bromquinn

Hi HN,

My name is Brom, and I'm the founder of Empath Ventures. I made the linked RFS out of frustration - most psychedelic startups we're seeing are all crowding into the same problem space (generic mental health conditions).

While psychedelics are great for solving those, I think there are so many more uses for and potential business models in psychedelics!

Hopefully the RFS is useful to someone.

"if we simply could have used a smart contract where money is automatically deposited upon project completion, we would have ensured payment."

What? I didn't know this was currently possible. Maybe you should make this your product.

Weird. I’ve been using ProtonMail for years as my primary email, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a captcha. This includes when I visit ProtonMail over VPN’s or in a private window

I kind of hate the idea of encouraging young people to pursue speculation instead of building. Post-IPO investing doesn't create a ton of value for society.

This seems to be a great ‘intro to defi’ read.

Can someone with knowledge of defi point out any deficiencies or inaccuracies here? Are there better ‘intro to defi’ papers that newcomers should read?

Missing: psychedelic therapeutics

It seems like you could use this to upload a piece of media to an S3 bucket, create a link using MintGate, and boom - now you have paywalled content. This is incredibly ergonomic compared to existing monetization schemes.

This also separates the hosting of the content from the payment system for the content. Example: If you're a podcast creator on patreon, patreon can ban you, and you just have to hope that your fans will follow you to your new platform. With MintGate's solution, it seems like you could change your content hosting at any time without impacting your token holders. This makes creator's relationship with their fans more resilient to censorship, and reduces the creator's reliance on any single platform.

Holding a creator's personal token v.s. paying them a monthly subscription on patreon is an interesting proposition. It changes the relationship between fan and creator from 'customer' to 'investor' and gives token-holding fans a monetary incentive to promote the creator.

I think we're still in the early days of seeing how indie creators can make money on the internet, and projects like this are leading the charge towards new monetization schemes - very cool!

To what do you attribute this decline in social skills?

Thanks for the feedback. I agree that having a better example on the main page would be ideal! I will work on the topic adding interface to make it more intuitive :)

Self esteem is attacking the is-vs-ought problem. Sure, in the cold, social Darwin paradigm, those without ability have no worth - but this is not how things SHOULD be.

I think it’s important for people to know that they have value, regardless of their abilities. This doesn’t mean that people should not be encouraged to succeed. I think self esteem and achievement can go hand in hand. For me personally, I think believing that I was special helped motivate me to achieve more! After all, If you’re not special, what chance do you have competing against the other 7billion people in the world?

Anecdotally, I was raised by two very people-self esteem parents, and have become fairly successful compared to my peer group. I also remember the first time I heard someone say that self esteem was bad. It came from the evangelical, objectivist parents of a kid I knew in early high school. That kid ended up failing college and getting addicted to opioids.