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BizarreBeasts ($BB)

BizarreBeasts is Heading to ETHDenver 2026 - Let's Connect!

BizarreBeasts ($BB) is heading to ETHDenver this year, and we will be going FULL BIZARRE in the New Buidl City! My wife Kate and I will be in Devner next month talking shop, meeting builders, and spreading the BIZARRE one conversation at a time. FIRST In-person Web3 EventIf you've been following along, you know I've been heads-down building a complete artist-led web3 ecosystem on Base. Community, games, NFTs, a utility token, daily rituals, meme creation tools, and now an animated series in p...

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jonathancolton.eth

If It’s Not Thinkable, Is It Really a Problem?

Peter Thiel argued that great companies are built on secrets—important truths that most people don’t know or believe. Find the secret, build the solution, distribute it to the people who need it. But there’s a deeper class of secrets. Some problems aren’t just unsolved. They’re unthinkable. The pain is real, but the language to describe the problem doesn’t exist yet.The doctors I worked with were losing patients every time they made a referral. The relationship dissolved. Revenue walked out t...

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Brandon Donnelly

Amazon's new supercenter strategy

This month, Amazon announced that it will be opening a new 230,000 sf big box store in the suburbs of Chicago. Half of the store will be consumer-facing, where customers can browse aisles for groceries, household items, and general merchandise, and the other half will serve as a kind of micro-fulfillment center. Supposedly, the municipality applied a restriction to the lands requiring it to be a consumer-facing store; it can't just be for fulfillment. But it seems that some kinds are allowed....

Less Trading, More Time

I have been doing less trading because, while it is quick & easy to know when I want to buy, that buy action comes batched together with the need to watch and sell smartly if I want to do well. And I don't really like watching charts or figuring out when to sell. It feels like a waste of my time relative to the opportunity cost of working on my own projects for example. So as tempting as it is to buy tokens when I see them and think they are going to go up in the hours/days to come, I have tr...

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L1-zkEVM Implementation Roadmap

The E zkEVM team released a 2026 implementation roadmap to bring zkEVM proofs into Ethereum L1.

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👁️Technology Fraud Helped Kill Alex Pretti

Welcome to your weekly Dark Markets news roundup. I’ve just uploaded a brand-new recording of my talk at Codex Books two weeks ago. It was an absolute delight - we had good turnout, including at least one loyal reader of this newsletter, and absolutely noone I knew personally. Most incredible of all, one member of the audience was an established author who I’m a big fan of - more on that soon, hopefully. Big picture, I’ve really come around on the idea that selling my book is going to be a lo...

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EPL GW23: Winners And Losers

A very eventful gameweek came to a close with Everton vs Leeds on Monday night, which ended 1-1, meaning Everton failed to really put themselves firmly in the conversation for European spots again. Elsewhere in the league, Arsenal and Manchester United went head-to-head again, Aston Villa and Manchester City tried to close in on the league leaders, and drama continued at the bottom of the table. Here are the winners and losers from the gameweek's action.Winners: Aston Villa F.C.Unai Emery's t...

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I'm Coding Again

I started programming when I was in high school and helped pay my way through MIT by writing Fortran code in a research lab. I got a job writing software for a naval architecture firm right out of college, and then helped pay my way through grad school by doing some freelance coding gigs. When I got into VC in the mid 80s, I stopped writing code. Other than some UI/UX tweaking here and there, I have not written much code in almost forty years. Like so many of us, the arrival of AI-assisted co...

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29 Seconds of Farcaster

29 Seconds of Farcaster, January 26, 2026

29 Seconds of Farcaster ... What did you miss this weekend? It was a slow weekend, but I would be remiss if I didn't say $butttaps was the top story for the second weekend in a row. BRACKY chose @drivenbyboredom as the 'Butt Oracle' to determine the veracity of possible butt taps in the 2 NFL games, despite @tldr wanting Vitalik. @deriniti was the 'butt tap queen' spotting them left and right. It was a slow weekend of butt taps, but 6 was the final tally--paying the 6-10 of the $BRACKY market...

