The Secret of Life, Pooly and a lot of Memes...
PoolTogether Community Interview #33: Allanon
Hello,
Welcome to today’s interview with Allanon. A blockbuster of an interview.
Tell us a bit about yourself. Describe yourself in a few words/facts:
Most people that really know me say that I am one of the most optimistic people that they know. I have always enjoyed laughing and for that I’ve been know as a bit of a class clown. At the same time somewhere along the line I decided I wouldn’t just agree with authority without checking the logic and validity of each statement before deciding, most of which had none.
If someone shows me a business, or a process, or explains a situation they’re having trouble with, my mind automatically seeks and offers solutions. I truly believe I can improve anything, but not because I think I am personally better yet because I know that having an optimistic outlook when problem solving combined with the infinite knowledge of the multiverse, I know the solution already exists and it’s only a matter of looking at it from a new perspective.
How long have you been into crypto?
Excluding Robinhood, and Coinbase, My Ethereum main net birthday is April 27th 2021. Not very long in years, but I am the only person that I know “into crypto” so I’ve spent the last 18 months, listening, learning, watching, tasting, sampling, interacting, and last but certainly not least my all time favorite meme-ing! Seriously though, I will never stop learning or meme-ing.
Do you want to tell us about the main lessons you have learned since then?
I learned more about money, finance, macro economics, fiat, governance, and so much more In the past 18 months compared to the rest of my life because of quote unquote being in crypto. I see this as a digital enlightenment described as a “journey through the teleportal” that I’ve analogously compared using lore from a creative project I started recently… about a normal normi named norma and an always anonymous acknowledged as allanon. allanon & norma have seen each other amongst the portals but have never spoke until…
allanon blurts out “did you hear about this new immutable, self-sovereign, decentralized..” anon continued but norma only hears words words bigger words.. however, when normal normi norma’s brain hears about this new “immutable, self-sovereign, decentralized, open-sourced, ownership-economy, crypto-currency-world of web3” normal norma’s habitual brain shuts down that thought process and replaces it with..
“no, no, nope! never not normal normi norma” as numbness inundates norma’s brain norma’s eyes glaze over and scroll down away from allanon’s attention. 1 click later seemingly magic, norma’s brain goes straight back to receiving the pre-formed habit loop rewards that make norma feel oh-so comfortable & normal.
"ahh, that's much better" normi norma’s brain sighs. “sounds complicated” norma replying to anon, still looking down at this 1 click magic. witnessing norma’s habitual brain take over anon thought... “It’s much too powerful! it’s subconscious, trancelike, it’s .. almighty” knowing this struggle all too well as allanon was once a normal normi like norma, however since anon’s journey through the teleportal, anon arrived at a consensi.
allanon knew in that moment if anon’s replaced this 1 click magic with anon magic throughout the multiverse all of the normal normis like norma can all journey through the teleportal. anon magic: is knowledge that has been passed down through generi yet there is no known origin because there is no text, & no records. anon magic is said to be much more powerful when amplified through 1 billion minds. allanon’s that have endeavored through the teleportal believe we must all journey, together.
anon glossari
normi(s): normie; normal. allanon: all anonymous. generi: Generations. consensi: Consensus. anon magic: unknown. glossari: Glossary.
What was your best crypto moment?
After being "Purple Pilled" being around the Pool Together & PoolyNFT communities.
I started creating a bunch of meme's as previously mentioned, mostly because of @Tjark's motivation.
The Pool Together on Optimism Launch meme Bounty on Dework (Optimis Pool) https://pooltogether.mirror.xyz/NmLlLdEYMjbJn4Mabn8cwvigxOnP93eVhI_Oq_e0vok
I attended 1 "Friends of Pooly Flock Meeting" and listened to all of the Ideas swirling around and after several hours of meditation along with asking what Pooly's last name was on twitter https://twitter.com/tjaaark/status/1549676576895279104?s=20&t=tvRTYf97VjANsaFkyF9kgg (yet again @Tjark)
I created the Pooly meme derivative "PoolyBirbfren" mainly because I love creating meme's but also because I know it's a good idea!
I shared the PoolyBirbfren art and the overall Idea during the most recent "Friends of Pooly Flock Meeting".
My best moment in crypto is right now!
To my complete surprise Leighton attended the meeting & commented on my post saying..
