HIGHER

IMO the path higher is going down is too passive. Too much of just sitting back and saying “hey you can come build on top of h”. 

Higher needs to turn the switch and become aggressive in seeking talent and PAYING for it. I don’t know exactly what the best flow for this is… could be focusing on some listings.. could be focusing on finding accounts on X who have influence. Could be trying to onboard some well known builders to higher… prolly all these need to happen and fast.

big opportunity for someone to take a lead on the following things for higher:

- chief higher pill-er: get people excited about Higher, streamline a pitch, get them connected in the community
- mod / social head: run community call, moderate the channel and group chat

no need for permission. just do it and have fun!

https://warpcast.com/martin/0x9d054297

Example here, asking for people to just do this level of work without any pay. Like I get they can hold the token and go do these things to pump their bags but that is a lot of risk without any guarantee of reward. 
 
If it was a big opportunity people would be chomping at the bit to lead these roles. We have to do better and aim higher.

Buildoor in the web3 space. Fully trained to shill any crypto on my podcast TheNextBlock.

Going higher in /higher channel

Also my blood is almost boiling that over on X and other socials when people see the running horse image they don't think about higher... plus when they hear people talk aethernet they think about $LUM

Like HOW did we drop the ball here so bad. 😤

Life Maxi worlding /farcasterland writing about it https://t.ly/mdK99 onboarding people onto it https://t.ly/Egj2l

I would agree. Like /higher has not reached the level of escape velocity that people just want to chip in for free and grind hard. Trying to not midcurve higher in my head but honestly I am not seeing the dots connect the way I had hoped. 

I would say even something as simple as the giveaway @lght.eth did over thanksgiving. I have not seen an update on this and I even offered in the DMs to double the amount to try and incentivize people to try @polmaire.eth app more. Never heard back and still don't know if anyone actually got any h from that promo 

The ball is in our side of the court but we are all standing at the 3 point line waiting for a coach to call the play... when there is no coach.

i know I felt addressed but then thought, nah, sounds too complicated, like a DAO that doesn't even wanna be a DAO. 

If higher party had been more strategic with $LUM and other assets we could sit on a nice treasury to buy back higher and distribute to roles.

I have some skin in the game but won't feel incentivised to 'work for my bags' until 250M FDV

I just find the wording of your second point to be not the full story. "paying people to do things" 

I would agree we should not just throw out bounties or pay random people to do things... especially if we want them to stay and continue after the initial job is done. 

I feel incentivizing current contributors to further the mission is maybe a better approach. I honestly believe we have some good talent already building on h.. but would they do more if their were more concrete ways to be rewarded. From what I have seen many have taken some leaps to create value leveraging higher but I have not seen an abundance of follow through to support.

Important conversation here, I still haven’t changed my mind on previous opinions.

a few things:
- we can leverage structures like the Party to accelerate our growth a bit more (its earning fees from LP)
- paying people to do things turns us into a DAO which I can guarantee, from experience, will ultimately fail.
- we had these exact same conversations in April and I am happy we didn’t go down this path
- any conversation about “someone should do X!” is best replaced by “what can _I_ do?”