if you feel overwhelmed with the recent launches across farcaster i wrote something for you 

instructions to participate included inside

if you feel overwhelmed with the recent launches across farcaster i wrote something for you 

instructions to participate included inside

https://paragraph.xyz/@farconomy/farcaster-weekly-1

HIGHER

make people work for their bags technology

some of the best VCs ever to do it released an interview

lots of interesting points for founders and investors

remember when we wanted to give NFTs their own wallet?

Drumroll please ... I have created my own blog 😍 https://www.antidoteblog.com/

A couple of weeks ago, I complained about Paragraph and how it destroyed custom CSS and effectively ownership along with it. I spend quite some time to have the blog fit my taste only for it to be taken away. So I was quite devastated when my blog was pressed back to uniformity. But then I thought: Why not code it from scratch? 

So I did that with Ghost, Cursor and Vercel. I realise this is nothing special, but here are a couple of details I am proud of: (Also I am very aware that for everything there is likely a 10x better solution but this is the best my 2-neuron-brain can come up with)


@0xantidote.eth is a very smart investor - I always enjoy his long form pieces, and invariably think better about the topics he writes about

check out his new blog!

Thoughts on antidoteblog.com

Agents and Intents @NEAR | prev investments and BD 
@ZkSync, New Enterprise Associates and Balderton Capital

this is great, farcaster is an incredibly high signal airdrop distribution mechanism

one of the most interesting property of $degen was that it was a novel airdrop mechanism: distributed by the highest quality users who it turns out want to reward high quality users

proxy studio

have a big thesis around tokens as a store of attention

this nft the original source of this thesis

great news

privy has done god's work for this industry, living to see them win hard

Into the Bytecode

Here is my conversation with Jeffrey Quesnelle, cofounder of Nous Research.

We talked about the history of neural networks, modern model architectures, parallels with the human mind, and how we each think about finding meaning in this new world.

This was one of my favorite conversations in recent memory. Full podcast here: intothebytecode.com/51-jeffrey-quesnelle

I find this video hypnotic

interesting founder, and doing really good work

ok so I’m seeing that a counter argument is that the money part of crypto is not the leading argument anymore, but it’s the backend tech that will allow for a democratic internet. I’m all for that, but here I am trying to set up a Coinbase wallet and I want to blow my brains out. 

After jumping through every hoop successfully now it says “something went wrong” and to make sure I have the most updated version. I do. Shoot me. 

If the tech can’t be used by idiots like me, how is it gonna scale in a world filled with idiots?

we're very lucky see Ryan's onboarding in real time and should take notes about how this onboarding is going ✍️✍️✍️

new project from @polmaire.eth and @no12 dropped -  @apemash 

if frame is broken, wait a bit and re-open once or twice. Well worth the wait

founder @converseapp (acq) - building new stuffs

launched @apemash with @polmaire | 
founded @converseapp (acq by @xmtp)

Create epic token clashes. Rally tribes, fuel rivalries and let the market decide! An experiment by @polmaire.eth & @no12

History

same pattern with our theories for how the human mind works is based on the latest technology 

electrical age: mind as electrical signals/circuits
computer age: mind as software running in hardware 
LLMs: mind as a statistical learning machine and so on

noticing a rapid increase in the quantity, quality and diversity of buttons to clicks on farcaster

the way information is shared, consumed, and thus paid for is changing fast

I see farcaster and crypto in general as the petri dish where the next superior model emerge

the market as the algorithm's take from @jacob makes a lot of sense, and this protocol is it's best instantiation

The 6 steps to becoming an elite angel investor:

1. Lay the foundations – Study startups, build a "fantasy" VC portfolio
2. Know your motivations – Status? Learning? Track record?
3. Make a plan – Structure your approach
4. Start sourcing – Leverage your unique network
5. Play to your strengths – Move fast, add real value
6. Build a tribe – When and how to collaborate

Full guide (17,500 words) with insights from investors in Canva, Oura, and Reddit:

https://thegeneralist.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-top-1-angel

@mario is one of my favourite writers, and someone I learnt a ton from

with 100k+ people reading the generalist, I'm confident this one of the most underrated account in this app at current follower level 

@woj.eth @ted @woj.eth do your magic

helping build farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud”