Some High-level Reflections and Cruel Words Young People Should Consider Before Aping into Web3

桜島Mai
22 min readJul 29, 2022

Besides everything here, don’t fk with the IRS.

I will provide a TLDR, but they are too short to capture all the technical and philosophical juice I extracted from myself. This writeup is long, so finding topics that interest you, and then find the appropriate section, can make this article more digestable. I am absolutely sorry for making this one reader unfriendly.

TLDR

  1. Crypto is becoming more relevant to traditional market. There is also a split in path (web 2.5 vs web 3) that will impact the magic ingredient for success. Web3 urgently demands inter-web talents
  2. Picking the appropriate path is crucial. If you can code, cool. If you want to be a VC, think about your credential, learning capability, and familiarity with web3 concepts. Learning how to trade is also crucial. General web3 VC and vertical-focusing VC are different on their demand for domainal expertise, but still are similar in many parts.
  3. Identifying noise, filtering noise, and forming original opinion is important to your financial, professional, and spiritual interest
  4. Think about your cushion when making decisions. Value the connections you build here. Sleep more and take care of yourself.

I feel old, despite having absolutely no right in saying so. I merely turned 22 last month, and I still have one year of college to finish. Financial burdens still feel like a distant thing, although I regret to realize it is much closer than it appears to be. I can still act and think like a student, to some extent. All these are precious, timed privileges that dissipate into faint memory upon graduation and commencement of that grind for Life, Liberty, and Happiness.

But I still do feel old, however much I want to argue against that, and after some reflection, I think this feeling roots in the fact that mingling with Web3 really exposes you to a diverse range of people with diverse characteristic combinations: age, wealth, career choice, thought habit, value system, experience, maturity, etc. These people certainly educated me professionally and revealed a “real-er” world outside of the ivory tower.

As I begin my mental break from everything in life this summer, I realize I finally have some time to reflect and write, and this topic immediately comes to my mind.

I’ve seen many scintillating narratives about web3. Over-the-night millionaire stories are not too uncommon here, and factually, many people (including young folks in my age range) indeed slurped the juice during the last bull run. The technology here is new, exciting, and representing a different paradigm for humanity. No wonder why I find many of my friends are buying into web3 and seeking a career here.

However, speaking candidly, I think although those narratives and stories are not ill-intentioned, they are not representative of what working in Web3 really is like, and if not processed with critical thinking, can be very misleading. Yes, young people should do new stuff, that’s why I’m here. But I think some cruel reality must be revealed and discussed.

Before any young person all-in web3, especially if it is their first job out of school, they need to understand the complexity associated a web3 career, which is what I attempt at doing in this writeup.

The Current Crypto Market and its Talent Need

Crypto is no longer how it used to be (pre 2021). On the surface, this means the price of major crypto assets moves in tandem with the traditional market, which is caused by various factors and presents some change in fundamental axioms. Crypto is becoming more and more relevant to the traditional market.

Quoting @SuburbanDrone for cool graph!
Quoting @SuburbanDrone for a cool graph

Empirically, this refers to two overarching themes, one on how founders approach their startup, and the other on what talents are urgently desired in the space.

Entrepreneurship: Bitcoin v.s. The rest of Web3

Roughly speaking, bitcoin is down the path of becoming a “money”, and the rest (Ethereum, NEAR, etc) are becoming a “technology”. Choosing the “theme” currency of your web3 journey now represents two different philosophies and pathways to a successful exit.

On top of that, entrepreneurship in crypto also splits in two directions. You either treat web3 as technological innovation, disregard the rest, and bridge onto web2 with a good product-market fit, or you embrace everything in web3 and manifest destiny with web3 native tools and ideologies.

Human Capital: Interdisciplinary, cross-web talents are unprecedentedly needed

I increasingly believe that whether you are a builder or investor, having skills from both webs is crucial for your professional excellence. Take the role of Community Manager (CM) as an example. I think this is one of those crucial, if not the paramount, positions for any web3 project to become mainstream and successful. Yet they are currently interpreted as Customer Service both by many job applicants and by their pay (~$3–6k/mo).

CMs are the face of a project, and interestingly, this is a role that follows the Power Law, which basically means hiring 1 right CM generates 20X+ positive outcomes than hiring 20 average CMs. This ONE right CM not only needs to be technical but also amiable. They should understand and endorse your project’s product, architecture, mission, and value system to a cofounder’s level. They should also have decent web3 knowledge. After that, they should also be able to explain these concepts in human language, or even engage in future planning/brainstorming with the community. They must be resilient as well, particularly during the fud period, and talk in a high EQ fashion constantly; during chiller time, they can meme, they can vibe, and the community willingly respects them.

