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A couple of founders I know are looking for CTOs for pre-seed projects in the AI creative tooling space. Web3-native and West Coast based preferred. Genuinely interesting builds, not a time sink. HMU if you’re a strong fit.

this is wild 🤯

Thoughts I wrote on my flight back from the bay area after some really cool conversations. Self reflections not aimed at anyone: Art does not become content just because it lives online. Speculation can drive attention. It cannot sustain meaning. A rising floor price is not the same thing as cultural relevance. Markets move fast. Taste moves slowly. Liquidity is loud. Conviction is quiet. A cooling market does not erase the work that was made. Hype has a short memory. Culture does not. Financial outcomes and artistic value rarely move in sync. Not every collector is a speculator. Not every speculator is a collector. Distribution models evolve. The question is what they optimize for. Price discovery is a market function, not an artistic one. A market cycle ending is not the same as a cultural moment ending. Some people leave when volatility rises. Others arrive when noise drops. The loudest phase of a movement is rarely its most important. Markets correct faster than narratives do. Art was never obligated to perform like an asset.

many such cases

heard someone is buying farcaster

I have been thinking today about ephemeral tokens as a pre-TGE funding layer. Capital is staked early, deployed to fund the build, and then gradually unwinds into USDC on a fixed schedule. No debt, no repayment pressure, no yield theater. Backers earn defined allocation at launch for committing early, not for speculating late. Thoughts?

One of the core tensions in digital art is that many patrons were crypto first. Incentives pulled them in, not art knowledge or galleries. But it is also the first time art reached millions who are younger, digitally native and understand value. Build around these principles🤝

I was going to post a picture from 2016 but it seems like I look exactly the same. Not complaining. but not great for opsec.

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I learned to stay grounded during success and steady during failure. To treat both as temporary. To avoid attaching my sense of worth to outcomes I could not fully control. Marcus Aurelius remains undefeated

Me vibing with the homies next week in Palo Alto at @nodefoundation's grand opening

The density of builders on Farcaster keeps standing out to me. A lot of sharp, driven people who feel scattered elsewhere actually end up overlapping here. Since Farcaster is already social and transaction-ready, I keep wondering whether social funding could emerge as a real alternative to VC, maybe even a killer use case, in the same way ICOs drove the last bull run. For a lot of builders, $20k to $500k is enough to do some serious damage. In a way, it feels like a modern form of patronage, not that different from how artists were supported for centuries.