• Challenging R&D tasks (some were never solved before)
  • Direct impact, full ownership & responsibility
  • Add meaningful value
  • See results of your work
  • Good case for your portfolio, CV, reputation, personal brand
  • Opportunity to work remotely with various contributors of CTRL on real-life tasks in safe “sandbox playground”:
----- Experiment
----- Make mistakes
----- “Battle-test” who to cooperate with in long-term
----- Find cofounders / employees / employers among contributors
----- Build relationships & grow “social capital”

  • Become open-source contributor
  • Flexible schedule & workload
  • “Inner” interest / motivation / excitement about selected tasks - key criteria
  • Cash is not N1 priority for current contributors & probably for new ones who fit well
  • Most contributors in CTRL have main jobs & are ready to volunteer with zero cash rewards
  • If cash is a priority for a contributor - compensation is agreed after trial period
  • Contributors who select core tasks, deliver in time & need cash - get pre-agreed compensation from grant budget
  • Compensation is lower than market salaries: open-source grants are small, scope of work is big
  • Cash from grants is distributed in lean way after the end of each project according to pre-agreed conditions & actual results delivered individually
  • Check FAQ for more details about compensation & distribution of grant cash
  • Bootcamps & popup villages (Ex: Invisible Garden 2025), hacker houses, conferences (Ex.: Devconnect 2025), etc.
  • {tip} Event admins can cover various expenses for open-source contributors: accommodation, event ticket, flights, meals
  • {tip} Ask event admins for scholarship / discount in advance in a smart way even if financial support options were not announced
  • This banking card can be attached to your crypto wallets
  • Spend crypto via debit card: anywhere online & offline, instantly, seamlessly, easily, without going to exchanges
  • Plastic card is ordered remotely, delivered to you, managed via mob app
  • June 2025. Hacker-house (coliving + coworking) organized by CTRL during ETHBelgrade
  • Build habits via tiny steps with science-based assistant
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  • 81% of users recommend this course to their friends
  • Benefits:
- Fall asleep easier & faster
- Get more deep sleep
- Wake up easier in the morning
- Feel better after waking up
- Become more productive & energetic during the day

  • CTRL covers 80% of the course price
  • Covers most countries globally
  • {in progress}

{Immanuel Kant} “Smth to do, smb to love, smth to hope for” - to have a good life

{Mahatma Gandhi} “Happiness is when what you think, say and do are in harmony”

{Naval} “Accept” - mantra word I repeat to myself most frequently”

{Theodore Roosevelt} “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are”

{Bruce Lee} “Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity”

{Nassim Taleb} “If smth is boring, avoid it, because your biology is the best nonsense detector; use it to navigate your life”

{René Descartes} “Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it”

{Rumi} “As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears”

{Napoleon Hill} “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way”

{Beverly Sills} “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going”

{Woody Allen} “80 percent of success is showing up”

{R.L. Stevenson} “Judge each day by the seeds you’ve planted, not by the harvest you reap”

{Warren Buffet} “I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire”

{Michael Moritz} “Follow your instinct” - my N1 mantra in life”

{Ben Franklin} “Perform with courage what’s necessary, no exceptions”

{Warren Buffet} “The fastest way to do the things you think can not be done, is to hang around people already doing them. Choose your environment very, very seriously & wisely”

{Ray Dalio} “Go to pain & discomfort rather than avoid them”

{Peter Thiel} “Aim to work together with people who you want to have life-long relationships. Otherwise you are poorly investing your time - N1 valuable asset”

{Ray Dalio} “The key is to fail, learn & improve quickly. The faster you adapt - the better”

{Ray Dalio} “Become an imperfectionist. Perfectionists spend too much time on little differences at the expense of the important things”

{Dalai Lama} “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful luck”

{Jordan Peterson} “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today”

{Martin L. King} “You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step”

{Lee Kuan Yew} “Determination creates a huge internal drive & focus. People feel if you are determined or not”

{Doris Lessing} “Whatever you're meant to do - try to do it now. The conditions are always impossible”

“One step at a time” - mantra from Jeff Bezos

{Charlie Munger’s principles} “Preparation. Discipline. Patience. Decisiveness”

{Charlie Munger} “Face your big troubles. Do not sweep them under the rug”

{Esther Duflor} “Spend more time "in the field”. It’s only through this exposure you can learn how wrong most of your intuitions & preconceptions are”

{Paulo Coelho} “Path of wisdom means taking risks & not being afraid to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat & despair - tools used to show us the way”

{Charlie Munger} “To get what you want - deserve it”

“Environment always trumps your intentions & power of will”