Consider this dating analogy: he/she might not be astonishingly attractive at first glance, but the more you interact with them, the more you agree that he/she is a hidden gold, and you want to spend more time with them. They are intellectually inspiring, and the more you look at them, the cuter they are, and the more they hit your loving heart’s bullseye. This is the type of CM you want to hold onto: a beloved and respected person by your community.

But the reality is cruel. These gold bfs/gfs are uncommon in real-life relationships, and they are even rarer in web3, which is why founders are hesitant to pay a high salary upfront. It is this chicken-or-egg problem that rendered the status quo.

Dilemmas like this occur all the time in web3 hiring endeavors, which is both an opportunity and challenge to job seekers. On one hand, the onramp pathway can be strenuous because you simply have so much to learn, but once your survived that period, you will become very savvy in your daily performance, and the knowledge you learned is easily transferrable to other areas. At the end, you become more competent.

Think Clearly Before Taking a Path (Especially The VC One)

I like to think about the world as a continuous process. Empires, taste for food, personal growth, and technological innovation all strictly follow this continuity, unless a drastic incident occurs (e.g. genocide halting the evolution of an ethnic culture). Blockchain & web3 are continuations of the internet. As a result, code is the fundamental, code is the axiom.

Web3 is over-financialized, but slightly different from tradfi, for the infrastructure and instruments are all code-native. This is why they are called digital assets. This defines a new paradigm.

Can you code? Can you read code? Coding is not a required skill for you to succeed in web3, but having it can really unearth scarce information to accelerate wealth accumulation (both for institutions and for your own). For example, knowing how to code allows you to

  • Host MEV bot
  • Do on-chain data analysis
  • Do Smart Money analysis
  • Run arb bot
  • Code your own product & startup idea

All of which are challenging for the majority (e.g. me; I am not a CS major).

I have also observed interest in VC, which is one of the most popular non technical jobs. But, being a crypto VC myself, I can talk more in detail here and explain why VC is absolutely not the best job for all young people despite me, ironically, taking this path.

Entry to VC is really about credentials.

VCs are condemned for their credentialism all the time. However, I want to clarify that it is not (most of the time) because partners at funds are pure cheeky elitists or whatnot. A key law in the world of venture capital is the aforementioned Power Law. Successful VCs (try to) invest in the tail of the founder distribution and aim for reward in the tail of the distribution (e.g. Google at angle round). To achieve so, top funds recruit the smartest, the most resourceful, and the most hustling investor to find the best founders and grasp the newest trend in the field before everybody else.

Because, birds of a feather flock together.

Young people are rarely resourceful in a commercial sense (me at pre-publish check: that’s a log of dmg!). Hardworking-ness is hard to verify pre-recruitment. To young people, this is fine because we spent most of our alive time in school. So the remaining judgment factor is really how unique and smart you are.

I am 100% against valuing a person’s existential value and intelligence level solely based on credentials. My gf does not have a good college degree, but her meta insight about her violin career and about the general world/humanity surpasses most people I’ve met (younger or older) in life so far. I don’t think most Stanford peers of mine are as smart about life as her.

However, I am not against credentials. I think they are solid evidence of a person’s capability to understand abstract concepts in a timely manner and utilize them across applications with high performance. Partners need the investors they hire to represent their fund well, and since investors are at the frontier of talking to founders and giving feedback, their output directly supports the fund’s investment/branding effort.

In reality, whenever VC funds hire new grads, they always need to train them on the battlefield to have a professional investor’s soft skills. Partners are busy, and they are not teachers. If you cannot develop expertise in your domain of investment mostly on your own, no one in the fund has the responsibility to teach you. You lose competency in the end.

Nowadays, partners are aware of the holistic review practice, but academic credentials still remain a young person’s paramount pillar, because they are just useful, time-saving shortcuts to evaluate a person’s learning capability.

By the way, your college, your test scores, your GPA, your leadership & past internship are all just part of the standard credential package. In Web3, having a personal portfolio is almost always helpful, whether it be your research repository or your writing collections. Anything that helps establish your competency in web3 should be considered a credential under this section’s conversation.

