Hey team,
Filling in for Matt this week who had some house things to handle this weekend.
I’ll speak for all of us when I say, thanks to everyone for one of the most collaborative weeks we’ve had since XMTP started. All of us come from different backgrounds, places, and work environments so spending time figuring out what works for us is so critical in these early days. The most important thing is to keep being proactive in communicating to each other what we think works, what doesn’t work, and suggestions on what to change.
It's up to each of us to help create the culture we want here and I'm loving the conversations and iterations that we are doing together.
Let's keep coming together, being clear about our blockers and needs of each other, unblocking each other, and moving faster in the same direction.
I'm excited for a couple more weeks of great collaboration and focus before the holiday break.
Have a great week, Shane Mac
Last week goals
November 28th
Client / Protocol
- Complete workflow definition for Feature 1
- Start tech spec for the protocol to support Feature 1
- Continued progress on accounting concepts
Communities
- Outline Use case/customer matrix draft
Next week goals
December 6th
- [] First draft of Alpha PRD is done
- [] Client strategy document in place (first draft)
- [] Go/No-go on Waku
- [] Clarity on lines between protocol & client - visuals
- [] Decide on ENS community as alpha focus
XMTP Updates
- Great discussion happening around Sybil & Spam Resistance https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rj493za0OWzNV7fSEDiK-9G-ZdUwSj8baVfkYChQ6sk/edit
- Lots of research on Waku completed
- Our first Twitter Spaces will be on Dec. 14th hosted by XMTP. https://xmtp.discourse.team/t/wip-the-conversation-twitter-spaces-show-launches-dec-14th-9-30am-pst/513
- Nicholas (From Brex) accepted his offer as of yesterday! Starting Jan 24th
What we are reading/listening to
- Interesting read by NYMag about crypto, go to the ENS section https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/crypto-nft-twitter-discord-guide.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1
A week in the life with Saul
What a week! My work highlight was spending 1:1 time with everyone on the team. This was a blast of fresh air compared to my recent BigCo experience, where it took two months to meet all my direct colleagues and I'd still find myself every day in meetings mostly consisting of people I'd never met before. I'm grateful for everyone's openness and readiness to help -- the pieces of the puzzle are starting to come together in my mind! (More on that later).
It was a BIG week for the twins, too. We took them to not one, but two holiday parties, and left them with a sitter last night while we went to a holiday dinner with friends. On top of all that, they accompanied us to Lowe's to pick out a tree and "helped" me string up the lights.
Here are June and Jonah totally racked out after making many new friends at one of the parties:
And here they are enjoying a tutorial on how to string up lights on a tree.
All that said, everyone's highlight of the whole weekend was discovering the Facebook Portal storytime feature. Grandma was on cloud nine!
Lastly, the art NFT collective that I'm a part of received some new previews from the sculptor we're collaborating with on our January exhibition. It's a study of the classical gods from Greek mythology -- here's one of his Hades variations. Looks rare!
