Sam Flamini (@samflamini) • Hey
Definite Optimist | DevRel @ superfluid.finance
Publications
- What kinds of problems should engineers be focused on solving in web3?\n\n\n\nI interviewed @odysseas.lens earlier this year, and he had an excellent answer to this question.\n\n\n\n1) Go follow the best builders (most of which are in the Ethereum ecosystem)\n\n2) Ignore noise from intellectually dishonest people
- How many engineers out there are well versed with fintech (i.e. dealing with old school payment rails/workflows) and web3 development?
As much as we web3 devs would like to bypass traditional finance, I just don't see how we get global adoption without at least temporary interoperability.
The venn diagram of devs that know both paradigms has to be small, but it's going to get really valuable, really quickly.
- When you can visually map out the different user bases of social networks, it makes you realize that these platforms have scale that rivals that of a major nation state.\n\n\n\nNow imagine if these platforms were all built atop the same shared ledger and social graph like @lenster.lens and @orbapp.lens are on @lensprotocol. They'd become 10x more interoperable overnight\n\n\n\nImage credit: Visual Capitalist - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/social-media-universe-2022/
- Earlier this week we put out an episode of Devs Do Something that covered Account Abstraction in a ton of detail with Julien Niset of @argenthq.lens
I'd assume that most web3 people here care about UX (:
If you feel like you're behind on all of the AA discussion, consider giving it a listen!
https://www.devsdosomething.fm/episodes/julien-niset-argent-and-account-abstraction
- Yesterday, I put out a deep dive on payments: https://www.definiteoptimist.co/p/how-payments-ought-to-work
Payments are really important, but almost no one understands how they actually work under the hood. I traced the history of payments systems, where they are today, where they could go, and how they ought to be (in the spirit of Dee Hock - the founder of Visa).
From a first principles point of view, money is information. I believe that the best technological medium for the transfer of this very specific type of information is some combination of modern fintech & blockchains.
- I was listening to the @0xfoobar.lens episode while gymming yesterday, based podcast 🔥
- I don’t think that people realize what this decentralized social media movement will do to the internet…
(if it works)
- Just got set up on @orbapp.lens - v impressive so far…
- Hey lens folks, for the past 3 and a half months, I've been producing the Devs Do Something podcast as a part of my work @superfluid.lens
So far, we've put out 19 episodes which cover a ton of technical topics in web3, including:
-account abstraction with @argenthq.lens
-cross chain tech with @connext.lens and @hyperlane.lens
-building in DeFi with devs from UMA, @makerdao.lens, & @balancerprotocol.lens
-developer education with @camiinthisthang.lens, @austingriffith.lens, and @patrickalphac.lens
-much more!
You can check out the archive at https://www.devsdosomething.fm/, watch episodes on the Superfluid Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/SuperfluidHQ) , and listen anywhere podcasts are played (: