If you are lucky enough to stumble into Farcaster, you'll realize you didn't just join a social network, you've discovered a scenius.  Scenius is a term coined by Brian Eno, and describes the phenomenon that most advances in science, art and culture don't come from lone geniuses but emerge from the collective intelligence and creativity of a whole scene.  Scenius is the communal form of genius.  
Farcaster has all the characteristics of a scenius, as written by Kevin Kelly:
Mutual appreciation — Risky moves are applauded by the group, subtlety is appreciated, and friendly competition goads the shy. Scenius can be thought of as the best of peer pressure.
Rapid exchange of tools and techniques — As soon as something is invented, it is flaunted and then shared. Ideas flow quickly because they are flowing inside a common language and sensibility.
Network effects of success — When a record is broken, a hit happens, or breakthrough erupts, the success is claimed by the entire scene. This empowers the scene to further success.
Local tolerance for the novelties — The local “outside” does not push back too hard against the transgressions of the scene. The renegades and mavericks are protected by this buffer zone.

This NFT captures the nature of the scenius, as I shared in my talk at FarCon Boston, to remind you that if you find yourself lucky enough to be part of a scenius, you have an obligation to contribute. 
Find me: https://warpcast.com/adrienne
https://medium.com/@adrienneshulman/the-power-of-scenius-farcaster-and-the-collective-genius-of-communities-244f018a8767 
More info: https://kk.org/thetechnium/scenius-or-comm/, https://metarationality.com/upgrade-your-cargo-cult 



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“If you are lucky enough to stumble into Farcaster, you'll realize you didn't just join a social network, you've discovered a scenius. 

"[…] if you find yourself lucky enough to be part of a scenius, you have an obligation to contribute.”

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@visakanv keep an eye on this growing scenius

or even jump in from time to time

weird internet kid. word rotator. building /seemore. yapping on /okbanger. curating in /cameron + pdfproject.org | dev + vet + HBS. 
seemore.tv/cameron 🫡

building /cabin, advising /clanker and /farcon | grin.io

Thank you for:

1) all the "scenius labor" you and @cameron did for FarCon, and
2) tagging an inactive caster whose writing sounds interesting. Followed!

I read the posts you linked, clicked through to this Twitter thread with excellent sources, and quickly realized I'll need to set aside a LOT more time to dig into his work. Many thanks for the pointer. 

Hope he decides to return to FC.

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1364574123343577090

you are very welcome!

Here’s some of visas thoughts on scenius: http://www.visakanv.com/blog/tag/scenius/

He’s got a lot more tweets about it too