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Using empathy to tame a hybrid beast
By: Maria Karnaukhova
Tags: Teamwork, Team Collaboration, Hybrid Meeting, Empathy, Etiquette

The Virus Which Shall Not Be Named is here for more than a year and many of us have already mastered the subtle art of remote collaboration. The waves roll in and out — some of us meet in the office, while others join from home. In an attempt to connect both groups, we hold hybrid meetings.

Often they turn out to be painful — the mix of environments makes it even more difficult to hear, see and understand each other. Remote participants might feel excluded, on-site teammates might think their colleagues behind the screen are having a nap. Dragging through technical glitches, we just want this horrifying hybrid beast to disappear from our lives.

Having been accustomed to the flaws of video calls, here we stand in front of another challenge — how might we successfully collaborate during hybrid meetings?

Empathy is the answer

What choose you — to fight or to understand and share feelings with each other? Source: The British Library, Public Domain.

One of the key principles of modern business is user-centricity. We jump into shoes of our target, trying to understand their needs and pains.

Why don’t we use the same approach for our teams? The best way to establish your own hybrid meeting etiquette is to practice some empathy.

Ask your remote peers to think how would they feel joining from the office and those who stay in the office — how would they feel joining from remote.

You can use the following questions:

Which challenges would your teammates have?

What would make them upset?

What would make them feel excluded?

Which kind of setup would they have (technology, space, people around)?

How would they behave? Both in positively, for example in an office they might be happy to see each other; and in negatively, for instance, they might feel screen fatigue and would want to take some rest on a sofa.

Collect the answers and think together about how might you overcome these obstacles and make the hybrid meetings more enjoyable. Document your findings and publish your new etiquette where it will be accessible for everyone.

Managing inequality

This empathy exercise will inevitably lead you to the discussion of managing inequality. Since there is a mix of environments, participants of hybrid meetings are in unequal conditions by default.

The difference in environments creates totally different meeting experiences.

To ensure the equality of participants, everyone will need to sacrifice a bit of their comfort.

Especially that concerns teammates that join from office. In general, being mindful about inequality (any inequality) is painful — it demands discipline and constant awareness about your privileges.

As a consequence, your teammates might feel anxious about following the etiquette suggestions and even question the enjoyability to join hybrid meetings from office.

Give your new etiquette a try and then have a retrospective session to discuss how everyone feels, then iterate.
How Ali Abdaal Makes Over $1m Per Year as an Online Entrepreneur
By: Eva Keiffenheim
Tags: Ideas, YouTube, Entrepreneurship, Creators, Online Business

How Ali Abdaal made +$1,000,000 as a YouTuber

Ali diversified his online income streams over the years. While he built the last two pillars in his early online career, the first three emerged more recently.

1) Skillshare Courses: $475,700

Teachers on Skillshare earn revenue through royalty payments and premium referrals. Instructors make money for every minute watched by Premium students in their classes and for every student they bring through a referral link.

Ali has seven classes on Skillshare, with more than 100,000 students watching his classes at more than 9,000,000 minutes of watch time.

2) Self-Created Online Course: $371,046

In 2020, Ali launched the part-time YouTuber academy. He teaches students how to grow a YouTube channel from 0 to 100,000+ subscribers and transform it into a sustainable, income-generating machine.

The pricing starts at $1495 for the essential package, up to $4995 for the premium package. His 2021 enrollment for February is already sold out.

3) Sponsorships: $184,843

Brands pay YouTubers to feature their products or services in some way. Sponsorships require an existing audience, and Ali got his first sponsorship deal in 2018 when he already had 50k subscribers.

Sponsored videos might run in-video advertisements or use product placements, like Ali does here with Notion, or here with Apple.

4) Affiliates: $180,047

Affiliate marketers earn a commission by promoting other people’s or company’s products and content. The broader creators’ reach, the more people will buy what they talk about.

Ali’s main affiliate income sources include Amazon’s affiliate program, Tiago Forte’s Second Brain Course, a special Keyboard, and a paperlike iPad protector.

5) AdSense: $136,859

Google AdSense is the main income for many YouTubers. The advertisements are the short 5-second clips before videos or the snippets you see while watching a video. To start earning money with AdSense, YouTubers need a minimum of 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 valid watch-hours on their channel.

For reaching $136,859 in 2020, Ali published 98 videos with 1.3 million subscribers.
Apply to be a Quest Fellow
By: Justin Kan
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Creators, Artist, Startup, Fellowship

Closed doors

I saw this tweet the other day.

It got me to think a bit deeper about what we are trying to accomplish at The Quest.

The Quest is a podcast I made to bring the world stories of the people who have struggled and fought and finally made it, and how they have actually found happiness and deeper meaning beyond success.

