meditation

im doing a weeklong jhana-focused meditation retreat starting tomorrow evening. any advice for a first-timer?

(also im gonna be offline and incommunicado for a week. dont miss me too much)

just tried the new tipping feature and tbh it felt really weird to tip friends 🫤🫤

still, thank you @androidsixteen.eth @jtgi @v @know @hillis @proxystudio.eth @yancey @timour @j4ck.eth for being here :)

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

CEO at Google • co-founder & rectangle mover at /icebreaker • icbk.me/j4ck.fc • /j4ck • /swagcaster • DJ sixsix

building a network city @cabin | jonhillis.com

CoFounder of Metalabel, Kickstarter, The Creative Independent, Bentoism, Micd | Author “This Could Be Our Future”

memebuilding • prev manifold.xyz, twilio.com

/clanker | alex@clanker.world | please @ me if you’ve reached out via dm, thank you!

who's doing their taxes with llms this year? 🙋‍♂️

Cabin 🏡

Cabin is giving out $10k in grants to builders of localist open-source software. Apply here:

Cabin is giving out $10k in grants to builders of localist open-source software. Apply here:

https://builder.gitcoin.co/#/chains/8453/rounds/148

brypto

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll make a DAO.” Now they have two problems.

HIGHER

ThIs year I’m building a scene of friendly ambitious nerds in Boston. We’re gonna support each other to do our best work and have fun doing it.

My most higher project yet

140 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt talked about this moment in crypto

(lightly edited for modern terminology)

Warpcast

WC bug report: rendering of @-mentions on trending cast notifications is messed up

Compare the missing usernames on the second notif with their presence on the first one

cc @horsefacts.eth (sorry idk the right person to flag, or if this is even the place for bug reports)

I'm eth newbie..just learning
(working on @farcaster)

terminally.online

teddit

gm what’s something you realized WAY too late in life

It’s ok to be very ambitious, even in public

grin

Interested in human flourishing & social infrastructure | slowly building /firstdraft

Building MuseKat to turn museum visits into personalized audio learning journeys for parents + kids.

fractionally social on twitter, bluesky, & instagram

Founder, CEO, and Muse of Tragedy of /alexandria

Hung out IRL with @bethanymarz @mark and @amelie at Fractal Tech today

I predict Fractal is on the verge of making a huge splash in the nyc tech scene. If you’re in Williamsburg, strongly recommend checking it out

We even FC-pilled a guy

Memes

No cheating, drop your last saved photo no context

Get to know the devs of Scout Game. Meet @grin in the newly dropped Scout Cast episode on @pods

https://pods.media/scout-cast/e6-grin-building-code-community

Fantasy Sports with Onchain Developers. 

Scout. Build. Win. Brought to you by the builders of SUNNYs and CharmVerse.

https://scoutgame.xyz/

a) RLHF is limited by LLMs gaming the reward model neural nets and producing nonsensical results

b) neural nets cannot themselves tell if they are being gamed. only an outsider can tell

c) humans brains are (roughly) big neural nets

if those are true, then given enough scale/training, LLMs will become increasingly good at gaming our own psychology

change my mind

Too much focus on fixing housing.

Not enough focus on fixing spousing.

workspaces

what's your favourite monitor setup for productivity?

Sometimes 1 sometimes 9

Was told I should upgrade to 2 but I don’t understand the hype 

Also hate moving my head. I’m an alt-tab maxi

icebreaker.xyz/0xen |
https://gallery.so/Oxen/galleries | https://opensea.io/collection/farcats

NFT projects I loved from the moment I saw them:

Amulets
Nouns
@w1nt3r’s Runes
@0xen’s Farcats

one thing they have in common is they fully embrace their medium to do something novel

haven’t really seen much of this in the last year or two

just spent an hour helping a friend debug some lovable-generated code. he's on hour 6 with this bug

super bearish on vibecoding with llms. they're great for prototyping but cannot be trusted

we need a different model architecture that can actually understand and reason about the code

every mf on farcaster a Builder-Pragmatist

proxy studio

Hot take: someone should launch a different higher token with a different distribution mechanic. My hunch is it ~wouldnt~ do super well but on the other hand it would be entirely in line with what the current relationship is between the open brand and the token 

Basically: remember, no one is tied to the token. If you’re building around higher and don’t hold a lot of $higher, I wouldn’t really feel obliged to it 

Tokens have many flaws and advantages, in this case you get access to a group of high agency people by using the token. And by using the token you also are subject to the distribution on launch and everything that has followed. 

Maybe the point here is more general. Do not be beholden to some status quo that does not feel generative to you.

“Do not be beholden to some status quo that does not feel generative to you”

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