ExI: Creating tools to empower Exponential Individuals Exponential Individuals (ExI) Project was inspired by the best-selling book Exponential Organizations and asked the question: What would an exponential individual look like? What will it take for a person to live an optimized, fulfilling life? Formed as a joint venture between OpenExO and BostonExO and co-led by Ann Boothello, Eric Patel and Kevin Allen, the ExI Project currently has 15 - 20 active core members from around the globe who consistently show up for our Friday virtual collaboration calls. This article and podcast was created to celebrate the one year project anniversary, to inform you of project highlights, AND most importantly a call to action to for others to join the project to accelerate breakthroughs for individuals and contribute to "Making Human Optimization and Self-Awareness the Norm". 01:15 - ExI Project Massively Transformative Purpose (MTP). And, why it is needed now more than ever! 08:20 - How did the ExI Project come to life? Initial conversation → seed funding from the OpenExO DAO → shared purpose-driven collaboration → sub-teams to write a Playbook, develop a Game, design a Sprint. 15:15 - ‘Lack of awareness of what’s possible’ is one of several barriers to self-awareness and human optimization being your norm 19:45 - Call to Action: How you can get involved in the ExI Project Do you want every individual in the world to live an optimized, fulfilling life? Come join the Exponential Individuals (ExI) project! ExI is seeking additional members to join our core team. Our current projects include: The ExI Playbook: a hands-on guide for our intended audience to think abundantly and grow exponentially Wanted: 1. Ghost writer(s). 2. Self-development influencers | contributors. Website: the creation of our first full-feature website Wanted: Design Agency mentor for our student designers Gamification: a Choose Your Own Adventure game is the digital companion to the ExI Playbook and features an interactive coach who helps you learn how to coach yourself Wanted: 1. Coders. 2. Beta participants. 3. Game Agency mentor for our student coders/designers ExI Sprint: inspired by the ExO Sprint our sprint will help individuals to get into an exponential mindset and to start their journey of becoming an Exponential Individual Wanted: 1. Sprint Coaches to help design, deliver and engage participants. 2. Beta participants Participants are compensated in EXOS tokens for their participation during our weekly calls and their contributions to the projects they're involved with. To learn more about the EXOS token you can head over to http://economy.openexo.com. The EXOS token is the token of the ExO Economy. The team is driving the token towards public liquidity which is really exciting! LEARN MORE Visit our Website 2.0 - https://theexponentialindividual.com/ Watch our kickoff presentation (52:00) Watch our 2021 recap presentation during the OpenExO 2022 Community Gathering (2:43 - 5:13) Read our posts in the Exponential Individuals circle on the OpenExO platform CONTACT THE EXI PROJECT TEAM Join us - https://forms.gle/ajmJn8YeqDVJGbDcA Email - exponentialindividuals@gmail.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/expoindividuals LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/exponentialindividuals/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/exponentialindividuals/ Audio podcast - https://economy.openexo.com/nextgen-economy-podcast/ #nextgeneconomy #dreamtank #island17 #openexo #exoeconomy #exos #exostoken #nft #blockchain #tokenomics #defi #metaverse #learnandearn #playandearn #EXOS4thBirthday

Creativity Abounds through Young Minds on International Women’s Day 00:02:53 I am a 16-yr old innovator and entrepreneur with a preexisting NGO to create a sustainable lifestyle for women in India. I am also a huge advocate of IoT intersecting with blockchain to further help sustainable goals. 00:04:05 How did you influence your parents to allow you to travel without them to fly to ETH Denver for a week? It took about a month. 00:06:38 A lot of adults trying to innovate in this space are not native to the technology. How many of you accept help from your Gen Z kids? 100% raised their hands. So why aren’t we asking them to use their technology and creativity to solve for the future? Heidi previously shared that her son Cody felt that online school is completely boring. Students feel cut off from their lifelines of social interactions. Standardization - School system opportunities to come into the future. On the bright side, quarantine inspired teens to start businesses, work into earning via decentralized cryptocurrency and made digital music, art and NFT’s. 00:07:35 What do you see was the opportunity to change the education process? Hackathons provide real world simulations of what is our potential. What is your view of income-producing actions in Crypto, NFTs or smart contracts. 00:12:38 The entire process of staking, minting, investing and royalty funds are not biased. There is not much to lose. Very beginner-friendly. “If this can be accessible to anyone and everyone, we have the potential to revolutionize society. Everyone would have a way to produce income without sacrificing their passions.” ~ Bonisha Maitra   Women in general are under-represented in this space.  The magic of events that brings like minds together provides those breakthrough moments when it all fits and you find yourself at ease and in flow. 00:18:24 The aha moment for Bonisha, described. Why am I holding back? Brains don’t have any gender. Visit NextGen Economy Podcast at http://nextgen-economy.com  

