Ben Evans had the best line this week, in his newsletter: “web3 projects that fail the ‘purity test’ are likely to be fruitful.” That’s today’s inspiration.

This week we cover creator perspectives on TikTok, building 3D assets for games and content, new programming languages, and the usual dash of crypto/blockchain on top.

Identity and interoperability are the two ideas that are most interesting to me in the modern web, especially one where blockchains exist. Let’s just get to the links for this week. Reads Toys, Secrets, and Cycles: Lessons from the 2000s: Chris Dixon on building through downturns. FIDO Alliance UX Guidelines: The FIDO Alliance released UX guidelines for authenticator apps and for sites relying on security keys. “So here are they are, with Star Wars examples”: A very accessible distillation of writing concisely for busy people, written by someone who used to prepare the President’s Daily Brief....

A light list this week becuase of travel: quick hits on the Solana announcements this week at NFT.NYC (the chain we’re starting with at work), some data privacy reads, and then the usual assortment of randomness.

Today’s links lean into the work I’m doing in the day job, a startup focused on Web3 education.