Zach sits down with a new guest every other week to talk about building products on blockchain and the distributed web.
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Zach sits down with a new guest every other week to talk about building products on blockchain and the distributed web.
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September 30, 2020
Blockchain + Game Design with Rafael Morado from Dapper Labs
<p>“At the end of the day, games can facilitate learning and learning is one of the most satisfying experiences we can have.”</p> <p>This week I sat down with Rafael Morado to talk about Blockchain and Game Design. I love this episode for two reasons. First, because it made me smarter, dispelling a lot of my naiveté about building games on the blockchain and second, because it all sprung from a dumb tweet I made a few weeks ago (<a href="https://twitter.com/zherring/status/1305948829695369216">Read the tweet and initial convo here</a>).</p> <p>Rafael is a consummate professional, he studied game design and has worked for studios like UbiSoft and the makers of Eve Online. He’s currently at <a href="https://www.dapperlabs.com">Dapper Labs</a> building games and product managing and he’s got a fantastically unique perspective as he’s begun blending those two expertises into a really unique POV in the space.</p> <p>Be sure to check out MetaMedia who’s publishing and cross-sharing this show under their media-umbrella on Twitch and Twitter for their weekly live show, The Spicey Take, and their first podcast show The Defi Download. </p> <p>I’m Zach Herring, I’m on Twitter, @ <a href="https://twitter.com/zherring">zherring</a> , DMs are open. You know of amazing designers, researchers, or product people in the space doing dope stuff, drop me a line, let me know who I need to talk to!</p> <p><strong>Relevant Links</strong></p> <p>Find Rafael on Twitter → <a href="https://twitter.com/nagual_ape">https://twitter.com/nagual_ape</a><br> Follow Dapper Labs → <a href="https://twitter.com/dapperlabs">https://twitter.com/dapperlabs</a><br> Find Zach on Twitter → <a href="https://twitter.com/zherring">https://twitter.com/zherring</a><br> Cheese Wizards → <a href="https://www.cheezewizards.com/">https://www.cheezewizards.com/</a></p> <p><strong>Resources</strong></p> <p>Man, Play, and Games → <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/bDjOPsjzfC4C?hl=en">https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/bDjOPsjzfC4C?hl=en</a><br> Rules of Play → <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176698.Rules_of_Play?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=4SARd4zpZq&rank=2">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176698.Rules_of_Play?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=4SARd4zpZq&rank=2</a><br> Global Game Jam → <a href="https://globalgamejam.org/">https://globalgamejam.org/</a><br> Game Maker Studio → <a href="https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker">https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker</a></p>
September 16, 2020
"Protocols are the ultimate hyper-object" - Talking Design Philosophy w/ Jessica Schilling and Jim Lee
<p>I sat down with Jessica Schilling and Jim “Cake” Lee, designers and technologists working with Protocol Labs on their IPFS and FileCoin Slate projects. It was a <strong>banger</strong>.</p> <p>When designers “talk about design” a lot of times, it’s the shop top. The tools, the instruments. The systems. There’s a lot of content like that out there. In this episode we dug a lot more into the philosophy behind it, the why that goes into designing these meta-systems.</p> <p>This has been Proof of Usability. Be sure to check out MetaMedia who’s publishing and cross-sharing this show under their media-umbrella on Twitch and Twitter for their weekly live show, The Spicey Take, and their first podcast show The Defi Download. </p> <p>I’m Zach Herring, I’m on Twitter, @ zherring , DMs are open. You know of amazing designers, researchers, or product people in the space doing dope stuff, drop me a line, let me know who I need to talk to.</p> <p><strong>Relevant Links</strong></p> <p>Find Cake on Twitter → <a href="https://twitter.com/wwwjim/">https://twitter.com/wwwjim/</a></p> <p>Find Jessica on Twitter → <a href="https://twitter.com/dzesika/">https://twitter.com/dzesika/</a></p> <p>IPFS → <a href="https://ipfs.io/">https://ipfs.io/</a></p> <p>Slate →<a href=" https://slate.host/"> https://slate.host/</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Zach’s Twitter → <a href=" https://slate.host/">https://twitter.com/zherring</a></p> <p>MetaMedia → <a href="https://twitter.com/meta_media_">https://twitter.com/meta_media_</a></p> <p><br></p>
September 4, 2020
Building Market-Informed Products with Matt Cutler
<p>For the first official episode of Proof-of-Usability, I’m re-releasing my chat with Blocknative's Co-Founder and CEO Matt Cutler ( <a href="https://twitter.com/mcutler">@mcutler</a>) from back in March. Why should you listen to Matt about building products people want? Uh, because he’s a boss. Literally.</p> <p>Founder & CEO of Block Native. Multiple founder, 7 times over. He’s taken companies public, split them up, merged them together and has a just a really unique, seasoned perspective. He’s been building internet companies since 1994. This kind of seasoned founder is still rare in the blockchain space.</p> <p>Like a lot of killer projects in the space they started building…something that wasn’t BlockNative. His story of how they pivoted by listening to user feedback is a great one. And how Mark thinks about building market-informed products is worth the price of admission (your time!) alone. I learn a ton every time I sit down to talk with him, and this time was no different.</p> <p>This has been Proof of Usability. Be sure to check out MetaMedia who’s publishing and cross-sharing this show under their media-umbrella on <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/meta_media">Twitch</a> and <a href="//twitter.com/meta_media_">Twitter</a> for their weekly live show, The Spicey Take, and their first podcast show <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/001-what-is-defi-what-is-sushiswap-what-is-decentralized/id1528073913?i=1000489908536?i=1000489908536">The Defi Download. </a></p> <p>I’m Zach Herring, I’m on Twitter, @<a href="//twitter.com/zherring">zherring</a>, DMs are open. You know of amazing designers, researchers, or product people in the space doing dope stuff, drop me a line, let me know who I need to talk to.</p> <p><strong>Relevant Links</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.blocknative.com">https://www.blocknative.com</a><br> <a href="https://blog.blocknative.com/blog/mempool-forensics">BlockNative's Latest Research Study: MemPool Forensics For Black Thursday</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/mcutler">Matt Cutler's Twitter</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/zherring">Zach's Twitter</a></p> <p><br> </p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>
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