Been thinking about what drives people to support creative work — not just for access, but to support, express themselves, or feel part of something.

If we want onchain products to truly grow the economy around creative work, we need to move beyond speculation and tap into deeper motivations.

Some thoughts on the search for something better below. Would love to hear your feedback!

Been thinking about what drives people to support creative work — not just for access, but to support, express themselves, or feel part of something.

If we want onchain products to truly grow the economy around creative work, we need to move beyond speculation and tap into deeper motivations.

Some thoughts on the search for something better below. Would love to hear your feedback!

https://paragraph.com/@reidtandy/why-will-readers-buy-coins

I think part of the struggle is that "content" is a lot of peoples least favorite word 

It means something different than art to me 

And how do you infer the amount of time / artistic skill that goes in to form a market?

Is a tokenized IG reels value the same or different than a feature length film?

It feels like a new option, but doesn't seem to solve the old probems in my mind right now

It's probably dumb / silly, but I'm really quite allergic to the word "content". I think this feeling really emerged listening to the interview linked below w/ Ted Gioia and Mike Solana.

https://read.substack.com/i/120703046/mike-on-content

The tricky part is what to use / say instead...

I definitely agree w/ your first comment!

https://warpcast.com/reidtandy/0x49495eed

Re: how the value of a tokenized IG reel differs from a feature length film, my gut says it's pretty subjective & may be better to let an open market figure it out (vs. being more prescriptive about what should be valuable vs. not). 

If you buy into that, then it becomes a question of what's the best ways to create an open market around creative work? What's our best shot at truly expanding the economy for creative work?

bedrock

I think even if you wanted to try to increase the barrier of entry, that ship has already sailed... IMO, one of the more profound things the internet did was eliminate gatekeepers — virtually anyone can pick up a phone and start their own media business, for better & for worse.

It's virtually impossible to come up with a universal definition for "quality", so I generally think it's a good idea to let the market determine quality. Sometimes it may be silly memes, other times it may be an epic novel, or a beautiful film, or a sweet poem.

We're exploring the best way to create that marketplace, specifically around writing.

Loved your ramble, thank you for sharing! Please keep it coming. :)

Def allergic to the word "content" too

In regards to expanding the economy for creative work, do you feel we are missing a bare minimum entry? 

Things pop up now with little filter for slop and it becomes a raise of amount of content over the quality of it

As an aside something like /bedrock that @jihadis building feels more centered and focused (subjective I know) 

But for us to expand the economy of creators we need to invest in creating with intention as an alternate to the creative world people find themselves in now

Little bit of a ramble there, but liked the question