This work was done with soft pastels on brown paper during a summer art class when I was about 10. It was the first piece of art that I ever really worked hard on. It currently hangs outside my bedroom.
Today was good. I got all of my usual work done early. My stepmom made a surprise quiche and a fresh salad, which was awesome. Then I had a productive meeting about Rstory at the coffee shop with 
I know what you're thinking. Those don't really look like business cards. But I live in Minneapolis, where DIY everything is always trending, so the homemade rubber stamp and India ink on cardstock will suit my purposes just fine. About half of the cards turned out okay, while the rest were illegible. I'll probably only end up giving a couple away each week, so no worries.
In the past, I've gone to great lengths to have nice business cards on hand. But since everybody got cell phones those little pieces of paper have seemed increasingly unnecessary. Any important information can simply be photographed by most people. I don't carry a phone most of the time myself. But I do carry a pen and paper, and would much rather write down a url than accept someone's business card.
There's something I like about using DIY cards for a crypto project. It's quaint amidst sophistication. And as Rstory grows, it'll make a good story. First I bought Rstory for one dollar from the company I used to work for. Then I needed cards so I carved a rubber stamp and made some. Whatever the next thing is, it should be just as good. And maybe it will come from someone else.
The meeting today got me thinking more about a future incarnation of the Rstory website. This site would have public content, but it would also have content only available to Rstory holders. No tokens would move, but possessing a tude would grant permission to access special content. The nature of this content has not yet been determined. Some would likely pertain to the Rstory Gratitude Network itself. But digital products created by the community could also be shared with the community in this way.
I already permit Rstory holders to read my books for free. Books. Music. All kinds of art. As far as I know, no one else is using crypto token possession to gate access to digital media products. But as the network grows, an Rstory commons might well develop. I'm wondering what I need to do now to lay the right groundwork for that.
Sure, I made a bunch of social media accounts and can moderate these effectively myself to a point. But if thousands of people suddenly show up in the Telegram group I'll be swamped. And getting from there to a successful centralized website may prove challenging. These are problems I look forward to having. Right now, Rstory only has about a dozen followers.
There's a tik tok influencer that I'm thinking of paying to do an Rstory promo bit. Is that how people do it these days? It seems worth a try. Maybe I'll offer a dollar per second for a one minute video. The big question is whether this influencer should talk up Rstory or just make fun of me while getting rstory.io stuck in viewers' heads. I'm inclined toward the latter because videos making fun of stuff seem popular.
