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Posted on Sep 01, 2021Read on Mirror.xyz

Cabin DAO Residency Cohort 3 Applications — Final Voting

Here are the incredible applicants for Cohort 3 of the CabinDAO Residency.If you are a member of CabinDAO, please head to Snapshot to cast your votes by Friday, September 3 at 12pm CT.

To streamline voting for Cohort 3, we used a two-step process:

  1. Straw poll: All applications were posted to our token-gated discord server. Any DAO member could add a 👍 to any application to show initial support.
  2. Final voting: All applications with at least 1 👍 made it to the final voting round. These applicants are shown below and are available for votes in Snapshot here. The top four winners will be offered a residency in Cohort 3.

@_streamerd

https://twitter.com/_streamerd/status/1432836385828966402?s=21

@shei_p

https://twitter.com/shei_p/status/1432536032210194432

@roxinekee_

Hey folks!

I’m usually a fan of Twitter threads, but I’m currently on a family trip to the Yukon and want to stay off social media as much as I can.

With that aside, hi! I’m Roxine.

I've been writing online and have had some form of newsletter since 2014.

I write a newsletter for thoughtful people. This is a weekly reflection essay, usually 800-1500 words (this used to be a curation newsletter – it's evolved over time) where I open source my self-reinvention.

I also have a blog where I write about what it means to live a considered life and how to do it.

Although I’ve been writing online for 7 years, I’ve always done it on the side or for others, as a content marketer. I’d never had the space or resources to really give my online writing undivided attention — and a real shot.

Until now.

In the first week of July 2021, I was suddenly let go from my job. (I wrote about the experience in my newsletter.)

It hurt a lot. But it also got my excited: I realized that now is the perfect time to give my writing a shot.

I’ll be returning to Write of Passage’s 7th Cohort after being an alumni mentor in Cohort 6. WoP7 will run from Sept 8th - Oct 13th.

In the month of the residency, I plan on publishing my weekly newsletter along with the 4 (or 5?) essays from Write of Passage.

In addition, I have an essay on how being autotelic is the cure for languishing that I have been procrastinating on. I’d like to publish that as well.

The residency couldn’t have come at a better time.

Aside from having the dedicated time for writing my essays, I’m hoping this residency will help me figure out what’s really keeping me from being more prolific writer.

Am I just using my career or family situation as an excuse to procrastinate on my writing?

Or do I really need my own place to grow into the creative I know I can be?

The Creator Cabin Residency will either put me on a path to make a living writing full-time, or help me realize that I enjoy a life of writing but want to keep it separate from writing for a living.

I think doing WoP + Creator Cabins Residency will be a killer combination. 😉

Either way, I’m excited for the chance to give myself this opportunity to try making a childhood dream come true.

@uxceo

https://twitter.com/uxceo/status/1432519348351082508

@KellyClark2021

https://twitter.com/kellyclark2021/status/1432368509783183361?s=21

@dela3499

https://twitter.com/dela3499/status/1432362893023055875?s=21

@etiennefd

https://twitter.com/etiennefd/status/1432081736171667459?s=21

Sarmad Ahmad (@greydient_music)

Hi, I'm Sarmad, but I go by greydient when it comes to my music. I'm a singer who became a producer out of necessity so that I could have music to sing on. I've always heard a voice in my head telling me to sing melodies over a piece of music and it took me 25 years of my life to finally listen to it and fully immerse myself in music making. I'm now 28 and for the first time in my life, I have made space for music only. I've been slowly working away to release my first set of original songs as part of an EP this year.

Recently, I got exposed to Songcamp and the world of Web 3. I had a faint idea of Crypto and Web3 but participating in Songcamp has completely changed my view on this space and I'm extremely interested how I can live life as an artist only. I want to use the space and time CabinDAO is providing, to co-create a piece of music that has a visual or web3 element baked into from the start. Not a song that later gets a visual, or a song that needs to be turned into something web3, but a song that has the intention of utilizing web3 tools to be a new creation.

I'm not really sure what that looks like yet, and I've only seen a few projects that seem to focus on music first (The Song that owns itself, Songcamp). I'd like to explore what a musician can do when teaming up with other creatives to create something new that has music at its core for Web3.

My goal during the month-long stay would be to create a song or piece of music alongside other CabinDAO participants or with the help of other Web3 folks. Ideally the end result isn't as simple as an audiovisual NFT.

Links to my content:

Akshaj Jois

Currently studying biomedical engineering in Austin but looking to dropout to build something the regions of dao, biotech, decentralized manufacturing + smart contracts. Searching for a community of builders and Creator Cabin would be a life-time opportunity.

Nathan Grant

As of right now I'm creating a social media platform called Sympocia. Before working on Sympocia full-time, I was actually a software engineer at two companies. A month at the creators cabin would allow me to finish the features that I have lined up for Sympocia and finally allow me to complete it in time for my second launch for my platform. Additionally, I'm currently looking for funding so hopefully I will be able to secure funding for my platform. In conclusion, when I'm finished with this residency, I should have a much more established platform and hopefully some funding of some sort.

Link to my personal website: http://www.sympocia.com