Top links curated by the Kiwi community: 23/12/24-29/12/24

Bianca and I we were walking home from dinner at friend's place the other night -- which we see as one of the great perks of living in the city in a walkable neighborhood -- and we stumbled upon a new bar in Koreatown on Bloor Street. Neither of us had heard of the place before, but there was loud electronic music emanating from the building and an obscene amount of neon-like lights inside, and so naturally we decided to investigate it further. We immediately crossed the street, walked inside...

/image

Note: I wanted to get something out the door so forgive me for any errors or typos. This turned out to be a long thought so I offer a tl;dr:don't fool yourself/ourselves into thinking web3 is the savior to all, or any for that matter.theres never been a greater time to get in the web3 landscape, at any levelblockchains are the infrastructure where the worlds economic center will hover around, the internet-adjacentcrypto is money and suffers only from belief, not function, which has preceded a...

2 days later. but here we are. ⚔ 🎮 🪭

I've only been to Berlin once. It was for a long weekend in 2007; one where my friend Alex Feldman and I grossly underestimated the required travel and ended up not sleeping very much. But it was awesome. I loved the city. So much in fact that the two of us ended up enrolling in a basic German class once we got back to Philadelphia. I, of course, remember almost nothing from this class, but I can say apfelstrudel with a surprising degree of convincingness, provided there are no follow-up ques...

Today, we’re honored to share a heartwarming message from one of our own warrior whose journey embodies the strength, creativity, and community spirit of TFW.

I finished editing, uploading, and publishing the first two chapters (Vision and Mission, and Strategy) last night, and thiis morning I sent access instructions to a group of reviewers. Most of them were directors of product management at a company where I used to work, but I also have a friend who is a technical writer and another who is a marketer who will be looking over it. In a sense, I started working on this in February, but I wasn't able to put my foot on the gas until around Septembe...

Cities should do what they can to allow the smallest of interventions. What I mean by this is that -- when it comes to our urban environment -- small and granular is usually a good thing. It's why our historic main streets tend to be better urban streets than the ones we are creating today from scratch. They were built at a time when cities were more compact and it was more feasible to build small. Now, intuitively, we know this to be true. It's why planners will encourage things like "fine-g...

Picture this: You've got your ETH safely tucked away in your Ethereum wallet. Life is good. Then one day, disaster strikes, you lose your seed phrase. Maybe your backup got destroyed, or you stored it "somewhere safe" that's now a mystery. Whatever happened, that sick feeling in your stomach is real because in the world of Ethereum, there's no "Forgot Password?" button. Why? It's actually by design. Ethereum wallets are built on hardcore cryptography where your seed phrase creates your privat...