#0146: 52 Things I learned in 2022

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Braingasm

I love consuming information. A large portion of my job requires me to constantly consume information and process it into digestible chunks that others can build upon. About a year ago (inspired by this), I started trying to find a single thing each week that I could say “this week I learned” about.

Here are the results of my learning (at least) one new thing each week for 52 weeks in 2022:

1. ‘Nouns’ is an NFT project that is an ‘experimental attempt to improve the formation of on-chain avatar communities’
2. The ‘Green Lumber Fallacy’ describes scenarios where a group of people in a domain mistake irrelevant knowledge for essential knowledge, and future electric cars might also act as two-way batteries to charge other cars or even put energy back into the grid
3. The word ‘coddiwomple’ means ‘to travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination
4. KrauseHouse is a DAO with a mission to buy and own an NBA team
5. I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR. Here’s What I Learned. This is how it feels in the future Mark Zuckerberg promised — disembodied and unaware of my surroundings.
6. New ‘game-changing’ technology removes 99% of carbon dioxide from the air
7. This is what a ‘real…