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/believein revival starts Tuesday, November 19th. 

Momentum into the new year will be face melting. 

Goals:

1. Create the highest signal network of high-agency indie writer-practitioners 
2. Develop a pattern library and toolkit for indies to build the worlds they want to see
3. Recruit believers to Higher

aichannel

One idea from Dwarkesh <> Gwern that stuck with me:

Writing is the most powerful way to influence the shoggoth.

You either write and influence the future, or you abdicate that influence to others, and your value rounds to zero.

The shoggoth amplifies and adapts to those who write.

Tell everyone you know 

https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xe07a3b04525300d47694966ecd5b141a094cb047/2?referrer=0x58e68c85f32004a2f9d2049dba00c17a10adfaca

Had a little rant of a writing session in this post haha

Believe in something like Vitalik believes in privacy

I’m excited about next week’s fireside chat because the dude isn’t on Farcaster. Crypto adjacent, but I don’t think he’s been on the wave since 2021.

He just thinks deeply about IRL communities and hospitality, and practices what he preaches. 

Lotta lessons in there. Excited for y’all to meet him.

Also got confirmation from two bigger names who don’t do many interviews, and especially not intimate ones like we’re doing. 

We’re COOKING.

This checks out. 

Little Internets. 

I wrote last year that the lines between product, community, and market were blurring. 

Every network will have its own brand, economy, and product suite. 

Some of these networks will overlap. 

They’re not “communities,” they’re not “DAOs,” they’re not *just* “economies.”

They’re little internets.

This feels so much better than constantly measuring success against Web 2.0 networks that grew by taking advantage of their users. 

No farcaster client ever getting as big as Twitter would be good for the internet. It means the variety, particularity, and GDP per user go way up. 

Internet Distributism.

Farcaster

In retrospect, decentralized social network has been terrible framing for Farcaster.

Two recent frames that are better:

1. Farcaster is an economy — social network + crypto wallets, small but high GDP per capita, h/t @woj.eth @luc 

2. Programmable social — X APIs are dead, Farcaster APIs are constantly getting better, h/t @six 

It's still (mostly) decentralized under the hood, but lean into the things that it's really good at relative to the competition.

BIS PRESENTS: @proxystudio.eth Q&A

Tuesday, November 19th @ 12:30PM ET

We’ll be talking Clanker, agents, social trading, ambient interfaces, and having that dog in you. 

Link will be shared in the /believein  group chat. Subscribers only.

Insights will be summarized and shared publicly.

HAPPENING NOW!

Links in BIS group chat and Proxy Telegram.

Happening today in a few hours.

Proxy has a unique view on the nature of networked work that I don’t think he’s articulated publicly before. 

We’ll dive into that, Clanker, and more 🫡

Link will be shared in the /believein group chat 10 minutes before the call.

Happening today in a few hours.

Proxy has a unique view on the nature of networked work that I don’t think he’s articulated publicly before. 

We’ll dive into that, Clanker, and more 🫡

Link will be shared in the /believein group chat 10 minutes before the call. 

https://events.xyz/events/4bb7e3

I think “cozyweb discovery” is a big problem. RSS will make a comeback. Rather than being at the will of an algorithmic feed, people will pay for access to a squad-curated feed that they can discuss privately.

What would the ultimate /believein RSS feed look like?

Who would we be curating? What types of work? What do you want to see more of in your feed that is mission aligned?

Happening tomorrow. Really excited for this. 

/believein members can add it to their calendar here:

Happening tomorrow. Really excited for this. 

/believein members can add it to their calendar here: https://events.xyz/events/4bb7e3

Three new /believein members today. 

I’m excited. This direction feels right. The internet needs a home to explore what happens when conviction, tech, independence, and open networks converge. 

Momentum is high. This Q&A series guest lineup is INSANE, can’t wait to share the rest of it. 

Believe in something.

The /believein Pattern Library is a home for patterns and ideas that are critical to understanding how to shape the world, with your words and your tools, in the networked age.

Our first pattern: Ambient Interfaces

We talk Clanker, Farcaster Frames, Discord chatbots, and the beginnings of ambience. 

https://paragraph.xyz/@believeinsomething/ambient-interfaces

founder /openventures | /proxyswap | tokenbot @clanker

The /believein Pattern Library is a home for patterns and ideas that are critical to understanding how to shape the world, with your words and your tools, in the networked age.

Our first pattern: Ambient Interfaces

We talk Clanker, Farcaster Frames, Discord chatbots, and the beginnings of ambience.