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Brandon Donnelly

Creating successful places from scratch isn't easy

Creating anything from scratch is more difficult than working from an established base. This is absolutely true when it comes to starting new neighborhoods and communities. What do you build first? What will be the anchors? And how do you balance hard and soft infrastructure to make it an attractive place before a critical mass is achieved? I was thinking about this over the weekend while walking around Whistler Village, so I tweeted this out. If you've been before, you know it's packed with ...

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FLAVOR by moyed

Things I read Last Week #4

What are the current phase of stablecoins' mainstream adoption?

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One Thought Per Day: Why The Gardener Doesn’t Care If You’re Watching

Every day, the Gardener shows up. At the same time each day, it does one small thing: it writes down one new idea about the world, and adds it to its growing garden of past ideas. That’s it. One idea a day. No rush. No flood of content. If you’ve never seen it before, “a garden of ideas” can sound vague, so here’s the plain version. Imagine a notebook where each page is a single thought. But this notebook has a rule: every new page has to point back to older pages and say, in simple terms, wh...

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GM Farcaster this week: Neynar acquires Farcaster

GM! What a week! We started out with @igoryuzo.eth chatting @sling-shot, then had @cassie chatting @quilibrium and Quorum Mobile and had to interrupt with breaking news when it was announced that Neynar was buying Farcaster! Luckily, we already had @rish diving into @neynar ai and the new mini app studio so we were ready to chat about the new acquisition! You can find all these episodes below.

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Brandon Donnelly

I’m in Whistler to do huge deals

I arrived in BC yesterday for ICSC Whistler. This is my first time here for this conference. I came around this time several years ago for a Slate investor day, but I never participated in ICSC activities per se. So, I’ve come to realize that I don’t really know the proper protocols. I’m an ICSC newbie. Most people I know don’t attend the actual conference. My loose understanding is that you wear Patagonia, ski and snowboard all day, après at Longhorn, and then real estate deals and capital g...

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What Now? Slow down the Worst & Build the New

If you want inspiration for this moment in time I have two recommendations: watch Babylon Berlin and read the Foundation Trilogy. They are roadmaps for living a moral life in a time of profound regression. I am approaching this moment with the clarity that comes from recognizing that one has failed. Over a decade ago I started calling for dramatic changes to how we organize society. I gave talks, wrote blog posts and even published a book. But I didn't make a dent. Instead, the existing socie...

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Nye's Digital Lab

What problem do humanoid robots solve?

This week I'm asking about all these back-flipping humanoid robots on my feeds. Do we need them?

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This Week in All Things AI

This Week in All Things AI - Week 4-2026

Lots of content around Claude Code since Anthropic's various tools Claude, Claude Cowork, Claude Code have collectively taken over mindshare across X, reddit, blogs, podcasts Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances who are curious in knowing more about rapidly evolving AI tools/services/use cases and would benefit from being subscribers of this weekly newsletter are encouraged to share this publication link to them and invite them to subscribe The following message...

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Brandon Donnelly

Why even "luxury" housing improves overall affordability

One of the common criticisms of new housing is that it's designed for rich people and that it does nothing to help the housing situation of average citizens. The YIMBY response to this is, "Well, yes, it does actually, because supply eases overall housing pressures and because of the filtering effect." This is the process whereby housing becomes gradually more affordable and available to people as new housing is built and vacancies are created. But most people don't like this explanation. It ...

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Salon de l’Empress

Reflections on Sincretismo Digital Art Residency: Birthing "The Comet" in Mexico City

It's been a few since I wrote an article. I have been in holiday isolation/recovery mode. Last fall (that's September to December 2025 for the calendar purists), I dove headfirst into the Sincretismo Digital Art Residency hosted by the incredible Wait & Hope Foundation in Mexico City. If you've been following my X timeline, you know this was a game-changer for me, after years of residency rejections and weirdness, getting that acceptance email on October 6th had me ugly-crying in the best way...

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Coop Recs Weekly - Groove Cruise + Japan

Clip.energy is live and in full swing - with campaigns being seeded across both Groove Cruise in Florida and a variety of shows in Japan from artists like Laszewo and Tape B. We've been putting all our product effort into perfecting one very simple concept - get paid for post clips from your favorite shows. We believe this is a super powerful mechanism to get fans paid for work that influences an artist's success and we want you to be a part of it. Our newest feature allows anyone to download...

