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Hello and happy weekend! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂)⸝♡ I'm back with your weekly dose of art featuring my Five Faves! This time the pieces are bold and vibrant, filled with vivid colors to keep you uplifted and inspired 🌈✨ Let's get right to it!

We just did a complete overhaul of the landing page for Parkview Mountain House. If you're a new reader, PMH is Globizen's "creative retreat" in Park City, Utah. We completed it and opened it up for reservations at the end of last year. If any of you have feedback on the new page, I'd love to hear it. It was a lot of fun rummaging through all of the photos that I have taken there over the years during development and construction. And as much as I love snowboarding, I really enjoy visiting du...

Why do we happily consume endless nonfiction on our phones but reach for physical books when we want fiction? I explore the fundamental tension between how we experience digital content and how fiction works in our minds.

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This month's issue of Monocle magazine is a special edition focused on property. And that's because this month was also the annual MIPIM festival in Cannes, which is apparently the largest real estate boondoggle, I mean conference, in the world. One of the development projects that is featured in the special is Culdesac Tempe (which is located just east of Phoenix). This is a development that has received a lot of press over the years, including here on this blog, as it was developed as a car...

Stateless Reth is a fully validating Ethereum Execution Layer that reduces node storage requirements to just 14GB.

DeFi on Base is flourishing, and there are tons of high quality projects building for the long term.

The barbell strategy in the new era is to master model orchestration and accrue the top gossip not in the public domain

It's been a long time coming but we've officially deployed our own minting protocol to own the full end-to-end collecting experience on Coop Records.Coop ProtocolFixed editions at an affordable cost.https://paragraph.xyzSince starting in 2023, we'd like to give a huge shoutout to Sound.xyz for allowed us to grow our catalog and build a platform and product around onchain music. Sound was in many ways the inception and primary driver of the core Music NFT movement. Despite shifting their focus...