This is one of the most powerful questions in my coaching practice.

Surely you don't want a world in which C-Corp companies maximise profits at the expense of everything else, including your health.

Do you really believe the best we can come up with is an economic system that is based on a zero-sum game of cut-throat competition? Race to the bottom? Do you really want teenagers or social media influencers feeling they must use Snapchat filters that make them look ‘better’ because everyone else does it, and otherwise they would fade into oblivion?

This is Moloch, the god of bad incentives. Listen to giga-brain Liv Boeree on Moloch & The Beauty Wars for the bad and the ugly if interested.

I love beauty, I am a highly aesthetic person, which is one key reason why I am drawn to ↑ higher. But beauty is way more than that. Philosopher Charles Eisenstein asks what is the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible? What do you actually believe in? Is it this?

I believe in this:

• More altruism, less selfishness

• More collaboration, less competition

• More regeneration, less extraction

This is what aiming higher, together is about.

In Part 3 we explored the Realms of Reality: self, relationships, organizations, humanity, earth and cosmos. As part of my research I discovered something surprising; there seem to be trade-offs between these six realms, like force fields pulling into different directions. They are not necessarily either-or polarities, but rather competing commitments, choices that come with stark consequences the more you move to the end of one spectrum.

Coincidentally, these trade-offs are stacked vertically in my visualisation. There was that magical moment back in March 2024 when I realized how higher-aligned my work might be; the choices below indicate that the top one aims higher e.g. collaboration is ↑ than competition.

This part of the map is still work in progress, schematic, and simplified, but not simpler (Einstein). It resonates with my construction of reality and has been tested with around 100 people in IRL and URL workshops over the last four years. I am very keen to get your feedback, too, especially if you are on Farcaster. Let's dive into these competing commitments one by one.

This conundrum shows that the trade-offs are not either-or, but both-and. Babies are naturally selfish for survival. On the Titanic, most people instinctively put themselves first — life wants to live.

However, as you age, you often need to prioritise others' needs to maintain relationships, whether in personal life or at work. The key question is: are you aware of your choices? I score low on altruism in psychometric tests, but I've learned that giving first and taking later fosters meaningful relationships and feels rewarding. Being altruistic feels ↑ than being selfish.

"If ever I to the moment shall say: Beautiful moment, do not pass away!" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

We want to hold onto beautiful moments, especially shared ones like team off-sites and weddings, even though they soon become memories. Farewells and last rounds at the bar are poignant examples.

Groups resist change because trust takes time to build, and altering the group dynamic disrupts equilibrium. The loss of a team member at work feels significant, as it potentially weakens the group. We fear the unknown more than the known, even if the new member might be better.

Romantic relationships often cling to the familiar, even when toxic. I stayed in a co-dependent marriage for 13 years, despite knowing it was wrong.

Organizations, however, prioritise adaptation over preservation to thrive in changing markets. The COVID-19 supply chain disruptions highlighted this need. In business, survival depends on the ability to adapt quickly.

As an Organisation Development expert, I am so bullish on new org life forms like DAOs, Headless Brands, and Onchain Financialised Networks because they will likely have an edge over traditional org structures.

Since change is the Single Truth (as established in Part 3) I think that over-indexing on adaptation is going ↑

Most companies engage in a PVP (Player versus Player) game, racing to the bottom in labor laws or environmental practices. These are finite games with the sole goal of winning.

Given that humans became apex predators through coordination and collaboration, it's bizarre we compete relentlessly with each other. Moloch! Crypto is a perfect example: instead of replacing outdated institutions, many still play the "my-chain-is-better-than-yours" game.

This mindset often stems from a worldview not yet at the pluralistic stage of development — only 25% of people have reached this stage, according to Ken Wilber. Up to 75% can't see that other perspectives might also be valid. US politics, anyone? Developmental stages aren't about IQ.

What gives me hope is that most people in my Farcaster feed seem to be interested in or even practicing collaboration, aiming to create more infinite games. That said, healthy competition is beneficial in sports and business as it pushes you to aim ↑

The fact that you can read this on your digital screen is because we are an extractive species. Period. That's what sometimes tests my empathy with extreme eco-warrior lefties.

At the same time, we have to regenerate our soils, water, air, bees, pretty much everything in our biosphere to WAGMI. And with that I mean ALL - all species, because without for example the bees most food baskets will collapse pretty quickly. Planet Earth is more or less a self-contained system and once we hit certain tipping points it's game over, at least for us humans. Some creature will surely survive, unless we blow the entire sphere up somehow.

Contrary to popular belief, there is absolutely no evidence that we can create a thriving society on Mars within the next 100+ years, so the 1000x more promising business case is to regenerate nature including ourselves.

I have a lot to say about regeneration and the fallacies of carbon markets, greenwashing and Colonialism 2.0 (yes, you EV driver) but I want to stay focused here. I encourage you to study ReFi OG' like Gregory Landua and the Regen Network, which does regeneration right bc from the ground up. Also, I love my friends at Regens Unite, thanks for green-pilling me.

Since I have been green-pilled, I moved into a forest, have reduced driving a car, consume less, eat local organic food (omnivore, incl. deer/squirrels shot 100 m from our house). As much as I am a Degen, the Regen in me is aiming for a ↑ level of consciousness all the time.

This trade-off is less salient for most people. I started to think about this after certain psychedelic experiences. We experience time linearly - Chronos - where the day has 24 hours and the week 168, and you can't change that. Einstein called it Space Time. Yet the Ancient Greeks also had another concept of time that is infinite - Kairos - the right or critical moment. Joe Dispenza calls it Time-Space and it has indeed no cause-and-effect a la Newtonian Physics but all possible outcomes everywhere and at once.

Why does this matter? If your cosmology is defined by boundaries then you will likely continue to play zero-sum games, which means you will likely remain more selfish than altruistic.

Embracing an infinite universe opens up your mind (and heart) to infinite possibilities. It's a true game changer because you don't have to play by the rules of gravity or mundane 9to5 work life. This worldview (which is a belief) helped me to look forward to my death, seriously. What is going to compost the essence of my stint on this lil rock hurtling through space?

We know a lot about the universe, but that only applies to about 5% of what we think there is. We only only know that dark matter and dark energy must exist, but we can't see it let alone fathom what it's purpose is.

Ultimately, modern physics tell us hardly anything about the nature of the cosmos. That reminds me of consciousness: we know that it exists, but we don't know what exactly it is, and more importantly, how it could possibly emerge from just atoms.