Some The Quest S1 guests: Michael Seibel (CEO of Y-Combinator), The Chainsmokers (EDM music duo) and Steve Huffman (CEO of Reddit).

Therapy is done in a small, closed room. Therapists talk softly, as it is meant to be a private business. Because of this, we haven’t normalized being vulnerable in public. Vulnerability is often equated with isolation, weakness and shame.

Podcast Therapy

The past 13 episodes of The Quest have been an experiment in open-door therapy. There is power in being able to tell your stories of struggles and successes. I love it when I’ve gotten feedback from listeners that they feel empowered by hearing the struggles guests went through.

One of our top-performing S1 episodes: EP 13, with Amitt talking about his life after launching Farmville.

F ind The Quest on any podcast network (Apple Podcast & Spotify) 📻

Follow for updates on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn or Facebook 📍

I think we can do more. A lot of things around the podcast still happens behind closed doors. The process of choosing who to talk to, how the conversation is edited, what we talk about.

We’ve decided to pivot and try something new.

The Quest Fellows

The Quest Fellows is an invitation from us to you to co-create the world’s best podcast. We are looking for founders and creators walking their own paths and finding their own purpose.

We want to give you VIP access to our guest conversations and get you involved in some of the exciting work we do.

As a Fellow, you will do a rotation where you:

Get paired with a guest who fits your own goals;

Help research the guest and learn from their life journey;

Prepare talk points and brief me over a 1:1 FaceTime;

Be in the room when the conversation happens, for a live uncut experience

Pen a takeaway piece which we will: (1) feature across major publications (including The Startup and Curious, with ~1m followers) and (2) send to the guest, with your bio and byline

We also make sure the Fellows are connected. You will benefit from a handpicked network of individuals on a noble journey, lead-climbing for each other. We will be sourcing guest ideas from this community — you also get to hear about other exciting initiatives earlier than anyone else.

This is uncharted territory, but I am excited to see how it unfolds.
Custom domains are back!
By: Russ D'Sa
Tags: Custom Domain, Creators, Writers On Medium, Launching, Features

Your domain name is an important part of your brand and clarifies the relationship forged between writer and reader. A couple years ago, we pushed pause on allowing writers to set up new custom domains on Medium. We did this because every feature on Medium should be frictionless and scalable, and the set-up of custom domains did not adequately satisfy either. During that time thousands of writers reached out, asking to bring this feature back. Last year, Ev detailed our plans to bring back custom domains:

Among other reasons, we needed to fix some cross-domain bugs and revamp our system for registering SSL certificates. We have now prioritized that work so that we can scalably offer custom domains again.

Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve worked through the aforementioned issues, and writers can once again link their blog to a domain name they independently own. We used to charge $75 per custom domain, but we’re now making this feature free for Medium members. Once you’re a member, you can add or remove custom domains at no additional cost.

Set up your custom domain from profile or publication settings.

To set up a custom domain for your Medium profile or publication, simply navigate to the ‘Custom domain’ section in your profile or publication settings and click ‘Get Started’.

We hope custom domains help make your space on Medium feel like your own. Drop a link in the responses to your blog or publication using a custom domain ー we’d love to check them out!
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Tags: Videos, Creators, Video Script, Explainer Videos, Script

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Wisio: The What, The Why, The How
By: Tiferet Solomon
Tags: YouTube, Social Media, Creators, Instagram, Influencers

What

After several years working closely with social media influencers of varying platforms, verticals, and audience sizes, I’ve found there are 4 main goals driving influencers in their activities, in no particular order:

Authenticity

Growing their reach

Keeping their audience engaged

Making money & monetizing existing activities

Wisio is the first tool of its kind enabling followers to receive invaluable knowledge, feedback, and validation, specific to them, from the influencers they look up to most, and in return support those same creators monetarily. On Wisio, followers can pay to request a review, tips, and advice on how to advance themselves, allowing the influencers to monetize their expertise while creating a real relationship with their followers.

Why

Influencers are experts in their fields, with vast and unique knowledge to share with the world. As people who love watching YouTube videos to learn and perfect our own skills, we wanted to enable creators to make a living in a worthwhile and authentic way, while providing customized guidance to people everywhere around the world.

This is why we developed Wisio, to facilitate direct contact between followers and influencers, learn from their experiences while acknowledging them for the valuable time and efforts put in.

Wisio’s platform focuses on the followers’ specific needs and challenges, and thus creates a much more meaningful, personalized teaching relationship.

