[Applause] [Music] Hello everyone. I think it's important to start a little bit about who I am. So I'm currently a film student here at DC and so something like a story is really valuable to me. And so today I kind of want to start start talking a little bit about an original story.However, this is not quite where my this story begins. This story actually began last year when I first wanted to make a TEDex speech and I didn't quite meet the deadline because I felt like I didn't come up with something creati ...

[Applause] [Music] Hello everyone. I think it's important to start a little bit about who I am. So I'm currently a film student here at DC and so something like a story is really valuable to me. And so today I kind of want to start start talking a little bit about an original story.However, this is not quite where my this story begins. This story actually began last year when I first wanted to make a TEDex speech and I didn't quite meet the deadline because I felt like I didn't come up with something creati ...

Leon is rightAnd it’s precisely what I’ve been warning about for about 3 months now. A bunch of potentially valuable creator-types nuked their reps and value in a race to the bottom for short term incentives and since most participants in this space have no sense of delayed gratification (or signal/value discernment) they followed suit.The result? A deluge of hogwash garbage about whatever pre-TGE project just announced an incentive program and leaderboard/reward reception slop.A pretty good way to figure o ...

Have you felt that the most challenging or creative part of your job or schoolwork is figuring out how to respond to an email or writing a last minute assignment that sounds original? Are we all just turning to chat GPT? Now, we'll get back to that in a second. See, I've spent years in the tech industry doing different roles and different environments, but I've seen the same thing everywhere. creativity getting slowly waterboarded by processes, mandatory tools, quarterly goals. I mean, imagine this. It's ye ...