My laymen sense of the world wouldn't be surprised if consciousness IS dark matter for example. At the end of the day no one knows, and we are probably playing on a pretty low level of the Cosmic Game with a fuck ton of potential to go ↑

It does indeed start with your mindset, and the thoughts it utters moment by moment:

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.” ― Lao Tzu

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Hence, the purpose of life simply is to stay alive, and it seems that life likes to create ever higher degrees of complexity more; I am both the sum of the 80 billion bacteria in my gut and the host of my brain, the most complex structure known in the known universe.

Ethereum, the emerging World Computer, might create many orders of magnitude more complexity once we fix the brain-computer interface and let AI connect the dots.

Tangent: What's interesting about Ethereum is not it's degree of decentralisation, but it's roots in Pluralism. Imho Ethereum as a whole (incl. all L2s etc.) operates on a higher level of consciousness than the Bitcoin does (or Solana/Alt-L1s). I say this identifying as both a Bitcoiner AND Etherean.

Ok, so how can we all go ↑ higher today? I invite you to have a second look at the illustration above. How can you turn the dials towards the higher realm, assuming that this on balance would improve the lives in your community?

My stance is that everyone shall do this to their own ability, circumstance, information at hand. No berating others, no unhealthy comparison, just become a better version of yourself by the end of today. Compound your choices by making them more conscious. Yes, the more aware you are of your choices and their (unintended) consequences, the higher you can go.

What condition do you say again you don't like? How might you be complicit in creating them?

Don't be a victim blaming politicians of bankers for the world we live in. Believe in something. Do something. Build something. Co-create magic with your chosen collaborators and notice how that naturally regenerates your soul.

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This is the 5th of six planned articles. Thanks for reading thus far. Part 1-5 are based on my ongoing research and practice based on the Psychedelic Map For Change (very old site, notice the slight embarrassment)

Part 1: Crypto needs to aim for a higher consciousness

Part 2: Level up in the Game of Life

Part 3: Realizing the Realms of Reality

Part 4: Commit to the Cycle of Change

Part 6 – Idea for a higher-aligned and very different Farcaster Client

I hope this will prompt comments, critique, ideas and above all: higher ↑vibrations.

antaur.eth

I don't know, but you must have an intention - and intention is directed attention.

And what might you be doing afterwards as a result of paying attention to my writing?

For sure you will do something if only infinitesimally different. In other words, you will, intentionally or not, integrate having read this article into your emerging future.

Study Change Cycles. I find this one very useful:

Time passes by anyways. How many days have you unintentionally scrolled your social media feed? (unless mindless distraction was the intention). For me, intention has a higher priority than attention: I can proactively guide my attention - rather than experiencing life as happening to me which we explored in Part 2.

My intention for each day is to not get fearful or angry (Complex PTSD), to have as little back pain as possible (long-term recovery process) and to be of service to something greater than myself: my family, my clients, systemic change, the fantastic farcaster flywheel etc. So how do I not get stuck in my rut, or regress to my younger parts that are not capable to be of service?

I define an intervention as an intentional act to get out of my rut, to disrupt the patterns of my auto-pilot. My structured morning routine is a good example for this. Instead of just getting up and start working, or eating, or reacting to the incoming demands of life (or checking my Warpcast feed) I structure the first few hours in a particular way: breathwork, meditation, and on most days also walk in the forest and cold shower in the garden. Why?

Because I am then much more likely to access flow states, more capable to solve problems and stay positive and resilient no matter what the day has in store for me - incl. brutal red candleson the charts. What others might call their day job between 9to5 is simply my integration of a carefully curated sequence of self-care practices before 10am into my daily proceedings of life incl. work after 10am.

Intention-Intervention-Integration is just one variation of a theme. You can see change cycles almost everywhere. If you have a business background you might be familiar with these:

• Build - Measure - Learn (lean start-up)

• Plan - Do - Review (Lean Mgt)

• Observe - Intervene - Interpret (Systemic Consulting)

Politics has cycles, too. 2024 is the year with the most national elections in a century or so, and it basically follows this cycle:

• Campaign (postulating your intentions for being in office)

• Election (voters making an intervention in distribution of power)

• Office Term (integrating your intention - and adapting to emerging realities

I bring in politics with a specific intention: we all know that most if not all politicians are not honest with their intentions. (Quick tangent: the system unfortunately doesn't hold them accountable enough to deliver on their promises. There are hardly any KPIs or OKRs (Objectives, Key Results) that anyone in charge of a country is held accountable against at mid-term review. All they need to do is convince enough people on the next campaign trail to take more pain away than their rivals. This is one reason why our political institutions are not fit for purpose imho).

Back to you and me: how can I be sure that my intentions are pure, honest, and in service of others? Well, this is inextricably linked with my level of consciousness explored in Part 1:

If I am stuck in the egoic state coloured Red where it is all about me, my needs and my advantage, then my intention will direct my attention towards extracting from others. If I am on the path towards the integral state called and coloured Teal, then my intention will most likely be taking into consideration the needs of others, and not just you, but all animals, plants, all life form on our planet, Gaia. What got me out of the egoic state?

I have ten years of experience in using psychedelics with a specific intention: to heal, grow, transform and seeing the bigger picture. A ceremony is usually a biggish intervention in the flow of my life as it can involve weeks of preparation, days of dieting, stopping any work, and if in a group, building the social container when on the land where the ceremony takes place.

You may have heard of the term set & setting. You can take MDMA on a festival to dance your face (and arse) off and descent into a love puddle with fellow ravers...or you can lie down, blindfolded, in silence, and receive agreed prompts by your therapist or sitter to evoke traumatic childhood memories with the intention to process them here-and-now by releasing them somatically where they are stuck in the body. Same medicine, totally different experiences and outcomes.

The latter (outcomes) is particularly influenced by the degree and duration of your integration. The same trip can be life changing or just that, a nice trip. It's really hard to convert altered states into altered traits without meaningful and disciplined integration. Why?

Psychedelics are one of the best technologies known today that get your mind out of its rut. It sends the Default Mode Network out for lunch and allows other parts of the brain to communicate with one another, that this DMN normally prevents. This part of the brain loves the auto-pilot, which basically is your genetic and cultural programming, the imprint. The DMN is also largely where your sense of self lives, hence we speak of the ego-death during psychedelic experiences.

I integrate all the time, psychedelic experiences and any remarkable intervention that I made in my life. The intention of these integration practices is simple and self-perpetuating: to grow every single day so that I will have become the best possible self when I die, whenever that is (had a near death experience in 2013).