How

Creating a profile and responding to requests is super simple and quite enjoyable; let’s run through it:

Claim your creator profile: We recommend using the YouTube login to streamline the process* Make It Sparkle: Create a welcome video to greet your page visitors. It should be short and to the point explaining what service(s) you provide and the format to be expected (hint: a 3–5 minute long custom video) and inviting your page visitors to submit a request. Promote Yourself: Share your profile link on all your social media platforms, letting your followers know they can get a custom feedback video from you. We highly recommend mentioning your services and how to request them at the beginning and/or end of your social media videos\posts. Bonus: We’ll hook you up with a personalized banner you can use to promote your services in the best possible way. Get Requests: Your followers will be thrilled they have the opportunity to contact you and learn from you on a personal one-on-one basis. We know creators like you are super busy which is why requests are limited in text length and time (video and voice notes limited to 2 minutes), and it’s quick and easy to reply back with an unedited video from any device (up to 7 minutes from desktop and 3 minutes from a mobile) Earn Income: Withdraw your balance at anytime**.

*We do NOT have any access to any of your personal information or YouTube content! We are authorized by Google’s system and use the most secure measures to keep all your information safe and secure.

**Must have at least $50 in your account for each withdrawal
How audio creators can make money with Mixcloud Select: breaking down the model
Tags: Audio, Creators, Streaming Music, Funding, Music

“To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor you need only thousands of true fans. “ — Kevin Kelly, Founding Executive Editor, WIRED

About a decade ago, Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 true fans theory predicted an alternative future for the internet. One that wasn’t funded by advertising money, but by direct human-to-human connection. Doing the math, he calculated that any creator could make a successful living based on two simple criteria. First, you have to create enough to make $100 a year in revenue from individual true fans. Second, you have to have a direct relationship to your fans.

We took notes.

Six months ago, we announced the launch of Mixcloud Select, a fan-to-creator membership layer to Mixcloud that would enable audio creators to get direct support from their biggest fans. Hundreds of creators have since been brought on for early access, with more being onboarded everyday.
An introduction to the LGBTQ+ community: LGBTQ+ Voices
By: Tapas App
Tags: Pride, Creators, Pride Month, LGBTQ, Lgbtq Community

Hey there, Tapas fans!

Happy Pride Month! We would like to support the LGBTQ+ community by helping to bring their voices forward.

For those that are not part of the community, understanding the many identities that make up the LGBTQ+ spectrum can be challenging, and it’s important to take time to learn about pronouns, terminology, and LGBTQ+ experiences to be as informed as possible. And what better way to learn than through the voices of those in our very own community?

We hope that this collection of episodes from creators in the LGBTQ+ community is a good start to understanding some of the many and varied identities and experiences out there. Of course, a ten-episode collection can barely scratch the surface, but if you want to learn more, we invite you to look at the wealth of content that these artists bring to this site.

Shall we start?

In order to fully understand the terms, you need to know the difference between terms like “gender identity” and “gender expression”.

“Terms” from Self Identity by T.A.S

Pansexuality is when you’re attracted to a person based on their personality, values, and virtues regardless of their gender identity.

“Specificity” from Mando Mango by The Kao

Transgender individuals are those whose gender identity is different from the gender they were assigned at birth.

“The First Time” from The First Time by ramonaisonline

“Dysphoria Days” from Trans iThink by CJ

“Understanding” from Transcendence by Prince Duck

A person who identifies as bisexual is attracted to two or more genders, and that doesn’t change even if the person is in a relationship with someone of the opposite gender.

“Bisexual” from Minnie by Margreet de Heer

Non-Binary refers to a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine.

“There’s no ONE way to be trans” from Gender Slices by TopazComics

Identifying as asexual, ace for short, means you are on a spectrum of identities that do not regularly or ever experience sexual attraction.

“Ace 101” from You’ll Never See Me Naked by MDChristopher

Someone who identifies as demisexual does not experience sexual attraction until they form a strong emotional connection with someone.

“You’re a WHAT?!” from Hoi Butt! by NataShane

Intersex individuals are born with at least one natural variation in their sex characteristics, which includes genitals and sex hormones.

“Genital mutilations” from Consider This by Sophie Labelle

We hope you enjoyed reading and perhaps learned something new today! A big shout out to the creators featured in this collection of episodes and to all LGBTQ+ creators putting their voices out there. You help make Tapas a better place.
Beyond the Rainbow: LGBTQI+ Designers Define Pride at Microsoft
By: Joline Tang
Tags: Design, Pride, Creators, Microsoft, Equality

Why is this initiative important to you?

Aleksey Fedorov (AF), He/Him/They/Them: I grew up in Russia, where being gay is almost impossible. I’m hoping that through the Pride campaign we can reach LGBTQI+ people and allies around the world to share our support and show how together we can make a more equal world for all.

Ana Arriola (AA), She /Her /They /Them: Rachel Elizabeth Cragle says it best representing our Queer People of Color communities: “We cannot overcome what we ignore.” As a Latinx queer lesbian womxn of trans and nonbinary experience, I ensure we take a genuinely intersectional holistic approach to lean in and lift us all up for future generations to follow. I spend my personal time advocating for and educating people on policies with others both inside and outside of Microsoft. As a public spokesperson on AI/AGI and intersectionality with a social-justice point of view, I do this by celebrating our future generation, the Alphas. As a mother of three Alphas, they inspire and remind me daily of how much more our generations of today need to be more like them.