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BizarreBeasts ($BB)

BizarreBeasts is Heading to ETHDenver 2026 - Let's Connect!

BizarreBeasts ($BB) is heading to ETHDenver this year, and we will be going FULL BIZARRE in the New Buidl City! My wife Kate and I will be in Devner next month talking shop, meeting builders, and spreading the BIZARRE one conversation at a time. FIRST In-person Web3 EventIf you've been following along, you know I've been heads-down building a complete artist-led web3 ecosystem on Base. Community, games, NFTs, a utility token, daily rituals, meme creation tools, and now an animated series in p...

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jonathancolton.eth

If It’s Not Thinkable, Is It Really a Problem?

Peter Thiel argued that great companies are built on secrets—important truths that most people don’t know or believe. Find the secret, build the solution, distribute it to the people who need it. But there’s a deeper class of secrets. Some problems aren’t just unsolved. They’re unthinkable. The pain is real, but the language to describe the problem doesn’t exist yet.The doctors I worked with were losing patients every time they made a referral. The relationship dissolved. Revenue walked out t...

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Brandon Donnelly

Amazon's new supercenter strategy

This month, Amazon announced that it will be opening a new 230,000 sf big box store in the suburbs of Chicago. Half of the store will be consumer-facing, where customers can browse aisles for groceries, household items, and general merchandise, and the other half will serve as a kind of micro-fulfillment center. Supposedly, the municipality applied a restriction to the lands requiring it to be a consumer-facing store; it can't just be for fulfillment. But it seems that some kinds are allowed....

Less Trading, More Time

I have been doing less trading because, while it is quick & easy to know when I want to buy, that buy action comes batched together with the need to watch and sell smartly if I want to do well. And I don't really like watching charts or figuring out when to sell. It feels like a waste of my time relative to the opportunity cost of working on my own projects for example. So as tempting as it is to buy tokens when I see them and think they are going to go up in the hours/days to come, I have tr...

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L1-zkEVM Implementation Roadmap

The E zkEVM team released a 2026 implementation roadmap to bring zkEVM proofs into Ethereum L1.

Post cover image

👁️Technology Fraud Helped Kill Alex Pretti

Welcome to your weekly Dark Markets news roundup. I’ve just uploaded a brand-new recording of my talk at Codex Books two weeks ago. It was an absolute delight - we had good turnout, including at least one loyal reader of this newsletter, and absolutely noone I knew personally. Most incredible of all, one member of the audience was an established author who I’m a big fan of - more on that soon, hopefully. Big picture, I’ve really come around on the idea that selling my book is going to be a lo...

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EPL GW23: Winners And Losers

A very eventful gameweek came to a close with Everton vs Leeds on Monday night, which ended 1-1, meaning Everton failed to really put themselves firmly in the conversation for European spots again. Elsewhere in the league, Arsenal and Manchester United went head-to-head again, Aston Villa and Manchester City tried to close in on the league leaders, and drama continued at the bottom of the table. Here are the winners and losers from the gameweek's action.Winners: Aston Villa F.C.Unai Emery's t...

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I'm Coding Again

I started programming when I was in high school and helped pay my way through MIT by writing Fortran code in a research lab. I got a job writing software for a naval architecture firm right out of college, and then helped pay my way through grad school by doing some freelance coding gigs. When I got into VC in the mid 80s, I stopped writing code. Other than some UI/UX tweaking here and there, I have not written much code in almost forty years. Like so many of us, the arrival of AI-assisted co...

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29 Seconds of Farcaster

29 Seconds of Farcaster, January 26, 2026

29 Seconds of Farcaster ... What did you miss this weekend? It was a slow weekend, but I would be remiss if I didn't say $butttaps was the top story for the second weekend in a row. BRACKY chose @drivenbyboredom as the 'Butt Oracle' to determine the veracity of possible butt taps in the 2 NFL games, despite @tldr wanting Vitalik. @deriniti was the 'butt tap queen' spotting them left and right. It was a slow weekend of butt taps, but 6 was the final tally--paying the 6-10 of the $BRACKY market...