The following might sound tedious to some, yet it compounds over long time frames, just like most crypto bags would...;-)

• Daily: I reflect on what has gone well and what I found challenging in the bath before bed

• Weekly: I write down my key learnings (plus key results) in my /weeklyreview (check my FC channel)

• Monthly-ish: I journal a bit longer prompted by some staple coaching questions (DM me if interested)

• Quarterly-ish: I check in with my OKRs very broadly and loosely

• Annually: I spend up to a week filling in this amazing booklet over Xmas

• Biennially-ish: I update my comprehensive time cone on a Miro-board that comprises my 5-10 year vision of the future and the life I want to live incl. the structures I can put in place for that to manifest. I don't share this publicly but if you are really interested let's have a short Zoom

The point in all of this is to have maximum possible agency over my life by committing to the practice of riding the flow of life in a meaningful and impactful way. Change is the Single Truth in the universe as we explored in part 3.

But how does change actually work, in practice, IRL?

After studying change and transformation both personally and professionally for 30 years, one lens and one often overlooked book from the 1980s stands out from the crowd:

In a nutshell, humans are hardwired to resist pain, discomfort and change, because the latter is potentially risky, so we fear the potential pain and discomfort that might come with it.

On the other hand, we are hardwired to seek pleasure, comfort and repetition because our brains are prediction machines and feel calm when they (think they) know what comes next.

As Robert Fritz explains in his seminal book, we can create structures in our lives that foster the desired behaviours. Drop a boulder into a river and the water re-forms almost instantaneously along a new path of least resistance.

For us humans, such structure could be a morning routine as described above, but it could also be a new identity or mental models. More on that in part 5...

As almost always, putting in a new structure into a system, making an intentional intervention, comes with unintended consequences. Those, too, form a new path of least resistance pretty quickly.

Let's bring this back to the origin of this article series: the scene coin called $HIGHER on the base blockchain. What is the intention of this emerging headless brand want to be? What is the current path of least resistance in our niche of the internet?

What structures can we co-create so that we indeed go higher, together? What is our identity? What are our mental models? What are our conscious choices?

This is the fourth of six planned articles.

Part 1: Crypto needs to aim for a higher consciousness

Part 2: Level up in the Game of Life

Part 3: Realizing the Realms of Reality

Part 5 – Compound your Consciousness of Choices

Part 6 – Idea for a very different Farcaster Client

I hope this will prompt comments, critique, ideas and above all: higher ↑vibrations.

antaur.eth

I haven't got a clue. Yet I know three things about you:

1. You are unique. There is no benchmark, it really is n=1

2. You construct your reality based on your unique conscious coordinates

3. You, too, fight a battle we know nothing about

In Part 2 we explored the Four Levels of Life. Where I am playing at defines the story I am telling myself and others. In ascending order of the map, and loosely in chronological biography:

1. Victim: I was abandoned, adopted and beaten up at home. I have been misunderstood as an undiagnosed neurodiverse. Not knowing any better, I married the wrong woman and got stuck in a co-dependent marriage for 13 years. I was angry and played the blame & shame game.

2. Creator: I decided to become self-employed and divorced. I became a good father and reliable coach, facilitator, sparring partner, and friend. I reimagined myself and became a psychedelic coach and web3 enthusiast.

3. Co-Creator: I attracted the polar-opposites in terms of the Big 5 Traits (agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, openness & neuroticism) for both my romantic and business partnerships. They complement me towards wholeness and help me let go of the need to be right and in control of the process on a daily basis.

4. Inter-Becoming: I have forgiven everyone including myself for who I was. In 2014 I nearly died. I was ok with that; total non-duality. Since then, I had sincere conversations with trees on psychedelics, and received telepathic instructions as a psychedelic space holder. I know that reality is not what it seems and sense that there is a Cosmic Game. Humans won't be the end of evolution. My role is to help the universe to attain a ↑higher level of self-consciousness.

I am all the above. On a good day I identify mostly with #2 and #3, on a bad day I regress a bit back to #1, and on psychedelic journeys and during my morning combo of breathwork and mediation I experience the gist of #4. That's the reality I construct.

What about you? Yourself Your Self?

Since Descartes (Plato really) humanity separates mind from matter. What solved a dire problem at the end of the Dark Ages (the separation of church and state) created an unintended second order consequence: the story of separation.

The Century of the Self by Adam Curtiz changed my world view. It's an eye popping four hour deep dive into how the ideological descendants of Sigmund Freud effectively created PR and Marketing. The U.S. deep state back then wanted to find a way to "control the minds of the masses in peace time" - by making us crave what we don't yet have...and to keep up with the Jones's...while feeling more and more lonely and incapable of being just with ourselves.

My favourite philosopher in this regard is Charles Eisenstein: we need to reconnect with ourselves, one another and nature; then the more beautiful world our hearts knows is possible can become reality. Check out this beautiful animated clip and this his seminal work on Sacred Economics.

In Part 2 you learned about the Psychedelic Map For Change. At centre of this work are the various realms of reality. Take a deep breath, have a look and make sense of the map below. Maybe close your eyes and travel from the inner circle of the Self to the outermost the Cosmos.

When you reflect on the above, what is the most astounding fact? The most astounding fact - imho - is the Knowing, that you are all these realms and they are all inter-connected. Here is how I experience this:

• Self: My individual consciousness, thoughts, emotions, sensations in the body, are shaped by interactions and external influences as well as interoceptive signals from my body. How it feels to be me is the essence of this realm, and my nervous system creates a mix of pleasant and unpleasant neuro-transmitters moment-by-moment: dopamine, serotonin, cortisol etc.

• Relationships: My interactions and bonds weave me into the social fabric. Every relationship, whether in a team at work or in private is an entity with a life of itself that I co-create. People who trigger me are often a mere mirror of the behaviour I don't like in myself.

• Organizations: There is no such thing as the organisation. I am the organisation as much as you are, and together we form start-ups, corporates, political parties, networks or DAOs. Study ant colonies and for a deeper understanding of Ethereum: emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviours that its parts do not have on their own, emerging only through their interaction within a wider whole.

• Humanity: I am a consumer and citizen. It makes a difference whether I shop second hand or not, or consume less. I can make a stand and go to a rally against Brexit or stay home and watch tennis on TV. I can doom scroll on FB or IG or delete my profile (done both). I can ape into the re-emercence of $CUMMIES or not (didn't). I have a lot of agency over my choices. I hardly ever complain about politicians, or spend time blaming corporations. I critic by creation and doing my best every day.

