Parenting

My kid has decided that my wife's name is "mama" and mine is "dada papa *growl*"

Am I winning parenting?

Part of me worries about outsourcing reasoning, analysis, and thought to AIs for things like medical diagnosis

But the bigger part of me wonders if perfect recall and training on every medical text ever might be lead to better outcomes regardless

"I'd like to get a second opinion"

*opens a new tab*

DeFi

I've been digging back into new web3 products recently and spent last night looking at a new defi protocol, https://x.com/bunni_xyz. Here's what I learned, why it's worth talking about, and what the rise of tools like this can tell us about how web3 is changing...

Bullish on using cursor to throw together little convenience apps, for instance here's a tiny raycast extension I put together that adds arrow glyphs into my clipboard, eg: ↑↓←→⇄

full code w/ how to install it here: https://github.com/mvwi/glyphs

Memes

The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).

In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost…

Department of Government Efficiency

https://x.com/DOGE/status/1891614960452522187

maybe all we need to onboard 1b users is to make a bank like wallet app without unnecessary swaps and complexity etc.

just a magic bank app where everything is transparent, 100x cheaper, global and takes seconds to complete any time of day or night

I would love to see this be a new web3 entrant but realistically I give 50:50 odds that paypal just does this

they already have the reach, incentives, and tech, just need the laws to relax enough that they aren't taking undue risk in letting their team run with it

you can just d̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ change your zoom name to [company]'s AI Notetaker and join any call you want

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

Cynical interpretation:
Barely disguised Kaito IPO, founders & investors want to buy some beachfront

(Somewhat) less cynical interpretation:
Not much detail on the tokenomics yet but being able to wedge Kaito into defi protocols, especially ones with crazy custom rules enabled by Uniswap hooks, etc. could create a really strange CT incentivization layer. Can projects stake the token to drive content creators towards talking about a particular protocol?

Given Twitter's historically pretty negative view on alternative ad networks and undisclosed incentivized content I would not be surprised if this puts Kaito at odds with Twitter itself. In an extreme case that could lead to their API access being revoked and basically the death of the business. The potential returns bad actors could collect from collusion, bot networks, and artificially skewing engagement metrics makes this feel more likely.

crypto: we’re a serious technology and you should take us seriously
also crypto: what if we sponsored a knife fighting tournament

The space race gave us:
- microchips
- flash memory
- infrared thermometers
- memory foam
- cordless tools
- smoke detectors

Crypto is giving us:
- zero knowledge proofs
- TEEs
- liquid democracy
- quadratic funding
- homomorphic encryption
- novel auction mechanisms
- retroactive funding models

If you think there's nothing good happening in crypto you're not paying attention

Farcaster

Okay I did the warpcast wallet thing

What’s the big brain master plan?

I'm bullish on crypto because my bank told me it would take $4k and 45-60 days to open a HELOC

Taking out a 6-figure loan on Aave took me 20mins and $50 in gas

No amount of hand wringing can take away that utility

'accidental' discoveries:
- penicillin
- artificial sweeteners (scary)
- post-it notes
- play-doh
- superglue
- matches
- viagra
- photography (daguerreotypes)

someone-build

Tossing together a quick fc engagement dashboard w/ cursor + @neynar

I've been using Claude for months but having it deeply integrated in the ide is great (cursor pro). Signing up my whole engineering team for some variant of this stack next week

how long until leetspeak is cool again?

asking for a friend who is me

web3 is the world's weirdest economics lab

where else do you have
- billions of independent actors
- no societal guardrails (trust, rationality, legal recourse, etc.)
- massive incentives to exploit each other

and despite it all, it just... works?

Trying hard to be the training data I want to see in the world | DΞF | Head of Product Serotonin | building serotonin.co/platform

Michael

@michael