Quorum Brandon Nolte

Hey everyone 👋 I wanted to share a quick update about what's been happening for me on my Web3 journey. I recently was hired at a Web3 startup that's building tech to help people build more decentralized businesses!
In this short update episode I discuss: a recap of last year, professional updates for me, how this effects Quorum long term, and more.
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Resources:
🎙️ Brandon Nolte: https://twitter.com/brandoncnolte
🎧 Quorum Podcast: https://podcast.quorummedia.xyz/
🗞️ Quorum Newsletter: https://www.quorummedia.xyz/
🐦 Quorum Twitter: https://twitter.com/quorummedia_xyz
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Quorum Partners:
This show is brought to you by BanklessDAO — a decentralized organization focused on helping you achieve financial freedom through education, media, and culture.
🏴 BanklessDAO: https://www.bankless.community/

#041 - Welcome to another episode of Quorum, where we believe that contributing to a DAO is the best way to find engaging and rewarding work in the new Web3 economy. 
In today’s show, Sam and I spoke with Katy Jeremko, founder of IndieDAO — a network of highly-talented designers and developers who are forging a better way for creatives to work in the music, film, and game industries and beyond.
On today’s show, we discussed:
How to strike a balance between centralization and decentralization
The importance of having a sense of belonging in your work
Why people love working with IndieDAO
And, top tips and recommendations if you aren’t in your ideal career right now
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Resources:
🎙️ Brandon Nolte: https://twitter.com/brandoncnolte
🎙️ Sam Marin: https://twitter.com/samanthajmarin
🎧 Quorum Podcast: https://podcast.quorummedia.xyz/
🗞️ Quorum Newsletter: https://www.quorummedia.xyz/
🤝 Quorum Twitter: https://twitter.com/quorummedia_xyz
👩‍🏫 Katy Jeremko: https://twitter.com/0xKaty
✨ IndieDAO: https://twitter.com/theindiedao
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More about this episode:
As a creator, working with IndieDAO means getting to collaborate with like minded people from the DAO, and having a lot of the headaches of working on your own taken care of, like: contracts and legal issues, reputation, and payments. 
As a client, IndieDAO has a service arm that provides emerging and value-aligned projects access to their expert design and development teams. If you’re curious about their skills, I recommend you check out their website at IndieDAO.xyz - it’s pretty awesome.
Not only is IndieDAO servicing amazing projects like Pool Suite, Friends with Benefits and more, but they are also working on building their own protocol for companies who want to adopt the same Web3 software that IndieDAO is using to service these clients.
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Quorum Partners:
This show is brought to you by BanklessDAO — a decentralized organization focused on helping you achieve financial freedom through education, media, and culture.
🏴 BanklessDAO: https://www.bankless.community/

#040 - Welcome to another episode of Quorum, where we believe that contributing to a DAO is the best way to find engaging and rewarding work in the new Web3 economy. 
In today’s show I spoke with Marcus Aurelius, Contributor at KlimaDAO — which is a DAO with a mission to help combat climate change.
On today’s show, we discussed:
The basics of climate change, carbon markets, and how KlimaDAO is helping build a better future
The current challenges with today’s antiquated solutions to climate change, and how blockchain solves them 
And, an inside look at the KlimaDAO culture, including the power of pseudonymity in creating an equal playing field for contributors
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Resources:
🎙️ Brandon Nolte: https://twitter.com/brandoncnolte
🎧 Quorum Podcast: https://podcast.quorummedia.xyz/
🗞️ Quorum Newsletter: https://www.quorummedia.xyz/
🤝 Quorum Twitter: https://twitter.com/quorummedia_xyz
💚 Marcus Aurelius: https://twitter.com/0xKlimaurelius
⛰️ KlimaDAO: https://twitter.com/KlimaDAO
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More about this episode:
KlimaDAO is an innovative solution using blockchain to make it easier for people who want to reduce the carbon in the environment (to combat climate change) with those on the ground floor who are making the change happen (like people who plant trees for example).
Marcus explained that traditionally, if you’d like to buy a carbon credit (to help offset your carbon emissions) you have to either go to a broker (who might not take you seriously unless you want to buy $100K worth of credits) or you go to a retailer (who can make it more affordable, but come with issues of transparency and trust).
KlimaDAO solves these issues by making it more accessible and transparent to buy carbon credits, and the results is that in only 2 years, they’ve already helped remove over 18 metric tons of carbon from the environment, which is 4% of the overall carbon credits available. That’s crazy!
This was a really exciting conversation. As someone who’s not totally woke to the nuances of climate change, I was so engaged with how KlimaDAO is tackling this problem and also the insane traction they’ve had with their technology.
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Quorum Partners:
This show is brought to you by BanklessDAO — a decentralized organization focused on helping you achieve financial freedom through education, media, and culture.
🏴 BanklessDAO: https://www.bankless.community/

