Daniel McGlynn

@danielmcglynn

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It's interesting how some social media platforms have been around long enough that they are now in decay. In a forest, old trees die and fall to make room for new growth. But in the case of social media platforms, it feels like the don't go away, they just sort of become useless or dull. Wondering what this looks like down the road?

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My 7y/o daughter gave me a gift this morning. It's a homemade bow and arrow that she's been working on at camp for a the past week. It's got a proper arrowhead and turkey feathers that she gathered for fletching. The bow is bent nicely...the whole project clearly took a lot of time and focus. It was a reminder to me that as a parent we get to teach our kids all kinds of skills and lessons. And sometimes it is amazing to see how they use them and where their own curiosity and ambition takes them. Sometimes gifts are just gifts to mark an occasion or show gratitude. Other times gifts mean something else entirely. This was one of those.

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Nice, I will check out the sources section. Thanks

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One thing that I would love to learn more about is etymology (and maybe more importantly, how to best leverage etymology in good writing). Any recommendations?

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Cool, I will check out the podcast. In terms of questions about the self-sovereign identity, I often think about the balance between privacy and transparency. For a long time, I was more about the privacy elements, but more recently, as a I try to build a digital brand I find myself revealing more and more. I'm not sure what the right balance is, and in some ways it kind of feels like it changes based on goals (like the cost of having a digital brand is that you need to put yourself out there more).

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That's a good question. Not sure that I would change anything. I was just popping off about the change in focus recently. For me, I'm still excited about the idea of alternatives. I just wish more people shared that view right now.

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The onchain content network sounds interesting, will there be a way to see all of the projects that are part of registry?

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I would definitely be interested in this. My primary use case would be to publish regular posts that are like entries to to a larger piece. Like short vignettes that aren't really a full blog post, maybe 250-500 words, something like that. I wrote a long cast yesterday and had to break it up in a thread, which felt awkward. If anyone is working on this I would be interested in contributing or helping to test, or whatever.

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I remember life before I needed to think about things like choosing channels...

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3/ Personally, I don’t see mass adoption coming on the other side of crazy. Nevertheless, it’s important to remember change and growth don’t always come via clean, straight lines. And the loudest people in the room don’t always have the best ideas.

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2/ I hope for good schools, accessible healthcare, safe infrastructure, and a clean environment. I want to feel like I am contributing to the future, not taking a massive risk, in building a family. I want my parents to enjoy their retirement and to feel like they are well taken care of by the systems they’ve supported throughout their careers. A lot has happened since 2018, in crypto, in the world, and here at home. Sometimes I think about the safety and security I left back in the day to work on the bigger picture. I’m still optimistic that continuing to build out alternatives to existing power structures is the right approach. I knew when I signed on it wasn’t a short-term gig. I say this now in case there are other people out there who are like me. The entire crypto scene has taken a turn recently and it can be easy to get distracted or even lose track of the through line.

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1/ In 2018, I resigned from a stable career position to jump into crypto full-time. One of the reasons I gave while resigning was that I wanted to help build an alternative to how the world was heading. I thought that building secure peer-to-peer systems that functioned at internet scale could help people organize and collaborate outside the normal power structures. The idea, at least at the time, was that building alternatives would inspire change through competition. For me, the goal wasn’t to subvert the system. It was to make it better by becoming more transparent and efficient. When I boil it down: I hope that I can do a good job while raising my kids. I want them to feel that they have opportunities and that the world is getting bigger and better — not moving backward.

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Maybe you could add attestations and leaderboards like @receipts so that people could make writing output a game.

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haha, i just did this. I was working on a sentence and couldn't get it right. Then I just deleted it. Problem solved.

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Do you think it's a scale situation? I have a small following on both, but I feel like I actually engage productively with people on WC. When I post on X not so much.

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Nice. I'm personally super curious about the intent behind this traffic. I've written a few things about moving onchain, including a mini-course, but feels like crickets out there so far. I mean there's early, and then there's....early.

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A new minor league baseball team in Oakland is creating a model where fans can become investors in the team. This slaps for a reasons, the main one being that all of the major sports franchises have left the city in the past few years, crushing a vibrant fanbase in the process. Fan-feelings aside, things get interesting when you start to think about ownership from a community development/investment perspective. Anyone know if this happening elsewhere? Also, seems like a great thing to bring onchain for transparency and to make it easier to enter and exit the market. https://www.oaklandballers.com/sports/bsb/2024/releases/community-investment-campaign-fan-owners

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This week's newsletter is a look at crypto and the idea of network value. A few interesting things that came up while putting it together: 1. There are a lot of interesting "laws" or methods that were developed over the years to try to find a good network valuation model. 2. Not surprisingly, the valuation methods follow the evolution of technology (broadcast media, telecomm, internet...) 3. We are still using web2 network valuation models to explain web3. Maybe that makes sense, maybe it doesn't. I'm curious what comes next in terms of how networks are defined and/or valued as crypto becomes more widely adopted. If you are interested, you can check it out here: https://www.danielmcglynn.com/the-value-of-a-network/

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Following up on the suggestion from @jph.eth in case anyone else is in the same boat. Here's a quick demo of the ATG split squat I found. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb4Pn-zsFGc

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Nice, thanks. I will check it out

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