Year of the ZABAL - DAY 160
Stop assuming, start asking
Good morning, and happy Tuesday in the Year of the ZABAL.
Day nine, and week two is humming. Yesterday we opened with a fireside with Sopha and a co-created talk with Chris - thank you to everyone who pulled up for both. Today we keep moving.
Fresh up: the week-one fireside with Carlos (Plat0x) is now posted in full, with the transcript. Half working session on the Bonfires rewrite, half vibe-coding masterclass for the builder track - plan-then-goal with a measurable threshold, diagram Bob and Alice before any code, prompt types-first, and documentation-as-code so clean the docs alone could rebuild the app. Watch it here.
Today, 5pm EST: Joseph Goats opens the artist track. Owning your music as an independent artist - releasing your work, keeping your masters and your audience, and turning listeners into a community that pays you directly. RSVP here.
Tomorrow, 7:30pm EST: Will T of Web3 on building KFMEDIA℠ - what he is building, how he is doing it, and the lessons so far. For the rest of this week's speakers, and to RSVP to any of them, the full calendar lives here: https://lu.ma/zao
Miss one? Nothing disappears here. Every session is recorded, transcribed, and kept. Watch them all on the recaps page.
Today's card: Let your life be transformed.
The agreement: Don't Make Assumptions, from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.
"When you stop making assumptions, your word becomes impeccable, and your life is completely transformed. Magic just happens in your life. What you need comes to you easily because spirit moves freely through you."
So much of building runs on quiet assumptions - that you already know what people want, that nobody is interested, that it has to be perfect before anyone sees it. Most of them are wrong, and they cost you weeks. Trade the guess for a question. Ask the user, post the rough version, ship the small thing and watch what happens. The answers are out there waiting, but only if you stop assuming and start asking. The build is the application.
See you tomorrow. Insert Coin.
BetterCallZaal from the ZAO Team