Sven Seger (SS), He/Him: I came out in the late 1980s with the AIDS epidemic as a backdrop. You not only came out for yourself, but also for the people around you who had AIDS and only had a short amount of time left. We took action back then on many fronts, and the times have changed for the better. I am proud of Microsoft for supporting us in using the Pride celebration as a reminder of the fact that it takes action to drive progress.

Adam Krett (AK), He/Him: Growing up, my only exposure to the LGBTQI+ community was the things I saw in the news, movies, or the slurs thrown around by friends and classmates. As I began to make friends with and work with the great people in this community, I realized how much I didn’t know or was wrong based on stereotypes. While I am very proud that Microsoft is a champion for equality, I am especially happy to share my learnings with my daughters. Providing a view into an inclusive world is something I value greatly and hope they can champion in their own lives.

Image description: The official Microsoft Pride 2019 anthem video.

How is your team taking action with the design of these Pride-inspired products?

Elliot Hsu (EH), He/Him: Fifty years after Stonewall, actions still count louder than words. For us, one of the actions is to design products with and for the LGBTQI+ community that gives visibility to groups that have often been erased and neglected. We partnered with our LGBTQI+ employees to do just that.

AK: From an overall brand perspective, we really focused on ensuring the campaign represented our values and commitment to diversity and inclusion. We wanted the voices of our employees to shine through every moment. The heritage of Stonewall, the parade buttons, voices of our employees, and underpinnings of taking action for equality became the fabric of the message.
Introducing ERC20 Locks
By: Julien Genestoux
Tags: Erc20, Ethereum, Creators, Unlock, Stable Coin

When creators deploy their locks using our dashboard, they can chose the following:

the name of their locks,

how long each key is valid (from seconds to centuries!),

how many keys they are selling (with the ability to sell an unlimited amount),

and, more importantly, the price of these keys

Up until today, the price of the keys had to be in Ether. Today, we’re happy to announce that we now support any ERC20 token as the currency for the price. As a creator you can now sell access to your content or features inside of your (d)applications using BNB, MKR or even BAT…

Using stable coins

Out of ERC20 tokens, there is a category of tokens which is special: stable coins. These tokens have a value that is designed to be stable, most often against US dollars. Some of them are actually backed by financial organizations who guarantee a 1 to 1 exchange (such as USDC for example), while others are based on on-chain collateral (DAI is a good example of that!), while finally, a 3rd category is based on seigniorage: the supply expands and retracts based on price fluctuations. Learn more about stable coins with this overview from Multicoin Capital.

A lot of the creators that we spoke to were worried about the use of fluctuating currencies. If the price went down, they would lose some of their revenues, and if it went up, they were rightfully worried that their customers may not end up buying keys from them… as they could be waiting for appreciation of their tokens.

We believe that many locks will end up being priced using stable coins, which is why our dashboard UI will let creators pick DAI as the currency.

Bringing utility to “utility coins”

We also strongly believe that many ERC20 currencies are “community” currencies. Their value is rooted in the fact that it has a very specific use. For example, MKR is a governance token which lets owners of it vote on changes in the Maker systems.

Now, nothing says that the MKR tokens, which are actively traded on several exchanges could not be used for other purposes, such as purchasing access keys. For example, Maker could organize a launch party for their upcoming multi-collateral currency where tickets are sold using MKR. For this, they could use Unlock’s ticket application…

Get started today

Head out to the creator dashboard now and click on the Create Lock Button:

Then, select DAI as the currency when picking up a price:

Our UI suggests DAI, but the contracts support any ERC20 on ethereum!

Choose how much you want to charge (you can still change that later, but not the currency…). And hit submit. Once that transaction has been mined, your lock has been deployed!

After you have embedded the lock on your page, your readers are offered the ability to Unlock it:
I am scared. Are you?
By: Srishti Gaur
Tags: Sacred, Fear Of Failure, Creators, Artist, Writers On Writing

I am scared. Are you?

Well, I do. I am scared of a lot of things, some of those things appear insane to certain humans while others have made their peace with it. But, I think, those opinions projected by my fear aren’t that strong to judge my whole persona.

One may find it as a piece of laughter but writing my raw thoughts scares me the most, even if it appears in the anonymity of the world. But then again another thought punctures my thought process, if it is not about anonymity then, why am I scared!?!

One fact that I know about being me is I am a wholly passionate writer and I am the most fearless soul, are these all mere thoughts of my identity or me living’ in delusion, NO.

