#NFTsummer A few weeks ago, we interviewed Xixi Huang (AW#17) in Mandarin and as the AppWorks Fellow who helps us out on the blockchain side, Xixi has a lot of ideas that are worth sharing to a bigger audience. Here's his interview in English:
西西 (Xixi) 黃士晉 is an AppWorks #17 alumni and co-founder of Rydeit. His mission is to bring the applications of blockchain to everyday life because he believes that blockchain can make the world a more fair and better place. As an AppWorks Fellow, he is responsible for guiding founders to think about blockchain and providing insights on blockchain-related investment deals. Before AppWorks, he led his previous team to build more than 10 dapps, including famous games in Taiwan such as 柚子打魚 and Shrimp.Finance. Within a month of launching these games, they had amassed over NT$ 100M (~US$ 3.5M) in transactions. His favorite pastime is traveling with his grandma, and his ultimate goal is to persuade her to buy Bitcoin!
Check out what Xixi has to say about blockchain and NFTs.
#NFTevolution
I started to learn how to write smart contracts in 2016, and learned the entire logic of ERC-20 for tokens and ERC-721 for NFTs. While I was learning about NFTs, I realized that the combination of NFTs with video games was very fitting. In video games, the treasure and equipment you collect becomes virtual assets as NFTs. And the process of using smart contracts to exchange items was very efficient on the blockchain.
At the end of 2018, I designed and created a zombie video game, integrating the concept of playing and drawing cards and packs. Within a pack were 3 NFTs with zombies on them. As a player, the more cards with zombies you collect, the higher your score, and the more tokens you can ultimately earn. From this game, I got connected to other game manufacturers and publishers who were also interested in creating virtual game assets through NFTs. We all had the same idea -- NFTs can bring more meaning and value to the players.
However at the time, many people in the market still believed that tokens and games were riddled with fraud. Since the lifecycle of video games can be short, many traditional gaming companies in the end didn’t find it worthwhile to learn how to integrate NFTs or blockchain into their games.
While the nature of NFTs hasn’t changed, the market has evolved. People’s curiosities are growing, more applications are being developed, and more creators are cropping up. I think now is the right time to start talking to companies about how to integrate NFTs or blockchain into their businesses or games.
#NFTplayground
I think there are many opportunities to start a business these days, and people who want to start one should think about coming to blockchain. Not only is there a huge opportunity but the possibilities are endless. And within blockchain, NFTs currently offer the biggest opportunity. However, it can also pose a new challenge to the team’s endurance, because while easy to obtain traction and users with NFTs, the challenge lies in retaining them.
Similar to other blockchain applications in the past few years, when a new concept is invented, it’ll be flushed with many early users. However, because the surrounding infrastructure wasn’t in place, it was difficult for founders to make valuable extensions or applications. And many of these users don’t actually care about these blockchain products and they are only trying to leverage the ecosystem to make a quick buck. Once they earn all that they can, they will move on to another project.
Right now working on NFTs, you can collect a lot of data in a short amount of time and also make some income to keep you afloat. Founders should seize this opportunity to understand these users, then modify and optimize both their products and mentality to retain them.
Since there’s no geographical restriction on blockchain, I would encourage founders to look beyond your country and region in expanding your NFT products. Also, since blockchain is closely related to finance, if you don’t have a good pricing strategy (or token economics) for your NFT products, the prices might fluctuate greatly. You need to be prepared and remind your users of the risks, otherwise you’ll ultimately get scolded!!
#NFTera
This year, I finally consider myself an official NFT collector. I pay special attention to NFTs with contemporary significance, such as Hashmasks. It signals to the public that NFTs are not just for collecting but that game mechanics can also be applied to interact with users. If we look back ten years from now I’m confident to say that the project that really brought the NFT wave in 2021 would be Hashmasks.
In addition to veteran projects like Hashmasks, other collections I care a lot about are related to Metaverse, such as The Sandbox. I believe that the world will become more and more decentralized and virtual. It is very likely that the next generation will be immersed in a virtual world like Ready Player One, so I am also very optimistic about NFTs in digital worlds like The Sandbox.
The possibilities are endless when it comes to NFTs. Right now, few NFTs are connected with our daily lives. For example, I bought a Hashmask. If I want to show it in my apartment, I might still need to print it out. In the future, how will we connect NFTs to the physical world? I believe they can be applied in many ways, including frames, wallets, cars, house deeds, leases, etc. These products in daily life can be combined with NFTs. We just haven’t opened our imagination yet. It’s hard to imagine that only 20 years ago we were having a hard time believing in the power of the internet.
The development of science and technology not only relies on infrastructure, but also the user's learning curve. The world needs to talk about blockchain more, so that everyone will gradually become familiar with it and it’ll continue to evolve.
