#0146: 52 Things I learned in 2022

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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 economist’ thinks of cryptocurrencies
8. Soccer Fans Need Better Than NFTs
9. An NFT Bubble Is Taking Over the Gig Economy
10. Corruption is such an issue in India that there is a Zero Rupee Note specifically for people to give to corrupt officials
11. Here is ‘some advice gathered from people smarter than me: no advice is good for everyone, but these are at least worth considering
12. Programmers believe a lot of things, and some of those beliefs are not just wrong, they are hilariously wrong
13. The ‘Smart Knob’ is a highly customisable and configurable button that you can deploy to a wide range of DIY button-pressing use cases
14. Theion sulphur crystal batteries promise a breakthrough in energy density
15. On a recent trip to Wales for a short holiday, I learned that the equal sign (=) was invented by a…