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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #622 with a glorious Gilded style by @mattdesl on @artblocks in the collection of @valent Right: My photo of a glorious sunset at the world's largest salt flat, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, January 2025.

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Rebecca Solnit for me. Have enjoyed reading her writing since discovering her books in college. I find that they tend to have a meandering yet profoundly expansive quality. Reading Solnit is like going on a leisurely stroll—soaking in the sights and sounds of the landscapes she has traversed, the geographies of emotions she has tried to map, and the histories of meaning she excavates. Perhaps I'm biased as the first books I read of hers were titled "Wanderlust: A History of Walking" and "A Field Guide To Getting Lost", and they came at a time when I was trying to figure out who I was as a young adult, often jetting off to farflung places in the process. But I do think she has a superlative ability to capture and distill emotional depth in her writing. For readers who have the time and ability to sit still for a while, you may therefore find that she has some amazingly resonant ways of reflecting the profundity of the human experience within nature and with each other.

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Constant 24 by @jonathanchomko "Constant works in a similar way - wallet addresses are not equivalent to their owners complex and rich personalities, and blockchain transactions are not equivalent to real connection. Creating a work that shifts each time it changes hands echoes the fragility of our real rich relationships, and reminds us that behind each blockchain address is you and me."

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #903 with a dusty Prime style by @mattdesl on @artblocks in the collection of the 6529 Fund SZN 1. Right: My video of the sand dunes beside the city of Ica, Peru, November 2024 (taken with a DJI Mini 2).

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My Top 9 on @rodeodotclub featuring @shl0ms, @bardionson, @rodeodotclub, @studiostrauss, @gremplin, @solyaev, @santiagoney, @hashrunner, and others

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For me, writing is an act that demands full attention—I can't write while multitasking. In this regard, writing is like a leash—it constraints my attention but also gives it a specific direction if used properly. I therefore find that writing is a wonderful aid for learning. I internalise a subject better when I'm forced to write about it. As the literary critic Walter Benjamin has aptly written, “Speech conquers thought, but writing commands it.” To be able to think well, I firmly believe we need to learn how to write well.

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #730 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of an Andean cock-of-the-rock taken at Reserva Natural Jardín de Rocas, in the town of Jardín, Colombia, October 2024.

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While writing isn't my livelihood, it has served as an important foundation for my thinking. As the literary critic Walter Benjamin has written, “Speech conquers thought, but writing commands it." Writing is a means to structure my thinking, and it thus indirectly influences both my professional and personal pursuits to a significant extent. As I'm taking a year-long sabbatical at the moment while travelling Latin America with my wife, I'm not doing any serious writing at the moment. But I occasionally pen some longform essays about crypto culture on my blog: https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #663 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo taken in the mines of Cerro Rico, Potosí, Bolivia, January 2025.

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Newlyweds - In Utero by @esherick on EXPANDED.ART I collected this piece in June last year, not long after my wife and I left Singapore to embark on our honeymoon in the Americas—a journey that is still currently ongoing. It's been a year and a day since our wedding on 21 January 2024, and tomorrow will mark exactly 8 months of us travelling together. As I reflect on how far we've come and how far we still have to go, I can't help but turn back to Kevin's artwork, which unwittingly serves as an apt artefact for this moment of our lives.

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¡Buenos días! Visiting Argentina next month, and was just curious whether crypto is something a fair number of people use in their daily lives, e.g. for transactions and to send/receive money from abroad? Was also wondering whether USD stablecoins can be used to get pesos at the blue dollar rate?

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #197 by @mattdesl on @artblocks and in the collection of @jwpe Right: My photo of giant ferns taken in Amboró National Park, Bolivia, January 2025.

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Wrote a really long essay recently outlining some thoughts on why and how we should look at NFTs as status assets. This was inspired by 6529's New Year tweet thread on NFTs and the discourse on NFT rarity that ensued. My central thesis is that rarity is just one of many dimensions that NFTs will accrue value in the future. Instead, it is more useful to think in terms of how status competition between different market participants will lead to different types of NFTs being desired. https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth/fpPPk3A81vRinrXN6XB0GGcmu8L7A4p4_4VhHDEZRqY

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Lens 126, Ring 1, Position 22 - Cycles by Material Protocol Arts Bloodrush to the head as I witness the beating heart of a novel hypersculpture—digitised flows of cryptic symbols pumped straight into its veins by the quivering, throbbing rhythm of the World Computer. 🩸

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Some thoughts on NFTs: - Framing them as status assets - Analysing how status-seeking strategies by different groups of crypto participants drive demand for NFTs in different ways https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth/fpPPk3A81vRinrXN6XB0GGcmu8L7A4p4_4VhHDEZRqY

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #285 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo taken underwater at Cenote Nicte-Ha, Quintana Roo, Mexico, August 2024.

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CT is talking about swarms of AI agents, but here we have friends at home orchestrating swarms of cyborg insects https://mothership.sg/2025/01/spore-japan-scientists-cyborg-insect/

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #315 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of the flowery interior of Iglesia de San Lorenzo (Church of Saint Lawrence) in the town of Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico, August 2024.

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #484 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: Video of me harvesting ripe coffee fruits on a finca I was volunteering at in Abejorral, Colombia, September 2024. (Sorry for disrupting the Monochrome Monday series!)

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🎄 Merry Christmas in advance! 🎄 Featuring Dulce, one of the dogs at the rescue centre my wife and I were volunteering at in Peru over the past two weeks. Gonna travel from the Andes to the Amazon tonight, and will be off the grid for a couple of days.

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