I recently started a practice of writing weekly notes. It's too easy to doomscroll your way from one rabbit hole to another without taking a step back and synthesizing what you've just read.
Here's the most recent one: <paragraph.xyz/@dave/weeknote-week-of-2024-11-18>
And check out <www.thisisdavekim.com/notes/> to see the archive.
1/5 Giving circles are a powerful way to make a difference. Over the past 2 years, my giving circle has supported 18 organizations tackling critical issues. From housing insecurity to climate change, we're making an impact together.
When I was at the @gatesfoundation, I worked on improving people's access to digital financial services. One thing I picked up along the way was noticing how people paid for things. And once you see it, you see it everywhere. We modify and adapt objects and systems all the time.
Overheard in today's residency get together at IDEO CoLab (@ideocolabventures:)
- How do you codify care into an organization?
- What book are you going to write?
- In the class that I'm teaching this fall...
- The Bilbo Deal
- I am a content creator. You are a content creator.
So much of web3 social has looked like cloning existing web2 services. I can't wait to see novel experiences that are only possible with web3 tech, but let's say that the only way to get there is by cloning what we already know. If that's true, what are we cloning next?
A lot of ink has been spilled exploring why we write. Adding one more potential reason to the list here: www.thisisdavekim.com/notes/onwriting/
