The Fourth Dimension of Power
A Working Brief | January 2026
Your Creativity Has Value (And It's Flowing Somewhere Else)
Stats @punk9059 gm gm Some new years thoughts on the markets. And why the attention economy is proving to be a bust. 128 5:35 AM • Jan 1, 2026 Stats makes an important observation, and it's one the market has now taught us repeatedly. We've lived through the NFT cycle, the memecoin cycle, and now a wave of creator token experiments that all leaned on the same underlying promise: attention converts to price. If something stays culturally relevant long enough, the token attached to it should ho...
Your Creativity Has Value (And It's Flowing Somewhere Else)
Stats @punk9059 gm gm Some new years thoughts on the markets. And why the attention economy is proving to be a bust. 128 5:35 AM • Jan 1, 2026 Stats makes an important observation, and it's one the market has now taught us repeatedly. We've lived through the NFT cycle, the memecoin cycle, and now a wave of creator token experiments that all leaned on the same underlying promise: attention converts to price. If something stays culturally relevant long enough, the token attached to it should ho...
The Sacred Remix
How Buddha Got Chubby, and Jesus Logged In
The Ideas That Think You
You didn't choose most of your beliefs. They chose you. That framework you swear by? Someone packaged it in memorable form, and it spread until it landed in your head. Now it feels like your idea. That's what a meme actually is—not a funny image, but any idea optimized for transmission. Richard Dawkins coined the term in 1976 to describe cultural units that replicate like genes. The fittest survive. But "fittest" doesn't mean truest. It means stickiest. "Move fast and break things" beats "mov...
The Ideas That Think You
You didn't choose most of your beliefs. They chose you. That framework you swear by? Someone packaged it in memorable form, and it spread until it landed in your head. Now it feels like your idea. That's what a meme actually is—not a funny image, but any idea optimized for transmission. Richard Dawkins coined the term in 1976 to describe cultural units that replicate like genes. The fittest survive. But "fittest" doesn't mean truest. It means stickiest. "Move fast and break things" beats "mov...
CryptoDickbutts and Nouns: Two Memes That Understood Transmission
CryptoDickbutts and Nouns look silly on the surface, but they succeed for serious memetic reasons. They are not just images; they are coordination devices. Most people dismiss them as jokes or scams. That's a category error. These projects succeeded precisely because they understood something fundamental about how meaning spreads, and communities form—something most "serious" projects with elaborate roadmaps and utility promises completely missed. What follows is an analysis of why these proj...
CryptoDickbutts and Nouns: Two Memes That Understood Transmission
CryptoDickbutts and Nouns look silly on the surface, but they succeed for serious memetic reasons. They are not just images; they are coordination devices. Most people dismiss them as jokes or scams. That's a category error. These projects succeeded precisely because they understood something fundamental about how meaning spreads, and communities form—something most "serious" projects with elaborate roadmaps and utility promises completely missed. What follows is an analysis of why these proj...
