Briefly visited Nigerian twitter today, I cried for at least 2 minutes after seeing this 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

Farcaster is the new Instagram (with a wallet). Which also means my time here is nearly over 😂

Farcaster

Who Should Build Farcaster Events:

Several replies mention great current and past Events oriented Mini Apps and Frames. 

However I believe that only Merkle can create the killer Events experience. 

1. Events will be substantially more successful if deeply integrated into the Farcaster app, like Verified Accounts, Wallet, and soon Video. 
2. Events would benefit from first class notifications and location permissions unavailable to Mini Apps (with good reason)
3. Adoption will require the distribution push only Merkle is financially capable of providing. 
4. Events could be a good opportunity for Merkle to build a first-class first-party viral Mini App — even if it benefits from a handful of features unavailable to other Mini Apps. Farcaster app demonstrates the product led protocol thesis. By the same logic, the Mini App standard would benefit from a premiere first-party Mini App. 
5. Events are difficult to monetize and impossible to make viable at Faarcaster’s current scale. Merkle can shoulder the cost because they need FC to grow and be retentive most of all. 
6. Events are a wedge to convert the rest of CT to install the app and keep it on their phone, ideally with notifications on. The social context of IRL meetups constitute a multiple-times per year global call to action to reopen the app, creating a new opportunity to reengage churned users for cheap, without the cost of sponsoring or hosting IRL events itself. Very high leverage relative to the substantial spend many crypto outfits put into IRL events. With FC Events FC surfs everyone *else’s* irl spend at the relatively low cost of implementing the feature and popularizing it.

There's a part of me that's starting to think serious admiration for "thought leaders" and "geniuses"  comes entirely from ignorance, the more I understand how sth works through tinkering, the less admiration I retain.

crowdfund

Watch Ofentse receive her new bassoon live on stage at the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival in South Africa. 

Farcasters made this dream a reality on @crowdfund.

I don't think anything cooler has ever come out of FC but ofc i'm very very biased here

Music

THAT MOMENT AND MY SPEECH ABOUT FARCASTER AND WHO WE ARE

math

Very very robust heuristic, you start to see it everywhere once you really think about it, e.g using fractional Kelly criterion instead of full Kelly criterion. As usual NNT is the GOAT.

My visit to NASA was illuminating: there is this engineering rule to use a 4x safety margin everywhere.

Now apply it to finance. How much $ do you need to retire? To be ~100% safe, estimate what you will spend &amp; multiply by 4.

So many retirees underestimated how much they

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Very very robust heuristic, you start to see it everywhere once you really think about it, e.g using fractional Kelly criterion instead of full Kelly criterion. As usual NNT is the GOAT.

https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1940757894040822070

I rushed through it at the time and was too invested in Mappa's controversies and company drama but Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 is truly beautiful, so many fun little details I initially missed!

Hey guys, so I feel like this is the only platform that I can be vulnerable on, one martini in.

I lost my faith in Christianity months ago when I found out that before male centered religions dominating that goddess worship dominated 

and that the top (patriarchal) religions paint women to be the fall of humanity from the start. 

I used to be a huge Christian until I learned this. Majority of my friends and close family still are. But I try not to spread my “hedonism” or deny the Lord in front of them in case there is still hope in Christianity and in salvation. A lot of Christian beliefs are still embedded in me, and so my belief is in a rocky place, where I don’t believe and I’m still afraid to “curse the Lord and die.”

I still believe in a creator. I believe this world is too miraculous to be made without intention, but I can’t wrap my mind around the fact that the creator has a gender, and that he is a man. Or that “she” would even be a woman. it all just seems unfair and biased.

No idea why this showed up on my feed, but "I'll only believe in ABC if XYZ  contemporarily convenient property of ABC also proves to be true" is precisely why I think so much of religion emphasizes constant self-immolation, otherwise one starts to think it's God who needs to adapt to their worldview not vice versa.

I *need* amazing android app ideas for this.

I *need* amazing android app ideas for this. 

https://revenuecat-shipaton-2025.devpost.com/

need a graceful way to curtail networking conversations quicker when there is really no overlap. any ideas?

Diarrhea. Also thanks for the tip yesterday 😂

Okay okay Lord of the Mysteries is really really good so far, hyped for more episodes

This song had me in a chokehold when it dropped

This song had me in a chokehold when it dropped

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_dPYgxvPLr0&si=-81J1qMbXrf2edRV

I'm making nice demo videos of mini apps so can showcase what's possible and builders can have a video if helpful to share in the future

Starting off with @crowdfund mini app for donating to campaigns (like GoFundMe). You can donate from your wallet and share in your feed all without leaving the app cc @nicholas

Is this the coolest miniapp ever or what? 😉

This is a terrific list, I've read 2,3, 6 (overhyped, can skip it) and parts of 9. Two books I'd add - Safe Haven by Mark Spitznagel and Bernoulli's fallacy by Aubrey Clayton

@stevenstrogatz can you recommend good [text]books illustrating how to apply mathematical thinking to the real world through relatively simple, elegant, useful models?

1/10 (ish). I'm on the road, but this tweet was fun to think about.  So what follows are several books and one paper that came to mind.  Only one is really a text book, but I think there are some great lessons on math and the good old real world in all of these books.

Mike Lawler

This is a terrific list, I've read 2,3, 6 (overhyped, can skip it) and parts of 9. Two books I'd add - Safe Haven by Mark Spitznagel and Bernoulli's fallacy by Aubrey Clayton
https://x.com/mikeandallie/status/1939146602134020332

Los Fomos

LFers wake up! @base talks about us on the bird app. Go spice the comments up 🌶️

https://x.com/base/status/1939388482759319876

Fund good ideas. Free worldwide USD crowdfunds app. Made by @seedclub. https://warpcast.com/miniapps/gmCdY4LOmur4/crowdfund

Anecdotally, most of the time when people make hand-wavy remarks about the 80/20 rule, they imagine they're in the high-impact 20%, whereas they're much more likely to be in the bottom 80%.

atlasmoth

@osuji.eth

Mini Apps

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