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【國立臺灣大學109學年度畢業典禮 致詞代表 政治學系林語萱】
Student Address, National Taiwan University Commencement 2021
Yu-Hsuan Lin from the Department of Political Science
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校長、師長、家長,和在螢幕前難以置信這就是我們的畢典,卻也真實面對的所有臺大畢業生,大家好,我是政治學系四年級的林語萱。
比起說著我們會鵬程萬里、前程似錦,今天,我更想邀請各位一同擔任NTU Sweety Course的貢獻者,整理出綜合過去四年,且能帶著走出校園的三個成長學分:勇氣、彈性和自己。
大二上,我休了學,在零下三十幾度的低溫、強颱般的逆風和看不見天際線的白色大地中,越野滑雪了半個多月,只為了跟著亞洲第一支南極長征隊伍,在世界的盡頭,找到那個能夠超越極限的自己。參與這個計畫,或許是大多人眼中的不正常,然而它卻成為了我人生中最有收穫的選擇之一。相信在臺大這個充滿可能性的校園裡,許多人心中,也有這麼一個想征服的南極,它可能不怎麼正常,也不怎麼容易,但別忘了帶著勇氣這個學分去做、去闖你認爲是對的事物。
再來,還有個學分,叫做彈性。還記得那些腳踏車被水源阿伯給拖吊,只好改成走路或騎Ubike2.0的日常嗎?我們在一次又一次的校內小組合作、校外的家教實習中,反覆上著適應不同情況的實驗課,而疫情又加重了它的loading,原本以為上一屆已經夠慘,沒想到這一屆竟然還更糟的情況下,我們滾動式的調整上課的樣貌,努力用NTU Cool的1.5倍速上課。在唯一不變就是變的這個世間常態中,臺大教會了我們保持彈性的生存之道。
最後,最最重要的學分,是我們自己,沒錯,就是在螢幕前的每一個你你你。從大一忙碌於轉系和雙主修的菜鳥,變成焦慮著左右張望他人下一步的大四老人,我們總汲汲營營的害怕落後別人,擔心無法成為自己心中想成為的樣子,但當回過頭,騎過幾千次椰林大道後的我們,其實早已不是從前那個自己了。所以未來,當外界的環境,督促和逼迫著我們精益求精,好還要更好時,記得回到內心,聽聽它的聲音,由它來告訴我們:你不必成為誰,你只需要相信自己。
除了勇氣、彈性和自己這三個學分外,還有一張加簽單也別忘記,是一路陪伴我們的家人和師長,一個人的任性,需要很多人的愛才能夠成全,謝謝你們在成長路上的陪伴和鼓勵,我們才能夠放肆的任性。
最後的最後,我想起了一戰後的西班牙大流感,它帶走的生命比戰爭還多,但在時間洪流下也終究有結束的一天。誰知道一百多年後的今天,我們也被迫參與了歷史的進程。也許未來看似困難重重,但卡繆在瘟疫裡提醒了我們:「惟有甘願在困難的堅實土壤中去生根立足,才能夠獲得果實。」今天後的明日,我們將在不同的土壤中勇敢挑戰、彈性應對和相信自己,且帶著滿滿的愛去生根立足,為自己、為我們所身處的社會,產出最甜美的果實。準備好了嗎?讓我們一起推動歷史的進程吧!臺大109屆的畢業生們,畢業快樂,或許現在的我們無法面對面相聚,but I’ll see you down the road!謝謝大家。
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President Kuan, respected faculty, honored guests and family, and to my fellow NTU graduates who would never have imagined our commencement hosted in this way but still making the best of it, good morning. I am YU-HSUAN LIN, from Department of Political Science.
Rather than wishing the best and the brightest futures to us all, today, I want to urge each and every one of you to join in and contribute to NTU Sweety Course, and put together three amongst the most important credits from these past four years. They are courage, elasticity, and ourselves.
I took a temporary leave in my sophomore year. At minus 30 degrees Celsius, with howling headwinds and blizzards all over the sky, I did cross-country skiing for more than half a month, to challenge myself beyond the limit at the very end of the world. My Antarctic venture may seem absurd to many, but it was one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done in my life. At NTU, a campus of endless possibilities, we all have a South Pole in our hearts, an undoubtedly challenging and perhaps laughable goal we yearn to achieve. But do not forget the credit of courage we have gained from these past years, and choose whatever it is that you believe is right.
The next credit, is adaptability. Do you remember the days when our bikes being towed and having to walk or take Ubike 2.0 to class? We learned to adapt through group projects in the classes and private tutoring off-campus, and the ongoing pandemic has added extra loading to our everyday challenges. We thought the previous year was bad, but this year is even worse. We adjust the way we took courses on a rolling basis, trying to catch up from NTU COOL at 1.5x speed. The only thing that doesn't change is change itself. NTU taught us how to adapt to survive.
