No, I haven’t! Thanks for the tip, I’ll make sure to check it out 😁

Wrote an article on my favorite TV 📺 show on Cent. Any other #TwinPeaks fans on Peepeth? https://beta.cent.co/+nv12tv

Instead of feeling disappointed by the people in your life, recognize that you are the best friend you’ll ever have. Be your own compass. Trust yourself radically. It won’t make you selfish, it will make you stop using other people as instruments for your own satisfaction

Yes, tokenized securities will be monumental, even if people don't quite get how it works behind the scenes. Being able to buy $0.10 of the S&P or Hang Seng is going to make investing radically more accessible

We are still the lunatic fringe. I don’t know if it will ever be “mainstream” even when there’s mass adoption. Might just be under the hood, so to speak, which is fine with me. Brave’s ad rewards and Facebook/Kik/Telegram launching coins are interesting developments to watch

I was sure that would be a link to a steamed hams clip. Yet another alternative to sausages 😂

I expected this to be from the Onion, but nope...sausages it is then. Do you think a committee debated what type of meat product to use? Maybe it’s a way to subsidize Australia’s failing sausage industry. Is Spam too expensive to import? You wouldn’t even have to poison it

@bevan is on it before I can even type out a reply 👍

It draws attention to how many inactive users there are, which is fair given where we are in the hype cycle. It might make it more attractive to prospective users though if there were a cutoff after someone had been inactive for so long

Guac, basil, broccolini...mushrooms?

https://youtu.be/TRXdxiot5JM

There are so many problems to address and opportunities to explore that it’s easy to fall victim to decision paralysis. Props for taking the leap of faith and actually buidling something

It’s such a wide open space, which leaves a lot of room for entrepreneurs to participate who would otherwise be crowded out by monopolies or overwhelming competition for venture capital, but that also means less demand, especially at the trough of the hype cycle

I’m tempted to say there’s more specialization (to cross threads from Cent), but I don’t know if that’s true: I see more explicit generalist positions in programming/development than ever. Engineering management has specialized more though, which has changed how I see my skills

I believe so! Fortunately, this isn’t my first rodeo, so I stay pretty motivated. It is interesting how much faster tech appears to be accelerating from the perspective of job-seekers though. There’s more competition, but also way more automation now, and more to learn everyday

I just joined Minds if you want to chat on there: https://www.minds.com/galoisconnection 😃

Also, half of that was from @abcoathup and the other half from me. At least my rent's paid for this month and next!

Sadly, there's still a lot of self-promotion involved. In my experience, this is one of the biggest blind spots people have to their privilege: a network of people and the confidence to rely on them. How you're raised to feel about yourself matters more than money in my opinion

Most of my experience has been working for agencies, which can be very possessive about what work you're "allowed" to put in your portfolio and will try to intimidate you with NDAs. Also, I have a good number of code samples, but they usually aren't "product-oriented" enough

Do I laugh or cry?

Thanks for inspiring me to be more open about my own experiences. Wish I could do more!

Keep peeping and making your voice heard. The decentralized community is just getting started and there’s a huge opportunity to reap the rewards of being here early. That means more than just returns on crypto, but gaining visibility, sometimes for the first time in our lives!

Maybe you could start a GoFundMe? There are some blockchain alternatives but they’re young and don’t have much of a user base. It’s on my agenda, but it feels so much better to keep writing cover letters than an appeal for money so I keep putting it off

I’ve been applying for consistent work for over a year. I’ve worked as a software developer for the better part of a decade, and for some impressive brands. I have a lot of useful skills, but I don’t have a degree or a network, so getting a job still isn’t as easy as people think

I have a hard time trusting anyone too. Developing trust when you’ve been hurt all your life is hard work. It’s a cost a lot of people don’t have. I have a few friends, but it’s taken a lot of effort to build what trust is there, and when push comes to shove I feel I’m on my own

My family refused to help me with even basic medical and dental needs as a child despite having plenty of money. Now, as an adult, I have repeated bone infections, vision problems, hearing loss, and horrible tinnitus from decades of inadequate care that I now have to pay to fix

I respect your openness. I can’t say what I’ve been going through is quite on the same level as what you’re suffering right now, but I think I can relate. I haven’t spoken to anyone in my family in over 2 years after finally walking away from a lifetime of abuse and neglect

In the meantime, I think Peepeth's doing a lot of good by issuing badges and it sounds like @bevan has a great plan to balance attracting diverse users with incentivizing donations. I'm just very excited for the future and tend to have the mindset of "if eventually, why not now"?

I'm basically just seconding Vitalik's idea here: https://vitalik.ca/jekyll/general/2017/03/11/a_note_on_charity.html. As he points out, we'd need "sticker-issuing organizations", so Peepeth couldn't do it alone but it could shape the technical framework for those organization

There's global-local spectrum of class issues and an ongoing problem at those respective levels of wealthy countries/representatives deciding what's best for poor countries/communities. I'd like to see badges for building wells in Africa, volunteering at soup kitchens, etc.

Those were my exact feelings about early versions but the latest update is much improved and it’s now become my default browser

The whole crypto/dapp ecosystem is still so young. We've got a long road ahead but it's already so promising 🖖

I realized that right after posting 😆 I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for new ways to contribute and continue trying to recruit in the meantime 👍

Also, I agree with Vitalik's ideas about extending the badge system, and its potential for abuse by corporations. I think badges for proof of time/volunteering/contribution would be a great place to start. I see the badges repo is public on GitHub and would love to contribute

That's almost 2 weeks of income for many of the people these nets are trying to help. If we're going to build a platform that empowers people across the globe instead of perpetuating cycles of dependence then we need a reputation economy that doesn't reinforce existing inequities

Peepeth has the best culture of any major dapp I've used by far. I really do believe it has the opportunity to make a big difference in the world by improving online discourse and I'm here to do whatever I can to help. Keep up the great work!

I hope Peepeth continues to improve the badge system and create new donation tiers because the current scheme is actively hurting my ability to recruit fellow working class folk for whom $25 is literally the difference between affording food or medicine and paying for popularity

Neither? I have a lot of respect for Bernie, and Joe's fine, but I'm not excited about any of the candidates. I thought Lawrence Lessig's platform was exciting in 2016, but the changes he's proposing won't happen via traditional #politics. When push comes to shove Bernie > Joe

Very cool. Do you have a link where I can learn more about the details of how it works, e.g. do you get paid for curating playlists, etc?

Tokenized my first piece of original photography on SuperRare: https://superrare.co/artwork/root-of-the-problem-2949 #cryptoart

I’ve watched a number of their lectures on YouTube, but didn’t know there was a way to officially join!

Could also be a good tactic for getting new users and building community

Could use personal domains, or other verified accounts like Manna UBI for people who can’t afford personal domains. Could nix identification altogether and focus on filtering tools for users to weed out spam

I think so too, eventually. Unfortunately a lot of people outside the space still have a pretty low opinion of crypto and seeing a focus on those topics reinforces existing beliefs about it only being a niche for nerds, which in turn hampers broader adoption. It’s a vicious cycle

Last repeep was a mistake, meant to repeep this instead