#687 | Nathan Schneider, Dotcom Ghosts & Web3 Baddies

A very happy new year to all 34,289 of you. We hope you had a good holiDAO and are easing your way into 2022 in suitable style and fashion.

We ended last year with Nathan Schneider joining our members in the PRTN Discord for a live Stories of Growth recording. Nathan has authored books about cooperative enterprise and the open internet, as well as the widely circulated “Exit to Community" - a playbook for how you can put ownership back in the hands of your community 🤝Have a listen here.

As a small token of our appreciation, from today, we’ve opened up all of the Supplement channels in the Protein Discord to give anyone a chance to earn 500 $PRTN for any link that makes the Protein Supplement. This is the first in a series of ways you’ll be able to “earn to access” a full Protein Membership. Interested? Start here.

Or, if you prefer to just fill your tabs with some tasty links, then LFG …

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• Start the year as you mean to go on with Trippin’s 6 travel resolutions

• Here are all the 2022 Trend Reports in one handy GDrive. You’re welcome.

• Enroll in the Big World NRG mentoring program

• Be sure to commission someone from the Black Artist Database this year

• China’s queer internet is being erased

• Roman Coppola is using crypto to shake up the film industry

• Share your waste stories to Adapt’s Waste Database

• Web3 Baddies is for the girlies, gays, non-binaries, & baddies in web3

• This NFT absorbs CO2, rather than creating it

• Have you bought a music NFT yet?

• If not, Water & Music’s $STREAM report is a good place to start

• Nina Radio is a randomized selection of releases from the Nina Protocol

• Is your bed legally part of your commute when you WFH? A German court says yes

• Join Quest DAO’s event on making crytpo inclusive

• An excellent read on transformative investing

• How to make voting more truly representative

• Chase Chapman chats the healing power of NFTs with artist Latashá

• Cooper and Li Jin on the Creator Economy

• Cobie on the Attention Economy

• An epic Miro board of the Music Blockchain landscape

• Imnotart’s ‘Balance’ exhibition centers on female photographers

• Do psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs?

• Red Pill or Blue Pill💧

• Welcome to the Lore Zone

• Claves Angelicæ is inscribing magical words into the blockchain

• Dotcom Seance is reviving ghosts from the dot-com bubble

• Brian Eno on NFTs and Automaticism 

• The Willow Tree is on a mission to collectively own and operate a global network of nightclubs, join their first event in London next Friday

• Server Farm is a computer made out of plants and animals

• Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to create a PFP NFT series

• Guap mag are hiring, apply here

• Submit your work to be part of the next Polyester Zine

• A DAO is trying revive Blockbuster Video

• Crypto isn’t only for the boys

• Snaxshot is the website you never knew you needed

• Apparently #birdsarentreal 🦆

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THANKS

A special shot out to everyone who’s contributed to this month’s Supplement: @_ted_ @7babyguava7 @artem @deniz @fancy @gus @harry @jonty @marv @nataliecrue @kevinc @kes @rick and @sunnndayyy. Until next month, your friends at Protein 💚

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