• Earth: I share a ton of DNA with ants, bananas, and trees. I breath the same air, drink the same water, that all life of earth needs to function according to its genetic instructions. I do believe in James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis, that Planet Earth is a self-regulating complex system, a ↑higher organism that I cannot grasp until I understand what dolphins, bees or fungi know about keeping life alive.

• Cosmos: The atoms in my meatsuit originate from former stars that went supernova. On some psychedelic journeys I experienced total ego death, and I felt I am the universe feeling it self. My hunch is that consciousness is something like dark matter.

Ok, if this section was perhaps a bit too esoteric for you, that's totally fine: you construct your reality, and I do mine. What we can agree on is that the artificial separation of matter and energy is silly. Even Einstein knew this before went into the ether, but he couldn't rectify his Theory of Relativity with the then emerging theory of quantum mechanics. His surrendering words on quantum entanglement were simply: "spooky action at a distance".

The focus of my thoughts and awareness directs my mental and physical energy towards that point of focus, influencing outcomes and manifesting results in line with where I choose to concentrate my attention.

For a few years I intensively focused on building the best romantic relationship I ever had and still have. Now I am focussing more on being a builder as I want to contribute to various web3 organisations or networks.

What do you pay attention to in your daily life? What realms of reality do you mainly construct with your attention? Are mindful about that? Or are you lost in thoughts most of the time? (even if they are good or creative, you might still not be aware of them as they arise; meditation helps to turn the lights on. I meditate daily with Sam Harris's app.

Here are more coaching questions I often use in my practice:

What’s going well for you in each realm?

What’s holding you back?

How are you contributing to outcomes in each realm you say you dislike?

How do you make meaning of this?

You see, the world is exactly as it is, because you and everyone and everything is the way it is. In the graphic above you see small green arrows, and on the left it says: how it might be.

If you do want to change something about yourself in earnest whilst reading this, I inveite you to stop reading, and change: change can only happen in the here-and-now. Reflecting about change is bound to the past, planning to change is aimed at the future.

"We inhabit an infinitely evolving material reality...Our experience of being is only ever momentary totality. The past is inaccessible, the future unknown. We all occupy a set of conscious coordinates that no others may occupy. Simultaneously we are only ever a single happening." - SpiritDAO

In the graphic with the green circles above you find two dials: the further you zoom out the more complex any coordination becomes, but also the more impact you can have. There is a reason why Ethereum is sticking to its core values to build the World Computer as a Hyperstructure.

Also, the more you zoom out the less you control and the longer changes typically take.

Hence, it is fundamental to be clear about your intention on who you want to become and how you want to show up. Your intention will prime your attention, which is where your energy will flow.

Rounding up, I want to stress that you can have agency: you can manifest anything you want. You can step away from the screen when your ↑higher self knows it's time. You can delete your X account (I plan to do this by the end of 2024).

And then, you and I will fuck it up, and that's ok - life is just to complex to fully grasp it. Just like our ancestors surely didn't intend to let patriarchy emerge by inventing the plow (and other developments) all our actions will have a Butterfly Effect, now and forever.

This is the third of six planned articles.

Part 1: Crypto needs to aim for a higher consciousness

Part 2: Level up in the Game of Life

Part 4 – Commit to the Cycle of Change

Part 5 – Compound your Consciousness of Choices

Part 6 – Idea for a very different Farcaster Client

I hope this will prompt comments, critique, ideas and above all: higher ↑vibrations.

antaur.eth

You were born by your mother...ultimately you emerged from the primordial soup of this universe.

Ontologically you could also have never existed. Or not yet. Or you could have already died. No Farcaster or ↑higher. Yet here you are, being you. Are you being the fullest you that you can be yet?

Let's start at the beginning. Mark Twain said: the two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.

You were born in a country or nation-state which you didn't choose. Nor did you choose your parents with all their beliefs, values and worldviews, religion perhaps. Your genes, and the culture that epigenetically activated them, make a big chunk of who you have become.

Ok, as a baby, infant, toddler, then young child you experienced life primarily as happening to you. For good reason! you needed parents, care takers, teachers (if you were schooled) to become a fully functioning human meatsuit first, and then member of a family, tribe, community.

Did you ever feel hard done by those early life authority figures? I could write an epos about that feeling! It's called victimhood. I continued to play the victim for decades until a near death experiences prompted me to first become self-employed and then divorced.

As a leadership coach I have worked with 1000s of people some of whom have significant organisational responsibility, measured by their headcount or budget size. Would you believe me that quite a few of them are still playing the blame and shame game despite their wealth, power and status? The "song" in their story they are telling me sounds lower vibration, and their body language often augments this with contraction. I sometimes show them the Hawkins Scale and ask them where they think they spend their wake time at. What's a good average, low points and high points of a day or week? Ask yourself that question now, it's a good self check-in.

All scores below 200 are contracting, courage is the pivotal point above which you expand. You can experience a good portion of this scale in any given day, yet I have not me a fellow human being who has shamed themselves into enlightenment by dinner time.

The quest in life is to aim ↑higher, at any given moment, no matter how low or high you jump off from. This requires mindfulness, intentionality, routines, practices, and discipline. I'll expand on this in Part 4, and 5.

Whilst deep and imho also deeply true, it's a bit complex for everyday use. Hence, I have adapted a simpler self-leadership model devised by the The Conscious Leadership Group. The four categories correlate highly with the 17 energetic vibrations of the Hawkins Scale: victim, creator, co-creator and inter-becoming.

These four Levels of Life are one of four components of of the Psychedelic Map For Change which I have been developing for many years. It aims to be a scaffolding and content agnostic. My vision is to turn the PMFC into a map for a ↑higher civilisation, maybe even as Farcaster Client for anyone who wants to embody ↑higher. Wait until Part 6.

Let's relate this to some archetypical personas in crypto/web3/onchain:

• Victim: Alex, who enthusiastically invested in "MoonCoin" at its peak, quickly found himself in a downward spiral when the market crashed. Despite his own decision to chase the hype without due diligence, he became notorious in online crypto communities for his rants blaming everyone but himself for his financial woes, earning the moniker "The Blame Game Champion."

