struggle anyway.
✅ had already stocked up on supplies for a month.
✅ already surviving on minimal sleep.
We just launched the most significant improvement to
@TTTSEOCommunity
since its genesis... it's been a lot of work and we're going to be adding a TON more features to it, but we're now live with Traffic Think Tank Academy 🔥
Being remote has its challenges but one of the things I’m most grateful for is having more control over my schedule. It’s a LOT easier to make time for fitness, mental wellbeing, healthy eating - generally anything that requires strict routine becomes more achievable.
✍️ Just published a short essay on remote management that some of you may find useful. Having lived in three countries in the past four years, and having a team distributed all over the world - I've learned a lot.
🔎 Read it here:
This is the first in what will be an explosion of consolidation in the yield/rebase token space.
@OlympusDAO
proposal to effectively absorb the treasury of
@Spartacus_Fi
, which is trading below RFV.
This is going to be a big growth driver for $OHM IMO.
Most play & earn games are yet to launch any kind of mobile version of their game. Those that do will get a big headstart in onboarding new users.
The upcoming launch of ICE Poker mobile from
@DecentralGames
is going to be a huge growth driver for their ecosystem. 🤳🃏📈
3 years ago, I launched an online community business with 2 co-founders.
Today, we're doing $1mm in annual revenue.
There were a LOT of hard lessons along the way.
Here are 6 of my most important takeaways from growing a paid community.
🧵👇
Took the first half of this week off to recharge.
No Slack. No email.
Week has consisted of long walks, short naps, and dancing with my daughter.
10/10 would recommend.
🚀 Life Update: delighted to finally be able to share that I’ve joined
@krakenfx
as their VP, Growth.
Doubling down on my conviction in the crypto space and joining a team of A+ talent to fight the good fight.
Couldn’t be more excited!
This is hands-down one of the best features of using
@LensProtocol
.
View your timeline through the lens of another account. Would be a killer feature for Twitter to have, too, tbf.
Love this,
@StaniKulechov
,
@fabriguespe
& co 👏
So... the barbers down the road has a photo of Vin Diesel on the front of their building. This creates two questions:
💈 are they claiming that Vin Diesel is one of their customers?
💈 do they realize that Vin Diesel has no hair?
Ok, for all of you asking what the hell I'm talking about... right-click on a Chrome tab and you'll see the option to "Add tab to Group". Hit that and you can drag tabs into groups (and color code them). See below, live from my desktop. Welcome to the future.
Current performance of my 6x
@DecentralGames
NFTs is earnings of 7,893 $ICE over the past 7 days.
These rewards are worth between $785-925 (based on 7-day low vs high price).
Monthly passive 💰 = $3,365-3,965
Total upfront NFT cost = $16,000
Current market value = ~$40,000
🤑
The past 18 months have been incredibly draining for the majority of the world. Those fortunate enough to shift to remote work have been burning out quicker than ever. We've seen this a LOT at
@HubSpot
.
Next week, the entire company is taking all week off. Time to recharge 🔋⚡️
One of my new fave play&earn games is
@Stepnofficial
.
It's Strava/MapMyRun meets GameFi. At a high level:
👟 you get a sneaker NFT.
🏃♂️ you either run, jog or walk each day via the app.
💰 you earn ~$30 per 10 mins of activity.
Here's a thread on how it all works...
1 month into my rebase token experiment and here's how it's performing:
💰Portfolio value = $786
🔻Profit/Loss % = -47.63%
Only 2/15 protocols are in the green:
1.
@romedaofinance
(+9%) 🏆
2.
@HectorDAO_HEC
(+7%) 🥈
Biggest loser:
@ICE_DAO_
(-94%) 💀
more info 🧵
Rebase tokens (OHM "forks") have been getting a lot of attention for their insane APYs - some are >Quintilion%
To track how these perform over 1 year, I staked $100 worth of tokens across 15 different protocols.
Follow the wallet here:
If you want to progress as a people manager, you need to do a great job of hiring people that can replace you.
Learn this quickly and you’ll hire better and move up quicker.
If you’re treating hires like competition, you’re missing the point.
Love that Frax have done their points program completely on chain. Super transparent and I hope this pushes more teams to follow suit.
Great work,
@samkazemian
& team 🫡
Take a look…
It’s 2019 and some people are still asking to be paid by check... would you also like me to fax you a receipt?!? I’ll confirm payment is sent via smoke signal, too. 🙈
Awards Company: "Congratulations, you've been nominated for an award."
Me: "Great, thank you for letting me know."
Awards Company: "You just need to pay us $1,500 and then you will get your award."
Me: "Wut."
As someone who's moved around a lot and has to transfer cash between accounts in different countries,
@TransferWise
was been an absolute game-changer. If you ever have to transfer cash across borders I'd 100% recommend checking them out - lower fees than the bank + zero hassle.
I spoke with
@0xkarel
from
@Treasure_DAO
where we discussed:
🧠 why
@arbitrum
is such an exciting place to be right now.
🧠 the growth story of Treasure and what's next.
🧠 the games and protocols coming to Arbitrum that he's most excited about.
🎧👇
I'm terrible at celebrating the wins I have.
Most of my energy goes into "the struggle" of hitting my goals. Often, when I hit my goal, I make a new one. This is a terrible way to operate.
Here's my reminder to myself, and you, to celebrate the wins. Big or small, enjoy them!
I use autocomplete on Chrome a LOT to navigate to sites I frequently visit. Google Analytics is a site I go to a lot, so I often just the first few letters of Analytics to bring it up in my autocomplete. I always press Enter too early... my search history looks VERY suspicious.
The past few months at
@DecentralGames
have seen us implement some major changes to the way our game economy works.
While I try not to talk token price, it's great to see this pay off w/ $ICE up ~80% (7 days) & our burn/earn ratio close to 1:1.
Progress.
The gap in compensation between marketing roles in UK agencies vs US agencies is wild. Any time I see the comp behind roles being offered in the UK I have to double-take because they're so underpaid.
👋 I'm Hiring 🐙🚀
Want to come and be part of my growth team at
@krakenfx
? I have 6 open roles right now...
1. Regional Growth Manager (US & Canada)
2. Regional Growth Marketing Manager (EU & ROW)
3. Performance Marketing Lead
4. Affiliate Marketing Manager
5. Lifecycle…
Really sad news today.
@hamletbatista
was a hyperintelligent guy, he was generous, thoughtful, and kind. He was an invaluable member of Traffic Think Tank and would go out of his way to help support whatever we were doing. I was privileged to call him my friend. RIP.
For many freelancers/consultants, the past few weeks have been a particularly rough ride. If you're a business still looking at taking on new projects, I'd highly recommend supporting the freelancer community as much as possible when selecting who to work with.
/thread 👇
There are few feelings better than learning something new. Doesn't need to be a huge thing; can literally be a single new fact, but it feels great. 10/10 would recommend learning things.
The new series of the
@decryptopodcast
is LIVE.
I speak to
@0xMiles
, founder of
@DecentralGames
, and we talk about:
🎮 how play-to-earn gaming works.
📈 the growth they've had with ICE Poker.
🛠️ their upcoming roadmap.
👾 the future of P2E.
Listen: