Interesting discussion about closed v open ecosystems (aka - centralized v decentralized.

It doesn’t even mention web3. I see that as a good thing.

Interesting discussion about closed v open ecosystems (aka - centralized v decentralized.

It doesn’t even mention web3. I see that as a good thing.

https://hbr.org/2024/07/should-your-company-build-an-open-or-closed-ecosystem

We back bold entrepreneurs building the next internet. 
a16zcrypto.com/

@a16zcrypto @signalfire @sevensevensix - which other venture capital firms have a CTO?

GN Musings:

Want to change the world? Believe in people before they believe in themself.

🫡

I've been working on this mental model for how careers in tech operate for many people.

Forgive the back-of-the-envelope chicken scratch.

Would love your $0.02.

A sufficiently decentralized social network. farcaster.xyz

Curating human insight | Follow @survey for polls | Visit weponder.io for more | By @ba and @cojo.eth

In ~ three years, every aspiring founder and active product manager will use @ponder to rapidly and cheaply test ideas, gather feedback, develop target user profiles, and tighten the ideation -> product prototyping & refinement process to a previously unimaginable level. 

Couple that with an embedded social experience across @warpcast, ready-made distribution via @farcaster, a user base to learn from and co-create with, and digital asset ownership incentives (and maybe emergent social investment capabilities?) to bring early champions along for the ride and convert them into life-long users, evangelists, and owners, and the S-curve is going to take on a new form. 

This is just one of the numerous use cases for @ponder 

Don't get caught sleeping on this one.

WDYT, is this healthy (productivity gains) or unhealthy (inflation) economic growth?

GN Reflections

To be human is to constantly evolve, grow, and change. A life is an 80 adventure to become more human.

How have I become more human this year?

Personally I have a hard time understanding the economics of a prover market wrt being venture fundable.

Nirel and Nitesh of Strobe have an interesting thesis here that actually easier to follow IMO.

https://x.com/yungtesh/status/1815469362083406291?s=46

Lmk if you want to chat with them, building cool stuff

Good write up on ZK proved markets thesis.

Just minuted the trailer. 

Looks pretty cool - and produced by Farcaster’s very own @linda !

Co-founder @bountycaster (bountycaster.xyz). Co-producer @ethereumfilm. Previously co-founder of Scalar Capital and product at Coinbase

Just minuted the trailer. 

Looks pretty cool - and produced by Farcaster’s very own @linda !

https://ethereumfilm.xyz/Trailermint

Something I’ve been @ponder(ing) lately:

Something I’ve been @ponder(ing) lately: https://frame.weponder.io/api/polls/5082

23 more votes to go

https://nouns.build/dao/base/0x8de71d80eE2C4700bC9D4F8031a2504Ca93f7088/vote/14?tab=votes

Farcasters, I need your help (again)!

Who's the highest potential founder-to-be you know that should start their own thing?

I often wonder if the mysteries of consciousness will be unlocked in my lifetime.

I often wonder if the mysteries of consciousness will be unlocked in my lifetime.

 https://youtu.be/06-iq-0yJNM

Visibility and responses greatly appreciated. 🫡

Its not random.😉

wdyt, is Gershkovich a spy?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/russian-sham-trial-and-16-year-sentence-for-gershkovich-is-appalling-wsj-publisher-says#:~:text=After%20a%20rushed%2C%20secretive%20trial%2C%20a%20Russian%20court%20today%20convicted,a%20high%2Dsecurity%20penal%20colony.

If you’re a first time founder, one thing I’d highly recommend is to get high quality angels who’ve done it before and believe in you.

I owe a lot of my success to mine 🫡

My wife asked if we could go to Top Golf tonight for date night.


It’s going to be a good week.

Lounge S3: Designers

1. how did i join FC: 
my googler buddy nick referred me and said “everyone in silicon valley is on this app” then he churned and i stayed forever lol

2. three career highlights:
1. designing /icebreaker from the ground up 
2. receiving 3 patents for my work on the google shopping list in 2018
3. shipping the first merch purchase modules on the YouTube video player page (aka the thunderdome)

3. What am i working on
i’m co-founder and designer at /icebreaker where we are building the open professional network, which means your data is yours and we don’t charge you to make it useful unlike a certain blue app

4. inspiring work in the wild
i came across this app, Corner, that is inspiring in its playful brand attitude as well as its value prop: crowd-sourced recs overlaid on the map. seems so obvious once i used it, cool to use an old primitive (map) in what feels like a new, fresh, playful, modern way 

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1668282277

@cameron ‘s /lounge is the best. 

Every season I learn something new about an internet friend of mine.

🫡 @j4ck.eth

co-founder & rectangle mover at icbk.me/j4ck.fc • /icebreaker • /attendance • /swagcaster • DJ as sixsix

/cameron for content experiments. I help Creators grow faster @ seemore.tv + /seemore. Curating in /lounge. 
Dev + Veteran + HBS. 
seemore.tv/cameron 🫡

Principal at Cobalt Ventures. Write @ TheItinerant.io ; BenErsing.com Host: /venturecapital /finance /adventures

Ben 🟪

@benersing