Last but not least, and arguably the most important credit, is ourselves. That’s right, It’s each and every one of you behind the screens. From a first-year newbie busy planning your double major or transfer, to a senior wandering around anxiously as our peers taking next steps, we work hard painstakingly in fear of falling behind of other, and wonder if we can become the person we want to be. But looking back, after countless rides along the Royal Palm Boulevard, our old selves have already long gone. So, in the future, when the outside world is constantly pushing us to make the best even better and to reach beyond limits, remember to listen to that little voice inside of you. Listen to it as it tells you, there isn’t a certain or definite role you must fulfill, all you need is to have faith in yourself.
Besides the three credits I just mentioned, don’t forget the Petition for Adding Course: our families and professors who accompanied us along our journeys. It requires loves from many to accomplish caprice of one. Thank you for your company and encouragement along the way to allow us to be self-willed boldly.
Lastly, the Spanish flu outbreak after WWI came to my mind recently. It took even more lives than the battle fields. However, it too, eventually ended as time went by. Who knew that after a hundred years, we would also be a part of a similar history? It seems that adversities are awaiting us, but Albert Camus had already reminded us in La Peste “Like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.” When tomorrow comes, in different corners on the Earth, we shall challenge, respond adaptively, and believe in ourselves. With each step that we take, we take with all the love there is within us. Let us contribute to ourselves and to our society, and may our efforts bear the sweetest fruits. Are you ready? Let’s push history forward! Hats off to all NTU graduates of 2021! Although we are unable to celebrate face to face now, I’ll see you down the road! Thank you all!
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詳見:
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Every day is a family day ❤️ Family Day is an event that is intended to allow loved ones to take a respite from their daily lives and spend quality time together. The Importance of treating elders with RESPECT. Seniors have plenty of experience in life and they can teach us about enduring change and handling life's challenges. ... We must treat our elders with respect, even if their bodies or minds are beginning to fail them.
everyday lives or everyday life 在 電扶梯走左邊 Jacky Youtube 的精選貼文
✨本集來賓:
從美國辭掉apple工程師的Ian和精算師的Eric,成為YouTuber TheDoDoMen 的過程
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDoDoMen
IG: https://www.instagram.com/thedodomen
- 為什麼面對夢想只能裹足不前,評估狀況、想好計劃、下定決心 | Stop planning your dream, Just do it
- 把每一天當成最後一天來活,那要做什麼才有意義 | Live everyday like your last
- 危機就是轉機!雖然因為covid-19不能環遊世界,但轉職做 YouTuber又何嘗不是挑戰 | Crisis is opportunity
- 機會是留給準備好的人!因為舊金山封城而拍的影片開始被看到 | is it Luck or perserverance?
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(00:01:12) Jacky與Eric、Ian的相識過程 | How we met
(00:03:24) 神回覆的三個字形容自己 | 3 words to describe each other
(00:07:53) 小時候到美國的文化衝擊 | Cultural shock moving to the US
(00:11:50) 回台灣的逆向文化衝突居然是等垃圾車 | Reverse culture shock moving back to Taiwan
(00:14:58) 融合台灣和美國的文化 | Fusion of Taiwanese and American culture
(00:16:11) 亞洲家長的過度關心 | Asian parenting
(00:17:40) 兩邊的文化對人生有什麼影響 | Impact of being bi-cultural & bi-lingual
(00:21:03) 脫離舒適圈:自信和獨立思考 | Leaving comfort zone, confidence and independent thinking
(00:23:11) 成績不代表一切的證明 | Grades aren't everything
(00:25:58) 自信的無形蝴蝶效應 | The butterfly ball effect on building confidence
(00:27:13) 大學申請實習對課業影響 | Internships in college impact on their lives
(00:30:27) 大學除了課業以外 最大的收穫 | Biggest takeaways from school other than academics
(00:32:03) Eric 和 Ian的相識過程 | How Eric & Ian met
(00:32:50) 聊聊apple工程師和精算師的工作 | Jobs as Apple Engineer and Actuary science
(0037:03) 什麼時候埋下辭職的種子 | When the idea of quitting
(00:38:07) Ian首次公開的人生大事 | Ian's exclusive story
(00:41:30) 以下暴雷「靈魂急轉彎」請注意 | "Soul" the movie / spoiler alert
(00:42:27) 為什麼會想開Youtube頻道 | Why start YouTube channel?
