September 2022

Books Reading:

The Cold Start Problem By: Andrew Chen

• great book on exploring how tech’s most successful products and companies solved the dreaded “cold start problem” by using network effects to launch and ultimately scale to billions of users.
  Who: The A Method for Hiring By: Geoff Smart, Randy Street
  
• enjoyed this book a ton, learned about a 4 step protocol for hiring that produces A player results. Here is a link of a comprehensive summary
  The Prince By: Niccolo Machiavelli
  
• been wanting to read this since I hear so much about him in conspiracy theories. Best summary I can think of is an 1500’s version of the Art of War, where there is more politics and even more wicked people. A never ending quote machine of a book.

Computing:

• Deployed more contracts to ethereum, including soulbound, burnable, 1155’s, dynamic & static, centralized and decentralized contracts:
  • Deployer Address: 0xaef4d46fb7b345559d2a4519956b38da98bdb4e0

OfficialWINO Wine Club (WINO): 0x051511467Cc574636033b474fb4c111819C81169
oTTo: 0x0157cEE8B56d75ca4C583DF2a5e9ac8C32F63967
Metathirst: 0x9F41Dd845121510D47D9C497a1baEDb91F28f643
ALTARS: 0x35C4EE48A8848F7A76bCE539cEE06c63C8fad039
SchoolBound Tokens: 0x1c4836720ccb8606091897452677041A66C96493
Che Guevara: 0xE960Df90A327aaFEc6d27419cB21B98731F5400C
Tweetbound Tokens: 0x6ad1553C0f603cEe52401A3f606d187dC3daAFd6
Tiger & The Fish: 0x231Dec9E55Ea6b4969483572878B2bdA98Dc0633
yes those kinds of mushrooms: 0xBA070D23408f9fbC9A2f18E2cA8C7A35A6A91412 (porous walker)

• Been messing with stablediffusion from a user named AUTOMATIC1111, made some cool D&D characters and other things. NovelAI’s model leaked, which was interesting.
  • if you ever want to laugh about a github issue on a user requesting a whole repository be re-written in rust, check this out
• updated swiftchan, added party hats for the birthday. Seems like the webm loading works near flawlessly. Upgraded to ios 16, got the new iphone 14 pro.

Log:

We’ve gotten so much done at work, many more contracts, including new concepts like 1155’s and soulbound NFTs.

MTGOX is finally doing KYC to repay their creditors.

Solomon is walking everywhere now, it only took him a couple weeks of constantly falling to become very proficient. He still falls, but is much more consistent! He had his first birthday, where he dressed up as baby mario and I was yoshi.