I am scared because if I am going to write about everything I know and everything I feel then maybe, one day I am going to run out of ideas. Maybe that’s where the fear is rooting from, being empty of the ideas, the thoughts, which drives me to often get this urge to save my ideas, my perspectives, my thoughts, my opinions and my every inch of being a thinker, everything else I have ever lived is to be a writer forever, to never reach a senescence of those flowering ideas.

One may believe all this to be absurd and may hold an opinion to never feel or even think about such a thing. But then again the question remains, if we won’t express ourselves to the world or at least to the surroundings, who will!

I want you to stop for a while and think about this, one more time.

Is there nothing in your lives that you may want to hold on to forever?

That one sacred thing which made you feel perfect every single time!

That one thing which gives you freedom of being you!

That one thing which holds you up above all the labels and tagging's!

And that “sacred” can be anything, anyone that allows your raw self to fly. It can be an embarrassing habit, a rare hobby, a crazy passion, a common profession, an unending struggle, an absurd thought or even an endless flout.

It can be anything that lets you talk, that lets you express your shielded self, the one in which you put all your effort and creativity and emotion and perspective and let it through.

Now, you tell me “Does that thought not scare you, of being the one who loses or being the one who stops putting in efforts, or simply the thought that you will outgrow your own expressions ?”

I have no say in how you feel raw, but this is the idea of fear for me. And if you have something, that is precious yet perishable in your life, you must feel this random flow of fear by the thought of running out of it someday. And if you don’t have something that is fearful and scarce in life, then you better start digging. Because babe! I have found my fear and I am going to be scared about it.
Spotify launches Greenroom, a Clubhouse Competitor
By: Archit Choudhury
Tags: Clubhouse, Apps, Spotify, Creators

This app is totally based on Locker Room’s existing code. According to Spotify, existing Locker room users will get an update to gain the redesigned Greenroom. While Locker Room used a white-and-reddish orange colour scheme, this app looks very much like an offspring from Spotify, adopting the same UI. To join the new app, Spotify users can sign in through their existing account. As of now the process of finding audios to listen to relies on users joining groups inside the app. You can browse for groups on any topic, interests and can join the desired rooms.

Joining a Group

Search for upcoming Rooms

The app includes all the features from Clubhouse, Twitter (Spaces) and Facebook (Live Audio Rooms). Speakers appear at the top of the screen in round icons and listeners appear below as smaller icons. It has mute options, moderation controls, optional live text chat feature. Rooms can host up to 1,000 people, and this value may increase later on. You can also applaud speakers of the room by double-tapping on their profile icon and giving them “Gems”. For now, no monetary value is incorporated with the gems, but that appears to be an evident next step as Greenroom offers no form of monetization. Along with that, Hosts can request the audio file of their live audio session after completion, which they can then turn into a podcast episode.

Joining a Room

Creating a Room

One of the most important features is that the audio sessions are being recorded by the company itself because of moderation goals. Like if a certain user reports something wrong in the audio room, Spotify now has the ability to check into the matter and decide what next steps can be taken to avoid the issue. This was one of the biggest flaws in Clubhouse as many users struggled with abuse in the app that included sensitive issues like racism and sexism. Some months ago Clubhouse had to shut down a number of rooms due to antisemitism and hate speech. Moreover, the moderation of Greenroom will be supervised by Spotify’s existing content moderation team.

The company says it will be marketing the app to artists through their Spotify for Artists channels and hoping to get more people from music-focused content. Monetization is confirmed by the company which is still impending. They declined to share light on details about the Creator Fund that intends to help creators generate revenue for their work such as the amount of fund, how creators will receive them, whether through gems or some other manner, eligibility criteria and other factors. Rather, It is only offering a sign-up form for those who might be interested in this feature in the future.

Spotify Greenroom is live today on both iOS and Android in 135 countries around the world which is not quite the global operative area of Spotify itself, as it is available in 178 countries. It’s also only available in the English language now but has plans on expanding with time.
Content Creation Will Reign King
Tags: Creator, Content Creation, Baseplay, Content

Content Creation Will Reign King

At Basebone we believe in content creation. It is a competitive business, and we would dare to say that it’s the new entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship and the idea of becoming an entrepreneur dominated the world of business the last decade, and in this decade, young people want to be content creators.

The Passion Economy

The passion economy has changed the way that many of the new and future individuals going into the workforce view what it means to work.

Do you enjoy talking about culture and travel? Do you make money out of sharing vlogs about different cultures and travel? That’s the passion economy.

Do you run your podcast as a side gig? That’s the passion economy.

It’s about handing over your passions to yourself as opposed to working for someone else. It doesn’t matter where you are located, or how far you are from your consumer base. The passion economy offers low barriers to entry that allow you to diversify your content. From video content, written content, gaming, anything that fits a passion.

