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When I joined Polygon, one of the first things I wrote was this document. It's incredibly important to me, because it's about what's important to me. I share it with every new member who joins my team.
A User's Guide to Working with Mattie
Mattie Fairchild
8,874 posts
Mattie Fairchild
@Scav
Robot witch. Head of DevRel @NewTheoryAI. World models, embodied AI, and robotics, with past lives in crypto, esports and gaming. Prev: @0xPolygon, @Optimism
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2008
- The Epic/Fortnite conspiracy theories are silly. Name one time an accomplished developer made one of the most important games of all time, used it to build their digital store, then stopped making sequels because there is more money to be made running the store and selling hats
- Optimism is sponsoring $25K in bounties for @EthereumDenver hackathoners! Come build stuff. The bounties: Use Optimism's identity primitive to create an attestation tool, app, or visualization Full details: optimism.io/ethdenver Getting started kit: github.com/ethereum-optim…
- Dating in San Francisco is wild because people are generally cool when you tell them you’re trans but when you say you work in crypto, they act like you just placed a jar with a tiny preserved hand on the tablewent to music practice, guy asked what i do “i work in crypto” “….oh…”
- Really excited to share that I'm joining @0xPolygon as Head of Founders Community! The team's combining community, devrel, and grant operations to grow a thriving community of builders that includes dapp devs on @AggLayer, entrepreneurs spinning up new businesses, and established
- If you’re over 30, here is how you can politely decline afters each night during Devconnect. Sunday: I just got in Monday: our big event is tomorrow Tuesday: our big event was today Wednesday: crazy week, I’m going to recharge Thursday: my flight is tomorrow Adjust as needed
- Replying to @petergyang“Here are a bunch of ingredients in my fridge. What are some recipe ideas?” I do this 2-3x per week and I love it. Lots of useful modifier and followup options. Often good, though some disasters. I now just buy whatever groceries look good and figure it out later.
- I’ve worked at six tech companies in my career. There are, right now, more women in leadership positions at Optimism than there were in all the previous five *combined*. And it’s amazing.
- The dream finally happened. Was at an SF house party. Someone asked if I’ve heard of prediction markets.
- I am SO excited to share that I've joined @OPLabsPBC as Head of Developer Relations to grow the developer community for @OptimismFND.
- I am incredibly proud to be in the Ethereum Ecosystem, even if Ethereum only sometimes considers me part of it
- Got off the plane in Denver and a hipster-type dude handed me this very tiny little guy, and somehow he *wasn’t* here for the crypto conference
- We are HIRING. If any of the phrases “build the beating heart of DeFi”, “seeing yields everywhere at the same time”, and “shitpost with purpose” resonate with you, I want to chat. If they ALL resonate, I *really* want to chat. DMs open. jobs.ashbyhq.com/polygon-labs/1…
