Taste on Tezos: My Top 20 Collected Artists

Why do I love digital art? Maybe it's because it does so much with so little. I mean little literally here as in the single little files that digital art comes in allowing for internet-scale impact. When combined with blockchain tokenization the little digital art files become universally ownable and verifiable, forever. Pure incorruptible culture available to the whole world in a single click. That's a bright future. At least that's the future I've seen illuminated by the bright moments that...

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Onchain Spaces, Places & Destinations

Smart Contracts are onchain spaces native to blockchains. A space is a location that’s always fundamentally open to human presence and activity, but not intrinsically or necessarily a home to that as such. Places then, by contrast, are locations where folks are doing things. When you go on vacation you go some place. You return to the best places. Places that many return to and desire to go become destinations. Destinations can be physical as well as digital. IG, TikTok, YT, your favorite blo...

American Freedom

There’s something about summer in the states that just feels like freedom. Maybe it’s the warmer weather. Maybe it’s the verdant and flourishing environs. Whatever the reason may be, to me at least, American Freedom peaks during the summer months. This past weekend in particular I was struck with a feeling of total freedom and the immense amount of golden opportunities available to citizens of this great country at any given time. I was so struck with this feeling that I started jotting down ...

Infinite Care & Unbounded Attention

This piece of writing was originally published on Cent back on Dec. 18, 2018 under the title “New Governments & New Communities.” I’m re-publishing it here because the promise of proper crypto social products is again palpable, and I believe the tenets of infinite care & unbounded attention are as pertinent as ever for founders of crypto social products in particular to embody and exhibit.To form a new government requires infinite care and unbounded attention, for if the foundation is badly l...

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All The New Golden Ages

The following piece of writing was originally published Nov. 4 2020 over on my old Cent page reflecting on my then half decade being a part of crypto (3 years as a builder and 2 years digging down into the rabbit hole). Honestly though, this piece feels more relevant now than ever, so I’m re-sharing it and putting it onchain."I saw a vision of us move in the dark; all that we did or dreamed of..." That quote is from The Tower Beyond Tragedy by Robinson Jeffers. What a trip. I've been ref...

At the edge of the dark forest

"Trailheads. As far as the eye can see. And then some more. It was a sight to behold for those early to emerge from the dark forest onto the infinite shore in front of the main streams & internet super highways. What lies inside the dark forest of the internet? Tidal waves of culture & humanity, ready to spring forth, instantly and seemingly all at once, with just a click, clack or tap." After a few days of onchain social posting on Farcaster - or to be specific, Warpcast, my Farcaster fronte...

Attention Space

No one has time for that. Attention is limited. In real life, at least. But digital life is another matter. Multi-tasking in the digital realm isn’t multi-tasking as we have typically known it; it’s more like focusing on multiple different things each in their own way, click by click. Click by click. It’s hard to convey how much more is possible, click by click. But it’s true. Anyone in the crypto space understands this. Making money on the internet with friends is, in my opinion, the best me...

[Thursday Thoughties] Dark Future Bright Now

The future is dark, but it's also bright now. Crypto is full of potential. I’m personally convinced it’s the future, but it’s important to remember how dark it is in the future - it ain’t the bright metaverse of snow crash just yet - so unless you’re up close and personal with it, it really is rather hard to see. Add to that the needless complication, amongst other things, that Coopahtroopa mentions in his latest article The World Hates Crypto and it’s easy to understand why so many folk...

[Thursday Thoughties] Same Same But Right

The emergence of a trendy, new sector in the digital space is often followed by an explosion of same same but different products or services. Thank you concentrated innovation at the speed of light on money steroids. Think about all the early attempts at internet search. A lot of semi-successful names like Netscape and Yahoo come to mind, but ultimately Google with their focus on an uncluttered UI, speed, and accuracy won that early battle. There were several attempts at e-commerce early on a...