grin

My 2025 resolution is to keep becoming even more myself

monastic

reflection moment: what did you spend attention on this week that you regret?

Cabin 🏡

deep /cabin lore: some pirates put a private key into a treasure chest and buried it somewhere outside Austin, TX

the chest has never been found. there's at least 5 Eth inside

deep /cabin lore: some pirates put a private key into a treasure chest and buried it somewhere outside Austin, TX

the chest has never been found. there's at least 5 Eth inside

https://creators.mirror.xyz/5heGuW5JIkDp67D4j4DtRpAi4ToiJzCeNFunU4cjkBw

post a picture of you from a different era

my problem as a founder is that I tend to be way too early 

Founders

@elan's screenshot essays are fun, thoughtful, and way prettier than your average Apple Notes screenshot

Founder Off-Menu • Storytelling & design for the new internet • off-menu.com

FarCon NYC

The fun, simple, & secure way to explore Web3, NFTs, & Ethereum 🌈

Get started at rainbow.me

Anyone else having issues with @rainbow? Mine is stuck in a crash/reboot loop

Clankers

okay, airb&b is booked 

@clanker team is excited to announce we're hosting some of our favorite ecosystem founders (we love you all, dw) at Clank HQ this tomorrow through the 15th

shoutout community support madman @qliqk who heard a rumor that @nt was touching down to ship @clankfun x clanker for a couple days

now we get to build with @derek of /nativefun fame and @carc.eth, longtime proxystudio sub, shipping around collective consciousness with @degenos 

we might even get to meet the god @rish who has been enormously helpful on the backend with @neynar (subtly also a clanker interface, iykyk) 

this came together fast, we'll get a bigger crew together next time. I'm just amazed that people are flying from around the world to come ship with me and Jack. we're used to picking our noses & making magic in my mom's spare conference room, not used to hosting bullish early stage founders bootstrapping projects with organic growth 

good to learn new tricks though. ty to @btayengco & @dish for staying nimble

Boston is the original FC gathering place

We already know the secret to longevity: evolve or die.

Evolution is a novelty-seeking algorithm. Find a new idea, and you will outcompete others. Stop learning, stop searching, and you will be outcompeted.

First Draft Club

This week's (optional) prompt for /firstdraft members is sponsored by @ted, who is sharing her Warpcast rewards from last week with her favorite responses!

🥇 Winner earns $100
🥈 2nd and 3rd place each get $50

“What’s one belief you changed your mind about in the past year? What sparked the change, and how has it influenced your perspective?”

ty @ted for this thoughtful prompt

my biggest change in the last year has been to be even more careful with what information i ingest. 

i now think the membrane between "info out there" and "cognition in my head" is very permeable. everything in your awareness affects you, even the bad takes you know are wrong or dumb. in addition, it all replaces your own thoughts unless you're very very careful about it.

so i cut back hard on all media except older books, and started writing and just thinking more. im also planning to focus even more on working on what i want, not on what others (even people i highly respect) are into.

influences (ironic, I know)
- Siddhartha
- https://nayafia.substack.com/p/the-hypnotized-society
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Riilke (ty @rmt )
- https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/exit-the-supersensorium
- Girard

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

Feeling rebellious today (just pumped my own gas in New Jersey)

Representative democracy replaces coordination problems with principal-agent problems

the-arena

/cabin shipperoonies recap

- updated NAP pricing
- added neighborhood definition to New Listing page
- minor cleanup/improvements

i still owe the DAO a writeup to wrap up my current proposal and next steps. sorry 🫣

brypto

crypto will truly hit PMF when agents start using bitcoin to buy digital drugs

2025 might be the year i start designing drugs for ai agents

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