• Creator: Sarah turned her initial crypto losses into a learning opportunity, diving deep into blockchain technology and trading strategies. She now shares her journey and insights on a YouTube channel, becoming a beacon for personal accountability and informed investing in the crypto world. When asked on a conference stage what the hottest DeFi trend in 2024 will be, she responds with god-like confidence: liquid staking derivatives (literally heard this IRL)

• Co-Creator: Raj and Lena, after connecting over their shared interest in blockchain, co-founded a d'app that rewards eco-friendly actions with their "GreenGains" token. Their project, born from eye-level collaboration, has become a testament to the innovative and positive impact that web3 can achieve. They walked the bridge from Degen to Regen already, but don't shill this to you. Gentle witty nudges in conversations at Regens Unite instead.

• Inter-Becoming: Maya, a seasoned developer and philosopher, sees blockchain as a tool for global interconnectedness, often aided by psychedelics. She contributes to open-source projects aimed at making the World Computer more inclusive and sustainable, inspiring a movement towards a new level of consciousness. At night she dreams of retro-active public goods funding, hyperstructures, interspecies money.

  I'll explain how you can cross the three thresholds in Part 6. Yep, another cliff hanger...

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  I recently ran a Ponder Poll and the results were somewhat expected based on my experience of Farcaster tribes so far:

Amongst the Farcaster OGs the ratio of Creator to Co-Creator was almost 50:50. Very encouraging, because we are the people we have always been waiting for.

Co-creators are letting go of their ego, the need to be right. They trust the process and focus on growing the pie for everyone, not maximising their slice of it. They believe in positive-sum games.

I spent a good chunk of the bear market asking big questions like this:

What kind of ancestor do I want to become?

I also researched the intersection of regeneration, blockchain, psychedelics and leadership.

I heard the term Inter Becoming first on a podcast with Indy Johar, CEO of Dark Matter Labs.

Once you accept that humanity is not the end of evolution, things become pretty easy. Whatever species we will evolve into, it will to be ok. WAGMI. Why?

It’s all connected, all the way back to big bang, and even beyond...we just don't yet know how to connect all the dots...

This is the second of six planned articles. Subscribe to receive the next parts directly into your inbox.

Part 1: Crypto needs to aim for a higher consciousness

Part 3 – Realms of Reality

Part 4 – Consciousness of Choices

Part 5 – Cycle of Change

Part 6 – Idea for a very different Farcaster Client

I hope this will prompt comments, critique, ideas and above all: higher ↑vibrations.

antaur.eth

$HIGHER is a new scene coin on Base. Why on earth does the world need this?

Crypto is often accused of being a solution that’s looking for a problem.

Ok, here is a beefy problem:

"All of these technological promises of the future, all they require energy and will have a draw on our natural endowment of species, soil, forests, biosphere, and oceans. So technology can't solve our problems unless we change our values and consciousness and what are our goals and aspirations are as a culture." - Nate Hagans, The Great Simplification

What’s the consciousness of crypto? What are the aspirations of the ↑Higher Collective?

Spiral Dynamics is a theoretical model of human development that describes the evolution of values, beliefs, and consciousness through eight distinct stages, each represented by a different color. This is an long-form easy-to read primer with lots of memes.

Spiral Dynamics provides a framework for understanding and navigating complex social, organisational, and personal changes by recognising the diverse value systems that drive human behaviour and societal evolution. Even the crypto space has arguably gone through these stages:

• Beige (Instinctive Survivalist): Represents basic survival needs. Early Bitcoin miners, driven by the need for financial independence.

• Purple (Magical Animistic): Focuses on safety and belonging. Early crypto communities and forums, where trust and mutual support were crucial.

• Red (Impulsive Egocentric): Characterised by power and dominance. Early crypto founders like CZ of Binance and SBF, who shaped the market through their influence.

• Blue (Purposeful Authoritarian): Emphasises order and rules. The SEC's deterring regulation by enforcement regulations and the EU's MiCa legislation illustrate this.

• Orange (Achievist Strategic): Driven by success and innovation. The rapid development and commercialisation of blockchain technologies, such as the race to launch Bitcoin ETFs.

• Green (Communitarian Egalitarian): Values community and sustainability. Greenpill Network, ReFi DAO, promoting regenerative crypto economics; from Degen to Regen meme.

• Yellow (Integrative Systemic): Seeks to harmonise complex systems. The development of DAOs and sophisticated governance models. Ethereum Foundation.

• Teal (Holistic Global): Embraces global consciousness. The vision of Web3 as a transparent and inclusive financial system. World Computer = Truth Machine.

All colours are good and bad. Narcissism can be terrible (Trump) and great (founders).

Rules (blue) can be good. Code is based on strict rules.

Communitarian can be catastrophic: Cancer from extreme woke. Personally, the meme from degen to regen feels still dualistic and doesn't resonate with my being and doing. I know I am not alone! Good bridge building: degenxregen manifesto by @nicnode

Could ↑Higher be the middle way? A DAO in the spirit of Daoism? A movement where people can make money with internet friends – AND – extend this to more friends and ultimately kick-back to everyone? Could $HIGHER even be the first interspecies money?

This is not some Hippy Dippy Kumbaya - it will sooner or later become an existential nesceccity:

"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody." - Buckminster Fuller (20th century innovative futurist polymath)

So how can operate our Spaceship? Developing ↑Higher into a global movement of aiming for Teal Organizations of all sizes seems better than Centralised C-Corps.

Farcaster

martin ↑ on Warpcast

higher is a bet on farcaster culture

What do you want to use this for? What do you want to do with your wealth accumulated in the Casino?

@cdixon.eth calls for less Casino and more Computer in Read. Write. Own.

The problem remains: whatever we build with this World Computer, it will still have our current value system baked in. No technology is holistic enough.

We need a new Culture, a dawn of a new era, an epoch even: the Regenerative Renaissance

How do you change culture?

Don’t you know this is true? This is my truth, and I am in the business of personal transformation for 50 years.

Scratching my own itch, I have developed the Psychedelic Map For Change since 2020. I might re-brand it into The Map For A ↑Higher Civilisation.

This is the first of six planned articles. Subscribe to receive the next parts directly into your inbox.

2 – Levels of Life

3 – Realms of Reality

4 – Consciousness of Choices

5 – Cycle of Change

6 – Idea for a very different Farcaster Client

I hope this will prompt comments, critique, ideas and above all: higher ↑vibrations.

antaur.eth

If the answer is not an 8 out of 10 or above, why are you still there? Sunk cost bias? Big audience? Habit?

I'd give it a 5 out of 10, and the only reason why I am still there is a handful to a dozen accounts that I rate highly and look for alpha - AND - who are still tweeting on X first or only. Does this resonate?

That being said, I notice that every time I see a tweet from these influencers, I wish they'd appear in my Warpcast feed. Now, I can't control other people...but what I can control is actively and intentionally keeping this web2 moloch alive versus depleting its energy by exiting the system.

