SlowCoLab

Introducing the OLDSLETTER.

An irregular recap of thoughts and ideas, inspired by @mark's excellent Museletter (vibing for progress betwixt short and longform).

Interested in human flourishing & social infrastructure | slowly building /firstdraft | markfishman.xyz

teddit

helping build farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud”

Where do you record these? Do you jot them down in an Apple Note over the course of a day/week?

Love the idea of a regular thought dump

https://warpcast.com/mark/0xcdc55aa3

Web3 fashion-tech consultant & ex-sr designer @ FILA // copperglobal.io.

Founder/artist @ slowcrypto.com.

Having fun @ /slow-co-lab

100%. And TIL 🙏

But my mind went ‘moonlighting’ alternative, ie your day job, and in praise of doing work in work time. Against a backdrop of hustle culture, a
refreshing take.

2/5 - DAYLIGHTING

https://warpcast.com/slowcrypto/0x8e60fb47

a) "Daylighting refers to the architectural process of altering or designing a room for optimal ambience." - @cliffordusher.eth. 

Design your environment is the best productivity hack, like good company begets good character. Being on FC is part of that for me, and now, this 'sletter.

H/t to the varied letterfolk I've admired over the years. Shoutout @les for freeform, @joanwestenberg.eth for order. Many more. Thank you all. 

b) Daylighting as contrast to moonlighting. 

In praise of doing work in work time. I struggle so bad - slowly caring for day work, and squeezing in moon work left and right. 

Should I moonlight less?

Motion for stooges the nice folks can rail at. 

Community jester role is a way underused marketing lever.

3/5 - COMMUNITY JESTER

https://warpcast.com/slowcrypto/0xd381fb31

Someone to be poked fun at for community spirit. Less scapegoat, more sacrificial anode. But mostly another tool in the identity forming of a group/project. 'Intern' accounts can capture this. 

How else?

If you're launching a project, consider it.

4a/5 - DISCUSSION GROUPS

c/o @keccers.eth calling one for the intelligence / benevolence relationship.

https://warpcast.com/slowcrypto/0x931d5e4f

I want an IRL forum to discuss the unusual ideas we stumble upon around here...

4b/5 - DISCUSSION GROUPS

...Having thought of this since @ted ran topical dinners, it's an itch I've been unable to scratch. 

Then I met @jordanisgreen.eth & found this:

https://www.timesnew.xyz/work/collective

Collective Enquiry is rad.

Personal v2: edge case topics for cross-tradition Christian chat. Stay tuned?

I’ve been reflecting on this this week reading How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell. She’s often described as a digital artist since she often uses digital means to express her ideas, but her phrase ‘my medium is context’ is much more fitting so context artist is a rad title to carry conceptual art as she does. 

Gen art is fantastic and probably the most native to or at least best aligned use of web3 tech, but it’s very aesthetic and generally low on emotion and a fresh perspective of life. The human touch needs more consideration now, I think. 

I’ve been wondering why the tech is so inspiring even for myself when it’s the deeper senses that really capture the imagination anyway. I have ideas but they seem 100% uncommercial and I wonder how much the nature of the internet gets ‘proper art’ even in smart spaces such as this. Reckon it worth a few experiments?

5/5 - ATTENTION

My attention has been with Jenny Odell, appreciatively prompted further by the art shares/musings of @usersteen.eth and @blankspace.

https://warpcast.com/slowcrypto/0xeae639fe

Attention is non-fungible. 
Attention forms perspective.
Attention needs help.

How can I help? 

Experiment.

🌅⏳🪁

1/5 - CONTEXT

https://warpcast.com/mark/0x251300c6

Thanks! First one took more of me than I anticipated but done means iteratable (that even a word?!)

Hope to mix up the presentation in particular, but double hope I don’t kill the content experimenting with formats. 

Any tips for balancing lively, rough thought into an accessible read?

Word-Slinger-in-Chief /slowcore-hq | Senior Editor | GenX eldergoth | dark ambient music nerd | contemplative animist /blxstonesnctuary

H/t Terry Pratchett’s The Truth, honestly, for calling out most news is olds. Felt an apt title, though entirely forgot to Google first 😳 Thankfully, not treading on toes too big for it to be dramas/lame of me. 

Appreciate the positivity! Further format-mixing to come!

"News so slow it's olds" is speaking my language for sure. Love the name and the (slow-paced) mixed format!

Human, 
Building the appreciation economy at  https://toap.gg/.

Embarked on the shamanic wheel once.

Experimenting, as standard. Not sure what legs it has, let alone my commitment to it just yet, but feels fun and useful to get on with it rn. 🙌

OK this is going to be good. You are a long-form king touched by ancient vibes ✨️