Your avatar on the computer is different than on my mobile. And you happen to say that you're involved in an NFT project. Ebony, can you share a little bit about you. Like I told you before, I'm very curious and experimental and I love to take action. So a friend of mine, she's a UX designer. We were like, let's we want to interact with the space. And we have, there's a lot of skills that go into it, from community building setting up your own economy from the development of the sites, from making the artwork. And so I was like, you know what? I always want to learn how to develop. So I'm going to develop this. You can do the UX. We're gonna find her other friends. She's an artist. We're going to get her to do the arts and we're gonna make our own community. And so I was already having a community before on edgy tech and because it's really important to me to, to I'm taking this initiative, but also bring people with me. So I've been looking into this real estate side of things and ownership and fractionalization and if we're building communities, how can we own things and still be able to move and be lean and flexible? Like a lot of other organization, exponential organizations do, but I'm like, okay, where does the. Royalties and the investments still come in and they've created something for that. They've taken a lot of financial models, not just around royalties and ownership, but they've done a lot of. Regular financial models and now have created them with the blockchain, with NFTs, with ownership involved. And so they had some really cool examples. If you were to make a coffee shop and you needed capital for it, we would all invest into it. But every coffee that was sold, we would get royalty. Or so it goes with the ownership and the fractionalization as well as getting the returns and our generation that we want those returns on everything. We want those investments like already... Video episode at https://youtu.be/V_wnw987mfo  

Island17 is a global online/offline multiplayer mission - based web3 game which is community owned and driven, with youth innovation and a gaming mindset at its core. It’s a solution to what experts in impact investing and systems change and innovation saw missing around systems change & collective impact. Gamification is proven as a systems-changing groundbreaking way to solve complex problems with a new mindset - one case in point is the FOLD-IT case study mentioned in Yu-Kai Chou’s TEDx Talk: gamification to Improve our World. We are utilizing the Octalysis framework integrated with 6 years of programming through Dream Tank, and Yu-Kai Chou is one of our advisors and members of our “Braintrust Jedi Council” and existing founding members of Island17. Problem-solving and funding network for the best ideas to address humanity’s greatest challenges Infrastructure for collective impact groups Self-motivated gamified and proven method by which to bring together minds to collaborate on real-world problems Community owned and driven, with youth innovation at its core.  Using the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development goals within a global online/offline multiplayer mission – based game  Collective rule-making experience-  ex: Instead of cans, could be fountains springing from the ground Datasets from the ground plugged in Local action based on actual datasets Learn & earn Play to earn Infrastructure to motivate people to come together to tackle a big advancement for humanity Have to have the big ideas first We know how to motivate people to take action together   “We have these islands. Each of these islands is like a village. Each of these villages has their own set of “issues” / problems that need to be addressed. These might be real-world problems they’re experiencing. This is a method by which to reach into the people… whether it’s the people of Nepal or our children or battered women. They get to come up with solutions, having either experienced it — e.g. people of Nepal, maybe they have great ways of organising government— you don’t want an organised group of people… there are going to be some topics that governments aren’t going to want to address. Villages on an island. Join a village. Here are the working group. Solutions for a problem.”   Island 17 builds on the backbone and gamifies Dream Tank’s DREAM-DESIGN-LAUNCH hero's journey-based social impact accelerator programming.  Six years of learning and working with youth through Dream Tank yielded 1000s of young social entrepreneurs solving local and global challenges including 3 laws changed, several patent pending sdg-based innovations, and more.  17 stands for the 17th Sustainable Development Goal which is partnerships – as we can’t achieve any significant change in the world without creating the conditions for economically driven, self-motivated collaboration.  We incorporate impact-based tokenization incentives into a blockchain ecosystem to allow players/users to not only design businesses, but find funding for their ideas and solutions as well.  Island 17 will allow us to reach millions of youth worldwide and catapult our collective impact across generations.  More background and context here in this Dream Tank CEO update email.   We are building Island 17 with a Braintrust of cross sector leaders we call “jedi’ in their zone of genius. That includes young people from ages 7 and up, and the young at heart. 

