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After 2 years in crypto - successes, failures, entertainment, and frustration. Where will this all lead to?
I hope I didn't spend two years of my career only for doge coins and meme frogs to be the best use case for blockchain tech and cryptocurrency.
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Nigel Lee
November 2022
What are banks doing with your money?
Don't wait for another big corporate crash. We should have full visibility of where and how our money is being used by 'trusted' organizations.
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Nigel Lee
September 2022
A $250 Trillion use case for blockchain
And that's just one of many use cases.
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Truth and trust
Traditional tech held all authority over your data in their database. Web3 let's you take back that authority, and it just got a lot more carbon…
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Nigel Lee
Building community from scratch in web3
Lessons learned from how Figma, the $10B+ design SaaS tool, built their community from the ground up and applying that for web3.
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Nigel Lee
August 2022
Web3 Onboarding Toolkit Part 1: Knowledge to get you started
This tool kit will be of three parts—knowledge, mentors, and tools. Part 1 will focus on an overview of concepts and ideas about web3.
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Nigel Lee
June 2022
Web3 vs blockchain vs crypto - can you spot the difference?
A mental model to identify three general user personas in the web3/blockchain/crypto movement.
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Nigel Lee
A Mental Model for Web3: Money games and Leisure games
A simplistic mental model on what's wrong with 'web3 gaming' today and how to fix it
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Nigel Lee
Mental model for web3: 'Tokens' are loyalty points on steroids
Considering using tokens for your business? One way to thinking about it is the traditional loyalty points program. If that fits your business, then…
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Nigel Lee
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Your web3 identity will be 10x your LinkedIn profile, so start making one
As data becomes more standard, composable, and available on-chain, it opens up better ways to differentiate online identities
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Nigel Lee
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May 2022
Understanding the potential of web3 through an hourglass mental model
Stripe, Uber, the Iphone, and many others before predicts the potential of blockchain technology as a huge business
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Nigel Lee
Why blockchain? Certainly not for it's terrible tech...
No hype. Just how my (non-technical) brain manages to win against my natural cynicism against the hipster movement that is #web3
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Nigel Lee
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