morale in crypto has never been lower tbh people crashing out at random with one another all the time i used to joke its a mental health epidemic, now i really have begun wondering whats up.

Looking at product that 1. Validates source of content 2. Uses (community issued) tokens to incentivise creators 3. Gives verification of how/why content went viral 4. Validates the algorithms used to distribute it 5. Makes said algorithms also open-source Pretty cypherpunk

Now is when mans search for meaning trends in crypto circles Good book. Would recommend.

easier to be an artistic capitalist than an capitalistic artist

Quite frankly I rather read a messy, ugly, grammatically erroneous memo written by a real human with scraps from random niche corners of the web and anecdotes from irl experiences than see a really clean polished deck that’s generated by AI Indirectly, both speak volumes.

Finishing up last leg of draft for newsletter this week on Decentralised.Co Artist sent this.

Sanity is a competitive edge in all industries where insanity is the norm.

Kanye west was the original GM-reply guy. He made a whole song about "good morning" in this 2007 album. Good one.

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When David Foster Wallace said "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred" he was absolutely cooking

Home is wherever the largest pile of your favourite books reside.

Trying to steal books from Cathy Guo’s library and doing other Bangalore things.

Pretty important to feel proud of what your friends spend time on/build. The problem with financial nihilism as a world view is it’s pretty hard to justify it as a way of life beyond - this thing makes money. Irony is, 99% of the time, things don’t make money either.

A good heuristic for measuring intelligence is the speed to rush to box anything into predefined categories when people come across something I think it’s because people rather conserve mental bandwidth vs putting resource behind unmapped territories conceptually

Anthropic out there hiring writers for 300k/yr to tell their story Apple busy flexing how their ads are made by human videographers by hand. But yes please tell me how your full stack genAI toolset will replace marketing/comms folks entirely internally.

Hanlon's razor - is a rule that suggests one should never attribute to malice what can be explained well by stupidity. In crypto, we refer to it as skill issue.

Looks like a very noice week