Take a more traditional job, a university professor. Before Udemy, Coursera, and similar platforms, the only options teachers had for the longest time ever was to work at a university campus.

Today professors can teach students on their own time, stay in control of their income, and offer so much more at a lower cost. Students now have access to courses and learning skills at various price points instead of a $100k+ MBA.

Young People to YouTubers

In 2019 a survey found that about 86% of young people in the United States were looking forward to becoming influencers and post sponsored content for money, and 54% would take the full-time option of being an influencer.

In a separate survey also conducted in 2019, kids in the US and the UK wanted to become YouTube stars. The incoming and near-future workforce wants to create content, be seen for it, and make a difference with that content.

Content Creator Platforms

TikTok’s success partly stems from just that. The popular social media apps algorithm makes it easy for aspiring influencers to have their content go viral and has created hundreds if not thousands of Gen Z influencers in its short lifespan.

TikTok set an example for what content creators like and will accept, and other platforms will have to accommodate content creators to succeed.

Read more about our own creator’s platform Baseplay Creators on Baseplay!
Serial Course Creator Launches Online Course Teaching How to Help Creators Create an Online Course
By: Jovian Gautama
Tags: Online Course Creator, Satire, Creators, Creator Economy, Tech

Serial Course Creator Launches Online Course Teaching How to Help Creators Create an Online Course Jovian Gautama Follow Apr 25 · 2 min read

Picture by Austin Distel at Unsplash

BOISE, Idaho — “I’m going meta,” Clark Madsen said as he described his new course. Madsen, the notion guru and serial course creator, came up with the idea as he scrolled Twitter and saw the hashtags for #ODCC, On Deck’s 2,385th cohort of the year, that teaches creators how to launch courses. He asked himself, “who trains the leaders of that program?” He knew what he had to do next.

“Many knowledge workers want to make some income by sharing their experience and know-how via an online course, but most of them are not sure where to start. We then see the rise of other creators who fulfill this demand by starting courses on how to create an online course, as proven by On Deck. So I thought to myself, why don’t we take it a step further?”

“This is why I’m launching a course that will help people launch a course teaching other people how to launch courses.” said Madsen, whose Twitter bio currently says “The Online Course Guy.”

Roam Research expert and fellow course creator Andy Finn was slightly skeptical but realized that it was a brilliant creator move.

“I thought it was silly at first, but then I realized Madsen is genius. I’m going to buy his course right out of the gate. It’s only $599!” says Finn, who still has 16 other unfinished online courses in his backlog. “That’s the beauty of the creator economy: there is an unlimited amount of niches.”

As of press time, Madsen has already embarked on his next project: teaching people how to teach other people to build guides on how to use twitter. “It’s not a common move, but I’m building this one in public.”
Alchemist x Credmark Design Competition
Tags: Design, Creators, Defi, Art

Now that Credmark Wizard Island spells are crafted, our Credmark team is excited to also launch a Collaborative Design Competition!

Show us your best Credmark & Alchemist artwork — with Credmark as the main component — for a chance to win one of 4 reward Crucibles!

Artwork can be videos, gifs, memes, banners, images and more. Get creative, keep it fun and clean — most importantly show off your skills!

Four worthy entries will be chosen to receive Crucibles loaded with tokens already subscribed to the Wizard Island — this allows the winners to participate instantly in the Credmark Crucible Rewards program

Artwork Promo Details

START DATE: 2 September 20:00 UTC END DATE: 5 September 23:59 UTC

Rewards

(all rewards will be contained in a Crucible that is already minted, and will be airdropped to winners via their ETH address)

1st Place receives an Alchemist Crucible, containing:

1000 CMK & equivalent ETH SLP subscribed to Wizard Island

3 runners up receive an Alchemist Crucible, containing:

500 CMK & equivalent ETH SLP subscribed to Wizard Island

**All participants will receive a POAP!!!

Rules:

Join the Credmark Discord and follow the guide in “#start-here” channel to get the “Apprentice” Role.

RSVP to the event in the “#events” channel so you get a reminder of when it begins! It’s not required, but helps us keep track of whose participating!

ONLY 1 submission per person allowed

Use Credmark & Alchemist official logos (click for Drive Folder for Credmark Assets and Figma link for Alchemist Assets)

Submit your entry to Credmark’s Discord in the “#mist-cmk-comp” channel. THIS CHANNEL WILL BE OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS STARTING AT 15:00 UTC ON SEPTEMBER 2.

By submitting your entry you are allowing Credmark & Alchemist to use your design on social channels.

Just drop your submission in the channel, tag an admin and say “Here is my submission for the contest” it’s that easy!

If you have any issue, tag an @admin in our #feedback channel for help.

