The Product Partner Fair for #TeamSPS 2023 Sales Kickoff is a whole new level of awesome! Tremendous amount of information, and even an incredible Command Center theatre experience! 🥸
Mazie completed her first sewing project making this summer dress with the expert guidance of my Mom who has known her way around a sewing machine since she was young on the farm. It was awesome to see the sesne of accomplishment on Mazie’s face wearing something that she made!
David Horsager on Trust
David Horsager of Trust Edge gave a fabulous keynote for #TeamSPS 2023 Sales Kickoff. David’s passion about trust and how it impacts everything around us is very thought provoking. His Eight Pillars of Trust are a great tool to consider team and self-improvement.
- Clarity: People trust the clear and mistrust or distrust the ambiguous or the overly complex.
- Compassion: People put faith in those who care beyond themselves.
- Character: People notice those who do what’s right over what’s easy.
- Competency: People have confidence in those who stay fresh, relevant, and capable.
- Commitment: People believe in those who stand through adversity.
- Connection: People want to follow, buy from, and be around those who collaborate.
- Contribution: People immediately respond to results.
- Consistency: People love to see the little things done consistently.
POAP Family
The new POAP Family feature is a cool way to see what POAPs people share between events. I looked at holders of my 50th Birthday POAP and I was surprised to see that there were 7 Cryptog’s HODLER’s who had my birthday POAP. The biggest were 13 of the 34 that also had my 51st Birthday POAP.
This kind of graph analysis of POAPs is an interesting extension and a way to build connection.
K’óoben pop-up
We had an awesome evening at The Great Northern K’óoben pop-up at Glass House.
A collaboration between chefs Gustavo Romero (Nixta), José Alarcón (Centro, Vivir), and Noe Lara (BLVD) accompanied by mixologists Mike Hidalgo (Sonora Kitchen), Daniel Guerrero (Colita), and Daniel D Torres (Iconos Gastro Cantina), food collective K’óoben (Mayan for “kitchen” or “stove”) describes itself as “a space that belongs to everyone but does not belong to anyone—a sacred place for Mexican families, meeting point of collaboration and coexistence with family and friends, with one goal: to keep alive the roots of Mexican & Latin cuisine.”
Join us for the collective’s 5th pop-up experience, featuring guest chefs Nettie Colon (Red Hen Gastro Lab), Pedro Wolcott (Guacaya Bistreaux) and Soleil Ramirez (Arepa Bar), who will explore what it means to be crafting and cooking Latin cuisine in the middle of winter in Minnesota. The evening includes mouthwatering food and chef stations, three specialty beverages, a mezcal/tequila tasting, live artwork by Gustavo Lira Garcia, and performances by DJ Yalen Villalobos and Huehuecoyotl Collective — a three-piece group incorporating pre-Hispanic instruments and live electronic manipulation.
Every dish and drink was amazing. All of these places should be on your lists of places to visit in the Twin Cities.
I won 5 SOL from one of my Famous Foxes mission chests this week! 🍀
Just bought tickets to see Aoife O’Donovan Plays Nebraska at the Turf Club! I’m a huge fan of Springsteen’s Nebraska and have enjoyed O’Donovan since seeing Crooked Still so many years ago. This will be a great show. 🎶
Semisonic put on a great show filled with new songs and hits from the past. 🎶
It has been a long time since we’ve been to First Ave.
We watched the final episode of The Middle tonight and everyone thought it was a delightful wrap up of the story and gave the characters a wonderful send off.
Giving the Bear Blog Theme a try. I like the simplicity and speed.
Anti-Social
Social media is a mess.
I’ve lost track of what is social about it. It is a Skinner Box of addiction. The reductionism of a timeline is tiresome. The dopamine inducing likes are there to create some saccharin view of engagement.
I recently noticed that I was falling back into behavior I had broken out of years ago. I was again finding myself checking the Twitter timeline to see what is happening. Then I would feel bad about introducing into my brain all this random crap. The coach part of me knows this isn’t what I should be doing. But the monkey brain loves to see new things, chase them down, and play with the ideas in my head.
The problem is me Twitter, not you. Actually that is wrong. The problem is both of us. The problem is actually the entire social media model. It is an apparatus of addiction built around nothing. There is no there to find. There is no end to reach.
So I unfollowed every account. If you notice I unfollowed you on Twitter, don’t take it personally. It’s me, not you.
Tyler is learning to play chess. ♟️
I have never seen a CAPTCHA on an unsubscribe form! That is a new level of obnoxious. 😤
I was excited to see nnxyz, one of my favorite artists, publishing on Nifty.Ink again after a couple months away. Bought nnxyz rawblocks 49 to celebrate.
Film crew in the Cloud today shooting some video for #TeamSPS.
TeamSPS 5th Floor Remodel
The remodel of #TeamSPS 5th floor is nearly done and we were able to move this week. It is great to be back on our “home” floor with a so many improvements!
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile was a really silly movie but a fun family time nonetheless. 🍿
POAP as a Business
POAP is more than just a fun crypto product, it is also a business. I put some brief thoughts together on what I thought would be a POAP product that I would pay for as both a collector and an issuer.
As a POAP collector, I would want to pay a relatively small monthly fee to be able to get cool information about my collection and display it well.
POAP Collector - $3/mo
- On-chain analytics, how close am I to POAP.eth via POAPs?
- Add annotation to each POAP so I can fill out the memory more.
- Notify me of POAP drops “around me”
- Notify me of any POAP Deliveries waiting for me.
- Credit for 1 mainnet migration a month.
Now, changing hats to the issuer side there are a whole different set of things. What if we just kept everything as is, but added a new POAP Pro level.
POAP Pro - $20/mo
- Issue POAP by email address, hide claim codes entirely from everyone.
- Collections/series of POAP.
- Integration with my analytics service, so embed my Phantom Analytics or other tracking code.
- Support for external identifiers in claim codes so I can embed an identifier to my systems.
- Post-claim redirect.
- Additional metadata added to each claim
I think you could then have a service to provide a “full service” experience for the issuer.
POAP Studio - $500/event, require Pro subscription
- White Label claim page
- Design services, POAP specific look
- Priority support, will hit your deadline
- Assistance with claim code distribution
And then you could turn both the Pro and Studio option into a subscription offering.
POAP for Business - $100/mo or $1,000/yr
- Everything in POAP Pro.
- 2 Studio events a year included.
- Would need something more.
And lastly, I think non-profits could be a really great avenue to get the word out about POAP. Aligning with non-profits would reach a very solid set of organizations that could benefit from POAP, and be a wonderful brand alignment with POAP itself. Make it super cheap or free for non-profits to use advanced POAP Pro and Studio capabilities.
POAP for Non-Profits - $20/mo or FREE
- PAOP Pro for free
- 1 Studio events a year
POAP Extensions
I was pondering cool things that POAPs could have and three ideas came to mind.
POAPs with Backs!
POAPs are a bit like challenge coins, and physical coins have a front and a back. Why not support two images for POAPs so they have a front and a back. This would be cool to flip them around and see the other side. It could be a whole new place to have creative imagery!
POAP Collections
I’ve gotten a few POAPs that are officially part of a collection. The Ethereum Merge and POAPathon Krampus PAOPs are examples of this. It would be cool if there was an official collection that these were part of and that was part of the event pages. You could even unlock a collection POAP when you have all the POAPs in that collection. Some groups do that now but it is manual.
Unique POAPs
I would love to get a POAP every time we do an escape room. But it would be even cooler if my specific instance of that POAP had additional data like the time it took for us to escape, how many clues we used, and our team name. If an issuer could add one off metadata to a specific claim code it could unlock a ton of use cases.