My guest today is Avery Bartlett (https://twitter.com/avedarave_), who handles short-form videos for socials at Avalanche aka AvaLabs (https://twitter.com/avalabsofficial). Avery has accumulated over 30m views across all social channels and has grown an account with over 100k followers. Avery has a unique background, working as a software engineer at The Home Depot after an illustrious running career where he was 3x State Champ in Florida, 5x All-American at Georgia Tech and a professional runner. If you want to learn how to reinvent yourself to be the best in whatever you do, you will love this episode. 

We Discuss:

Avery’s first attempt at being marketable because it boosted his ability to go pro as a runner

Identifying early social media when demand exceeds supply - Tik Tok in 2019

Athlete identity crisis, what happens after sports?

• Be grateful for what you had
• Go back to freshman year and climb a new mountain

Mental Model from Computer Science - Randomized Hill-climbing Algo

How do you get over your fear of failure?

• Spoiler Alert you have to fail a lot
• Prioritizing process over result
• Removing emotions from results
• Experiential learning, learning how to fail

Key to Web3 Content

• Be cool
• Be fun
• Be simplistic
• Be iterative

Avalanche and the Blockchain Trilemma

• Decentralization and Scalability - Subnets, the real difference maker
• Scalability and Speed - gossip consensus 

What is the future of the blockchain?

• 40% of all transactions on chain
• Currently we are around 1%

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