The prevalence of distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic is helping drive staggering growth in the worldwide e-learning market. As of 2020, the e-learning market was at $250 billion, according to market research firm Global Market Insights, and the worldwide e-learning market is expected to surge at a compound annual growth rate of 21 percent through 2027, to hit $1 trillion. [Source: CampusTechnology.com]   OpenExO is a global network of entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants, and investors who are collectively “transforming the world for a better future”. They have their own ExO Economy and utility token, known as EXOS.  And now they are taking advantage of the rapid growth of the e-learning sector with the Academy 3.0, where decentralized learning is converging with decentralized finance.     If you offer learning and training material related to exponential organizations, emerging technologies, decentralized finance or see the potential to offer a ‘micro-course’ to help others get acquainted with your services, this podcast is an introduction to see the Academy 3.0 in action, and an invitation to take the first steps to be an e-instructor on the platform.   Podcast Highlights 01:50- Academy 3.0 Supports Community Members Expand Their Impact   04:45 - Invitation to 1,000+ Instructors, Trainers & Micro-Content Creators  07:43 - Academy 3.0 Business Model 10:20 - Getting Started in Creating Your First Course   Get Rewarded for Learning Do you want to experience an Academy 3.0 course in action? Do you want to learn about and earn utility tokens?  You are invited to take the FREE Learn & Earn Course: A Beginner Guide to the ExO Economy, hosted by Ying Zhou. You’ll be introduced to: The ExO Economy Key concepts of cryptocurrency, blockchain, EXO tokens, EXOs blockchain Transactional tools including online an online wallet, utility of EXOS, sending/receiving tokens, how to get technical support 30-Doubling Challenge - after you take the course, take part in monthly mini challenges and get rewarded with additional tokens     RELATED Academy 3.0 - https://economy.openexo.com/academy/ EXOS Learn &  Earn FREE PROGRAM  Open ExO Community - Learn More  Open ExO Community - Join Now     #NFTs #Metaverse #Web30 #coindesk #tokenly #marketmaker #exos #exoeconomy #exocommunity #exostoken #DADA #exosblockchain #openexo #cryptocurrency #blockchain #DeFi #DAO

