How I went from knowing nothing about crypto to publishing my first book about it, all in less than 6 months.

In April 2020, I was living in France without much plan for the future.

I was just out of school and was lost.

I knew I wanted to work in tech, but how to land a job when you're in concurrence with smart people from Ivy-league schools?

My first move was to quit everything and come to San Francisco. From my European point of view, I needed to be in Silicon Valley to break into tech. With all my savings (which wasn't much), I knew I could pay for my flight and stay there for three months by living cheaply.

During the flight, I read my first essay talking about DAOs, and it changed everything. After that, I quickly fell down the rabbit hole and started consuming content from Global Coin Research, Forefront, and other media in the space. I learned that there's no secret. To become an expert in a specific field, you need to consume as much content as possible and learn from all the freely available resources on the internet.

Starting from there, I knew I really wanted to work in Crypto. I discovered the OnDeck community and applied to their First50 program. It's a program that helps members think thoroughly about the next move in their career and leverage the power of the community to connect them with potential recruiters. I joined their 2nd cohort in May 2021 and started reaching out to leaders in the space, helped by some other fellow in the program and the advice from the workshops we were doing.

In the meantime, I started producing content around Web3 and joined DAOs such as Rarible DAO to have hands-on experience. Indeed, I've quickly realized one of the only ways to get noticed in competitive fields is to put content online and prove your knowledge. Helping projects grow, wiring essays, being active on Twitter are all inevitable steps if you want to break into a specific space. It helps you build your credibility in the space, your network, and your personal brand (which is, in my opinion, your most valuable asset).

With more connections (I had around 250 followers on Twitter back then), and some experience in Web3, I decided to post a tweet sharing I was looking for a job. I got lucky enough to get retweeted from people in the space, and after roughly ten interviews, in July, I decided to accept an offer to work at Coinvise. And it has been one of the best decisions of my life. It gives me the chance to be paid for doing research and creating content.

In my time at Coinvise, I've written many resources and easy guides to help more people understand the potential of Crypto and social Tokens. With the dozens of essays I've written for them, I decided to gather all my work in one place and created a well-organized and easy-to-read book. While it never felt the perfect time to publish this book, I learned that it's best to have the content published than perfect. It needs some self-confidence and courage to publish a book and, more broadly, break into Crypto. No one is an expert, and we're so early that you'll have to pave the way to onboard the next millions of individuals wanting to jump into the Web3 space.

And today, after roughly six months in the crypto space, I'm releasing my first book. "The Social Token Revolution" is a book gathering all you need to know about Social Token and Web3. I wrote this book to be the best way for anyone to start their crypto journey and save months of learning. The book is finally available and couldn't recommend you more to get one and jump into this revolution.

TLDR;

• Tips 1: Consume as much content as you can
• Tips 2: Be part of a community
• Tips 3: Have hands-on experience and produce content
• Tips 4: get self-confidence and courage to publish a book

I hope you enjoyed this article and that it gave you some tips on how, you too, can jump into the crypto space and the social token revolution. If you're curious about Crypto, "The Social Token Revolution" is your perfect port-of-entry, and you'll find many key crypto concepts explained in an easy-to-understand way.

And because IndieHacker is before anything else about community, please share your best tips to break into a specific field in the comments.

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