
Name That Tune
(Another) big week for music and AI. Every one of these tweets deserves its own topical deep dive. I write to understand and connect, so this is my own start to a personal exploration of how AI music has already shaped passive listening, what this means for traditional (human) artists and listeners, and what new opportunities might exist. Passive listening is now everywhere, all at once, as the main way that most people listen to music, whether they mean to or not. So now AI music is similarl...

Name That Tune
(Another) big week for music and AI. Every one of these tweets deserves its own topical deep dive. I write to understand and connect, so this is my own start to a personal exploration of how AI music has already shaped passive listening, what this means for traditional (human) artists and listeners, and what new opportunities might exist. Passive listening is now everywhere, all at once, as the main way that most people listen to music, whether they mean to or not. So now AI music is similarl...

Name That Tune
(Another) big week for music and AI. Every one of these tweets deserves its own topical deep dive. I write to understand and connect, so this is my own start to a personal exploration of how AI music has already shaped passive listening, what this means for traditional (human) artists and listeners, and what new opportunities might exist. Passive listening is now everywhere, all at once, as the main way that most people listen to music, whether they mean to or not. So now AI music is similarl...

Name That Tune
(Another) big week for music and AI. Every one of these tweets deserves its own topical deep dive. I write to understand and connect, so this is my own start to a personal exploration of how AI music has already shaped passive listening, what this means for traditional (human) artists and listeners, and what new opportunities might exist. Passive listening is now everywhere, all at once, as the main way that most people listen to music, whether they mean to or not. So now AI music is similarl...

Freaks and Geeks
Take a second of the day To think about the things that we have done this year A year ago Seed Club opened its DAO to all of you, dropping $CLUB to hundreds of wallets, and LFTG-ing into a year of experiments. We moved from knowing every single person in our community to progressively decentralizing. Hundreds joined. $CLUB holders curated accelerator participants, attended demo days and approved our first budget proposal. You embraced the Seed Club meme as your own and fostered its growth and...

Freaks and Geeks
Take a second of the day To think about the things that we have done this year A year ago Seed Club opened its DAO to all of you, dropping $CLUB to hundreds of wallets, and LFTG-ing into a year of experiments. We moved from knowing every single person in our community to progressively decentralizing. Hundreds joined. $CLUB holders curated accelerator participants, attended demo days and approved our first budget proposal. You embraced the Seed Club meme as your own and fostered its growth and...

Freaks and Geeks
Take a second of the day To think about the things that we have done this year A year ago Seed Club opened its DAO to all of you, dropping $CLUB to hundreds of wallets, and LFTG-ing into a year of experiments. We moved from knowing every single person in our community to progressively decentralizing. Hundreds joined. $CLUB holders curated accelerator participants, attended demo days and approved our first budget proposal. You embraced the Seed Club meme as your own and fostered its growth and...

Freaks and Geeks
Take a second of the day To think about the things that we have done this year A year ago Seed Club opened its DAO to all of you, dropping $CLUB to hundreds of wallets, and LFTG-ing into a year of experiments. We moved from knowing every single person in our community to progressively decentralizing. Hundreds joined. $CLUB holders curated accelerator participants, attended demo days and approved our first budget proposal. You embraced the Seed Club meme as your own and fostered its growth and...

Thermodynamics, Pynchon and Meme
. . . these follow-ups were no more disquieting than other revelations which now seemed to come crowding in exponentially, as if the more she collected the more would come to her, until everything she saw, smelled, dreamed, remembered, would somehow come to be woven into The Tristero. Thomas Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49If web3 is propelled by the power of meme, and the edges of how a community builds, sustains and operates around it, then Thomas Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49 is an extremely effecti...

Thermodynamics, Pynchon and Meme
. . . these follow-ups were no more disquieting than other revelations which now seemed to come crowding in exponentially, as if the more she collected the more would come to her, until everything she saw, smelled, dreamed, remembered, would somehow come to be woven into The Tristero. Thomas Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49If web3 is propelled by the power of meme, and the edges of how a community builds, sustains and operates around it, then Thomas Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49 is an extremely effecti...

Thermodynamics, Pynchon and Meme
. . . these follow-ups were no more disquieting than other revelations which now seemed to come crowding in exponentially, as if the more she collected the more would come to her, until everything she saw, smelled, dreamed, remembered, would somehow come to be woven into The Tristero. Thomas Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49If web3 is propelled by the power of meme, and the edges of how a community builds, sustains and operates around it, then Thomas Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49 is an extremely effecti...

Thermodynamics, Pynchon and Meme
. . . these follow-ups were no more disquieting than other revelations which now seemed to come crowding in exponentially, as if the more she collected the more would come to her, until everything she saw, smelled, dreamed, remembered, would somehow come to be woven into The Tristero. Thomas Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49If web3 is propelled by the power of meme, and the edges of how a community builds, sustains and operates around it, then Thomas Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49 is an extremely effecti...