The Cutting Edge: Banks and Shanghai

A major piece of Djounia the Learn to Scale Intern's goals is to immerse herself in the Wild West of the Metaverse. She's attacked that with the vigor of a motivated intern: she's generated an industry survey, joined the Discord for our VR partner FrameVR, and started organizing 1-1 interviews and focus groups with HR professionals and business leaders (write back if you'd like to contribute!).

As her supervisor and a learning nerd, I like to work out loud and encourage people to share their works-in-progress. Far too often people are afraid to show unfinished work or incomplete information, but sometimes those are the best times to get out from behind your screen and see how you fare against the real world.

I asked Djounia to summarize her experiences so far in learning about the metaverse and that Big-Intern-Energy did not disappoint: she found examples of real-world metaverse applications in business, government, and tech and cited the sources like a journalist.

I was surprised to learn that Shanghai is looking to attract 100 metaverse enterprises through simplified patent processes. And that PwC has an office in Decentraland. And that banks are leading the way into the metaverse.

Hear what else Djounia has learned with her first steps into exploring business use cases for the metaverse.

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A TL;DR from the CRO

But how do you cook bratwursts over a campfire in virtual reality?

-Roman Noodles, Chief Ruff Officer

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It's the end of the sour cherry season. The big tree outside my window that produces an ungodly amount of cherries that are puckeringly wonderful to bake into pies are now depositing rotting cherries everywhere.

We advertised to our neighborhood to come a-picking in an attempt to reduce the murderous scene below the tree. This year the community did a great job on the lower branches, but of course the top of the tree that's 20 feet off the ground remain well-fruited. Even though we bought a cherry picker device, those skyward cherries are oh so tricky to nab.

Now all those tart nuggets are splattering on the ground.

​Cue the Adagio for Strings from Platoon.​

Oh, the humanity,

Dan from Learn to Scale​

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