Web3 VC = Web2 VC + Proficient Trader

This is mostly because of ICO and token rounds. Traditionally, founders give VCs equity (percentage of their company) in exchange for VCs’ money. This equity is considered rather illiquid, meaning you cannot sell them at any time you wish. Usually, traditional VCs exit (sell equity for money) in later rounds, after IPO, or during equity buyback.

In Web3, projects can raise money by selling tokens to VCs, which brings interesting volatility to the table. Investors need to find the accurate timing and use the correct method to ensure optimal exit and not hurt the project.

LooksRare’s tokenomic snapshot; 3.3% of all tokens are sold during raise

Abstractly speaking, exiting through tokens is adding leverage to your investment by wrapping your “return” through an additional instrument. This is why being a good trader is an equally important responsibility as being a good founder-hunter, because you will soon encounter these crucial questions:

Is this token long-lasting?

What ecosystem relies on it?

What are the token’s fundamentals?

How’s the meta market, and how might actions by the FED influence it?

What are the chances of default and extreme volatility?

If we do a gradual sell, what might go wrong in the process?

…..etc.

All of which are intellectually critical and pragmatically onerous questions quant traders answer every day. No wonder why even though many funds have a dedicated person/team to handle token exit, they still require the deal leader to lean heavily into the exit process. This is not just a pure number game.

Other than trading skills, do you know what it means to be a good VC in general? Can you find the contrarian ideas in the field? What are your information channels? How do you capture the absolute geniuses? Can you build deal flow? Do you have the energy and skills to attend successive networking events? Do you understand what your fund’s unique value-adds are, besides money? Have you built your own, original thesis and taste?

Specifically, as a test for yourself,

If you want to become a general Web3 VC, you should also be asking yourself: can I explain crypto, blockchain, and web3 individually and interwovenly in a language that my mom can understand? Do I have a general web3 knowledge map in my mind? Can I engage in insightful conversation with builders on common instruments like Token, NFT, or high-level L1/L2 technical design? What is my internal inclination on web3 vs web2.5?

I check myself on these questions constantly, and they are very helpful, almost like those one page must-know checklists your professors give you before finals.

If you want to be a vertical-focused Web3 VC, you should test if your understanding is top in your vertical. Are you a ZK expert who can explain PLONK/Groth16 and point out at least 3 differences between SNARK and STARK? Do you understand the philosophical and practical details of the token models in gamefi like @0xAikoDai? Are you an NFT guru like @0xbobateas?

You want to do these, because successful VC investors, regardless of their area of expertise, are trophy children.

Apart from those, you also want to start thinking, is VC really a job for you? Do you value work-life balance more (having the power to control your work time) or work-life separation more (a clear boundary exists between your work time and life time)? Can you accept the risk associated with the income logic in this industry, where your raise is majorly based on the amount of many successful investments you have made? Are you willing to take those risks for those unbalanced financial and status rewards?

That was a lot of me-to-you question, and you might need some time to find answers.

However, if you prefer a you-with-yourself approach, you might find this coming framework helpful, because .

Methodology: How should you pick your profession?

In general, I like to evaluate any profession (not just those in web3) with three pillars, before I take any further action.

Can: Can I do it? (i.e. can I get a job here, and can I succeed?)

Worth: Is it worth doing?

Value: What value will I gain?

For example, I used to regard consulting as my first job post-college. I later found that was not the best choice.

Can I do consulting? Yes, I have good credentials, and I have done consulting & strategy work, and I have the confidence to be a good consultant.

Is consulting worth doing? No, not to me, because I know my true passion is learning new stuff and meeting new people, and VC is the best place for that. Yes the career risks in VC are high, but I know this is where I want to go and the reward to that risk is also juicy. If I fail, I can still make a turnaround elsewhere with the valuable soft skills and insights I gained in VC.

What value will I gain from consulting? Not much that matters to me anymore. Yes, the money is decent, but if I want to retire early, which I yearn for, consulting is not the path.

Roughly speaking, in my absolutely biased opinion, consulting is a great first job for ambitious but lost young people. You do get decent pay, and you can learn a lot. But if you already know where your interest truly lies and you can enter that world, consulting is not the most beneficial job in the long run, and you will not be happy working there, cuz you will want to get out before you realize it.

You can basically adopt this framework to any other profession, not just web3. Good luck on your journey ❤

Other than programmer and VC?

Web3 has a lot of opportunities, particularly in art; one of the reasons why NFT got so popular is because it revolutionized how artists are paid. We also need tons of good writers and researchers to deliver great content and educate netizens.