(00:43:25) 剛開始拍Youtube的時候最難的是 | Hardest thing about starting a channel
(00:45:16) 會不會不適應成為Influencer要公開私生活?| Private life
(00:47:34) 還不成名的時候怎麼堅持 | Perseverance before fame
(00:48:38) 舊金山封城是轉折點 | Lockdown turnaround
(00:51:25) 數據放一邊 先做自己想做的 | Data aside, do what you want
(00:52:36) 犧牲很大 但觀看很少的影片 | Huge sacrifice, low reward videos
(00:53:30) 回覆酸民留言來了 | Here's to you haters
(00:56:23) YouTuber最容易被誤會的事 | Biggest misconception from being YouTubers
(00:57:10) 只有先準備好 才有爆紅的機會 | Luck is for those who are prepared
(00:59:45) 一開始有設立停損嗎 | Limit stop?
(01:00:49) YouTuber Role Model
(01:01:33) 影片想傳遞的核心價值 | Core value from videos
(1:02:24) 兩個人意見不同的時候 | When disagreement happens
(1:05:34) 成為YouTuber最大的成長 | Biggest learning from becoming YouTubers
(1:06:55) YouTuber的時間管理 | Time management as YouTubers
(1:09:29) 創造和技術類工作的差異 | Difference between a content creator and technical career
everyday lives or everyday life 在 Juno Lin Youtube 的最佳貼文
How to be creative? You have to find inspiration, it doesn't find you.
1) I really have to care about the subject because if I don't, it's hard for me to tap into my subconscious to allow inspiration to happen. Caring about someone and something is personal. More often than not, it's a form of responsibility for me. Other times, it's pure fun and entertainment. So, if your job is to be creative, find a reason and conviction for the project at hand because caring about the project is your source of energy, so you may be brave to take the lead to dive deep into the abyss of the creative unknown.
2) If you are scared? Find inputs. Do research. Consciously feeding my subconscious mind is one of the most important steps I do for staying creative. Nothing is original. Every original man-made creation is an inspiration from everyday life, an alchemy of great ideas, or a hybrid of someone else's work. That is just the way it is.
3) Tap into your subconscious. Take time for it. Take a walk. Go for a jog. Take a shower. Now we talk about science. Our subconscious mind is the most active when we are relaxed. Our conscious mind pays attention to information all around us at the moment, but our subconscious mind contains the other 99% of the information we have come across in our entire lives. Such a powerful machine, why not tap into it? Now we wonder how many of the great ideas we know today were conceived while sitting on the toilets.
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華音です。今回はイギリス政府から届いた手紙の開封と、最近コロナが広まってからより多く届くようになった詐欺のメールの紹介や、コロナ太りに効果のある方法を6つ紹介しました。多くのお金を使って首相から手紙が届くなんて思ってもみませんでした。今こそ皆で一丸となって乗り越えようというメッセージは、どこでも言っていることだけど手紙という形で受け取るのはまた違った重みがあるなと思いました。
こちらがイギリスの首相が書いた手紙の原文です。
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I am writing to you to update you on the steps we are taking to combat coronavirus.
In just a few short weeks, everyday life in this country has changed dramatically. We all feel the profound impact of coronavirus not just on ourselves, but on our loved ones and our communities.
I understand completely the difficulties this disruption has caused to your lives, businesses and jobs. But the action we have taken is absolutely necessary, for one very simple reason.
If too many people become seriously unwell at one time, the NHS will be unable to cope. This will cost lives. We must slow the spread of the disease, and reduce the number of people needing hospital treatment in order to save as many lives as possible.
That is why we are giving one simple instruction - you must stay at home.
You should not meet friends or relatives who do not live in your home. You may only leave your home for very limited purposes, such as buying food and medicine, exercising once a day and seeking medical attention. You can travel to and from work but should work from home if you can.
When you do have to leave your home, you should ensure, wherever possible, that you are two metres apart from anyone outside of your household.
These rules must be observed. So, if people break the rules, the police will issue fines and disperse gatherings.
I know many of you will be deeply worried about the financial impact on you and your family. The government will do whatever it takes to help you make ends meet and put food on the table.
The enclosed leaflet sets out more detail about the support available and the rules you need to follow. You can also find the latest advice at gov.uk/coronavirus
From the start, we have sought to put in the right measures at the right time. We will not hesitate to go further if that is what the scientific and medical advice tells us we must do.
It's important for me to level with you - we know things will get worse before they get better. But we are making the right preparations, and the more we all follow the rules, the fewer lives will be lost and the sooner life can return to normal.
I want to thank everyone who is working flat out to beat the virus, in particular the staff in our fantastic NHS and care sector across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It has been truly inspirational to see our doctors, nurses and other carers rise magnificently to the needs of the hour.
Thousands of retired doctors and nurses are returning to the NHS - and hundreds of thousands of citizens are volunteering to help the most vulnerable. It is with that great British spirit that we will beat coronavirus and we will beat it together.
That is why, at this moment of national emergency, I urge you, please, to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.
Boris Johnson
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