Austin has the highest density of people building things from heart and soul, rather than ego. This city will push humanity forward.

People buy Meme Coins because they believe they'll go up. People buy Bitcoin because they believe it will go up. People buy Stocks because they believe they'll go up. That's it. That's the entire narrative.

As an artist I’ve always intuitively known neuroarts had powerful potential. This explains how it’s showing up now (+ in the future) with augmented reality 👀

All of these co-owned, community based, eco village, wellness spaces in CR… Feels the same as open relationship. Philosophically makes sense, but show me one that works.

What would you do with 9 years of your life back? Americans will spend 76,500 hours, or 8.74 years on their phones based on the average daily use of 3 hours and 15 minutes 🤯

Austin has all of this too…

Great people filter Do they love people and use objects Or Do they love objects and use people

Week 2+3 who’s there?

Curious what a ‘network society’ ‘coordination’ ‘popup village’ means and looks like in practice? Read this post by timour kosters below Multi-month long co-created communities are creating zones of scenius (the collective genius that emerges from communities) to model new forms of

Kicking off consensus with a Round Table - a foundation for true digital citizenship with Michael J. Casey, Mechanism Institute + friends. Takeaways: On/off ramps of both value & identity pose one of the most endangered critical rights of internet users Societally accepted & relied

Two motivations for hungry people: 1) Revenge arc: Chip on shoulder. Wants to prove something and beat everyone. Wants to win. 2) Gratitude arc: Appreciates life's possibilities. Thankful for the privilege. Wants to see beauty. Both are powerful. Both can coexist in a person.

Bets on how technology influences how society organizes are starting to happen - vitalik.eth - Zuzalu and pop-up cities - Balaji - the Network State - Peter Thiel - Enhanced Games Who else?

it really is very valuable to read both of these books together

What Mongolian Nomads taught me about the future of real estate x community in a digital world... I just got back from a 2-week trek with Mongolian Nomads. We landed in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar where half of the 3M population lives. A bustling city in stark contrast to

How saunas are saving NY real estate In 2024, office vacancy rates in Manhattan hit a record high of 18.1%. Delinquency rates went from 0.57% in 2023 to 6.28% in 2024. In 2022, a few friends and I joked about the vision for spas saving American Malls - then created “SpaDAO”,

Pickleball meets parking lots: getting over permitting problems Pickleball participation has grown by 158.6% in the last three years - making it the fastest-growing sport in America. Almost anyone can play it. Building on the hype, a fellow founder friend wanted to create a

People seem to only pay for 4 things, which of these do you sell?