Hence, after only three months on Farcaster, I have internally decided to delete my X account. The big hairy question is when? To check sentiment in Farcasterland, I ran this ponder survey:

Half of people would delete this year!!! Hell yes, that's encouraging.

I voted for now-ish as my FC follower count coincidentally surpassed my X count, which are both sub 1K.

I do get that big influencers with 6 or even 7 figures are reluctant to become farcaster-first let alone delete their X account for good. Just don't get behind the curve...remember MySpace, Friendster or FLICKR?

My invitation is to not wait until your farcaster followers surpass your CT. This would be comparing apples with pairs, as the obvious advantage of FC is having a crypto-native decentralised social media platform entangled with thriving ecosystems like Base, Zora and Paragraph. My guess is that 1qDAU on Warpcast is as valuable as 10 followers on X in terms of funnel stats and monetization.

Anyway, I am looking for people who want to create a cohort of cancels: let's agree to delete our X account on Fridays, and to gamify this. Maybe a prediction game on /perl?

I want to make a stand and inspire others to join me and more to follow. Who is interested in orchestrating our collective termination of X and celebrate it publicly on Warpcast? To be clear, I have nothing personal against Elon nor is this a politically-motivated stance. DC me on @antaur.eth if you are interested.

Have you complained for years that social media sucks? Well, now there is an alternative! I have deleted my FB and IG accounts years ago, and have never looked back! Not a single doom-scroll moment. It gave me a very powerful sense of agency, without any hard feelings; it was simply time to terminate.

Great, we are early on Farcaster, but that's not the same as not being on X anymore.

If this post triggered you...ask yourselfL why? :-)

The term "gloom" refers to a state of partial or total darkness, often conveying a sense of dimness or shadowiness. It also denotes feelings of sadness, depression, or a lack of hope. The word can describe both a physical atmosphere and an emotional state, capturing a sense of despondency or melancholy.

"Gloomy," describes an environment that is overcast and depressing. It can also refer to a mood or outlook that is pessimistic.

Given the gloomy state of the world (society, economy, nature etc.) it might well soon be gloom season in web3. Yet, we are at the beginning of another cracy bull market. Well, enter $GLOOM a fairly new (Feb 24) meme coin on Base with some bold aims (more on that later). Token contract here.

Wait, but why am I interested and investing in a project that sounds all doom and gloom? I am not known to be a PESSIMIST.

I seem to be in good company: turns out, that $GLOOM holders are mainly OPTIMISTS, as this Ponder Survey suggests:

https://www.weponder.io

Attitude: do you primarily identify as a... - Ponder

Ponder is a survey platform built on top of decentralized social that rewards authentic responses. Follow us on Farcaster to help draw unique human insights out into the world.

I identify mainly as a PRAGMATIST with both OPTIMIST and PESSIMIST moments, which is why I love the Gloom project and its potential: I am a bridge builder in many respects, so maybe I can also connect the lightness and darkness in the observable onchain universe?

I have been in crypto for three years, and am astounded by the level of dunking, blaming and shaming, emanating from what I call victimhood. Takes one to know one...

Rewind 10 years: I primarily experienced life happening to me. I was in victim mode playing the blame and shame game. I coped with my co-dependent marriage and volatile fatherhood with cheating, drugs, porn and masturbation. I was on track to become a bad ancestor. Life was gloomy you might say.

Yet, my insatiable zest for life let me on a brighter path and today, at 50, I experience life primarily as happening by me (creator mode) and as happening through me (co-creator mode. Life is blooming in and around me you might say.

How did I achieve this transformation? Well, it took years of therapy, assisted by psychedelics, a divorce, a spiritual awakening, and the right partner at my side. Plus, scratching my own itch, I developed the Psychedelic Map For Change; a holistic self-coaching tool that can help people, amongst other things, to cross the threshold from victim to creator and then co-creator with the ultimate aim to become an inter-becoming.

• It is important that we, here onchain and IRL, do not by-pass the shit show that the outgoing generation has created; they did their best, and we also massively profited from that. Now it is on us to clean up the unintended consequences of their choices.

• Case in point: the mental health crisis in general, and especially amongst Gen Z; the 25% of teenage girls at risk of suicide is not just a statistic to us, we have experienced this first hand in our fam.

• I don't know how and when, but I sense that Gloom, as a project, community, token etc. might contribute to the improvement of mental health, especially in crypto where people have NFT PTSD and assumedly don't touch grass enough.

• My partner and I, both new to consumer crypto, have started the channel /innerwork on Farcaster; @ruv is a Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, a positive and progressive form of relational therapy devised by Dr. Gabor Mate who asks: “The question is not why the addiction, but why the pain.” I am a transformational and psychedelic coach, and together, we can offer holding space for people who want to create bloom from gloom e.g. in monthly sharing circles or by sharing our life wisdom in live streams.

• We are big $MOCHI and Mochimon holders bc we think that this meme coin project with utility (toys, game IP), will grow in the wake of the Pudgy Penguins (PFP collection by same artist Antoine Mingo). Both are poised to form the bedrock of the Disneyland corner of consumer crypto: fun and light entertainment for families. Yet, we all know that where there is light there must be darkness, and somehow I sense that both meme coins could be two sides of the same coin...(pun intended)...imagine an unfolding story somewhere in the emergin metaverse involving Mochimon cats and Gloomer faces...that would be co-creation on another level!

• Lastly, we aim to launch our own token in future, $INNER and relate this to POIW: Proof Of Inner Work. If @Bixbite and her growing team can pull it off, we might even want to launch this on their specific Farcaster Client, which wants to enable communities to launch their own token and allow tipping these directly in casts. Here is a very first rough roadmap:

  

Rounding off, a statement by the ETH Whale called Tetranode on Bankless podcast: "I only invest in DeFi projects where I can be the biggest holder bc I want the team to have to listen to my feedback and execute improvements."

My ego doesn'y need to be the biggest holder, but I do sense that by holding a biggish bag will incentivise me and ruv to actively get involved, shape its overarching narrative, and contribute to the emerging community with our gifts.

How does this resonate with fellow early adopters and shapers?

From gloom to bloom, antaur.

Coinbase thinks like Amazon

Many start-up pitch decks talk about touching 1 billion customers by X. 99% never even reach 1 million. Amazon is on track to achieve this moonshot through relentless short-term execution quarter by quarter AND within a looooooong timeframe; Jeff Bezos thinks in decades and his shareholder letters have been shaking out paperhands and jeets ever since the IPO. The diamond hand's are up nearly 200x since May 1997. More importantly, Amazon Prime is the best shopping experience in my life. Period. Notice the lack of the word online...