To get your feet wet and earn EXOS tokens, visit the ExO Economy at http://economy.openexo.com to play with the latest tools in an earn, learn & invest environment. Create Your Own 30 Day Doubling Challenge to Build Engagement With Your Exponential Community - Interview with Niki Faldemolaei Niki Faldemolaei is an Exponential Entreprenuer working in the ExO Economy to bring more community members into the utility token, value exchange space and growing the organization into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) with the ability to trade in the public exchanges, NFT markets and DeFi. How did you get involved with Exponential Organizations? OpenExO Inc is a Public Benefit Corporation created by Salim Ismail, who was the co-founder and CEO of Singularity University. After teaching people about the mindset of exponential growth and expansion, he wanted an organization that was a bit more walking the talk, training people to actually do it. It’s a powerful incubation space so you can be successful in the emerging exponential world. What sparked the 30-Day Doubling Challenge Idea? That was a moment of brilliance. I came in to help grow engagement in the community through the ExO Economy. So engagement was the mantra. We came up with a list of 40 things and I thought, “Okay, what's the best way to get people to adopt this and actually do the behavior.” Because the token itself is actually three years old, but it's been private. It's a utility token. The community is very functional and transacting with each other anyway. It was really easy to say, “Hey, let's do an advisor call. I'll send you 200 tokens to spend 30 minutes with you.” And it became the way to honor people's time. In the world of breaking glass ceilings and women in business being underpaid or underrepresented, this felt so much better. And I'm so attracted to the fact that decentralization means diversity and inclusion. This organization is so international: 42 languages and 132 countries are represented. How does the doubling challenge work? In the Exponential Organizations training, there is a diagram called the exponential curve that shows the difference between linear and exponential growth. When you talk about linear progress, which is most businesses, it just goes in a straight line. You take 30 steps and you get 30 meters across the room. That’s the old way. That’s how corporations get stagnant. They get too big, bogged down, with hierarchy, governance and decision making. So I said, “We’ve got to do something to prove the curve works.” If you do 30 doublings, that makes that curve go *whoop* (pointing straight up). There’s an inflection point where disruption is going to happen no matter what. So I asked, “What's a metric that's important to us?” There were multiple: Let's grow our social media. Let's grow our membership. Let's have more people show up to events. Let's have people staking in the wallet, and downloading the wallet. Once we had this list, I thought, “We can do a 30 day challenge.” At first it was 30 days, each day was a doubling. And then we did the math and realized you don't get to the knee of the curve until about 24 doublings. I can't engage people's attention for 24 days if they don't see any tokens growing in their balance sheet. And so I recommended 30 doublings at their own pace. People can complete it in a weekend. We gave participants 0.002 tokens on day one of the challenge. 30 doublings later, they receive 10,737 tokens! And when people hit that, they feel like a phenomenal success. We included 20 activities for people to do to complete a doubling. We made it easy. Some of them you can do repetitively and others you can only do once. We included beginner, intermediate and advanced activities so it is inclusive. Now we know that not only is the gamification important, but the automation too. So we can offer roles in the marketplace to help us build this out. Now that people are engaged in the marketplace from their participation in the challenge, they are more actively engaged. People are taking Decentralized Finance seriously. Bitcoin was wobbly for the first few years. Now all of a sudden with the massive success, people are adopting it. It's really important to hang out with people who think forward... futurists, anybody who's actually walking the talk. And that's part of the reason that engagement became the measurable thing for Exponential Organizations. It's about coming back and engaging again, maybe hiring someone with your tokens, making another offer, or building another company. You don't need a nine-to-five job with one company anymore. Every company in the next 10 years is going to be an exponential organization. Otherwise they won't exist. So this is a way to 10 X everything you're doing. #NFTs #Metaverse #Web30 #coindesk #tokenly #marketmaker #exos #exoeconomy #exocommunity #exostoken #DADA #exosblockchain #openexo #cryptocurrency #blockchain #DeFi #DAO

Save billions in public spending AND transform millions of lives to a better future?   You’ve heard this before - the day before something is a breakthrough it is a crazy idea.  And, one person cannot change the world, but the world can change because of one person.   This is where my story of Kieran Macleod begins - he is one person who has a crazy idea that can change the world.  And, if you are passionate about ‘overcoming paralysis’, ‘augmented human performance’, or ‘transforming health care to a better future, I REALLY think you’ll love what Kieran has to say.

Participatory budgeting is first a mindset shift - being open to seeing value & opportunities; balancing a commitment to ‘transformative’ methodologies and while not losing sight of what makes your organization successful; becoming ‘unfixed’ in traditional approaches.

While they are likely to rise in popularity because they are cause-related, smaller tokens need to move towards the ability to convert on exchanges. And, then eventually, they might get enough traction where people and companies will want to take them as a direct payment.

With these characteristics, NFT’s are incredibly versatile and present a whole array of new options for trading and exchanging value... The only real limitation is your own creative imagination.