First Draft Club

Congrats to everyone who wrote this past week – including first-timer @papa!

All members who submitted a /firstdraft received $5 back: https://basescan.org/tx/0x81362a3224269c02f79f322d9ff8cb8be6ce4e307b1fa0bcead901343655cc5f

Here's a thread of this week's member submissions 👇

An honour to participate here!

The version i submitted
https://papajams.medium.com/farcaster-2026-becoming-a-verb-3487fe0950dc

Congrats & thanks to @kiwi @purple for hosting

Left it a little close to the deadline to fully flesh out but tis a /firstdraft amuse bouche before a @paragraph extended cut ... coming soon!

A weekly accountability program for sharing and writing. More info at
firstdraft.club /firstdraft

I haven’t spent more than a few hours away from my puppy since we got him two months ago

Wanted to jot down some thoughts as I head out for a weeklong vacation without Moose

https://warpcast.com/markfishman/0x1e9ea9eb

@markfishman asked me why I love First Draft Club https://paragraph.xyz/@sean07.eth/earn-crypto-and-find-your-voice

https://warpcast.com/sean07.eth/0x236e9959

For this week's /firstdraft , I wrote this:

[Pitting aside the airdrops and rewards, there’s a ton of cool tech being built in the Web3 industry rn.

@nillion – Decentralized trust network for secure, private processing of our data.

@storyprotocol – IP infrastructure that changes how creative rights are managed.

Jupiter Exchange – Making DeFi trading seamless.

Openledger – Building decentralized trust infrastructure to power specialized AI models.

DePINs – Improving physical infrastructure and rewarding those who contribute.

And tons of others

Really excited for the future of our industry.]

(Was ineligible for story but we can't deny that they're building good tech).

https://warpcast.com/0xtheweb3nerd/0xaee0ca3d

a habit don't stick in 21 days - it's just a marketing ploy.

the process can take from 18 to 250 days.
the average is now considered to be 66 days or 66 repetitions.

so far i have only written short articles 3 times. but i hope my saturday reflection will not stop, but will only become more frequent.

here’s my thesis: now more than ever, people don’t want to be satisfied with the status quo. they feel something stirring and it’s up to you to make it click. you do this with taste — taste in product, taste in experiences, taste in writing. fuck optimizing. the core matters most.

look around you. observe. connect the dots. there’s many ways to connect the dots. then go build something that calls you.

the meme maker, the gamer, the indie dev. in a constantly shifting world, you need to find pockets where information flows faster. attention is tied to information.

re: gltch
it’s a web3 mschf. more than any drop, mschf is an ethos. i want to storytell. i want to challenge. i want to experience. i want to build. build lots of things — small things, big things, weird things, cool things. maybe they’ll matter, maybe they won’t. but i trust my taste. and its constant evolution

being new to something is a blessing. when this stagnates, reinvent yourself.

i feel like a kid again.

** We May Be Early, But We'll Be Here Late ** (my /firstdraft )

This cast by @jessepollak about long term building made me think about the next few paragraphs after the cast. Especially thinking about new people coming to Farcaster--what does it look like?

I would say find your home & your people in web3. Early in 2022, I found a project that was doing something thoughtful--preserving memories on the blockchain. For 6 months, it was a crash course in a meaningful web3 project. That experience prepared me for a longer home in Nouns where I really saw & participated in what web3 can do. In May of 2024, I made Farcaster my home. 

As you might expect, finding your home is a lot like life--you move around, have different seasons, & change a bit. You bring things w/ you from each place you've lived. You have close friends at each stop--some stay in your life as you move on & some drop off.

But if we are going to do what jesse suggests, we need this kind of perspective for our journey. 

So, where is your home?

Not many words today, just in the process of Integration.
Life is beautiful. Keep Writing. Stay curious.
https://paragraph.xyz/@bodhilama/35

https://warpcast.com/bodhilama/0xaf9bcecc

This week has been the hardest "writing" I've done in a while.  Twain's "I didn't have time to write a short letter..." is at the forefront when there's so much you want to say.  Here are two related emails - we'll see how effective they were over the coming weeks:
https://andrewmccluskey.com/posts/getting-a-community-to-pivot

https://warpcast.com/music2work2/0x6092d820

in 5 minutes you could save a friend from a Level 0 Spam label, which is detrimental to their experience on Warpcast! This guide will show you how.

P.S. This is casted in a channel so that anyone can ask questions without fear of getting a spam label. 

As always, appreciate any feedback and thoughts!

I wrote about writing better on Farcaster and promised @garyweinstein I would tag him when I finished
https://warpcast.com/jachian/0x6f73195e

This week was a busy one, and I couldn’t focus much on what I wanted to write about.

But a commitment is a commitment, so I’ve decided to write about something peculiar about me:

I’m a big dog person – so much so that sometimes I feel like I can really talk to them. I am a self-certified dog whisperer. If I see a dog, I’m definitely saying hi, just like I would to a human (if you see a crazy lady doing this, you know it’s me!). In my experience, dogs understand and often react by wagging their cute tails. Sometimes, I won’t even notice the person standing next to the dog. I don’t have a dog of my own, but that’s one of the reasons I love it in the US – people have pets here and can take them anywhere, as most places allow them. I think it’s one of the most pet-friendly countries I’ve been to.

https://warpcast.com/divyav.eth/0x7d256391

For this week's /firstdraft , I put together some loose tips for building on Farcaster. Probably more useful for those who are new-ish than those who have been here for a while.

Wonder what tips you might add? Or debate?

@bountybot - will tip 100 degen to up to 10 answers

https://leeknowlton.com/blog/building-on-farcaster/