Nostr for Linkedin: is it possible?
Nostr is an open communication protocol. Linkedin is a closed system to share your career history.
People should own their data.
How could Nostr help people show their skills to the world?
I guess we could use Nostr to show our resume. To show about projects we worked on. But we need to be able to only show certain people we want our data.
If you are a potential customer I should be able to give you access to some of my projects I worked on.
Then you would ask if those projects were real. I should be able to show you proof of work. Maybe other Nostr users that can prove that I did work for them. They signed a message stating that I did the work well.
Then you need proof of my certifications. If I say I studied at this university you need proof of work from me that I got that degree.
But Nostr cannot be just a copy of Linkedin. It should be different. It should add more.
How different should it be?
I stopped logging into my Linkedin. Because Linkedin has become just like Facebook. People posting stuff all day that are not related to their careers.
I stopped all notifications. People posting videos just to get attention and more traffic and more followers don’t interest me.
So I don’t want more spammy posts to attract my attention. To stay on the system.
I like the courses on Linkedin. There is content and I can learn. So if I could join some “course spaces” on Nostr, where I can learn about a specific topic I would pay SATS. I would join.
I like some of the groups on Linkedin. If Nostr gave me some groups to join I would join. But I do not want people to spam me in groups. So if you want to spamm me with a lot of clickbait so I enter your funnel you should pay me SATS. Just pay me to consume your content and I will give you my attention.
My attention is not free. I have limited time. I got a box of 233.600 hours. Limited time. So you have to pay if you want some of my attention.
As a business owner I’m looking for leads. I can’t deny it. So if there is a way to get a list of qualified leads I would buy it. Imagine I could meet 100 top CEOs of that need an online project management tool I’m promoting. And I could send them a video of me showing how I could help them.
I would pay for that. To do that now on Linkedin you have to buy an extra subscription for Linkedin. And those 100 CEOs that you can market did not ask for that.
So having a list of people who have identified themselves that they want certain content - e.g. online project management services - is great. How could that be implemented in Nostr? What about: if you want to send me some info about online project management services YOU pay me some SATS???
So if you want to BUY my attention YOU pay me sats. If it is a short video of 5 min, my price is 1000 sats. If it is a video of 25 minutes my price is 5000 sats. You now need a marketing budget in SATS to market me.
Would that work? Would a seller’s market for attention (we all sell attention) - eg our 233.600 hours - work?
Btw: how I calculated the hours is just by multiplying 365 by 16 (the effective number of hours awake per day) and the number of years I expect/hope to live. It could be less.
So because we have Lightning working on Nostr, we could put a price on attention and monetize our attention.
Going more in detail about how it would work:
1. You choose a list of topics you want to be pitched about
2. You choose your price per minute of your attention in SATS
3. You post your prices on top of your profile
4. People pay the SATS and send your the info
5. The moment you consume the content you start earning sats.
6. You might have to prove you have a certain amount of SATS to buy some services. E.g. my price per minute for my attention on project management services is 1000 SATS but if you get my attention and I like your stuff in your funnel now I have 10.000 SATS I want to spend on online project management services.
7. So there is a transparant market of services and maybe goods I want to buy and I have my attention price per minute fir all goods and services I want to consume.
I think this would work.
You pay for information. You pay for people’s attention. And you get rewarded in SATS when people buy.
Everybody gets paid. You get paid for what you contribute.
Now let me ask you this:
Would you put your content, on an open platform like that? Would you put your attention price in SATS on a platform like that? Would you want to get paid for your attention on a platform like that?
Let me know your content.
And if you know any Nostr developer that can tell me if it is possible to create this let me know.
Thanks for your attention.
Where can I send the SATS to?