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Back with the 44th edition of Paragraph Picks, highlighting a few hand-selected pieces from the past couple of weeks. ⬇️

@caro.eth reflects on the emotional and economic significance of both macro and micro bubbles, exploring how attention, behavior, and meaning shape our evolving digital economy.

"The pop, when it comes, won’t be a spectacle. It will be a silence."

Internet OG 🗽supermodel, founder @ombruja /ombruja built on @base 🔮 ✍🏽 /caro 💃🏽 cryptobrujas.nft.nyc & former VP Internet Society of NY from 🇨🇷

@caro.eth reflects on the emotional and economic significance of both macro and micro bubbles, exploring how attention, behavior, and meaning shape our evolving digital economy.

"The pop, when it comes, won’t be a spectacle. It will be a silence."

https://paragraph.com/@caro/the-thought-bubble

@ramina13 shares the highs and lows of building a solo Mini App with ChatGPT as her co-pilot, offering practical lessons and encouragement for non-technical builders entering web3.

"I didn’t have a co-founder or a team. What I had was ChatGPT."

Marketer • Writer • Art therapist • Harley Davidson Fan • existentially puzzled capybara in zen owning /cho

Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

@ramina13 shares the highs and lows of building a solo Mini App with ChatGPT as her co-pilot, offering practical lessons and encouragement for non-technical builders entering web3.

"I didn’t have a co-founder or a team. What I had was ChatGPT."

https://paragraph.com/@ramina13/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-building-my-first-farcaster-mini-app

@albertwenger argues that subjective experiences are fundamentally inaccessible to science, highlighting the inherent limits of objective understanding and the value of preserving diverse consciousnesses.

"A world with many different subjective experiences is thus in an important way a richer world."

@ramon writes about how our modern frameworks for value (driven by metrics, economics, and efficiency) fall short of capturing the full complexity of human experience, calling instead for a playful, quantum-informed reimagining of meaning and progress.

"For me, play is a state where thoughts are much more in superposition."

@nyewarburton draws a parallel between Arthur C. Clarke’s sci-fi classic and today’s rapid AI evolution, warning that a generational and cognitive divide may be forming between those who master AI and those left behind.

"If mere social media could reshape a generation, what will AI agents do?"

https://paragraph.com/@nyewarburton.eth/childhoods-end

@ramon writes about how our modern frameworks for value (driven by metrics, economics, and efficiency) fall short of capturing the full complexity of human experience, calling instead for a playful, quantum-informed reimagining of meaning and progress.

"For me, play is a state where thoughts are much more in superposition."

https://paragraph.com/@rm/value-glitch

@albertwenger argues that subjective experiences are fundamentally inaccessible to science, highlighting the inherent limits of objective understanding and the value of preserving diverse consciousnesses.

"A world with many different subjective experiences is thus in an important way a richer world."

https://continuations.com/philosophy-mondays-qualia-and-scientific-incompleteness