Philosopher at Higher Ground Education, a Montessori startup. Web3 curious. https://nf.td/matt

tell us your story

why in web3

favorite channels or projects 

great people that helped you

I’m not really “in” web3. I’m barely a technologist.

Basically in 2021 I wanted to see what the fuss was about by getting my hands a bit dirty, as I do.

One afternoon and $500 (lol) in gas later, I had my a ha moment: I made an OpenSea account and some NFTs I had minted *were just there*.

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

I greatly value that kind of decentralization/interoperability. I’ve always loved social media (even in its proto forms, like usenet and phpbb and what not). It seemed obvious to me that content steams should be blockchain-ified and SM feeds should interpolate from them.

Founder, The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org). I write about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Former tech founder.

I’ve tried to evangelize it to my Twitter community and I failed to get a critical mass of them over—as I mentioned, I’m pretty adjacent to web3 community.

But I’ve still been on and off here, especially since parenting channel was added. And I remain a fan and a believer: this is how things should be.

@jasoncrawford.eth turned me on to Farcaster. I really love the product, or what is now the Warpcast part of the product. (I really love Twitter and this product is better than Twitter.)