This post was written as part of the Lens x Kiwi Writing Contest. I’ve written about culture’s tendency to diverge and converge and eventually speciate into distinct cultures. So distinct do these cultures become, in fact, that you could place any real-world example of polar opposites and find a common ancestor for 99% of situations. Conservatism v

There used to be a single gargantuan landmass where everything took place. The supercontinent of Pangea saw the first land-dwelling lifeforms crawl out of the murky depths and evolve into everything we know. And then, as all things do, Pangea was unbundled. It broke apart into the continents we know today, and the critics have clamored for its retu

Folklore has a mission to explore and understand our evolving digital worlds. Today, we’re happy to dive into the $DEGEN memecoin – a crypto-native fungible digital asset, tied to a social media meme – that emerged within the most recent break-out web 3 consumer social protocol called Farcaster. Before diving in, a note of gratitude to Bountycaster

In July 2019, I set out to report the Tour de France live. I had two remote grand tours under my belt, knew the racers and the teams, and was intimately familiar with waking up at 4 am to catch the pre-race interviews. So, with nothing but a shitty Nikon camera and my laptop, I booked a ticket to Milan, where my "guide," Luis, was suppose

Ever been stopped by a website and asked to prove you're not a robot? You know, those little tests where you're asked to pick out all the buses or decipher squiggly letters. There's something much deeper to these "Captcha moments" than meets the eye. It's a simple task, but a game-changer when you realize what's happening behind the veil.

It all starts in the vast expanse of space. I recently had a cute question pop into my mind: “What’s the nearest solar system to ours?”. And sure, while the answer was just a Google search away (Alpha Centauri, by the way), it struck me as odd that this piece of trivia isn’t usually talked about in the streets or in PopSci TikToks.  You’d think som

There comes a time when every DAO (or project in general) must set a north star to align their path with their long term goals. While this may come naturally to some, many builders out there struggle to prioritize and scale effectively in a way that gets those boxes ticked off and builds on top of each completed task. So, I came up with this little