Danica Swanson

@danicaswanson

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I still find myself habitually defaulting to the home feed, even for things that would fit well in channels. Making a conscious effort to cast more in channels going forward.

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New blog post on: - creative process + writing-as-thinking - the 'Watcher at the Gate' - ideas for an ideal web3 publishing home Spawned from questions raised in a recent Farcaster thread. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson/toward-an-ideal-web3-publishing-home?referrer=danicaswanson.eth

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New blog post in which I: - nerd out about my creative process + writing-as-thinking - introduce my Watcher at the Gate (many writers have one; I’m no exception) - float a few ideas for an ideal web3 publishing home https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson/toward-an-ideal-web3-publishing-home?referrer=danicaswanson.eth

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Had an extremely productive and satisfying writing day. (It helped that I'm on vacation. Funny how that works). Thanks, as always, to the FC scenius for the great convos and inspiration. New blog post tomorrow.

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Back in February I wrote about my idea to publish more "unpolished thoughts." Published 7 new essays since then. All very polished. Still looking for a good low-friction way to publish casual snippets (too long for FC/too short for an essay). https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson/what-is-a-digital-incubation-space

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Inspiring 15-min video from an architect who lives in my city and helps people redesign their neighborhoods so they can function more like healthy villages. The patterns he discusses (portals, pathways, etc.) bring to mind Christopher Alexander's work in A Pattern Language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoYZlyBHyQM

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One can never have too many black Zorbs, right? Nice work, @0xlght.

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Introvert/writer problems: On days when I have calls booked, it's always a crapshoot whether my brain will be able to shift back into "writing mode" after the call ends so I can get deep work done. Today's answer: nope. Nice try. Best I can do is this cast. Aspirational Zillow browsing it shall be, then. 😀

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For the curious (and since I've got voice calls booked with new contacts), here's how to pronounce my first name: Correct: "DON-i-ca," with a short O and the accent on the first syllable. Incorrect: "DAN-i-ca," where the first syllable rhymes with "man". Easiest way to remember is that it rhymes with Monica.

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Of course I minted Void Zorb by @tokenart.eth. Just look at that beauty! 😍 Perfect for my onchain goth collection.

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Got some satisfying work done today. Started sorting through 25+ years of my previous online writings (blogs, websites, Patreon posts, Substack newsletters, interviews, playlist notes, etc.) and organizing them into special collections. Looking forward to editing these 'best-of' collections and getting them onchain.

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Started working on my draft essay on Zorbs again after letting it incubate for a long time. Finally it's coming together nicely. With a little luck (and a lot of editing time), this may turn out to be the third release in my Forms of Incubation series. https://warpcast.com/danicaswanson/0x584fd5

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Intrigued by this "wolf-proof" media venture with a "novel equity structure designed to deter any outside attempts to influence, control or acquire the organization." Would love to see more of this. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thebrickhouse/flaming-hydra-60-brilliant-writers-and-artists-join-forces

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Feeling down-in-the-dumps today for... reasons. Checked the mint page for my recent essay and found an onchain comment I hadn't seen before: "You articulated so many of the reasons our label believes in this space and chooses to build on Zora <3 <3 <3" Thank you lucidhaus.eth. That really made my day. 💜

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Farcaster is an oasis of quality human conversation amidst a vast desert of extractive engagement farming. Thank you to all the CLPs (conversational liquidity providers) and other contributors who help keep it that way.

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I've been talking up Farcaster to one of my nerdy web2/IRL friends who I think would be most likely to become a qDAU. I have 50 warps left, and I see there's a gift option for signups: https://gift.fcstr.xyz/ Anyone know if I can use my warps to pay for their 1-year account registration as a gift?

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Every once in awhile I fall in love with a new dark ambient/drone track on the first day of album preorders, and put it on repeat for the whole day. "Subterrestial Threshold" by Atrium Carceri is one of those tracks. Can't get enough.😍 cc @foxwizard https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/track/subterrestial-threshold

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Music nerds: if you've helped onboard musicians from web2 into web3 "from scratch," what's your #1 favorite "starter" learning resource to recommend to them? I'm familiar with sound .xyz, Catalog .works, and Audius. My fav: Web3 for Musicians by Alex Roth, aka SuperSigil. https://jazzfuel.com/web3-for-musicians/

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New interview! I invited @colin to discuss the new Paragraph referral rewards program and the design thinking behind it. This interview is also featured on the @zora main page. Enjoy. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson/referral-rewards-interview-with-colin-armstrong?referrer=danicaswanson.eth

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To commemorate the @paragraph + @zora integration, I've re-released this essay on the Zora chain. Thanks to Paragraph's new referral rewards program, I'll receive a small reward when collectors use the link below. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson/free-valuable-zora-protocol-rewards?referrer=danicaswanson.eth

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