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This is really gonna take quite some time to distill down. I don't think people can really appreciate just how complex of a DAO/project it was and just how much shit happened. In any case, I hope it will be a very interesting read for some people.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/DJKey7qShB1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVOTe0bGMLs

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sneak peak (this is going to be one very, very lengthy piece)

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Have you heard about the virtues of the tonal numbering system?

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Bitcoin is the most esoteric and inaccessible form of governance to exist.

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just tipped my favorite farcasters! thank you @danicaswanson @keccers.eth @rafa @matthewb @trigs for being here :)

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What I'm working on: a long form piece of writing exploring why the previous project (a complex DAO video platform) I worked on failed. I'm pretty sure that kind of thing can open more doors to employment and finding the right founders/team than just sending out more CVs. I don't think web3/crypto has enough of this kind of stuff - I've seen plenty of Discord/Twitters for clearly dead projects that don't explain anything, it often makes it seem like the creator's interest in it was just temporary. They just up & disappear one day. I'm not sure why the culture doesn't prize talking about failure that much (or maybe I'm just not seeing it) so hopefully it will be interesting to someone - it's going to be complex given I spent 5 years on it and we had 13 testnets and launched a month after FTX imploded. Fun for the whole family, I'm sure.

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@jessepollak Case in point with everything I'm saying here, the only objectively funny event that I saw with the recent "content coins" thing was someone pushing the needle and getting banned for making fun of it. Sadly, Base/Zora don't appear like they understand the mentality of this and the whole effort ended up looking very corporate - if this content coin ("coinbase is for f^ggots") wasn't banned then it would've been even funnier and it would've actually been organic. From what I saw it was in the top 10 of coins but apparently Base/Zora are too thin skinned to be made the butt of the joke. That kind of approach doesn't really work with internet culture - half of internet culture is people participating in the shared misery of using platforms that treat them like shit and making cynical and inappropriate jokes about the platforms themselves. Whether the jokes hit or miss shouldn't be up to the platform and banning this went against the entire spirit of content coins in the first place.

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Relates to this, I have seen some genuinely funny crypto accounts (smolting/inversebrah is a great example) but I've seldom seen extremely funny/high-level non-crypto accounts use web3 platforms. Unfortunately web3/crypto is an instant turn off for most people like that and its a key reason why the crypto part should be shut up about. And attracting those actually wildly funny users is a critical inflection point - you can't just copy/paste their memes, you need those people to actually be "here". Probably one way to improve the likelihood of it happening is to have platforms engage in a bit more banter and accept the fact that banning people is downright hilarious and a great way to cause drama - "permissionless systems" have the downfall that that drama is quite difficult to have happen anymore. All of the classic internet forums, which were the progeny of internet culture itself had a culture where people getting banned was visible, spoken about and hilarious drama that drew people's eyes.

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The most interesting & funny person I follow on the internet posts the most esoteric memes and content and seems to enjoy being wildly inaccessible and is a veritable and reliable drama queen - their account gets banned or deleted frequently and they always reemerge with a new one that "the right people" somehow figure out and it gets shared around in a weird yet somehow reliable manner... this happens until they once again get banned again. They're also gay and I'm pretty sure cut a living from OF - it is always entertaining trying to show a friend something hilarious they posted and interspersed between "the funny" on their feed are a pool of frequently used reaction images (that are always GIFs of women in their 40s from reality TV shows) and an assortment of very gay and very sexual self portraits of themselves. The internet never fails to be fascinating and requires sacrifice to find the best - I'm not gay and the self portraits hardly bother me... it is all very entertaining.

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An evergreen post for people to keep in mind. It certainly feels like there is more of a dearth of interesting people around and either they've been going silent/stealth or there just isn't interesting stuff being built in crypto anymore and it's all casino bullshit. This is why projects need to be really careful about playing with casino bullshit - it always gives a temporary boost but it kills the heart & soul that might have taken years to build up. https://x.com/0xSleuth_/status/1909556176930718155

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I kind of wish the notifications tab (or maybe something else) let me explore what people in my network have been doing with mini-apps in the form of recent TXs or something similar. There seems like a social element that could be unlocked from that data that isn't really so far? If I understood what miniapps people were using with a data layer instead of them sharing it via casts (which feels a bit weird) then I would be inclined to explore more.

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I think it requires a bit of both. You can find people who can contribute just about anything and it doesn't mean they're going to be good at it. Especially if you're trying to build userbases then drawing upon true, unbridled passion is going to be key. Autistic and obsessive tendencies are the best to capture and you can't match that kind of passion with normal contributors - the goal should be to attract and nurture those types in the first place.

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I mention this anecdote because many social protocols/platforms of web3 optimize themselves for American/1st world users and then the incentives build people trying to fit into that mold instead of trying to build independent subcommunities that engage in their own languages and culture. Twitter/X was known to have a highly engaged Japanese community - although sometimes their paths cross with western users they mainly do their own thing. Especially when it comes to web3 "culture" and general internet memes hearing everyone talking about the same thing becomes boring and insular very quickly. Value = people from far away posting about what actually interests them instead of trying to appeal to an "everyone audience".

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One thing I think people take for granted is that the internet is everywhere and if you have that luxury its great. On the previous project I worked on we were restricted from American users due to regulatory bullshit - this meant a fascinating foray into building a mainly Russian community that ended up splitting in 2 because of the Ukraine conflict. It's a very strange experience to have people be fine one day and the next demanding that you take a side and also to get lectured for replying in Russian to someone who wrote in Ukranian - It's funnier still when you speak neither language. I had to use Google Translate at an industrious capacity to build engagement (on top of building a DAO) - getting compared to a neural network is pretty awesome though. As usual, artificial and arbitrary limitations result in unbridled creativity if you have the right people.

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With the world seemingly always descending further into chaos, I still feel a sense of admiration whenever I come across someone who is religious - even though I’m not. When I was much younger, I would have balked at the idea that anyone could be a believer, but as I get older, it strikes me more and more as an admirable quality. It feels even stranger to encounter a person like this through the ultimate chaos and randomness engine that is the internet. And though I think I can pretend to understand the internet well enough, I often wish there were an instruction manual for life, death, and everything in between that I could believe in.

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This is fairly great advice - I think it also helps to explore stuff outside of crypto periodically. Looking at pitchdecks from industries and people wildly removed from crypto that are solving very different problems can remind yourself that there are actually industries out there that aren't 90% focused on eventually turning into glorified casinos. https://x.com/ohdatskate/status/1914432019624349758

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It would be amazing to use it and show graphs and analytics of stuff that are born from this - however it will likely fail the ADHD test for me in that it requires too much buy in to do consistently.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_0C7NtSAuA The future of cinema is here - the vertical cinema screen. Can't believe it took this long, people don't want to watch movies horizontally anymore.

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