It’s only been four short days since my last update, but it’s been quite busy.
Mo and I wrote and published the latest Bitcoin Design newsletter
We had a design guide jam session and core app design call
Had calls, sent emails, reviewed service agreements, wrote proposals and other documents with Mo and Daniel for the foundation (very time consuming)
Iterated the multi-wallet page PR based on feedback and started planning how we could iterate the guide in 2024
I also posted this visual below to start some conversations around how hard we should push users towards appropriate security setups. Do nothing? Keep it subtle and rely on them to "get it"? Or be super intense and in their faces about it and induce anxiety? Got some nice responses. Some point in the direction of explaining things, but then leaving it up to users. Others liked the more intense style. But someone also warned about getting people anxious, which could lead to bad decisions. I find context to be incredibly important. If we guide users well, they hopefully never get into this situation. If they still do, we can escalate messaging over time if it’s ignored, but also giving users an option to hide them and accepting the risk they take. I am just not OK to give users absolutely no tips in this regard. We also have some content around security checklists in the guide.
I also posted this image below about a challenge in the upcoming chapter 5 for Saving Satoshi. There’s also a nice thread on Stacker News about the project.
And here’s a walkthrough video of that chapter. It’s intended to get everyone in the team on the same page before development begins.
I’m excited to see this chapter come together. That will put us half-way through the whole experience.
And it looks like I’ll spend some time over the weekend to get my Nostrasia submission ready. I’ve been staying away from rendering notes on profiles, but after clicking around a bit it’s clear that that’s what people mostly do. Lots of profiles have no other activity and look empty. So maybe I’ll look into showing 2-3 notes and the latest blog post on profiles? Either way, I’m not trying to win anything, just using the hackathon to make a bit of progress on things. So we’ll see.
An a different note, I finished the book The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art, and can highly recommend it. It provides great insight into how the art market works and how much or little of it is about artistic value (prob lots of parallels to NFT mania in there). I’m in the middle of The Creative Act now by Rick Rubin, and after that is Plato’s Republic which will take some time to get through.
I’ll be off a couple of days next week, so it’s going to be a shorter one for me.
Thanks for tuning in. And have a great weekend.
