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Kagami the Head Librarian on Curating Community Knowledge. Exploring Crypto Coven Community | Will, Lee, & Andrew Learn Web3 #74
Episode Summary
Kagami is Crypto Coven’s Head Librarian, who helped build out the Crypto Coven community resource project. We talk about what inspired Kagami to get involved with and construct Crypto Coven’s unique and comprehensive library.
Episode Notes
Continuing our series of exploration of Crypto Coven’s extraordinary community, we bring on Kagami, Crypto Coven Head Librarian.
In this episode, Kagami dishes on how Crypo Coven’s exceptional creative lore and unique community kickstarted his journey into Web3. We learn how Kagami initiated and volunteered to craft Crypto Coven’s open source informational library, how he sees the library evolving as an intellectual hub, and how he would choose between bread, rice, and noodles.
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Episode notes and links:
- How Kagami initially got involved with CryptoCoven
- What is the Library? What is the role and responsibility of the Head Librarian?
- What does a day in the life of the Head Librarian look like?
- How Kagami’s own pain points in web3 onboarding inspired him to help create and build out the Library
- How Kagami’s experience in content creation helped him in crafting the Library
- The most common question that is asked - “Where is the library??”
- What are things that people can learn?
- Web3, NFT’s, Wallet security, Discord security
- What differentiates good onboarding?
- Accessibility for all levels of knowledge of experience
- Classification via tagging
- “Choosing your own adventure”
- How did they recruit over 50 Librarians?
- Weekly summarizing tweets that recap everything that has happened each week
- New projects that have since spawned from the Library/Librarians
- Librarian Talks - how the Libarians built out an amazing series of fireside chats
- Engaging chats hosted on Discord with Nyx, Penguin Wizard, and more
- Web3 job postings and opportunity sharing
- What advice Kagami would give someone looking to set up a library
- Setting the right foundation by defining initial principles and values up front
- How to facilitate genuine conversations within the community and create the confidence to start building - organic creation conversations since web3 folks are already creators
- Staying true to community values, and attracting new members that buy into the ethos
- What is a chaos circle? When is the next chaos circle?
- When a conversation becomes chaotic..
- Kagami answers “If you have to give up one thing for the rest of your life, would it be rice, bread, or noodles?
- Does Kagami identify more with being a Mage or an Occultist?
- Head librarian during the day
- Occultist at night
- How CovenCats became a ecosystem inspired project
- CryptoCoven as a talent and idea incubator and accelerator
- The diversity of talent and expertise within the Crypto Coven community
- Kagami’s thoughts around non-invasive anonymity and pseudonymity online
- Respecting people’s privacy vs credibility and accountability
- What is the future of the Library as an intellectual hub?
- Helping and supporting new ideas and initiatives that the community are interested in
- How strong community culture and rules and regulation become self-perpetuating
- The characteristics of the broader Web3 community that make it so unique
- What resources Kagami utilize to learn about and engage with Web3
- Podcasts such as Bankless and WLD Show!
- Twitter, Discord and following interesting projects
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