Thank you, Lord, for this day. May it be used for your glory!
Good morning and welcome to the first Friday Inspiration of 2022! I hope you have had a great first full week in 2022 and you are already hitting strides on your new resolutions and goals.
I think my favorite tagline I saw this week was one from Dairy Queen that read something like: “Ruining New Year’s Resolution Since 1962” lol! Hopefully, that’s not you, but if it is that’s also ok.
Anyways, this week I have 4 articles for y’all. One on writing, a crypto one, a robot shopping cart one, and one about rockets! Let’s dive in!
Today I Celebrate 8 Years of Writing Online. Here’s What I’ve Learned.
This was a great article written by one of my favorite authors, Tim Denning. Tim mainly writes online. He has written a number of e-books, thousands of articles on Medium, runs an insanely successful email newsletter, and now also runs a Substack newsletter.
He has been writing online for 8 years and is full-time as of 2020 (I think).
This article was a compilation of some of the big takeaways he’s learned along the way, and so for an aspiring writer, it was really encouraging.
If I had to summarize my big takeaways from his big takeaways I’d say: publish, publish often, formatting is key, whitespace is your friend, find your voice not a niche, write for the pleasure of writing, and get into that flow state.
I have been trying to practice a lot of these strategies already, and so it was really encouraging to read that I must be doing something right, haha!
He ends the article with this quote:
“Writing is how humans think. Without words our minds die. Writing online is a forever career that will never die.”
NFT2.0 is here! LTO Network aims to decentralize NFT technology and assets with “Ownables”
This is the most technical article this week, I promise. That title might even go over some people’s heads and that’s ok.
I’ll try and explain it.
All the title is really saying is that there is a team of people creating a new version of NFTs.
What does that mean?
Well, there is a slight issue with NFTs and this team is trying to solve it.
Let’s say I buy a $2 million monkey picture NFT and when I buy it there is an unlockable version of that picture in higher quality. That is what a lot of people do.
This “unlockable” use case is seen more when people sell music or how I’ve been doing it selling my fiction pieces.
The issue is that the “unlockable” content, whether it is a high-quality picture, a music file, or an e-book, is not stored on the same blockchain. There are workarounds like storing it on a different blockchain designed for storage like Arweave. That’s what I do. However, it’s not guaranteed that that’s what the original NFT creator did too.
The value in a lot of these art NFTs is really more in proving ownership via the blockchain. That part is not affected by this issue. The issue is that the underlying “unlockable” thing might be stored on Google Drive or Dropbox and when you buy the NFT, you are given a link.
What happens if that link goes away?
Well, then if someone else buys the NFT they can’t actually collect the thing they bought. That’s not great for NFTs that utilize “unlockable” content in the secondary marketplaces.
This leads us to NFT2.0 where the unlockable content will be stored on the same blockchain as the NFT itself.
If you are still confused, just know this will help NFTs become more mainstream, and it will open up tons of cool use cases for NFTs. They aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
I know DeSo is looking into this as well and I’m excited to try it out when they do!
I tried shopping with AI shopping carts at Kroger with the CEO of Veeve
https://www.businessinsider.com/kroger-smart-cart-veeve-ceo-interview-shopping-2021-12
I’ve been wanting something like this for a long time now, and it is finally a reality! Imagine going shopping, gathering all your items, and then instead of waiting in line to checkout, you just leave!
Well with Kroger’s Krogo shopping carts, that is a reality.
They have developed these smart carts where you can basically scan your items as you grab them off the shelf!
They even have a scale for all your produce needs.
Then when it’s time to leave, you just pay on the cart and walk out the door. Brilliant!
I believe Amazon is also working on something similar! I’m hoping Kroger releases these to their Harris Teeters in Durham really soon, haha!
DOGE-1 moon mission set for launch with SpaceX in early 2022
https://cointelegraph.com/news/doge-1-moon-mission-set-for-launch-with-spacex-in-early-2022
Elon Musk has done some crazy things and some hilarious things over the years. He is definitely one of those people that just does whatever he wants.
Well, to me, this is probably the greatest joke I’ve ever heard of Elon doing!
There is a satellite named, DOGE-1, that is set to launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 in early 2022. Its mission is to be sent to the moon where it will sit in orbit and collect moon data.
If you haven’t picked up on the joke yet, let me explain a few things.
Doge is an internet meme of a random Shiba Inu. It was like the first internet meme that became popular years ago.
When Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies became a thing, people on the internet realized they should create a coin that is a complete joke. Thus, Dogecoin, was born and gained immense popularity. There is no value behind Dogecoin, it’s just a joke, but people love it and have made tons of money off of it.
Elon Musk has also invested in Dogecoin, talked about it, and has probably purposefully moved the value of Dogecoin just by his own opinion.
Last year Elon Musk also adopted an actual Shiba Inu and posted it all over Twitter which obviously made the entire Dogecoin community go wild.
There is a very popular saying in the cryptocurrency world when you think a particular cryptocurrency is going to do really really well. That saying is: to the moon. For instance, if you think Dogecoin is going to go up in value drastically, you could say “Dogecoin is going to the moon.”
Now that you have all the data, you should also know that the DOGE-1 satellite is the first space mission 100% funded by Dogecoin.
That’s right. All the money that’s funding the creation and launch of the DOGE-1 satellite comes straight from Dogecoin.
Thus, Elon Musk is literally sending Dogecoin to the moon.
Say what you will about Elon, but he is doing some really cool things in the world with SpaceX and Tesla, and he’s definitely having some fun with it along the way.