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@matt criticizing the cultural reliance on Chosen One narratives 

Personally, I've wasted too much time being bummed out I wasn't a "chosen one" (I was a bit bummed out my Hogwarts letter never arrived when I turned 11 and spider bites never gave me spider powers).

I like many particular Chosen One stories—I’m showing my 5yo ATLA right now and valorizing its many virtues—but it’s a bad container and there’s virtually *nothing else*. It’s a strong, lazy default.

The container itself chips away at your ability to live life and understand the world. There are no Chosen Ones. There are manifold quests, choices, and protagonists, but none of them are anointed. The world does not provide order, it affords and awaits it.

Matt Bateman

Philosopher, dad. Formerly Guidepost Montessori. Web3 curious. https://nf.td/matt

@matt criticizing the cultural reliance on Chosen One narratives 

Personally, I've wasted too much time being bummed out I wasn't a "chosen one" (I was a bit bummed out my Hogwarts letter never arrived when I turned 11 and spider bites never gave me spider powers).

https://x.com/mbateman/status/1900605414250594678

What are the most interesting experiments in crypto x education?

every mf on farcaster a Builder-Pragmatist

I mean, it is a crypto _social network_ (pragmatic) with permissionless programmable lego blocks and open data (builder)

Fitness

Today was Day 630 of running 1 mile or more every day. I did a longer run earlier in the week, so have been taking it easy since then to let me legs recover.

Also adding in pushups. Today's sets were: 22-30-20-20-30 (total 122). Still feel weak, but gradually building strength.

Most Important Work (MIW)

Most Important Work 2025.03.14 🔨🏋️

MIW: v2 frames

Baseline: Clean up the icon and notifications
Stretch: Add a cool mint and cool share.

-9.0 builder now on the third try 🤣

I'm a Builder-Pragmatist (-9.0, 3.0) on the Onchain Alignment Chart! Check out your position:

Did the system pull different casts this time? -8.9 is much higher than last time I played!

I'm a Builder-Pragmatist (-8.9, 4.5) on the Onchain Alignment Chart! Check out your position:

I'm a Builder-Pragmatist (-6.3, 3.0) on the Onchain Alignment Chart! Check out your position:

Poetry

Freedom is a difficult concept to grasp, yet it is a feeling everyone loves to experience. When transformed into poetry, it seems to come a bit closer.

Together on my @alfafrens channel, we wrote this poem using a surrealist cadavre exquis exercise. Each participant received only the last word of the previous sentence as inspiration, without knowing what had been written before. In the end, I assembled everything, discovered what the poem was about, and gave it a title. It is also an exercise in freedom.

Hope you enjoy it!

Authors: @nathansonic @isakost @eirrann.eth @ventra.eth @vijay @zeni.eth and I; with the special guests @arjantupan and @ilannnnnnnnkatin 

Visuals by Isa Kost. Font of the title: Leafclonk by Nathansonic

You can collect some Freedom coins on @zora 

https://zora.co/coin/base:0x1913281d817dfe4789ac1a6adc0f3b285e24d83b?referrer=0x5cb6E6C521E1262E24A4004F012Ae6529E61E30F

Today's dev call recording is up here!

I've been tardy about uploading the last few, will fix going forward and backfill all the ones i have. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9JIvJSWGME

Was lucky enough to wake up in the middle of the night and catch a bit of the farcaster dev call

Japan

Pollen is flying everywhere in Japan today, so my eyes are itchy and my nose is running badly... 😭​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Come to Okinawa 🌺 🌊 

(not much of your standard allergies here)

flora

Wanna be the very best. Creator of @moxiescout /miw. ゼニゼニ

today I learned about Helium 

ty @grunt.eth!

Soooo… Google killed all the older chromecasts with an expired cert?

1,000 parents screamed out in silence when they couldn’t stream conclave

can crypto make our chromecasts unruggable?

I'm very simple, make a fun frame v2 with a share button and I will use it and hit share on Farcaster

growth hack to get on that dev leaderboard

It fuels me when people dismiss what I'm working on. Just means there's an opportunity others don't see yet. Many dismissed when I joined Coinbase in 2014. Feel the same joining Farcaster in 2025 with opportunity cost of running my own business. Take big swings when you see it :)

So much power in only being able to ignore the haters, but being motivated by their dismissal.

Most Important Work 2025.03.13 🔨🏋️

MIW: v2 frames

Baseline: Clean up and deploy very basic Wooden Frame
Stretch: Add notifications

Nakagusuku, Nakagami District, Okinawa, Japan