The Current Weekly | Jan. 3rd 2022

The Current Weekly is a weekly newsletter for the Shrimp Society community covering last week and looking ahead to next week. If you have feedback or ideas on what you would like to see included in The Current, please email chris@theshrimpsociety.com.

Last Week

• Egg Nog Classic Poker Night was a huge success! Big shout out to 🦐 KRoss and Bo_Knows for organizing the event. Congrats to the winners 1st: Michael amar, 2nd: yinon.eth, and 3rd: MVZT3RM1NTZ. 🎲
• Annual Goal Setting Workshop: We hosted an intimate workshop on annual goal setting last Friday morning. A few members’ Word of 2022 were: Gratitude, Focus, Greatness, Manifest. Here is the Goal Setting Template so you can think through your 5 Year Vision, 2021 Highs/Lows and Habits, and then set your 2022 Goals with an action plan to help you succeed. Thanks to Frank, nugman, DanielaDefy, AlexDME and others for being vulnerable and sharing their inspiring goals with everyone. 🚀
• Sunday Dinner with Ja’dan Johnson: OG Shrimp member Ja’dan Johnson joined us for Sunday Dinner for a candid conversation around his entrepreneurial journey, being flexible to new opportunities, and how epic Miami Hack Week is going to be. Cackles (Jeff) added a nice anecdotal quote on the end that summed up the convo:

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. — Steve Jobs

Next Week

• Last week to submit your Jumbo status to earn your Select Card: The final round of Jumbo Select Cards will be issued this Wednesday. If you minted 10 Shrimp NFTs, please be sure to submit this form to claim your Select Card reward. 🍤
• We’re trying to put a Shrimp on the moon… literally. 🌑 We’re excited to partner with our friends at Security Token Market for 3 North American Bitcoin Conference ticket giveaways. 🎟 One lucky NA Bitcoin Conference ticket holder will be randomly selected to fly to space on a rocket… that’s a 1 in 4,000 shot you could go to space… and you have 3 shots to win the raffle… ! 🚀 There will be 1.) a Twitter giveaway starting Tuesday 2.) A Sunday Dinner giveaway from STO Market CEO Kyle Sonlin (our guest) and 3.) An NFT Trivia winner giveaway at the STO Market discord next week.
• Season 1 Trait Bennies Announced Friday: This Friday we’ll be announcing the bennies that lucky traits will receive. Stay tuned for the announcement — it’s going to be a homerun! ⚾️
• Token-Gated Discord: We had hoped to get this done last week but ran into a technical difficulty. We’re focused on getting this completed this week. ✅

On the Radar

• Miami Hack Week: We have a few spots left to be claimed for our hack house! If you haven’t applied yet and want to get involved, please apply here. Dates: Jan 23–30th IRL in Miami.
• Mardi Gras Planning: Please complete this survey to let us know if you can make the Shrimp Summit at Mardi Gras 2022. Details are included on the form. LINK TO FORM. 🛫

From the Team

Happy New Year! Our goal for 2022 is to become a top 10 Solana NFT project by delivering maximum value to each and every one of you across career, innovation, social, and wellness programs.

Thank you for joining the Shrimp Society and coming along for the journey. We’re just getting started.

2022 is the Year of the Shrimp 🦐