Farcon 2024 impressions

- developers, developers, developers
- online personalities matched offline
- merch actually had swag
- 100% of people with doxxed pfps look 0% like their pics
- cough drops underrated
- proof of vibes seeded the network and is self-reinforcing
- mixing in folk outside the network was good

1/2

Farcaster Dev Day impressions

- developers, developers, developers
- Merkle team takes in so much input and feedback, has complex problems to solve and things to build, yet impressively prioritizes with great focus
- I constantly was thinking "whoa, people in this room are like *smart* smart"
- it’s 10% humbling, 90% reinvigorating seeing not just the brains but passion behind a lot of these projects; project update casts don’t capture the nuanced excitement of someone speaking
- building anywhere between 10% to 100% on top of Farcaster are both viable strategies today, albeit the latter is higher risk (and higher reward) given the hard pivots APIs have to take for the sake of moving fast
- imposter syndrome fades quickly when people you respect hear your ideas and show genuine excitement and encouragement to see them through
- overall it felt like a bunch of candles of varying flames come together and ignite each other; that is to say it even if it was mostly talking, it was lit

1/2

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