Welcome to Web 3 with A6 and Z, a show about the next internet from the team at A6 and

Z.

That includes me, your host Sonel.

This show is for anyone, whether developer,

artist, community leader, or other builder,

seeking to understand and go deeper

on all things crypto and web 3.

You can catch episodes 1 through 3 in which we cover everything from the methods to the madness

when it comes to thinking about the markets and the longer arc of innovation to the foundations

and deeper meanings and arcs of blockchains, crypto, and web 3 to specifics

on auction design and mechanism design for web 3 and beyond. But this episode is a special bonus holiday

episode to tide us over until we resume with our regular programming after a brief holiday

vacation. It's based on a fun hallway style riff we did linking to seemingly

unrelated things, puzzle design and crypto.

And beyond the surface analogies and comparisons discussed in here will go deeper into specific product design and UI best practices in future episodes.

But here are experts riff on all things puzzle design with deep passion as members of the community also

commenting within on themes that generally connect to crypto. We have Scott

Commoners, a six-and-cincto research partner and professor at Harvard Business School,

who specializes in market and incentive design,

but who also wrote Blunberg's puzzle column

for a couple of years,

has designed several puzzle experiences in collaboration with different NFT communities

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