House of First~ Turning the word NFT into a verb — meet the Metaverse Players I haven’t listened to Malcolm McLaren’s Madame Butterfly since college. But was inspired while reading Butcher Billy’s biography on the House of First site. …

A Conversation with artist Rachel Winters House of First’s Remarkable Women’s NFT House of First second NFT Project Remarkable Women NFT with Rachel Winters was an amazing success. All 6000 in the collection were sold out in record time. On reveal day there was conversation in Twitter Spaces with The…

Demystifying the NFT — A Series of Conversations from the WAGMANs Community Alison Alexander, Val Bercovici, Deborah Perry Piscione, Jennifer Sertl Context You are probably familiar with the notarization function. If you have a document like a will or an important contract you go to a notary public that has…

Demystifying Web3 — A Series of Conversations from the WAGMANs Community synthesized by Jennifer Sertl. Introduction to Web3 with Val Bercovici, William Meed, Deborah Perry Piscione Web3 is a very complex subject. It is very difficult to keep up with the pace. Little by little companies are starting to understand…

Belonging matters as much in the metaverse as it does in physical space. It is my belief that the more connected one is to his/her core, the better one can care for their personal ecosystem. …

A year ago not many people were using the #metaverse hashtag, today as I am writing this there have been 2,430 tweets within the last hour. We are in a 21st century gold rush where the precious metals are codified images, cryptocurrency mining, and the claiming of conceptual space in…

This could also be called an existential perspective on daylight savings. We spend so much time online and connected to our devices that we are more and more become less attached to our self and to our own internal GPS. Before I was writing because it was good for us…

Adam Fridman is currating responses to this question: What is the single biggest obstacle to creating sustainable behavior change? Here is my response: I was an academic advisor in college at CU Boulder in the late 80’s even before the word #diversity was a thing. We had several Native American…

What does it take to grow a world-class business in Upstate New York? We set out to find the answer to that question by interviewing founders from across the region. …