My narrative here is certainly based solely on my own understanding and interest, and since I am not omnipotent, I cannot speak clearly for all the great professions out there silently/loudly contributing to the growth of web3. However, regardless of the path you take, understanding the nature of your choice and identifying key metrics of professional competency in your area is pertinent to your own interest in the end.

Web3 is noisy, and young people should exercise 120% heed and critical reasoning

You understood the metagame you will be playing. You also picked your favorite path. But these are just preliminary steps. Once you begin interacting with web3, you will soon find yourself in an astonishingly noisy place, and struggling with the ever-evolving noise on your journey down the path will be a continuous endeavor.

Noise, as denoting monetary trap and psychological manipulation

Most of us want to join web3 because becoming monetarily successful from here is more likely than from the web2 internet red ocean, whether you consciously recognize it or not. This rendered the status quo: web3 is bloated with interest-driven narratives across segments and instruments, most of which almost all culminate in one goal: fish out your stack of green.

Well, there are plentiful evangelists leading ideological advancements for better sakes, but to the general public, they are almost always two layers away. Many people still treat Web3 as a scammy cesspit in 2022, and that is due to a similar reason.

Unlike Web2, where at least some form of scam protection is provided , Web3 is yet still a wild West for everyone, especially retails. This means stale tricks in web2/tradfi can be easily performed again in web3 for an astonishingly high ROI.

The bazillion non-original, copy-paste memecoins and gamefis & NFTs out there are on the lower rank of these tricks. The magic ingredient there is creating a false sense of collective trendiness and infinite growth prospect, or surpass-the-top ultimate mission, accompanied by #wagmi and stuff alike, all while evading make-it-happen topics like market sentiment, technological or sensual innovation, team profile, sustainability, and everything product-oriented. The rule of thumb here is that if a thing is against common sense, then it is most likely too good to be true, which means it is almost always not true.

But common sense is also…surprisingly inadequate in web3. Even older grownups (talking abt 5 yr+ than college Ugs) struggle with treading with caution upon “lucrative returns” and not throwing 5 grand down before you know what you are buying into.

Higher on the rank, belief-based schemes based on fomo & fud and/or market manipulation by a small group of experienced players are more psychologically advanced, structurally unobvious, and web3-native. Their magic ingredient is blending the concealment of information with the exploitation of human natures: greed, vanity, sloth, or even lust.

Gen-Zs are lucky for they were born into an era where friction in communication is unprecedentedly low. Knowledge is digitized, aiding the impartation of previous great thinkers’ legacy. However, common sense, alertness, and instinct are almost un-impartable and accumulative only against time, rendering Gen-Zs unaware of these stale tricks.

This is why filtering noise as a form of self-protection is ever more important in web3. You don’t want to learn things the financially hard way, regardless of your age.

Noise, as denoting buzz and hindrance in original thought formation

It is very, very easy to feel like being left behind and missing out in web3. So many things happen day by day, and even full-time people can’t stay trendy all the time. But entropy is also very, very high in web3. Building your own, original thesis in web3 that aligns with your chosen role is almost too crucial to protect you financially and spiritually.

I find myself spending a lot of time pondering the sustainability of certain trends and filtering out buzzwords in my investment work. Essentially, investment is to buy low and sell high. Yet, buying low in web3 doesn’t mean buying something when it becomes immediately available or everyone around you is buying it, but buying it under the right circumstance.

To spot the “right circumstance”, you need to form an original, unwavering stance on topics. This usually means

1. You understand the cultural and technological context of a concept

2. You identify key characteristics associated with a concept

3. You feel safe defending your stance publicly, and revise thesis accordingly

Take my stance on metaverse as an example. There is no need to explain contextually how popular the term is, so I will jump directly and humbly into discussing how I approached this concept.

My current thesis is,

TLDR: Metaverse is not technologically and culturally ready for mainstream adoption. If it were to arise in a socially digestable manner, a mature infrastructure ecosystem supporting platform-agnostic, user-owned virtual identity must be genetically potent and phenotypically present in the then-internet. Therefore, investment in any pure metaverse might be too early but DID and new social protocols can be considered.

