Food

It’s my first brunch disco (wtf) wish me luck

@bfg @smokingfrog.eth @cmon this was the vibe inside

positioning rants 🚀; bringing you ✍️ /buildbetter, 🎙️ /artistspotlight and🎙️ /web3magic; De*** & open-source HW/SW enthusiast; https://nf.td/bfg

if you come for the queen you best not miss

Crypto mermaid 🧜‍♀️🌊🌊🌊
Founder of monniverse.xyz,
Shefi S13 scholar💫💫

The Farcaster formerly known as Kchamp. Books, beats, bodybuilding, bright ideas and beautiful things.

katherinechampagne.com

Then [Sanchez] quoted something she said Katy Perry had told her: “We’re putting the ‘ass’ in astronaut,” she said.

This quote completely changed my mood 😊

Product

Alright I slept on it and it’s still eating at me. 

This is poison. 

Is it a step toward 10x’ing DAUs? Almost certainly. I don’t blame Merkle. 

But this is exactly the kind of mechanism that promotes Current Thingism and tanks the average shelf life of content on a platform. 

It incentivizes top level casts and replies in the moment’s hottest little bucket over sharing the original thoughts on niche topics that made this place so appealing in the first place.

And it was the complete absence of this kind of timeline cruft that made Farcaster feel so preternaturally high signal and productive of non-regretted interactions.

This is eulogy for an era that I will remember with great fondness, not a protest or feedback. Happily for all of us, this place is not designed by committee.

This is reality, where goods and services cost money. Merkle either slowly bleeds to death providing a magical tree fort for my favorite nerds or it lives long enough to see itself become something more like TikTok.

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As a product developer, you must understand that products go through waves of evolution as they seek adoption.  The things that appealed to early adopters are often not the same that the early majority want.

Worse: after getting enough users, teams must optimize for customers (because they often aren’t the same), and after getting $$, they must optimize for investors (value extraction).  Cory Doctrow calls this process enshittification, and with the current web2 startup capital model, it’s difficult to avoid.

One of the reasons I’m in web3 is I believe that this death cycle could be avoided by using blockchain in a clever way.  It remains to be seen if it’s true.

hottakes

kinda wild - theoretically i'm aligned, but can see this also quickly becoming a shitshow 😂 
https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/1910665112924439018

Hot take: Educational institutions should NOT pursue meritocracy and excellence.  They should pursue furthering humanity’s collective knowledge.

Doesn’t look pretty but it tasted good!

Parenting

Thank god for the big one as a little one translator.

Little one: I can’t brush my teeth, I’m crazy.

Me: …what?

Little one: I’m too crazy to brush my teeth!

Big one: she means she’s feeling lazy.

Humankind Candles

This is kind of quality discourse you can expect when you buy a /humankind candle

Thanks @cojo.eth

Co-founder @ponder | @survey | Ex   | colinjohnson.io

Toronto

And the FC Toronto crew with a cheeky lil coffee meetup!

Not me. I 💜 farcaster and will not be reducing my purple heart usage on the purple app

/cal 

Photographer, Artist, Web3 Educator, IP Lawyer, Patent Agent, Explorer 📸⛰️✨ 

 Building /flowcast with /mindfulness 🌊

https://wanderloots.com/links

Screens

Okay so I am midway through the first season of Arcane and DAMN how come no one told me Jinx is awesome?!?

I dunno why, but this elevator charmed the heck out of me

Books

Moby Dick

A tightly wound sailor joins an ill fated whaling expedition. 

There’s so much to love here. 

The books opens with the story of Ishmael becoming special friends with Queequeg, a Pacific Islander who secures them berths on the Pequod, captained by Ahab. 

Those three and the rest of the crew set out to hunt whales for profit, but Ahab soon announces that his real mission is to seek revenge against Moby Dick, the white whale that had crippled him on his last voyage. 

During the trip, we experience human drama (don’t be a coward, Pip!), hardcore whaling minutiae (smell that spermaceti?), philosophical ramblings, and more.

The language is a bit tough, but it’s worth powering through. In some ways, its mix of styles anticipated Ulysses. 

This is a top five book for me and my favorite capital L Literature title. It’s my strongest recommendation. If I have earned any credibility from all these reviews, I hereby stake it all on Moby Dick. Read it immediately.

If you don’t finish it once, try try again!

It took me 3-4 attempts over a decade to actually get into reading this, but after the first 500 pages you can’t put it down ;)

TradCorp: we need to innovate!  It’s our top priority!!!

Also TradCorp: did you get 5 separate committee signatures on that 30-page project execution plan?

BCard

Our weekly all-hands where we talk about what made BanklessDAO so engaging

Our weekly all-hands where we talk about what made BanklessDAO so engaging

https://youtu.be/3r2agmA9FFk

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We are funding IRL events!  Our March 2025 list of events is up, so make sure you vote!  https://snapshot.box/#/s:black-flag.eth/proposal/0x066b56cf0b21efb9e5d7f4ec4872c8d99fb8d926f08623d3ee3a81773850e47b

Events from @bfg @poymeetsworld @pichi and yours truly 😘 

If you hold IRL events and want to get some retro-funding, check out https://blackflagcollective.org/ and DM me or reply here!

All BCard holders were dropped 🏴 tokens which will allow you to vote on this!

I love web3 because Community is at the 💙 SheFi Scholar
ex - Twitter, Coinbase, Goldfinch, On Deck

Pi-chi.eth (she/her) Artist /animeoutcasts
Hosting: /sakura /kyoto /momiji  /anime-manga /farcasterunion

https://portrait.so/pichi

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

links 🏴

@links