A word used within TalentLayer's community.

“Wow. Did he just invent a new TalentLayerism?”

A rare four-leaf variant of the three-leaf clover plant, known for it's good luck. Quentin has found many of them, since he was a kid. Quentin taught us all the trick to find them: just keep looking for 10 minutes longer than you think you need to. Today, ever member of TalentLayer's crew has their own a 4 leaf clover - traditionally kept in their phone case or wallet.

“People think they don't find 4 leaf clovers because they're rare. Actually, they don't find them because they never look.”

Examples:

We have collected clovers in probably 10+ countries around the world! You can usually find them. It takes between 15 and 20 minutes usually to find the first one. In Portugal, they are slightly more common.

When you get a nice haul of clovers, you have to organize them. You then put them in paper to press them, so they can easily be given to friends. If you find a clover, you must give it to someone. It's unlucky to hoarde clovers.

An example of a pressed clover, temporarily removed from it's normal home in a cell-phone case to show friends. Many people don't belive in 4 leaf clovers until they see them!

Scavenging for things i.e. free food, swag, grants, API credits, etc. Anything that is available for the taking basically. This word was invented by the OG raccoon, Quentin.

“Remember to raccoon some swag at the event!”

Examples:

Here is the food that was 'raccooned' from the ETH Porto 2023 hackathon - you can see we brought home a selection of free coffee pods, fruits, and snacks

Here is a picture of Quentin (with Romain and Daniel from WorkPi in the background) during an evening where we 'raccooned' probably over 10 free pizzas after the hackathon organizers brought out too many. We ate pizzas for the following days, reheated at our apartment.

A cooking competition hosted at various TalentLayer houses that involves participants gathering random ingredients and presenting them in a box to a selected chef. The chef then has to prepare the ingredients. Afterwards, participants give a rating to the meal. If the chef stores below a certain point, they are kicked out of the said TalentLayer house.

“Raph is the new guy so that means it's his turn to be the MysteryBox™ Chef.”

Examples:

Here MysteryBox™ chef Yash prepares tomato for his famous indian-polish fusion MysteryBox™. In the bottom left corner of the image, you can see containers of food that were racconed from the ETH Warsaw hackathon - these were then used as MysteryBox™ ingredients.

Here is an example of a MysteryBox™ ingredient box - you can see various strange items including the notorious 'lady eggs' (pickled preserved eggs in small packages) from an asian supermarket.

Here, a MysteryBox™ chef Mattia presents his final product - peppers stuffed with something questionable, with a side of roasted vegetables

The sacred number of TalentLayer. The day and month we launched our first project on mainnet on - 4/4. The number of leaves on four leaf clover. Dutch Daniel's favorite number.

“I got seat 44 in the airplane today, it must be a sign!”

What you say when something has gone wrong.

“The project is not building. Not optimal.”

What you say when you find a rule that is silly and you refuse to abide by it.

“The club says we can't wear flipflops? Rules shmules. Rules are for fools!”

The competetor to TalentLayer that is better in every way. Run by Omar and Jennifer.

“Damn. We suck at this. If only we were TalentBetter.”

The act of climbing a tree with other TalentLayer guild members.

“Damn that's a fine tree. Let's go treeing?”

Examples:

The worldly manifestation of the power or the number 4

“The 4rce is strong with this one!”

Let's fucking raccoon.

“I hear there's free food. LFR.”

What you say when you want to communicate LFG but more efficiently.

“LFCF!”

A greeting to other members of the TalentLayer community

A 20 sided dice that was mysteriously gifted to Kirsten during ETH Denver 2023. The gifter gave her two rules: 1. you must roll it to make decisions, and 2. you can never roll twice. Since that day, many decisions have been made via the twentagon.

“Hmm. Not sure what to do here. Why don't we roll the twentagon?”

Examples:

One time Kirsten and Romain took a road trip and rolled the twentagon each time an opportunity to turn happened. They ended up at a remote chasm north of San Francisco called Pirate's Cove. Thank you Twentagon!

Kirsten and Owen rolled the twentagon to determine where to drive in the UK one day. They randomly numbered locations on a map, and rolled. The twentagon took them to the region of Stonehenge!

This is the twentagon!

What you say when something happened at exactly the right time, that's so statistically improbable and perfect that the only explanation is... universe shit

“We randomy applied for a grant from the EU last week, and now they want to give us $125K. Universe shit.”

What you say as the customary cheers of TalentLayer's team.

Examples:

Here is a beerwego moment from after our old protocol mainnet launch in lisbon!

The one true Daniel. Our favorite Daniel out of all of our Daniels.

“Which Daniel? Polish Daniel, obviously.”

What Romain says whenever there is an issue.

“We've run out of raclette? There is always a solution.”

What you say when Pranav is being mean to people. It can also be adapted for other individuals, when appropriate

“No, I will not stop kicking you. Fuck you, Pranav.”

What you say when you are a bit drunk and very grateful for everything that is happening.

“Romain accepted my PR. I'm happy.”

What you say when you want someone to stop speaking.

The actors who play Kirsten and Romain in TalentLayer the Movie.

Examples:

JLo is pictured here next to Gerard on the many TalentLayer the Movie posters.

The thing that Kirsten can not describe no matter how hard she tries.

The once-daily questions you ask eachother to get to know eachother better. First started when Kirsten and Romain were deciding to be cofounders!

When you misspell bird as birb, and then you misspell birb again, you finally get Brib. The most well-known pseudonym of our friend Spanish or Vanish.

“Brib is DJing the MysteryBox™ Competition tonight let's fucking go.”

Literally Kirsten's Mom. Admin of the official TalentLayer Mom X account. Known to post thoughtful replies on Dappa Dan's crypto news updates.

“I didn't know TalentLayer Mom is volunteering at ETH Prague this year! Yay!”

Examples:

TalentLayer mom is very supportive of all of us.

TalentLayer mom always asks the right questions.

Shorthand for cofounder.

“CF, YATBCFE! TYFBMCF. LFCF!”

You ask this when you need to make a responsible decision but you don't want to. It means 'What wOuld Romain Do?'

“Brib is trying to get us to do the za za again. WORD??”

When someone (especially Yash) gets very passionate/angry about something.

“You better watch out. Giga Yash is around today...”

Examples:

This photo was taken about 5 minutes before Giga Yash burnt a locking mechanism, temporarily setting smoke off in the ETH Global Brussels hackathon venue.

Giga Yash being very upset at the mall in Bangkok.

Catch phrase of Romain. He always needs to think about it.

Short for sounds like a plan.

“Let's get to work! Slap slap!”

What you say when you can't find the word for what makes this community special, so you just say tribe tribe.

“You know... tribe tribe!”