Tortoise, Explained
Tortoise is a social music streaming platform built on Base and Farcaster. The primary goal of Tortoise is to rebuild the failed digital music economy from the ground up. Moving from a pay to access model to a pay to associate model.The Music Value GapPeople listen to music for hours every day. It's the soundtrack to work, exercise, commutes, cooking, cleaning, parties, breakups. Try to imagine your life without music. You probably can't. The current value being added to people's lives by the...
Tortoise, Explained
Tortoise is a social music streaming platform built on Base and Farcaster. The primary goal of Tortoise is to rebuild the failed digital music economy from the ground up. Moving from a pay to access model to a pay to associate model.The Music Value GapPeople listen to music for hours every day. It's the soundtrack to work, exercise, commutes, cooking, cleaning, parties, breakups. Try to imagine your life without music. You probably can't. The current value being added to people's lives by the...
So I Clanked a Project...
Reflections on the Launch of Tortoise
Life Is An Ocean
I have found myself, through some sort of unintentional subconscious effort, looking at life through the mental model of an ocean over the past few years. We are explorers in this ocean and the ocean is filled with islands. Where your journey starts is up to the hand of fate. Some people start out on a near perfect expansive island that they never find themselves wanting to leave and others start out in open water, far from land and with no flotation device. Most of us start somewhere in betw...
Life Is An Ocean
I have found myself, through some sort of unintentional subconscious effort, looking at life through the mental model of an ocean over the past few years. We are explorers in this ocean and the ocean is filled with islands. Where your journey starts is up to the hand of fate. Some people start out on a near perfect expansive island that they never find themselves wanting to leave and others start out in open water, far from land and with no flotation device. Most of us start somewhere in betw...
$HUG - A Creator Coin Experiment
Meme coins, defined for our porpoises as a cryptocurrency that is backed mainly by an idea rather than some economic use case, are seeing billions of dollars in volume. Right now, most of this activity is centered around silly internet jokes like Doge and Pepe, which is generally fun and good, but what if there was this level of activity around coins that benefited all types of artists and not just meme lords? I hope to take a step in this direction with my new token project.Token Creator Fee...
$HUG - A Creator Coin Experiment
Meme coins, defined for our porpoises as a cryptocurrency that is backed mainly by an idea rather than some economic use case, are seeing billions of dollars in volume. Right now, most of this activity is centered around silly internet jokes like Doge and Pepe, which is generally fun and good, but what if there was this level of activity around coins that benefited all types of artists and not just meme lords? I hope to take a step in this direction with my new token project.Token Creator Fee...
Geoffrey the Worm
A short story about creation and legacy
