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newsletter/whats-new-december-2023.md

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 tags:
-  - dwarves
-  - work
-title: What's New in November 2023
+  - newsletter
+  - consulting
+  - performance-review
+  - doty
+title: What's New in December 2023
 date: 2024-01-03
 description: In December, we launched our Consulting Team, released our finding on tech trends, and last but not least, got everyone ready to wrap up 2023.
 authors:
@@ -32,15 +34,15 @@ In December, we launched our Consulting Team, released our finding on tech trend
 - **[[#Join our team]]** - Admin / Ops, BD, Tech Recruiter
 
 
-#### Reporting tech signals
+## Reporting tech signals
 Technologies move fast. We're not ones to get left behind. Every month we watch tech trends closely to depict which ones have high potential, and can be part of our growing tech stack.
 
 This month highlights strong signals on AI gaining mainstream traction, the comeback of WebGPU, Actor Model in computing, Security and ComplianceAsCode, nNFT standards for asset provenance. And programming-language-wise: Rust, Lua Dart.
 
 For the full read, [come here](https://note.d.foundation/labs/market-report-dec-2023/).
 
 
-#### Launching Consulting Team
+## Launching Consulting Team
 
 [Dwarves' Consulting team](https://note.d.foundation/consulting/consulting-who-we-are/) consists of anyone who’s hungry for more than just coding.
 
@@ -50,7 +52,7 @@ For the full read, [come here](https://note.d.foundation/labs/market-report-dec-
 
 ![[Consulting - Who should join us-20231221144422875.webp|500]]
 
-#### Monthly top performers
+## Monthly top performers
 
 Each month we track how productive and valuable each of our team members by using delivery points. For now, the top 5 high-performing members get rewards with $ICY. In Dec, kudos to those peeps who outperformed the rest: Nam Nguyen, Lap Nguyen, Ngoc Thanh, Jim and Hung Vong.
 
@@ -59,26 +61,26 @@ Last month we also shipped quite a number of features, highlighting:
 - Rust game - an inhouse game we're developing for our upcoming summit
 
 
-#### Dwarves of the Year 2023
+## Dwarves of the Year 2023
 
 It's been one of our longest tradition, to tribute and reward team members who made significant impacts to our growth. Dwarves of the Year 2023 is brewing up with various categories and a total rewards of $25k.
 
 ![[whats-new-december-2023-20240103153356468.webp|400]]
 On Jan 13th, we're flying non-Saigon peeps to Saigon so everyone can get together and party their hearts out!
 
 
-#### Performance Review
+## Performance Review
 
 The Dwarves way. We don't just base on our review by performance, but also on everyone's effort to grow in their career.
 
 As our theme for the year is MMA (Mastery, Meaning, Autonomy), we develop a system of metrics to make sure our engineers are not only skilled, but also head toward higher purpose.
 
 
-#### Community
+## Community
 - Top contributors to our Discord server this month brought in a lot of new knowledge. Thank you, and we hope you enjoy your $ICY rewards.
 - Techie's [Tiktok](https://www.tiktok.com/@techiestory.net) reached 16k followers! We're happy to be reaching new people through each story. And you can always let us know whose story you'd want to know, we'll try to make it happen!
 
-#### Join our team
+## Join our team
 We are looking for the following talents to join our team
 - [[executive-assistant|Admin / Ops]] (Fulltime)
 - [[technical-recruiter|Technical Recruiter]] (Fulltime)

newsletter/whats-new-november-2023.md

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 tags:
-  - dwarves
-  - work
   - craftsmanship
   - labs
   - meetups
   - golang
   - salary
+  - newsletter
 title: What's New in November 2023
 date: 2023-12-06
 description: Each month, we release a recap noting all the significant changes in our company and our team. November is our month for meetups and outstanding craftsmanship.
@@ -33,35 +32,35 @@ Last November, we kicked off the Labs team, introduced Salary Advance for the Dw
 - **[[#Join our team]]** - React Native Developer, Admin / Ops
 
 
-#### Launching Labs team
+## Launching Labs team
 
 With Labs team, it's all about researching cool, industry-moving technologies and producing practical use cases using those tech. In our backlog: WASM, Passwordless, Rust, AI, MPC, UI practices, Elixir, Golang.
 
 Head to [November Forward Engineering](https://note.d.foundation/memo/forward-engineering-november-2023/) for more details.
 
 ![[whats-new-november-2023-20231206133445648.webp|600]]
 
-#### Monthly top performers
+## Monthly top performers
 
 Each month we track how productive and valuable each of our team members by using delivery points. For now, the top 5 high-performing members get rewards with $ICY. In Nov, kudos to those peeps who outperformed the rest: **Hai Huynh, Chinh Le, Phat Nguyen, Minh Tran, Ngoc Thanh.**
 
 Last month we also shipped quite a number of features for our clients:  [time-sensitive alarms for a trading platform](http://hedge.foundation), [money transfer with Mochi](http://mochi.gg), live annotation for various content formats, user signup/login flow at kiosks.
 
 Coming next: NFT badges. NFT badges can be staked to earn shares of the company.
 
-#### Salary Advance
+## Salary Advance
 Dwarves' team members now can get an advance of up to 25% of their monthly salary. The payment is made in $ICY and can be redeemed via https://icy.so
 
 This bot command can be used in our Discord server, and anonymously :)
 
 ![[whats-new-november-2023-20231206133455685.webp|500]]
 
-#### Misc
+## Misc
 - Our Discord server is for everyone. We're happy to see ~400 active users last month, and of course, the top ten voices in get 5 $ICY each.
 - More bounties are up for grab: https://note.d.foundation/earn/
 - Techie story are now on [Tiktok](https://www.tiktok.com/@techiestory.net), highlighting 4 stories about life in tech in US & Japan
 
-#### Join our team
+## Join our team
 We are looking for the following talents to join our team
 - React Native Developer (Project-based Contractor)
 - Admin / Ops (Fulltime)

newsletter/whats-new-october-2023.md

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 ---
 tags:
-  - dwarves
-  - work
   - open-source
   - reflection
+  - newsletter
+  - frontend
+  - community
 title: What's New in October 2023
 date: 2023-11-10
 description: Each month, we release a recap noting all the significant changes with our company and our team. October is our month for open-source and reflections.
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ Each month, we release a recap noting all the significant changes in our company
 - [[#Frontend Course 2023]] - Our free FE Course is successfully finished with a fun demo day.
 - [[#Wrapping up Droppii]] - We completed our mission of helping Droppii build up their tech foundation and products.
 
-### State of Dwarves
+## State of Dwarves
 For a tech team like Dwarves, there are only a few things that matter. Coming to the end of the year, we're reflecting and re-enforcing what matters to us.
 - Cross-team transparency: we're bringing more documentation, reports, cross-team meetings so everyone knows what the others are up to.
 - R&D: fueled by innovations, more hands are joining R&D to learn the next best thing in tech and programming.
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ When [Droppii](http://droppii.com/en/) first came to Dwarves, their products wer
 When we came on board as a technical partner, we helped develop the tech foundation, shape up their processes, and also participate in development. After 15 months, we have completed our mission of helping Droppii build & run their own tech team, and shipping 4 different products.
 
 
-### Community Growth
+## Community Growth
 
 - Discord welcomes 2050 members in total. Lots of good stuff on tech being shared at #tech #til #random
 - Top 10 voices contributing to our server get rewarded in ICY