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Note: this post is a revisal of an article from 2022 called “The Next Chapter: Non-Fungible Patronage.” That article has been hidden from Mirror, and the two collectors received a free collectible from this article as a thank you for their patronage. Hey friends 👋 When I started blogging, I couldn’t help but ask myself one burning question: can I

Hey friends 👋 I started writing this newsletter at the beginning of 2023 as I began my pivot from centralized platforms like twitter and Medium towards decentralized platforms like Mirror, Paragraph, Lens, and Farcaster. Over the many issues that I've written since then, I've covered everything from personal experiences to political theory. As I

This issue of Thumbs’ Update is brought to you by my wonderful patrons on Hypersub. I recently expanded to Base network to make it even easier to become a patron. To learn more about what makes this onchain subscription special and become a Subs Up patron, click on either of these links → Base / Optimism. Hey friends 👋 You know how sometimes a s

Hey friends 👋 I recently finished reading two books back-to-back on the same subject: decentralization. I know, big surprise, right? I spend a lot of time learning about this particular domain, either through the political lens of libertarian socialist / anarchist literature, or through the technological lens of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and op

Against the Grain Hey friends 👋 One year ago today, I shared an issue of the newsletter, while on vacation, called Out of Office. Long-time readers will recall the relative informality of the Update back then, and this post, was especially all over the place. In it, I reflected on my previous issue, All Together Now, which introduced readers to wh

Hey friends I was around 12 years old when I logged on to the internet for the first time. We had bought a used PC running Windows 98 from a friend of the family and purchased a dial-up modem from the local internet service provider. My mom wasn't really tech-savvy and she had no real interest in what she called “going into cyberspace,” so I basica

Hey friends 👋 I can hardly believe it's already been two months since I wrote an Update. In some ways, it was incredibly freeing to not have the deadlines I always impose upon myself—especially because I would not have been able to meet them—but in other ways it left me feeling a kind of emptiness; a lack of creative fulfillment. I Filled the Void

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nft://8453/0x8f15988fc924b223CC1eec4a686b262731643847/?showBuying=true&showMeta=true&size=medium Become the official sponsor of this issue by minting this 1/1 NFT on Base. More info. Hey friends 👋 I really enjoyed writing the last newsletter and I could hardly wait to write another… so I decided not to! After all, I make the rules here 😉