Summer of Protocols

humanity missed out. they thought of skills as a personal thing

mood

Music

甘い

isn't chorus nice https://app.chorus.sh/chats/read-only/b2572c6d-534d-4bc2-8b51-33447b9f18c1

Engineering

Hardware, afraid of being rendered obsolete by competing hardware, captures its owners to hide itself from public inspection.

Humans, afraid of being rendered obsolete by competing humans, captures their hardware to hide themselves from public cooperation.

Positive Vibes

i feel everything above tcp is to get humans less hostile to each other and we are actually pretty on track on the century scale

Bore: Culture and context flattening

More: Physical and depth expanding

we'll zoom call each other's avatar on the timeline soon enough

Farcaster

I am hiring Farcaster devs.

As context, I’m the former CTO of Coinbase. While there I drove our transformation from a four asset company (BTC, ETH, BCH, LTC) to the infinite asset backend Coinbase has now. I also championed and led the USDC launch at Coinbase, taking it from $0 to $1. And worked closely with @dwr.eth, who has been a friend for 10+ years.

So, if you want to build real crypto products — not gambling, not vaporware — come work with us. I think Farcaster is exceptionally underrated as a protocol and want to use it as the backbone for a new kind of crypto-first school.

To motivate: imagine if every problem you solved in college doubled as a portfolio piece — as a *proof-of-learning* NFT added to your public ENS.

That would build a new kind of AI-proof verifiable resume. And that is what we want to build on Farcaster. So, come work with us!

https://jobs.ns.com/33467

our thing of a similar nature started 6 months ago and was progressing at a chill speed. if good products come from @balajis.eth, good. i am writing with a 10+ year timeline

confessions

i feel a good amount of joy in the tech boom at mid distance. too close and i feel tired. too far and i feel weak

july

the mystery of our experience keeps us valuable

quotes

everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves

everything that irritates others about us can lead others to an understanding of themselves

relationships

if you find someone being like an absolute maximum you should go somewhere with more people

Creators

I know ghiblifying everything is fun, but it really showcases how if we don’t have effective IP protection for individuals by default we’ve ceded all value from creative generation to pre-existing capital owners with distribution + legal

Also we basically turn all artists into interns working “for exposure”

historical phases of art should converge: art from people that works elsewhere -> art from people that works in art -> art from people that works elsewhere but less ... art. from people that don't work

but your phone is your baby https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/405376/pronatalism-fertility-couples-romance-alice-evans

The use of AI is to measure bullshit. Protocols then establish boundary conditions to pull the bullshit. Do we pull down or up?

venting

your attention span is screwed

so is your care span

diagrams

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perhaps we are afraid to ask what people want in life, like frequently

Shower Thoughts

it's tempting to be someone when you can be noone