"woah, Did you make that?" *
I humbly replied "Yes, with a little help from @noiamgodzilla"
Leighton typed :fire: Should I tweet it and credit you?would love to share!if you want it out there!from PoolyNFT on Twitter
Of course I agreed! Even though it wasn't 100% complete.
I want to be clear that yes it was my quote unquote idea, but I have asked for help from a GREAT artist @noiamgodzilla because as soon as I saw their PFP submission I started following them on twitter. Which inadvertently allowed me to have the Alpha on their recent derivative "Pooly's Rainy Day Fund" released on the Zora platform. I immediately supported the drop and sought out help from a truly awesome artist!
”Pooly’s Rainy Day Fund”
https://zora.co/collections/0x78c742aD5BFEd997e97D522169fb96512876B1B6
Currently we are working together on a final version to share with the community! Along with a few surprises up our feathers.
The birb, the meme, the fren, PoolyBirbFren is searching the world for Pooly derivative artists.
:shield: Pooly BirbFren is uniting the community to defend defi together. :shield:
What was your best crypto moment?
I have purchased .com’s before crypto and sometimes I just buy domains because of an idea! Once I learned that ENS existed, I purchased a few .eth names, along with a few .crypto etc Unstoppable Domains as well. To this day I’ve even continued with .com’s. It is sufficed to say that I am a domain maxi. Most of the domains I’ve purchased in the past were for event, and Ideas, however I also enjoy partially speculating on domains. Buying a .eth domain now is digital reality, and or having an idea first with a receipt that no one can dispute. Imagine If you could go back through time and know the TRUE origin of all ideas! Thats exciting to me.
My second best crypto moment: I will never forget that day when I start seeing all these tweets, and chatter, “Airdrop” this and “Airdrop” that! My immediate reaction was “thats a scam”. (side note. I’ve woke up a millionaire before from a scam coin displaying in my wallet, so the balance going up to me was just another crypto day) But my skepticism subsided and I went to my wallet on the official claim page, checked it thrice and it said I have x amount of ENS tokens, so I was like awesome! What does that mean? haha - I continued through and read about the distribution and governance and answered the questions to be able claim. This is the moment I felt the POWER of crypto but not because of the dollar value, but because of the decentralized nature of the governance and the retroactive public goods model, I was hooked.
And your biggest fail?
I’ve sent ETH to the ETC “ethereum classic” chain, I’ve bought a doggie coin, I’ve chased a Toadz cc0 NFT project because of a socially hacked Discord (aka pump n dump) which resulted in a rug, and then even minted the “Rugged” derivative of the 1st derivative thinking I could possibly recoup any losses. I’ve spent more on gas than the transaction amount itself, I’ve believed in an NFT project with SO much conviction because I read a “RoadMap” I literally thought I was a genius and yup I got rugged again!
My biggest fail was thinking I could quote unquote “leverage trade” even after all of the following mistakes. I set up 2FA on almost everything using “Google Authenticator” which I don’t personally recommend because I broke my screen and when attempting to fix it caused a tiny fire in my phone resulting in the “black screen of death”. Now before you think to yourself “I could have gotten in” realize that It wasn’t about getting in or not. It was about getting in before 100% liquidation. In order to sign into the NEW google authenticator I was instructed to “Scan” the QR code from the old iphone which I couldn’t do instantly.
So, with NO access to my trades, and being yolo leveraged of course the market tanked. I called my one and only phone guru who’s been in the mobile phone industry for 20+ years. We stood in her kitchen with laptops open, phones on the table, researching, testing, hacking away until 1:00am but with no avail. My options were start over with a new phone or ordering the parts, and repairing each part one by one while hoping the fire didn’t melt the entire board inside phone. (aka important stuff)
I opted to take a new phone and start over because I affectively locked myself out of ALL of my accounts and got nearly 100% liquidated in a day. I will tell you this, MAKE SURE YOU DOUBLE BACK UP YOUR 2FA ACCOUNT CODES & BACK UP THE APP ACCESS CODES. Basically no matter what set up you have, it needs to be backed up and tested.
The value of the lessons learned by taking risks throughout my time in crypto?
How did you find out about PoolTogether?
I remember seeing the Wave emoji on peoples twitter names before I actually deposited anything. Once I understood what was happening I was immediately excited and wanted to learn more. For example I partook in the Pool Together Pool Party Season 1. I was able to claim 5 total out of the 8 NFT’s and it was really fun for me. I even got a Rare Pooly! https://pooltogether.com/pool-party/season1
What made you stick around?
