The featured image is an unauthorized remix of “Fake Internet Money #607” by Steve Pikelny. This essay is intended as a creative exploration of Jihad’s invitation to “describe a higher vision of the future,” and does not constitute investment advice. The more it circulates, the more value it has. One of the great benefits of NFTs entering popular

A lot of writing about GPTs and LLMs in 2023 asked whether writing itself might become obsolete. In the same year, media companies cut 20,342 jobs. 2023 was a year where broadcast feed social networks like Lens, Warpcast, and Bluesky dented X/Twitter’s dominance. Yet despite having more platforms than ever to broadcast one's ideas, more and more pe

Late night albums for conversation pits: Purelink - Signs André 3000 - New Blue Sun Wata Igarashi - Agartha Maara - The Ancient Truth Azu Tiwaline - Night in Palmtree Daytime albums Kelela - Raven DJ Danifox - Ansiedade James Holden - Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Place Of All Possibilities Christopher Bear, Daniel Rosen -

One of my favorite early projects at Consensys was Ujo Music, a platform for musicians to share their music onchain -- before the NFT (ERC-721 standard) was even really a thing, and nearly a half-decade before we even started saying “onchian.” So many of the early experiments at Consensys were just that -- brilliant but a little too early. Three ye

“Those legacy systems are gone, they’re irrelevant. They are becoming more and more irrelevant by the day. The internet is the only thing that matters. I would say the internet is our default reality now.” This quote comes from Taylor Lorenz in Chuck Anderson’s recent Pattern Recognition podcast. As someone with a large physical book collection,

More writing, music, podcasts, and art is released into the world every day — faster than ever before. How do you keep up with all this new content? How do you separate good ideas from flashes in the pan? How can you keep up with writers with alpha or the artists you admire? This problem of content overload is not unique to web3, but especially cha

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“Most artists are narcissists.” This was how a friend, a filmmaker, described his recent experience at a salon in NYC. (If you were wondering, salons are very much still a thing in NYC and some have even made a business of it). Toward the end of the evening, it took very little nudging by the host to encourage a virtuoso pianist with supposed synes

✨Some personal news✨ After 5.5 transformative years at ConsenSys, I’m leaving to join Mirror.xyz as their first marketer. Here are some reflections on 2018 Consensys for those who still confuse it with CoinDesk’s Consensus.  Amanda Cassatt hired me to lead PR with Kara Miley. As a “venture production studio,” we helped Ethereum startup projects go-

Image Source: Midjourney prompt [a crypto conference in the style of Hieronymus Bosch] Whenever you're creating a piece of content, stop and ask: If I didn't work here, would I watch or read this? The Seventh Generation principle: Great Law of the Iroquois which holds appropriate to think seven generations ahead and decide whether the decisions