Coinbase wants to bring the next billion users on-chain. I find this claim believable, because they executed the first three phases as if there had been no resistance, no lawsuits, no regulatory nightmares, no mocking from Jamie Dimon & Co.

Back in 2016 they knew where the puck was going and 8 years since sharing the "Coinbase Secret Masterplan" the Delaware C-Corp is well into phase four.

Innovating Investor Relations

I don't particularly like corporates and the business theatre they often (have to) play internally and externally to keep up the story they promise to investors. There is a whole industry called Wall Street that has the power to keep Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, in power, or topple him - based on meeting, beating or missing quarterly analysts' expectations.

CB knocked on out of the park with their Q3 2023 results, but not just in terms of the numbers. More impressively, they minted the topline results as an NFT and started a reporting revolution. Could NFTs as fundamental enabler of the emerging creator and ownership economy have gotten a more powerful advertising than this?

What if next NFT from COIN Earnings includes a 60 second pitch on an audio track? Or selected highlights as a Glitch-Gif? Imagine you can click on one of the tiles and see data? As a registered analyst from Blackrock or JP Morgan you might even see token-gated information, as if the tile you click works like a /frame on Farcaster? More than expensive JPGS then, huh?

A bluechip for Bluechips

Coinbase is the uncontested blockchain bluechip. It custodies most Bitcoin ETF. Who is Larry Fink going to call first when Blackrock gets their ETH ETF approved and wants to tokenize every RWA (Real World Asset) they have on their balance sheet. The thesis is clear: Base will be the de facto chain for regulated DeFi.

Coinbase is clean afaik. FTX is gone, Sam in prison, Binance is counted, and many a centralised crypto blockchain service went supernova in 2022. CB is the only big one standing and their standing is so rock solid that even the mights SEC will off-ramp itself in the sake of saving face (my bet). Why? Even General Warren will pull back her army when she realises fully that it won't be in her interest to stomp on millions of voter’s portfolios.

Coinbase has 110 million KYC' customers and counting. This is one of the two unfair advantages, USPs, moats, this company has. have you tried Coinbase Commerce? I recently ordered a book from Spirit DAO and was surprised to even be routed through this (new to me) check-out path. So simple. Wait until CB releases EMBEDDED WALLETS...

Even the existing Coinbase Wallets build a powerful bridge between various custodial services from Coinbase to the free and self-directed life I enjoy on Base.

Disrupting Corporate Innovation

Base is based. It is awesome! I have been on base only since December and I already call it my on-chain home.

Much has already been written about Base's strategy to become the web3 app store just like Apple created the App Store for web2.

The big difference here is the mental model behind both stores:

Apple = wallet garden vs. Base = wild garden

Based on my understanding of organizational structures, corporate innovation and leadership, Base could become single biggest differentiator for Coinbase.

Coinbase = The Tower & Base = The Square

Executives and employees at Coinbase have been and must continue be 100% compliant, diligent, playing it safe. SEC, Warren's Army, Institutional Investors, Corporate Clients, JP Morgan's analysts etc. Overly-simplified: core business.

Base on the other hand is a new organisational life form in corporate innovation. I have been working in and with Corporate VC funds (CB has one), Corporate Accelerators, Corporate Innovation Hubs and so forth. The vast majority of these vessels have not delivered the promised innovation for users, consumers, clients, shareholders. Why?

Innovation happens on the fringes! Corporate bros and sistas rarely look, sound, or feel fringe. Just go to any random industry conference or airport business lounge. Remember the 1970s and 1980s? Punks are fringe.

I am a leadership coach, team observer, culture shaper, organization designer and group facilitator of 30 years. I have NEVER observed something like the emerging ecosystem around it's founder and source, Jesse Pollak.

Jesse is Base contributor #0001 - AND - he is a CB Punk: corporate business punk. AFAIK Jesse works for CB as an employee leading the Base division (or whatever this is called in internal docs). Yet, he genuinely comes across as stewarding an open, permissionless L2 ecosystem that breeds the likes of Mochi and Toshi. Those anon devs won't ever fill out powerpoint templates that Jesse sends to Brian on a weekend before the analyst conference on Monday!

Yet, the vast majority of real world use cases will be created by these decentralsied projects, apps and protocols - all built on Base.

The genius of this set-up seems to be this: Coinbase is taking itself out as the middle man between innovators and users. In fact, the more CB can get out of the way, the more it will profit. Most corporate executive cannot square this circle and do not possess the required mental models.

To be honest, I expected Base, the Coinbase L2 on Optimism's Superchain, to feel a bit corporate. I was so wrong. In fact, whenever I see Jesse and his team casting on Farcaster, I notice no difference between Basers (aka Coinbase employees) and the likes of Dan Romero, Ted (not Lasso), Wake, and other cool cats and outcasts.

Farcaster, Frames & the Flywheel

In my perception, Base and Farcaster are inextricably linked. Which other blockchain has the energetic entanglement with a fast growing sufficiently decentralized social media graph? And can iterate and incubate at the speed of state finality in this high-value social substrate?

When I mint NFTs on Zora, I notice that I am paying with ETH on Base. How? Well, it doesn't matter, and that is the entire point of the consumer crypto stack, right?

Apropos, and then Farcaster, which is sufficiently decentralised, launched Frames...which is a total game changer. As Base itself writes: "When a Frame pops up mid-scroll, going on-chain moves from intimidating to inevitable." Entirely new economic models will be build on Frames, and many of the code in the backend will be built on Base I suspect. This is how Base will deliver its part for bringing the next billion users on-chain...

...and Coinbase will be able to put that onto its corporate balance sheet.

Elon hasn't catapulted humanity to Mars yet but it feels like a safe bet that Coinbase will indeed rocket to the moon in this cycle.

Wen flippening Amazon?

In the grand chessboard of technological evolution, a pivotal Shakespearean question looms large: e/acc or d/acc?

This is not merely a choice between acronyms but a profound decision that could dictate the trajectory of our digital future - and life on earth. Web3 enthusiasts, take heed: if you champion the cause of decentralization, then d/acc should be your battle cry. There is a reason why OGs like Ryan Selkis and Vitalik Buterin advocate and embody a defensive, discerning, decentralised, deliberate accelerationism:

Here's why:

1. The Power Shift: e/acc threatens to perpetuate a world where a select few wield "power over" the masses, dictating the digital diet of many and setting the rules for developers and creators. In stark contrast, Web3 envisions a paradigm of "power as" the individual and "power with" the collective. The essence of blockchain is to dismantle the reign of intermediaries, no?

