Ribbonfarm on Paragraph
My first post
Vapor DAOs, DAOwashing, Algorithmic Influence Peddling, and Governance Overload
I’m going to start using my Mirror blog to post quick and dirty notes on all things Web3 as they occur to me, since some thoughts are too chonky for my Twitter, and too inside-baseball for my Web2 blog, ribbonfarm, or my Substack newsletter, ribbonfarm studio. I don’t yet have a real Web3 writing strategy, so this is just kinda messing around for now. Don’t take any of these notes too seriously -- it’s going to be super off-the-cuff and I might make bonehead blunders. At the Yak Collective, w...
Vapor DAOs, DAOwashing, Algorithmic Influence Peddling, and Governance Overload
I’m going to start using my Mirror blog to post quick and dirty notes on all things Web3 as they occur to me, since some thoughts are too chonky for my Twitter, and too inside-baseball for my Web2 blog, ribbonfarm, or my Substack newsletter, ribbonfarm studio. I don’t yet have a real Web3 writing strategy, so this is just kinda messing around for now. Don’t take any of these notes too seriously -- it’s going to be super off-the-cuff and I might make bonehead blunders. At the Yak Collective, w...

The Clockless Clock Maze
This image below is the Clockless Clock maze, the result of several weeks of collaborative work by maze designer Daniel Schmidt and me, based on ideas about life scripts and the experience of time that I’ve been working on since 2017. It is the anchor graphic for a book about time that I’ve been working on for a few years, and the basis for some ideas for games and virtual worlds that Dan and I have been exploring since 2019. Read on for more details.Clockless Clock, by Venkatesh Rao and Dani...

The Clockless Clock Maze
This image below is the Clockless Clock maze, the result of several weeks of collaborative work by maze designer Daniel Schmidt and me, based on ideas about life scripts and the experience of time that I’ve been working on since 2017. It is the anchor graphic for a book about time that I’ve been working on for a few years, and the basis for some ideas for games and virtual worlds that Dan and I have been exploring since 2019. Read on for more details.Clockless Clock, by Venkatesh Rao and Dani...
Ribbonfarm Map
Minted the 2016 Ribbonfarm map as a 1/1 NFT on Foundation. Still exploring various ways of doing things. ethereum://0x3B3ee1931Dc30C1957379FAc9aba94D1C48a5405/106332
Ribbonfarm Map
Minted the 2016 Ribbonfarm map as a 1/1 NFT on Foundation. Still exploring various ways of doing things. ethereum://0x3B3ee1931Dc30C1957379FAc9aba94D1C48a5405/106332

Hello World
I guess I’ve joined Web3 now? Made this cartoon to ELI5 the basics to myself.Web3 Main Scenarios and Capability Maturity ModelHey looks like I can edit editions after the fact?

Hello World
I guess I’ve joined Web3 now? Made this cartoon to ELI5 the basics to myself.Web3 Main Scenarios and Capability Maturity ModelHey looks like I can edit editions after the fact?