Under another perspective, building the genuine metaverse is almost too difficult for now. Maybe, investment-wise, we are walking down a path of resurrecting the mammoth: we cannot do so, but on our way there, we have accumulated so much that problems elsewhere can be addressed

My reasoning goes as the following,

The US had the longest time exploring the metaverse idea because it was “born” here. Metaverse actually commenced technologically with Vannevar Bush’s Memex idea, which was a device that would link an infinite series of digital documents by words. This technological idea later inspired the “infinitely interconnected world” idea imagined by Neal Stephenson (author of Snow Crash, the book that coined the term “metaverse”), William Gibson (author of Neuromancer; he proposed the term “the Matrix”, which later was repurposed to make a movie of the same name), Stanley G. Weinbaum (author of Pygmalion’s Spectacles (1935), where a VR-goggle like apparatus was imagined), and others.

Technologically, the Memex idea influenced the development of the early hypertext system, which eventually led to the World Wide Web, which led to the functional tool kit people use to develop any virtual world in 2022.

Culturally, all early “metaverses” imagined by the aforementioned authors are dystopias. This deeply influenced the design philosophy of future virtual worlds, where people themed around positivity (collaboration, creativity, freedom of expression), and not oppression (profiteering and subjugation).

Combing the above two, we see why Second Life, Minecraft, and Roblox are so successful.

However, Roblox, in particular, came to my attention. It was a game developed in 2006 and had a decade of little audience engagement, but in Q2 2020, more than 75% of children aged between 9–12 in the US regularly used it (The Metaverse And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew Ball). What was the success ingredient here? Yes, technical improvement is a partial reason, but one must also recognize that Roblox’s core users grew up “tech-native”. This is a fundamental change in consumer habits powered by the collective advancement of other technologies.

Then, what are users used to now, and what can we improve on that? i.e. what are the pain points in this existing model, and what technology might solve it?

The answer is the inconsistency of virtual identity. Users are very used to the idea of virtual identity and virtual realm. They are also used to mobile technologies. However, if apps are not on the same platform (e.g. Instagram & FB), virtual identities are rarely interconnected. This interconnection is a natural continuation of web2 social that will fundamentally improve people’s virtual journey, and is actually desired by customers.

The paramount reason why this is not solved now is that “the internet is not structured to host platform-agnostic identity”. Blockchain has the capacity to solve this problem, given its “nobody owns, but everybody agrees” consensus design, which I think still remains the most elegant innovation in the entire web3 history.

We are seeing progress, but man are we too early! The most popular Lens Protocol was founded in Feb 2022, and just having Lens itself is definitely insufficient. My super smart friend @kvny2046 is contributing to this field as well, but man! works are just too much! Technologically we are still too early for metaverse’s fullest grandeur.

Taking a step back, I think we are also hurting our collective interest with the excessive NFT/token/metaverse land sales. The cultural prospect of the metaverse should and has to be positive for it to prosper, or else we risk returning to the subjugating and profiteering dystopia. To many non-web3 people, this dystopia is exactly what web3 is, and I feel sincerely saddened by this.

Therefore, with the above analysis, how should I regard metaverse in 2022?

If I have to invest, DID sounds like my dish. Another metaverse gaming might not, let alone all those metaverse immigration or burial services.

I also like to think about “creating the pure metaverse” as a scintillating, ultimate mission that is almost too difficult to achieve, but on our way of working toward it, we breed a completely different (even irrelevant) but vibrant product & tech ecosystem that benefits the entire humanity. It feels like Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company “trying” to resurrect woolly mammoths through CRISPR. They are actually not, because the founders publicly declared that they want to inspire technological innovation on the way to their ultimate mission. I think about metaverse in a similar manner.

This was basically how I thought about metaverse :))

After careful contemplation, if you reach a “contrasting” idea to the general atmosphere, don’t negate that immediately. You might just be right and found a contrarian idea. Discuss this idea with people smarter than you, don’t be afraid or too fast to revise it, and think like a continuous process even if your idea is correct. Hope you find this mindset helpful ❤

Some short ideas on how to filter noise

Scams are bad; buzzwords can be misleading in original thought formation. How should young people navigate, then?

I think it really is just two things

Draw insights from knowledge. There are plentiful materials to onboard you and challenge you (e.g. my crypto notebook; link at the end). Please align your commitment to learning with your seriousness about succeeding in web3. Read about the basics of blockchain to understand what is possible and what is not. Read about the newest trend in your verticle to become an expert. Read about the history of the internet to become a thought leader. One really is just dreaming, not thinking, if they don’t have enough material to work with.

Build sense through experience. Basically, this means becoming able in finding what’s truly important to you in life — not just in web3. As a good starting point, try answering these questions:

What is the meaning of life to you, particularly when you reached a nihilist stage during your self-articulation?

