Hey there!
We're back with our 4th edition of our weekly digest, highlighting a few hand-selected great pieces of writing over the past month or so.
Check them out below & let us know which was your favorite!
Mac Budkowski outlines how to create a breakthrough web3 social app, including the need to avoid cloning web2 models and instead focusing on first principles, understanding user needs, and exploring unique features and interactions. Through that approach, we may see platforms emerge that connect people in new and meaningful ways, leveraging the decentralized nature of web3.
Ryan Yi and Michael Atassi (from Coinbase Ventures) dive into all things Layer 3s. L3s are emerging as customizable, cost-effective application chains that settle on Layer 2s, offering developers isolated environments with lower fees and more experimental opportunities. Both writers explore the value propositions of L3s, differences from L2s, and potential to revolutionize the onchain ecosystem by providing scalable, high-throughput solutions.
Bethany Crystal covers how AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) have helped her writing process, identifying specific problems and how ChatGPT helps solve them. While Bethany doesn't use AI to write her posts, these tools help her overcome writer’s block by simplifying ideas, creating transitions, and generating titles, ultimately making writing less daunting and more enjoyable.
Josh Cornelius is back with another edition of his weekly reflection on projects and products that caught his attention:
The Party team launched a creator tool for onchain media with built-in liquidity and perpetual fees.
Etherscan introduced a consumer-friendly block explorer.
PER.MA aims to bridge analog photography and digital ownership with NFTs.
And more — check out the full post for all Josh's thoughts.
Thumbs Up brings us a detailed deep dive on Julian Assange, cypherpunk history, and antifragile technologies.
We owe so much to the OG cypherpunks. They've pushed back on the state and capital's relentless thirst for power, and they've protected countless people from abuse as a result. It's no wonder then, that they are made villains (or at best martyrs) for their cause.
From Alex Van de Sande:
Anything that has ever existed can be plotted on a chart, a single image that tells the story of the Big Bang, how space relates to time and energy, a poster-sized document about how quarks become protons, how stars become black holes, how asteroids become planets, and even why hippopotamus can’t float. It’s a whole physics lecture on a single page.
Check out the full post as Alex walks through each step in detail.
That's all we have this week — what did you think of these recommendations? What great writing did we miss?
Let us know what you think!
See you next week,
Paragraph team