#038 - Welcome to another episode of Quorum, where we believe that contributing to a DAO is the best way to find engaging and rewarding work in the new Web3 economy. 
In today’s show, Sam and I were interviewed by Droste who is the host of Bankless DAO’s Making Bank Podcast.
You’ll discover: the pros and cons with the lack of gatekeepers in DAOs, how DAOs allow for more serendipity than traditional work, playing positive sum games instead of zero sum games, and, the power of cohort based learning
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Resources:
🎙️ Brandon Nolte: https://twitter.com/brandoncnolte
🎙️ Sam Marin: https://twitter.com/samanthajmarin
🎧 Quorum Podcast: https://podcast.quorummedia.xyz/
🗞️ Quorum Newsletter: https://www.quorummedia.xyz/
🤝 Quorum Twitter: https://twitter.com/quorummedia_xyz
🎙️ Droste: https://twitter.com/EffectDrost
🏴 Making Bank: https://twitter.com/makingbankpod
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More about this episode:
Droste was one of the first people that I met in Bankless DAO within the Podcast hatchery (Bankless DAO’s podcast accelerator). He and several of the other amazing people at Bankless DAO really welcomed me when I was still learning what DAOs were all about.
So it was fun to circle back about a year later and discuss what's happened for everyone, and if you work in Web3, you know a lot can happen in a year. 
On this podcast, we talk about how Sam and I got into Web3 and Bankless DAO. We discuss the genesis story for Quorum, and how we collaborated on our podcast mini series (the DAO Contributor Toolkit). We also share why we became a metalabel and our plans to expand it beyond the two of us.
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Quorum Partners:
This show is brought to you by BanklessDAO — a decentralized organization focused on helping you achieve financial freedom through education, media, and culture.
🏴 BanklessDAO: https://www.bankless.community/

#038 - Welcome to another episode of Quorum, where we believe that contributing to a DAO is the best way to find engaging and rewarding work in the new Web3 economy. 
In today’s show, Sam and I spoke with Yancey, Cofounder of Metalabel and former Cofounder of Kickstarter. Metalabel is an organization that is building tools and resources to help you be more collaborative with your creative pursuits. 
Today’s episode was really a deep dive into the modern creative process. How technology has incentivized us to compete, and alternative paths we can choose as creators to avoid loneliness, have a greater cultural impact on the world, and have more fun while doing it.
You’ll discover: how to “graduate” from the creator economy, Metalabels vs DAOs, the merits of open vs gated content, and why Yancey believes that creativity is not democratic, and much more.
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Resources:
🎙️ Brandon Nolte: https://twitter.com/brandoncnolte
🎧 Quorum Podcast: https://podcast.quorummedia.xyz/
🗞️ Quorum Newsletter: https://www.quorummedia.xyz/
🤝 Quorum Twitter: https://twitter.com/quorummedia_xyz
🎙️ Yancey Strickler: https://twitter.com/ystrickler
💿 Metalabel: https://twitter.com/Metalabel_xyz
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More about this episode:
If you’ve been in the game of creating content for any of these big platforms like twitter, youtube, google search, etc, I’m sure you’ve felt the rat race that content marketing can become. Sometimes it just feels like you can’t ever stop making content. You just need to keep making more and more in order to stay relevant, and that kind of sucks the fun out of it.
These platforms have forced us to compete against each other for the attention of searchers. On one hand it’s enabled some amazing content and creators to rise to the top, but on the other hand it’s also led to many creators getting burnt out and quitting the content game altogether.
In this episode, Yancey shares alternative ways of organizing yourself as a creator that make content (and other creative passions) more fun. 
Yancey and his team at Metalabel, believe that there is a better way for us to work, and they are building the tools and resources needed for this change to become a reality. Strap in for a look into what the future of the creator economy might become and how YOU can be a part of the change. 
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Quorum Partners:
This show is brought to you by BanklessDAO — a decentralized organization focused on helping you achieve financial freedom through education, media, and culture.
🏴 BanklessDAO: https://www.bankless.community/

#037 - Welcome to another episode of Quorum, where we believe that contributing to a DAO is the best way to find engaging and rewarding work in the new Web3 economy. 
In today’s show I spoke with Kairon, Contributor at Radar — which (in their words) is the first community owned & powered futures engine, discovering, incubating, & delivering better futures.
You’ll discover: How earning tokens can lead to real income opportunities, tips for becoming a super contributor in Web3, leadership without having to be in the spotlight, how to leave projects and communities graciously, and, a high level look at Radar’s Landmark Report called “A Future In Sync” and Futurethon.
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Resources:
🎙️ Brandon Nolte: https://twitter.com/brandoncnolte
🎧 Quorum Podcast: https://podcast.quorummedia.xyz/
🗞️ Quorum Newsletter: https://www.quorummedia.xyz/
🤝 Quorum Twitter: https://twitter.com/quorummedia_xyz
🚀 Kairon: https://kairon.mirror.xyz/ & https://twitter.com/K41R0N
🔮 Radar: https://twitter.com/radarxyz
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More about this episode:
Kairon is such a kind hearted and giving person. It’s always a pleasure speaking with him because he truly wants to find win-win opportunities for himself and the communities that he participates in.
I wanted to reach out to him to see how his DAO lifestyle had progressed since we last spoke back in early 2021. Previously we talked about his experience at RabbitHole in episode #10 titled “Secrets to Adopting a Web3 Mindset” which I’d highly recommend checking out as well.
If you are curious how some people manage to make a living from contributing to DAOs then this is a great companion episode to that first one I mentioned. Kairon has both the mindset and the strategies to add value to DAO and to make a living in return - and he shares both in this episode.
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Quorum Partners:
This show is brought to you by BanklessDAO — a decentralized organization focused on helping you achieve financial freedom through education, media, and culture.
🏴 BanklessDAO: https://www.bankless.community/