💡Takeoff #6: Web3, Redesigning the internet, Hear from our learners and much more..
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For all those that live in Bangalore:
A Bangalore based Dev's favorite data type is float 🤭
Ahh! We are gonna stop. Enough jokes for now!
As the vibes are cloudy, I think we are good to go 🌚
🤯 Let’s explore together
We are starting something new for you all 🚀
Every week, we have decided to explore a fascinating topic. We’ll dive deep and go into that rabbit hole and hopefully learn something new!
For this week, we thought of going with something trending and relevant. We are choosing Web3 and blockchain. Here are few articles and resources for you:
From Web 1.0 to Web3: How the Internet Grew Over The Years. Read here
The Golden age of Web3. Read here
On the scalability of Blockchains. Learn more
The meaning of Decentralization. Read here
We hope some of these might be useful to you.
Do share any resources you find interesting by clicking the button below so we all can learn together.
🧐 Food for thought
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity 🌟
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🏢 Straight from the Airtribe HQ
What matters the most in product design? How are you able to design products which customers would like?
In my opinion, building things according to the needs of the users which makes them use the product with ease, while also keeping an eye on how it's impacting the business side of things, matters the most.
Coming to designing products that your customers would like is by building the right things. I feel it doesn't come naturally to anyone as we all have our own perceptions and biases. So, as designers, we need to take a step back and put ourselves in the customer's shoes by talking to them, understanding and focusing on their pain points, exploring all the possible scenarios, and finally, coming up with the most suitable solutions.
Is everything that is aesthetically beautiful be considered great design?
I feel like aesthetics is very important in design because one can’t deny that everyone likes interacting with pretty looking things. However, I feel it should not come at the very expense of user experience. I would any day choose a product which is much simpler and easier to use than a beautiful product with a rather complex and overwhelming experience
📖 An interesting article for your tranquil Sunday evening
Time for some brain food 🍽️
How I read
Read clusters of five books. Visualize clusters as instruments to inspect the world. Collect instruments into a mental lab. Read ~40 pages/day. That's ~20 books/year, 40 new instruments per decade.
In this article, Slava Akhmechet talks about an instrument structure you can adopt in your life that can help you read more books.
Some reading motivation for you ~ Win the decade, not the day. Start now and never stop.
💫 A recent discovery we found fascinating
We stuck over this interesting thread by David Perell this week. He shared his insights and views upon re-designing internet.
“In this world, creators follow the motto of "publish or perish" which encourages them to crank out consistent content, even if it's rushed”
According to him, We're stuck in an endless cycle of ephemeral content consumption. We are going over the recency aspect as compared to quality. This flood of information lets us consume junk or irrelevant content.
There is a sudden need to redesign the internet.
Do you have any ideas on how we can do that?
🤔 What our learners have to say
I have noticed how my transition from spending time on Instagram to LinkedIn made me more knowledgeable. People are ready to share as well as exchange their experiences, advice, and opinion on this platform. Of course, there are other social mediums but LinkedIn is something more professional.
The platform has also helped me connect with several people and I realized that networking is another 21st-century skill for learning. And that’s exactly why I believe in the platform I am building. Networking for students aged 15-22. I am still in the ideation phase. We are building this product to empower young minds to get out there and learn from/with each other, much earlier than in their mid-twenties.
And on a side note, for those who do not have habits of reading books and want to build or revive them for a lot of reasons, starting with following relevant people and reading on LinkedIn would be a good start. Reading posts that you are interested in lets you know what kind of reading you would like to invest in, what it is that you would like to work on etc. That’s how I have transitioned back to finding time to read, between those busy hours of being a mom to two boys under four.
✨ Signing off with some wisdom
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”
~Benjamin Franklin
Alright folks. Thank you so much for reading this week’s edition. We didn’t even realize that we are onto our sixth edition, it just feels like yesterday that we started this effort.
If you had even a little fun reading this edition, we’ve done our work!
See you next weekend!