Submissions will be open for viewing in a dedicated Discord channel in the Credmark Discord.
WardenSwap Incident Report
By: Warden Invoker
Tags: Incident, Report, English

Full analysis

Upon receiving the contact from the user, we started to investigate this incident. We inspected the transaction and found that our swap smart contract routed the user’s fund to the following two low liquidity pools.

Route #1: submitting 33,553,724.039590836 BIDR to WBNB-BIDR PancakeSwap LP (route no. 5) and received 0.000001385898748001 WBNB

submitting 33,553,724.039590836 BIDR to WBNB-BIDR PancakeSwap LP (route no. 5) and received 0.000001385898748001 WBNB Route #2: submitting 301,983,516.356317475745107921 BIDR to BUSD-BIDR WardenSwap LP (route no. 18) and received 0.004542056204155503 BUSD

Figure 1. A snippet of our splitTwoRoutes function

Figure 1 shows a snippet of our splitTwoRoutes function. This function takes source token address, destination token address, source amount, an array of route numbers, and percent step as inputs. Technically, the function would split the user’s source tokens into two routes, per the inputted route numbers, to swap the source tokens to the destination tokens.

From our investigation, the splitTwoRoutes function performed according to the inputted parameters perfectly. In fact, we design this function using a failsafe pattern. The function will always perform an atomic transaction according to the inputted parameters and cannot be partially failed. Hence, we can confirm that our swap smart contract executed the transaction correctly.

Since then, we found a clue that the inputted parameters were incorrect. We then started to examine our best rate query engine and our web front-end. To achieve this, we had to synchronize a full archive BSC node and simulate the incident by replaying the transaction.

Finally, we found that our best rate query engine functioned correctly 💪 and we can conclude that the incident was caused by one of the input component’s features of our web front-end.

Figure 2. The web front-end simulation of the incident

After the simulation of the incident, we can successfully reproduce the screenshot similar to the one reported by the user as shown in Figure 2. The root cause of this incident is the 2nd input component (i.e., the receive input text box). Now, we temporarily disable this feature for improvement.
#6 Design salary and job change
By: Bharat Apat
Tags: Design, Jobs, Job Hunting, Salary, Report

Hello reader, hope you are doing good, let’s go through this week’s learning.

Design

1. UX Designers salary in India

A few days back, we released a snippet of UX designer salary reports based on Rama's survey. 650+ people had participated. A detailed report will be published soon. The key highlights from the current report are as follows:

There are many variables involved and a much clearer picture will be available when the detailed report is released. If you want to get the report in email, head to https://designersalaries.in/ and register, we will share it when it’s ready.

This report has created a lot of buzz in the design circle. Some people believe it, some people don’t. Some people like it, some people have suggestions to improve it. but for me, the best part of the whole buzz is memes. There have been some absolutely hilarious ones.

(Please tag the original creator, haven’t found the person)

2. Ideas to help you make a job change decision

Here is a good thread by Shreyas Doshi on ideas to help tech employees make a job change decision. The key ideas are:
Moonlight “Behind The Scenes” Fortnightly Report #2–2019.06.17
Tags: Development, Design, Fortnightly, Report, Operations

Development Progress

Onboarding Workflow

User onboarding is a structured learning process first-time customers go through to become accustomed with a product. We want to have an informative workflow which will make new users capable of using basic application functionality and provide navigational context about what any particular section entails. For example, it will give users a frame of reference for understanding what “My Data” is. Having a proper onboarding strategy in place is crucial as it ultimately also helps with better usability and user retention. In the last two weeks, we have defined the workflow and finished the outstanding wireframe work for onboarding information screens/pages. Our designers have also worked on the detailed design of all the elements & overall framework required for it.

Help Center Integration

There was also discussion about the need for integration of support/ticketing system on the Moonlight platform. Our team decided that it would be better to use Zendesk rather than building our own support tool in-house, as that would pull resources away from our core. Zendesk can satisfy all of our current support needs and has significant scalability if we need it. This will allow us to deliver a better customer support experience in less time.

Referral Mechanism

The referral mechanism was a little more complicated to go through and there was a lot of discussion about how it should behave. That said, user workflow and behavior for the referral mechanism has now been defined. Last week, we also started planning for detailed implementation. There were some concerns raised over implementation workload for social media sharing and so, we will continue to evaluate it as the feature matures.

Activity Update
CoinTiger Weekly Highlights (2019.6.10–6.16）
Tags: Cointiger, Report, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Futures Trading

About CoinTiger:

CoinTiger is a global and innovative digital assets exchange platform which provides multi-cryptocurrency trading service including multi-language support for blockchain enthusiasts around the world.

Since the platform was launched, it has continuously iterated with a steady upgrade and now has an increasingly mature ecosystem comprising web, iOS, and Android clients application and comprehensive exchange services including cryptocurrency trading, Ticker Capital, Labs, IEO, and voting for listing program. Currently, CoinTiger users have topped 2 million and are from more than 100 countries and regions in Asia, North America, Africa, and Europe.