How do you think about the way society is currently structured, where forms of correctness and -isms underpin much societal disunion and hierarchy? What is your way of living, after having that answer?

If you were to die next week, would you feel fine? Why?

Answering these questions will not directly filter noise for you in web3. However, being able to answer them candidly and meaningfully means you have accumulated enough data points to train your instinct and thought habits. This instinct and habit will aid you in the search for meaning in this short life, and they will function similarly in web3 to help you what truly is relevant.

In that sense, regardless of how ever much your level of involvement with this virtual web3 world is, I still highly recommend you regularly unplug to reconnect with the physical counterpart. One person’s sense is commutative across realms of their life. Identifying important things is just a skill that sounds easy but is practically subtle.

General Things You Should Also Think About

I felt like I just extracted most of the currently available technical and philosophical juice out of my brain. Finding the right path for you, and filtering noise on your way down, will almost certainly promise a bright future for you. The questions now left behind are, what else (should, if you have no clue) matters to you?

Your cushion is the dealbreaker in decisions.

I think people don’t talk about the concept of cushion enough in this world, probably because one really has to experience both the affluent and frugal world (and, exactly in this order) in order to comprehend that. Roughly speaking, a cushion is how seriously you can financially lose before your fundamental goals get impacted.

If you are born into the self-made man track, you should be more calculative in your decision-making than those born with a silver spoon. Still learn their perspectives, but definitely wire in your own judgment before following their decision.

Better renounce early than being betrayed by the harsh reality

If you have some decent savings, you don’t need to support your parents, and you are still single, be bolder in your decisions. You can afford to do so.

If you are thinking about marriage and even kids, be a financially responsible parent and partner. Wire your partner into decision making, understand their input and preference. Don’t let your kids dip Oreo in water.

“Because dad never came back with milk”

If you are well off, please enjoy the luxury and fully live the life ahead of you. Do things that interest you, and become the best at them. Don’t waste off those precious resources that are given to you. Provide output to the community and spread your insights.

Whatever situation you are in, just live a sense-making life.

If you are more practical like me and want some data reference, this is a web3 salary database. I hope it can serve your decision-making. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N_9qv9FiNfozUx1vQDOPGj7lMvkKagxLslNWx8dcJ6A/edit#gid=2111719125

Value the connections you build along the way

On a positive note, web3 is surprisingly flat. The random glass-wearing dude you talked to in a conference might just be a tech guru in a super cool project. This makes meeting exciting people comparatively easier than web2 and reduces friction in information flow, which is both a good and a potentially dangerous thing.

Treat everyone you meet with sincerity, help people, cherish friendship and partnership, and don’t talk stab behind back. Web3 is very, very small. Every public action you make will eventually feedback onto your own image.

Sleep should not be a myth in web3

Fking care about your health!

I completely understand that it is easy to get carried away and lose track of time in web3, whether you were trading options, coding a core feature, or writing an article (like me rn).

I won’t try to act like your mom chasing you to sleep. You probably will change your attitude when you get into that ER. I was very uneasy with myself during my first 6 months in web3, and on average, I was sick once per month. I also got into ER for gastritis, where I was treated with ibuprofen only, and had 2 days of straight fever with no energy to eat or drink or wake up. I completely regretted having that life-shortening experience.

Conclusion Note

I won’t pretend this is not already long enough. All in all, this write-up is not comprehensive by all means, but I hope, if you happen to finish this article, you find my thoughts helpful in your journey down the path.

Web3 is cool, I love it, and young people should do new stuff. Web3, however, is also not very friendly and scintillating, contrasting to popular narratives. Becoming overnight millionaire is almost impossible anymore.

However, if you really dedicate the time and commitment to web3, you will still find this place rewarding and “better” than web2. There are few opportunities in one’s entire life that can make them. Web3 seems like one of them (at least to me), and if you think so as well, come join us.

If you are looking for learning materials on web3, I organized a personal web3 work notebook which you can find here https://coda.io/@nijima-makoto/crypto-notebook.

I also collaborated with @0xEZx0 on a study notebook where we organized basic concepts about blockchain and web3. You can find it here https://coda.io/@enzozhang/blockchain

My twitter is @0xmaiwaifu

Sleep well, and Peace!

桜島Mai

July 28th, 2022

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桜島Mai

I write about crypto and amorous yearning for my seasonal waifus. Twitter @0xmaiwaifu. Stanford ‘23