When I saw the lawsuit against PoolTogether and Leighton, along with the opportunity to be proactive I did not hesitate at all. I purchased my PoolyNFT right away and still have it as my Twitter PFP. I also joined up with “The friends of Pooly!” It’s an exciting time right now everyone is working on building something together! I was more inclined to deposit, vote, meme, & partake once I became a part of the PoolyNFT holders, but to be 100% honest, what really sealed the deal for me to stick around was Tjark.
He inspired me to keep creating and paid me so many compliments that literally made my day every single time! As I’ve interacted more and more, I see that “this is the way”. Community is the PoolTogether way and to be welcomed into a community with open wings without judgement is 100% refreshing.
How are you involved in the community? Tell us about it.
Would you recommend PoolTogether to others? How would you describe it to them?
Absolutely, it’s probably the ONLY protocol that I would recommend! I actually just recommended it recently and I described it as a protocol that allows users to deposit into a savings account using stable coins. Then the PoolTogether protocol enables the pooled deposits to earn yield together. The proprietary protocol then enters each depositors amount into a raffle almost like tickets so the initial deposit is pooled to generate a super powered yield which returns prizes to the depositors on a daily basis. You can deposit and withdrawal anytime. aka The No Loss Lottery.
Are you involved in any other projects or communities?
Yes absolutely, in fact way too many! I’ve recently decided I am going to attempt to be involved with a smaller group of project and DAO’s and then occasionally check in on the others. I realized there is no way I can be effective in every single community. I am Beta Testing for FurballsNFT, awesome team who I’ve met IRL and the game and FURverse they are creating is absolutely amazing and underrated 100%. I have contributed to and was selected as One of the winners in the Optimism Meme competition recently, I have Donated using Quadratic Funding to the Pool Together team on Gitcoin and I am starting from the Beginner level learning Solidity using the the CryptoZombies Lesson! https://cryptozombies.io/
Do you have any other thoughts and comments you would like to make?
I’m an autodidact solution ninja prospering in the arbitrage of success & perfection. It pains me to accept mediocracy, especially when it’s clearly avoidable. My current employer is a legacy corporate brand privately owned automotive dealership with layers upon layers of disassociated overarching bureaucracy. That is why I’m actively applying for positions in crypto & web3 as a non technical, however I am also at the very beginning of learning code & smart contracts because I love creating simple automation hacks, so I know for sure I will extremely enjoy actually deploying a protocol.
I am 100% all in because of what I’ve learned in the past 18 months. I know it’s possible to have automated governance, and incentive structures that propel humans to do what we love instead of doing what earns money. I am going to do everything in my power to achieve that goal.
What is your strategy for success in life?
My philosophy or strategy for success in life is summarized in my personal quote.
“Consciousness of perspective leads to enlightenment” How I came to this conclusion: I learned this process from many great books. I asked myself the “who, what, when, where, & why” questions about my current perspective and the people and events from the past that influenced how it was formed.
Looking inward at yourself and taking ownership of EVERYTHING that happened instead of placing blame on external events or people is the most important part of the process. That moment for me was the 1st time I’ve ever felt TRUE freedom.
I realized that nothing outside myself could control my perspective ever again. Everything we are today is a result of our previous thoughts and actions. Which means we can change our future self by changing our thoughts and actions now and over time.
Once you know that you are wearing glasses, then you have the ability to change them. Once you know the brand of those glasses, then you can figure out why you chose them. Glasses = Perspective Consciousness of perspective leads to enlightenment.
My philosophy or strategy for success in money is:
Go into your mind in a quiet place and figure out who you want to be in the future. The moment that picture arrives in your imagination, is the moment the future you exists in reality. Then reverse engineer the steps it will take to get to becoming that version of yourself. Do what you love until you get paid to do it.
I came to this conclusion after reading many great books with similar processes.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People, because it provides a framework for problem solving. Think & Grow Rich, because it’s the greatest book written on self improvement.Breaking the Habit of Being yourself, because Dr. Joe Dispenza is on another level. The 80/20 Principle, because this will show you how predictable we really are. The Infinite Game, because playing any other game is a loosing strategy. The Grand Design, because this book illustrates the unlimited multiverse. Who moved my cheese, because its a fun little story about perspectives
What a fantastic interview, I am sure you will agree. Thank you Allanon for this.
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