Let's try a new experiment -- a standing Ask Me Anything -- ask me anything!

builder; scholar; retail investor; srobenalt.com

If the question needs to be asked, it hasn't! Seriously -- Product/Market Fit means the market is pulling product out of the company faster than the company can make it -- it's unmistakable when it happens.

"Ibn Saud: The Desert Warrior Who Created the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" by Michael Darlow, about the founder of Saudi Arabia. Breathtaking story and really outstanding book. Highly recommend. https://www.amazon.com/Ibn-Saud-Warrior-Created-Kingdom-ebook/dp/B008AW5JU6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Maker of Airstack: The easiest way to build on Farcaster. Frames SDK. Frames APIs. No-code Frames. Onchain Composability APIs | airstack.xyz | hihi! 


Without in any way expressing any view on the status quo -- generally tech strangleholds get rendered irrelevant by platform shifts, more often than they are broken in situ.

Do you foresee apple’s stranglehold on app stores withering considerably in the next 5 years? If yes, what do you think will be the key vectors?

Working on building products with zkTLS, and subverting web2 systems by encouraging client diversity. A ruthless empiricist.

http://opacity.network

Yes! There is an art to starting companies, grounded in the science. Storytelling really matters. Some things, and people, catch the imagination more. And timing is really important, hard to get right, but can be magical.

Just started a company. A few competitors raised before me but didn’t drum up excitement.

I’ve seen a lot of excitement around our company. I suspect it’s because our story is much better.

Wondering if you’ve seen this sort of thing happen before.

CRE by day, but my true love is onchain.  Building what I know.  $DEGEN Staking Social Club 🇿🇦

/purple /yellow and /basedfellas


What, in your opinion, is the most simple thing that the average humans could do right away to improve the world.

I write things sometimes 

https://happyhappy.substack.com

If you were kidnapped by a rival VC firm and you could only ask one founder you've invested in to come and save you, who are you choosing?

🇧🇷🇺🇸-  Book: Making Things Think: https://holloway.com/mtt. Investor in Wander, Carry, Footprint, Merkle Manufactory (Farcaster), Dynamic, Paragraph.

@pmarca a tv show or a movie that you saw recently that you highly recommend?

initial contributor at @interface | join /interface, /walkthewalk & /maps

Markets are the ONLY thing that prevents monopolies and cartels.

If you were to rate the following statement from 0 to 10, where 0 is below bullshit and 10 is above an axiom, what would you rate it?

"Markets prevent monopolies and cartels."

Both have their plus's and minus's. But for tech, Northern California is still the #1 ground zero for the world.

Are you glad to be living in Northern California and not the midwest? And if so why here?

consistently curious | host of /art and /collector-walls | self-proclaimed ambassador of /higher | ex Sismo.io

If you were in the room with everyone you’ve ever met, who would be the one you’d look for?

I personally loved coding in LISP, but it was simply too hard for most people, so the market never hit critical mass.

Was there ever a real commercial path for LISP machine adoption, or was it hopeless from the start?

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Reference check. Reference check, reference check, reference check. Then reference check some more.

What’s a lesson that you learned the hard way

Daily, unbiased, data-driven, real-market inflation rate available on-chain for your DeFi product

I have no idea, but I'd just observe that historically, lowering rates into a Presidential election would not be enormously surprising. 😆

Do you think FED will lower or raise rates this year? How will this impact BTC and other digital assets?

I watched two outstanding movies:

"The Night Comes For Us" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6116856/

"Empire of Dust"

I watched two outstanding movies:

"The Night Comes For Us" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6116856/

"Empire of Dust" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu1BO_iaVME

https://letterboxd.com/raccoonarchives/list/gun-fu/ 🔫💪

neuroscience PhD, onchain chaplain for /spirituality, vibe imagineer for /christin, co-host of /bcbhshow for the farcaster middle class. seemore.tv/christin

https://www.amazon.com/Schulz-Peanuts-Biography-David-Michaelis/dp/0060937998/ref=sr_1_10?crid=7B0AO394WK&keywords=charles+schultz&qid=1706654245&sprefix=charles+schultz%2Caps%2C101&sr=8-10

What's the backstory on all the Charlie Brown iconography?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/twink-death -- you see it once, then you see it everywhere. 😆

Head of Listings @ Coinbase. Comments are my own. FID 1,600,000,000.

I make https://arttab.xyz & working on a new thing

I think there's quite a lot, but that doesn't get covered very much. Of course there could always be more.

why is there relatively little interest/patronage of art/art movements from the tech ecosystem (or do you disagree)?