2. The Holistic Imperative: e/acc's narrow focus fails to address the broader spectrum of our challenges. Technological solutions alone cannot rescue us from entrenched belief systems. Ayana Young's insights resonate here, underscoring the need for humanity to ascend to a higher plane of consciousness. d/acc gives us the oxygen tent to evolve from human beings to interbecomings as Indy Johar, CEO of Dark Matter Labs so poignantly puts it on the Accidental Gods podcast. Clinging to reductionism is a path to nowhere.

3. The Acceleration of Moloch: e/acc has birthed the likes of Facebook and Instagram, entrapping us in a vicious cycle of perverse incentives for both corporations and consumers. As Liv Boeree, a brilliant thinker and famous poker player, explores on her podcast with Metacrisis OG Daniel Schmachtenberger, e/acc indeed accelerates our collective spiralling towards a nadir of societal values.

For the staunch e/acc advocate, these arguments may fall on deaf ears. But consider this: did you embrace the Moderna vaccine, a product of rushed and minimally tested RNA technology? This, in my opinion, epitomizes the essence of e/acc.

I am no Marc Andreessen, but as an early adopter of the internet in 1995, I have witnessed the transformation of my techno-optimism into a more balanced stance. Andreessen's Techno Optimism Manifesto, with its "tech bro" vernacular, seems disconnected from today's realities of billion's of people, let alone the beyond human realm. Jenny Stefano's witty critique, which brands it as a parody, strikes a chord with me.

Consider these three startling facts about AI:

1. AI is the first tool capable of autonomous decision-making, including the operation of weapon systems.

2. AI can independently generate novel ideas.

3. AI has the potential to usurp human power, unlike previous tools which augmented it.

Are you still an e/acc proponent? Let's reflect on humanity's poor track record in foreseeing the unintended consequences of innovation, particularly the second and third-order effects. Take, for example, the theory that patriarchy was an accidental byproduct of the humble plow's introduction to agriculture.

Techno Optimism is irreconcilable with the ancient wisdom and teachings from mother nature I have received through many plant medicine rituals and psychedelic journeys. There is simply more to the universe than science, engineering and product-market fit. Would Andreessen, Bezos & you promote e/acc if it didn't entice the chance of a financial 100x...?

Speaking of economics...e/acc, in my view, is inextricably linked to Neo-liberalism, a doctrine that seems predestined for self-destruction. Unlike nature's apex predators, which operate within the confines of their ecosystems, Neo-liberalism and the GDP growth imperative are on a collision course with every planetary boundary. Some even describe late-stage capitalism as a "death cult."

Life wants to live...hence, a discerning, decentralized, and defensive approach to accelerationism aligns more closely with the natural order: "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished," as Lao Tzu wisely observed.

There is a reason why Bitcoin and Ethereum take the long-road, because both blockchains know their evolutionary purpose.

Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, has two cats: Mochi and Toshi.

$TOSHI and $MOCHI are two cat coins on Base. T caters for devs, M appeals to users.

The perfect flywheel spinners you may think. Nope, their communities seem to have beef with one another. Really? Come on!

Isn't web3 meant to usher in the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible (Charles Eisenstein)? Yet when I read how both communities dunk on each other in their respective echo chambers on Telegram, I am more reminded of adult football fans acting like juveniles!

I was first muted once in the Toshi TG for mentioning the orange cat complementing the blue one, and then banned completely (for celebrating the capital rotation into ETH and Ethereum-related coins incl. 'both cats' on Jan 14 when the BTC ETFs were approved). CANCEL = NOT COOL.

No hard feelings, but since then I lost my interest in Toshi. I check the Toshi TG via my partners account from time to time, and what stands out is how salty the tone of some Toshi Maxis sounds at times; it is so salty you can top-up the Dead Sea with their tears! They seriously criticise orange as cheap copycat and that blue has the OG NFT collection on base! Hello - was the iPhone first?

Meanwhile, over in orange cat Telegram (where I am daily), some folks can't resist calling Toshi NFTs ugly and obsess about "flippening" $TOSHI. To be fair, the tone here is less aggressive/salty, yet this is not quite artful participation either imho:

• Toshi NFTs don't need to be cute as Toshi is about helpful developer tools catering for the Cambrian explosion of projects, d'apps and token when it's base szn. I am glad they didn't use their treasury on famous Pudgy Penguins artist Antoine Mingo (which is what Mochi did to create the Mochimon NFT collection). I want them to focus on making their DeFi tools the safest on base, because that gets more users here, which might in turn buy more Mochi token. Simple.

• Flippening is some of the dumbest memes ever created by crypto people: it perpetuates rivalrous thinking that brought us the current system so many of us claim they hate. Plus, had Ethereans not focused on flippening Bitcoin in the last cycle...the UX might already be 10x better...and now some fans of the second born cat on base are focussing on de-throning the OG in terms of market cap. Don't.

Don't compare yourself with who someone else is today, compare yourself with who you were yesterday (Jordan Peterson)

It took me way too long to grasp this piece of wisdom. Whilst there are species in nature with recognisable similarities, it is also true that every human is unique; what I learned from biohacking is that the only sample size that matters is:

n=1

I think that applies to cat coins too. Whilst roaming the same land, Mochi and Toshi play in their distinct niches:

Toshi = B2B

Imagine blue cat being animated and speaking in the voice of Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburn): Please new dev, come my way, I will make your project on base safe and sound. Our cool tools are rock solid and will make your users and investors trust you and your token.

Mochi = B2C

Imagine orange cat being animated and speaking in the voice of a female voice of your choice: Please new user step into the web3 wonderland. You don't need to be scared, we are friendly here. Our tamamochi game shows you what is possible on-chain and what to watch out for: there are some bad guys, but mostly on other chains, not on base. Oh, and the cat is cute.

I own both tokens and I think both projects are bloody brilliant. I wish both cats to win their own game and become the apex animal their chosen niche. Then they can fulfil their evolutionary potential: to bring the masses to base.

One more thing: I wouldn't been entirely surprised if we found out is some of the rivalry is somewhat staged and scripted, like the kayfabe agreements in wrestling...

In the spirit of BOTH-AND I minted this water bottle with both blue and orange cats today on this amazing project that form within the substrate of the emerging creator economy:

https://h2o.deleteyourself.com

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