Let's talk about work and content in Web3🔻

I'm on a business trip again today, and I'd like to share something I encountered: When I was having dinner with a friend today, he brought a junior brother with him. This junior brother joined a domestic Web3 media company last year and made daily reports every day, complaining from the dinner table to WeChat

In addition, many matrix accounts have been sharing daily information recently, so this article will expand on three topics:

1. Why come to work in Web3?

2. How do we find meaningful work?

3. What is valuable content?

Let me talk about the first topic first, because I have been in close contact with a former colleague recently. I used to work at a US stock brokerage, and later jumped to a crypto VC. She jumped to another brokerage and then to a semiconductor company.

Last month, probably because I posted a lot of content about Web3 on WeChat Moments, she started to ask me about it. After communicating with me, I learned that she had learned about cryptocurrencies when she was a graduate student, and even bought#BTCand#SOLherself (but didn’t get in-depth contact)

📍She knew that I was working in the crypto field and asked me about my motivation for working in Web3

I told her:

🔻First, I learned about cryptocurrencies and made money on it before I started working, so I thought the industry had opportunities and vitality;

🔻Second, by chance, a friend I knew in the industry recommended me to join the company, and the management is relatively flat;

🔻Third, I like the distributed office model of Web3 very much.

So now I feel that sitting in the office is simply a waste of a good life

🔺First of all, I don’t think there is much to expand on the first point, so I don’t understand why some people would waste some traditional industries and not speculate in Web3, but I also have a certain understanding of the information/cognition gap in this world

But the opportunities in this industry are indeed, how can I say it? I can only use: option chips are everywhere. In this way, we can get some early chips of some companies relatively easily

This is something that can’t be thought of in the traditional Internet. I think the fault tolerance rate of Web3 is still very high compared to other industries as long as you don’t ALL IN when you come in, and the odds are also very "sexy"

🔺There is also a second point. As far as I know, many companies in Web3, whether exchanges, project parties or VCs, actually have very flat internal management. What are the trends in the market at ordinary times? The communication is very active, which is quite different from my original work communication environment

This actually leads to a result: Maybe everyone is a cryptocurrency trader working in the same company. Although there are differences in positions at work, it is not impossible that one of your colleagues will win the lottery tomorrow (an example from my own life)

So when communicating with Web3, I always adhere to the principle that everyone should respect each other and try to be more polite when it comes to social etiquette. Who knows, the poor guy who has only 4 figures in his pocket today may be putting 8 figures in his assets on#Binanceand applying sunscreen in Hawaii tomorrow

🔺The last and third point, I am now working in a [semi-distributed] office, which means I have to travel and go to the office occasionally. I think the relatively free office environment is one of the reasons that attract most practitioners to work in Web3

Anyway, after chatting with her, she said she wanted to come too. I adhere to the principle of the second point mentioned above. I will help her if I can. I hope you don’t forget DD when Web3 is developed. I will help her see if there are any resources around her to push her. In the past month, from the exchange to the project side

Now she has successfully joined a T3 exchange, and is also responsible for the operation of an RWA project, and is also interviewing a licensed exchange in Hong Kong

📍Regarding the topic of Web3 work, I want to continue to expand: How can we find meaningful work in our work?

I have done the daily report statistics mentioned above before. To be honest, it is really a job for interns. When I was in the securities company, I would count something called [Weekly Calendar of US Stock Earnings Report]. When I first came into contact with it, I always thought it was a meaningless thing.

But the leader at that time told me: We only count companies that will be paid attention to by the market, such as Apple, Google, and Nvidia. This at least let me know which companies are worth paying attention to, because some companies I only know after counting: Oh, this company occupies such an important position in this industry

It sounds a bit like self-PUA, because in the long run, repeated data will become meaningless work.

Let's talk about market information statistics. I have the same experience: when I first started to make an account last year, I would make a weekly report every week, and there was a section in it to count the important market information of the past week

Every Sunday, I would go to PA NEWS and Golden Finance, which are information websites, and extract ten pieces of information every week. But why I stopped doing it later? Because I also felt that it was a bit meaningless.

There are two sides to this matter:

1. If you only look for information for statistical information, it is indeed meaningless work.

2. If you further interpret and analyze the corresponding opinions of this news in the process of looking for information, then it is meaningful work.

So I actually suggested to that junior brother in the afternoon: make an account for yourself and post your interpretation of the information.

He agreed: OK, OK, thank you. But I don’t know whether he will actually do that.

📍Therefore, another topic is extended: What is valuable content?

I don’t know how valuable my content is, but the first thing I think about when I create content is: Do I understand it myself? Then I think about the second thing: Can the people who read this content understand it?

For content output, I think the first principle should be to serve yourself first, then consider others

During this period, I have seen many matrix accounts posting a kind of content: daily information aggregation

In fact, it is what I said above, but so many accounts post it, I am too lazy to even read it, because of two reasons:

1. I read the news on the media website

2. I don’t even need to take the initiative to know the big news, and it’s useless for me to know the small news

But there is also a counterexample for the daily information @lijiuer1 Jiuer also posts daily content, but I occasionally really read her daily content. Why? Because not only does she have her own opinions, I also know that it is really her own business

Copying other people’s opinions is a case of imitating others; outputting your own opinions, the content is raw and the core is also colorful.