LINKS

Website: https://www.cointiger.com/en-us/#/index

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoinTigerEX/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoinTigerEX?lang=en

Medium Blog: https://medium.com/@cointiger

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinTigerExchange/

Telegram Channels

English: https://t.me/cointiger_en

Mandarin: https://t.me/CoinTiger_cn

Vietnam: https://t.me/CoinTiger_VN

Russian: https://t.me/cointiger_russian

Announcement Channel: http://t.me/cointiger_annoucements

CoinTiger APP Links

Official Link: https://www.cointiger.com/en-us/#/app_download

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cointiger.exchange

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/cointiger/id1366562802?mt=
Technical Update — May-June Dev Sprint
By: Troy Mcconaghy
Tags: Sprint, Product, Homepage, Blockchain, Report

Technical Update — May-June Dev Sprint

The Ocean Protocol developer team does sprints lasting two to three weeks. The latest sprint ran from about May 21 to June 11. Below are some of the highlights. Keep in mind that a project can span multiple sprints. Some began during previous sprints and some will end during future sprints.

Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash

Worked on governance of the upcoming Ocean Production Network, and the governance of the keeper contracts in that network. See ocean#311 (definition, finished) and ocean#312 (implementation, started).

Worked on the deployment of the keeper contracts to various networks. See ocean#320.

Worked on keeper contracts whitelisting conditions. See ocean#295 and ocean#314.

Updated OEP-8 (the metadata spec), updated Plecos (which does metadata validation), and modified Aquarius to use Plecos. See OEPs#169, plecos#17, plecos#20, and aquarius#191.

Worked on updating Tuna, a toolkit for testing and comparing squid-js, squid-py and squid-java, and used it to check that they all agree. (They were all modified to implement version 0.3 of the Squid spec). See ocean#302.

To avoid problems with inconsistent units or big numbers, we went through all the code to ensure that 1) Ocean Token quantities (e.g. prices) are always represented using the smallest atomic unit of Ocean Tokens (akin to Wei or Satoshis; internally we call them vodkas), and 2) Ocean Token quantities are always stored as strings, except in the keeper contracts (where they are stored as 256-bit unsigned integers). See ocean#301.

Updated the Ocean Token Faucet Server (used by testnets). See faucet#27 and faucet#28.

Fixed various issues and improved the user experience in the Commons Marketplace. For example, see commons#86, commons#125, commons#141 and commons#151.

Tested various alternative wallets with Commons Marketplace. See commons#139.

Reduced the number of required MetaMask interactions by creating a re-usable auth token. See ocean#307.

Transactions were being sent to a keeper node to be signed using a private key stored there. (The private key was stored encrypted and squid sent a password to decrypt it briefly so it could be used for signing.) To improve security, squid now signs transactions locally, i.e. using a private key on the same machine as the squid instance (or on a machine where squid delegated signing). See ocean#336.

You can get an up-to-date sense of what the dev team is doing by looking at the Business Board and the top-level milestones. Currently, the next milestone is called “Production Network RC1” (Release Candidate 1).
GEOPOLITICAL NEWS: Putin — Biden Summit, Both parties laud positive talks — Analysis
Tags: Opinion, World News, Putin Biden, Report, Latest News

By GEO´ Newsteam — Gibraltar

www.GEOPoliticalMatters.com

AP — The much anticipated summit between US President Joe Biden and Russian Federation premier Vladimir Putin took place yesterday in Geneva, Switzerland.

The meeting has been described as cordial by both parties and while many important issues were broached little was agreed, having said that early reports suggest the meeting provided for a much needed ice-breaker between the two super-powers whose relationship in recent months had deteriorated

Both the White House and Kremlin had set low expectations going into the summit. They issued a joint statement after the conclusion that said their meeting showed the “practical work our two countries can do to advance our mutual interests and also benefit the world.”

But over and over, Biden defaulted to “we’ll find out” when assessing whether their discussions about nuclear power, cybersecurity and other thorny issues will pay off.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin exchanged cordial words and plotted modest steps on arms control and diplomacy but emerged from their much-anticipated Swiss summit Wednesday largely where they started — with deep differences on human rights, cyberattacks, election interference and more. But their three hours of talks on the shores of Lake Geneva left both men standing firmly in the same positions they had started in.

In the after summit the US President said he made clear to Mr Putin that if Russia crossed certain red lines — including going after major American infrastructure — his administration would respond and “the consequences of that would be devastating.”

The two leaders reached an important, but hardly relationship-changing agreement to return their chief diplomats to Moscow and Washington after they were called home as the relationship deteriorated in recent months. And Biden and Putin agreed to start working on a plan to solidify their countries’ last remaining treaty limiting nuclear weapons.

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