Mason Hall

@mason

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PERSONAL UPDATE: After an amazing 3.5 years, I’m leaving a16z to work on something new (more on that below). It’s been an incredible experience getting to work with our portcos alongside some of the smartest people I know. To the entire a16z team, especially @cdixon and Ali and the rest of the deal team: thank you for showing me what having a truly world-class culture means. You make a16z special. To all the founders I’ve met and worked with: it’s been an honor to be a part of your journey. I’ve learned so much from you and am excited for the things to come. So what’s next? I’m joining the indomitable @samrags and @rfs to build Merit Systems. We are building tools, markets, and mechanisms to create an entirely new economy for software creation and contribution. Stay tuned for more information and announcements in the coming weeks. It’s time to build.

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I love the old internet. http://www.churchofvirus.org/

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Cicadas are so cool

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Separating out the toxic orderflow, I love it

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Open source frontend + the graph might be the most practical way to solve this without sacrificing purity. If the frontend starts to misbehave or is headed in a direction people do not like, anyone can fork and run it themselves / for others. But putting a WASM ponder instance in the browser sounds like a nerdsnipe for sure cc @typedarray.eth

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But wouldn't users be recreating that indexing work themselves everytime (and thus paying RPC credits), instead of it only having to be done once, if the app dev has a ponder backend, for example?

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Boooo but also 👀👀👀

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Wish we saw more of these apps, but sadly the incentives arent there for app developers, and you lose out on some of the benefits of shared global state. May I sell you a blockchain, sir?

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And this (searched my bookmarks for RISC-V): https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing

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Found this recently, you might like: https://dev.tillitis.se/intro/

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https://x.com/0xMasonH/status/1651315740471902208

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What has nerdsniped you recently?

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There's no A16Z/Sequoia beef. Sir Michael Moritz is no longer at Sequoia. The only reputation he's destroying is his own. https://t.co/UIekQBkW0L

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Guys I actually think we cooked with this one. New framework for how to build compliant and economically robust application tokens! with @milesjennings and @shuel.eth https://x.com/0xMasonH/status/1821566711776047171

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That's also true... In the original framing, I was thinking that Theseus himself was kind of the "soul" of the Ship + captain. But yes, even the soul must change. You never step into the same river twice.

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“You are the only part of the ship that Theseus did not replace. Himself.”

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I just have too much politics and clickbaity content, even content that has gone viral but is patently false (as determined by community notes)

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The X feed quality is abysmal right now, Warpcast is a safe haven rn

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