Co-authored by: Jihad Esmail & LGHT.ETH - Higher is an internet destination: a vibrant network of designers, developers, artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and athletes, leveraging open technology to work ourselves into our dream lives. Higher is a network for your ambitions, for refining your worldview, and creating the world you want to see amo

Technocapitalism, especially the version forming in the blockchain, ownership software, fintech, public goods world, is an interesting amalgamation of ambitious software development, innovative socialist principles, and free market capitalism, all tied into computers, codebases, smartphones, applications, and people who have been people throughout

This paper targets the idea that developers or dev-minded people in the space lack imagination where users are desperate for ‘innovation’. I believe the developer-minded, zeros-and-one-minded, won’t agree with this opinion generally. Why it feels worth claiming, at least in this paper, is they are the ones who have the firmest grip on capital alloc

nothing written is meant to be interpreted as financial, personal, or any other intimately significant aspect of the readership. these essays are for entertainment purposes. Context The permissionless token, $higher, was launched by martin on my birthday - three days after I created the farcaster channel. In the ~4 months of both existing, there ha

For the past twenty one days I have been obsessed with a decentralized project called Higher. If interested in the origin lore you can read more here. We launched a channel on farcaster A community token was created and airdropped to channel members 2M $higher was donated by core members for farcaster rounds We created a party wallet and r

This essay is a thought experiment and in no way serves as financial advice. Serendipitously Going Up In a conversation last month we uncovered a mental model on differentiating speculation and imagination. The former being imagination + action. And, while writing this essay, I see another layer to ‘Higher’. Proactive-imagination. Subjective Orig

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Nothing written is financial or even general life advice. These essays are for entertainment purposes only --- Godspeed. 0xdesigner did two things that reorganized the queue of topics I’m curious about: His Hypersub being used like a consulting firm Offering his onchain impressions in return for brand sponsorship to ETH Denver And so it beg

Nothing written is financial or even general life advice. These essays are for entertainment purposes only --- Godspeed. The wheel has thoroughly enjoyed the laws of compounding hasn’t it? Driving sports cars 220 mph around the track is only enabled by the advent of stone circles ages ago. So what of blockchains, language models, image generators

Nothing written is financial or even general life advice. These essays are for entertainment purposes only --- Godspeed. Additional Disclosure: I own some, but not all, of the coins mentioned in this essay. In no way is this endorsement or financial suggestion that one should purchase them. Speculation the forming of a theory or conjecture without