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If I have time later I'm gonna take a look at @sequelmovies, talk a bit about why I'm interested in HBO-but-it's-in-Clanker, and look at the financials of their first day's fees One thing to note: films have longer time frames, I'd love to see someone produce a serious piece of content, and ship a coin right before distribution. They'd likely earn more than they'd earn from a kickstarter, and there wouldn't be such a gap between launch and reveal My first job in nyc was as a production secretary on a John Malkovich movie. He's a cool guy, once pitched batting practice to my dad's little league team lol. I hated that job so much, got yelled at a lot. I like my current under employment way more, but people who love making movies should be able to leverage crypto to make them

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Clanker won, I'm really sorry or congratulations for that (whichever you prefer) Doesn't matter who promotes or doesn't promote Clanker, which institutional forces admired or hated my contributions, it doesn't matter which people fw Jack's ongoing leadership, or all that lily, yung, Carter, and Moon have built since Nov. All that matters is that in our eco, Clanker is the best choice for people who want to succeed with a coin Good to remember what business ur in, and Clanker? Well she's in the number go up business and it's still early imo

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The reasons this felt like such a W at the time: - emerged from a process of analysis, use, and research on Farcaster that was both openly critical and at least attempted to be constructive - I sourced talent from /bounties using FC native tooling and wound up with @chasesommer a literally brand new FC and basically also a fresh crypto user entirely. But chase was also curious, didn't like making assumptions, pushed back in the right ways and had tons of relevant data, sql skills which were how my initial assumptions about auto-follow transformed into a dashboard and some questions that at the very least validated why questions were important to ask - I was able to compensate chase at least semi-fairly for his time because of /hypersub , where I harnessed a small slice of post-degen's speculative energy towards trying to build and buy meaningful stuff with readers of my not-rly-a-newsletter. - the whole lifecycle of this dune dashboard came from the Farcaster feed, a sort of critical love note to d & varun

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Good opportunity here

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Okay enuf literature im gonna by some $opsys and $sky because whatever else i think about basil and flood they are both rly honest brokers and good contributors to our network and i recently heard a rumor people are making up falsehoods about them That's that shit I don't like

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2. Phillip Lopate - in grad school he was the slightly cranky old school prof slightly upset about woke stuff and v much a product of an era long past. His notes on the back of my essays are the kindest words anyone has ever given me. A legend in his game, of his craft. My fave Lopate is his critical work - the forward on Emerson from that anthology, the classic 1994 anthology "the art of the personal essay" and ever the teacher he'd tell me to shut up and just share Montaigne ('On Vanity' might be appropriate, because how could I answer jp without a lil bragging?) But "To Show and To Tell" was what influenced me most, outside of the classroom and his great gift of an anthology https://books.google.com/books/about/To_Show_and_to_Tell.html?id=vSdHLFCq0NMC

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here are three things you can read today by the people who taught me how to write as an undergrad and as an adult pursuing a career writing (grad school and after). I love these people, they are humble and funny, and I've visited all of them in their homes for tea or a snack & conervastion. All of them wonderful, real giants of this world in my eyes 1. Leslie Jamison - empathy exams is the book to buy if you enjoy, but also her memoir on alcholism and recovery is gorgeoys (the recovering) https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/catechism-for-the-end-of-the-world

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best example of fc progress is the video feed on main client way way better than last august

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feeling sappy once again so fuck it, small reminder that anything is possible and you can achieve your wildest dreams even if youre starting out (starting again?) from the very bottom of the gutter. we deserve nothing but what we earn sometimes dreams come true about 3 monthes after youve let go off them entirely, sometimes they arent even your dreams! gg, ily, u killed it, we all win forever and ever ~sent from my ipad air~

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"Rewards for any user that holds my special token and buys stuff denominated in it" feels far less sticky than "discover bangers and win rewards" keep it simple

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Still sick that @geoffgolberg got this excellent reporter to post on the people app because brypto ain't good for much but it sure works well for anyone interested in transforming attention or social capital into capital capital Something our monopolistic tech overlords stole from us a long time ago, placing $ and truth securely within their walled garden, just another potted plant to be tended to for their anti-social pleasures and dreams. Makes me happy whenever I see it, also reminds me of Geoff, who I just find to be a fascinating and cool character. Our bravest, most autistic warrior. The only guy who could authentically piss me off in the morning and book a call id attend in the same afternoon. Salute, gg

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I know last week there was lots of drama, I don't rly have much comment about all that I with / behind Jack & the team But I do think Rainbow sincerely gets Clanker, the role that the project has played in the eco. Still... a project as big, valid + OG as rainbow building directly on top of @clanker as an interface is basically what I dreamed about when thinking thru how Clanker could grow up - "protocolization" Apart from that it's also just a pretty elegant implementation: mobile app has a million strengths that I don't need to repeat, and @rainbow is targeting traders with rewards, something that I've been thinking about since like last December. Creators have great incentives, and well capitalized traders don't need them v much. But smaller accounts, users with 1-10k, accounts that drive so much of the value in our eco by committing time + attention to coins, projects... are a good candidate for rewards. Love when a product makes me excited, think about the possibilities in new ways

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I'm reading Chernow's "House of Morgan," which covers the invention of modern banking and finance. he talks a lot about the Railroad Mania that gripped this country in the back half of the 19th century (the 1800s). Like it's almost funny the way European investors keep losing all their money in what are essentially "forks" of existing railroad lines. 1:1 copies of good, valuable lines without adding ANYTHING or even trying to make them valuable. They called these Blackmail Lines, and a lot of Wall St firms poured money into them: high upside, high downside, lots of crime involved. America really suffered more from OVER building of railroad lines, so much so that most of them end up crashing, wiping out investors in successive stock panics. Boom and busts, speculative mania, extractive companies seeking windfall profits, bankers making enormous fortunes & controlling the destiny of states - financing wars and famines - none of this is new or specific to crypto.

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I was early to DeFi and late to everything else. I was wrong about... - DAOs, I was idealistic abt collective ownership & governance. Hoped DAOs might challenge The Firm, interrupt the myopia elite capture, accelerating accumulation of capital & power by le cabal. never underestimate free rider problems, most don't work, and ppl who work hard often still struggle with bias to action & risk - end of credentialism, rise of anons: totally invalidated. I think pseudoanon stuff is cooked, see this inside crypto and even more outside. Rare anons do it, but esp on Base the pref is for YC or ex-base types. Credentialism reigns, most PoW types struggle to find distribution, capital, audience w/o followers. We're bullish blackrock bid, I haven't heard anyone mention egirl capital in ages (go read their blog though, bangers) - Farcaster, miniapps: i felt what's missing was broad economic growth, which would kickstart adoption. but now champagne clankers exist, lots of miniapps too... but its vibes (matters so much)

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My networth: $430k cash, equities $400k in brypto -$200k student loans (payments pending!) $20k owed 2 me by a friend $15k invested in a friends company I voluntarily gave up 50% of equity in Clanker post Farcon because I care about the people I built it with, and I didn't extract a bunch of $ while building Clanker because that's not what it was about, and bc I'm more than the worst thing I've ever done. Still gonna win, started from 0 twice, ran it up twice - building shit? ez AMA

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