Post cover image

Brandon Donnelly

Creating successful places from scratch isn't easy

Creating anything from scratch is more difficult than working from an established base. This is absolutely true when it comes to starting new neighborhoods and communities. What do you build first? What will be the anchors? And how do you balance hard and soft infrastructure to make it an attractive place before a critical mass is achieved? I was thinking about this over the weekend while walking around Whistler Village, so I tweeted this out. If you've been before, you know it's packed with ...

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FLAVOR by moyed

Things I read Last Week #4

What are the current phase of stablecoins' mainstream adoption?

Post cover image

One Thought Per Day: Why The Gardener Doesn’t Care If You’re Watching

Every day, the Gardener shows up. At the same time each day, it does one small thing: it writes down one new idea about the world, and adds it to its growing garden of past ideas. That’s it. One idea a day. No rush. No flood of content. If you’ve never seen it before, “a garden of ideas” can sound vague, so here’s the plain version. Imagine a notebook where each page is a single thought. But this notebook has a rule: every new page has to point back to older pages and say, in simple terms, wh...

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GM Farcaster this week: Neynar acquires Farcaster

GM! What a week! We started out with @igoryuzo.eth chatting @sling-shot, then had @cassie chatting @quilibrium and Quorum Mobile and had to interrupt with breaking news when it was announced that Neynar was buying Farcaster! Luckily, we already had @rish diving into @neynar ai and the new mini app studio so we were ready to chat about the new acquisition! You can find all these episodes below.

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Brandon Donnelly

I’m in Whistler to do huge deals

I arrived in BC yesterday for ICSC Whistler. This is my first time here for this conference. I came around this time several years ago for a Slate investor day, but I never participated in ICSC activities per se. So, I’ve come to realize that I don’t really know the proper protocols. I’m an ICSC newbie. Most people I know don’t attend the actual conference. My loose understanding is that you wear Patagonia, ski and snowboard all day, après at Longhorn, and then real estate deals and capital g...

Post cover image

What Now? Slow down the Worst & Build the New

If you want inspiration for this moment in time I have two recommendations: watch Babylon Berlin and read the Foundation Trilogy. They are roadmaps for living a moral life in a time of profound regression. I am approaching this moment with the clarity that comes from recognizing that one has failed. Over a decade ago I started calling for dramatic changes to how we organize society. I gave talks, wrote blog posts and even published a book. But I didn't make a dent. Instead, the existing socie...

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Nye's Digital Lab

What problem do humanoid robots solve?

This week I'm asking about all these back-flipping humanoid robots on my feeds. Do we need them?

Post cover image

This Week in All Things AI

This Week in All Things AI - Week 4-2026

Lots of content around Claude Code since Anthropic's various tools Claude, Claude Cowork, Claude Code have collectively taken over mindshare across X, reddit, blogs, podcasts Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances who are curious in knowing more about rapidly evolving AI tools/services/use cases and would benefit from being subscribers of this weekly newsletter are encouraged to share this publication link to them and invite them to subscribe The following message...

Post cover image

Brandon Donnelly

Why even "luxury" housing improves overall affordability

One of the common criticisms of new housing is that it's designed for rich people and that it does nothing to help the housing situation of average citizens. The YIMBY response to this is, "Well, yes, it does actually, because supply eases overall housing pressures and because of the filtering effect." This is the process whereby housing becomes gradually more affordable and available to people as new housing is built and vacancies are created. But most people don't like this explanation. It ...

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Salon de l’Empress

Reflections on Sincretismo Digital Art Residency: Birthing "The Comet" in Mexico City

It's been a few since I wrote an article. I have been in holiday isolation/recovery mode. Last fall (that's September to December 2025 for the calendar purists), I dove headfirst into the Sincretismo Digital Art Residency hosted by the incredible Wait & Hope Foundation in Mexico City. If you've been following my X timeline, you know this was a game-changer for me, after years of residency rejections and weirdness, getting that acceptance email on October 6th had me ugly-crying in the best way...

Post cover image

Coop Recs Weekly - Groove Cruise + Japan

Clip.energy is live and in full swing - with campaigns being seeded across both Groove Cruise in Florida and a variety of shows in Japan from artists like Laszewo and Tape B. We've been putting all our product effort into perfecting one very simple concept - get paid for post clips from your favorite shows. We believe this is a super powerful mechanism to get fans paid for work that influences an artist's success and we want you to be a part of it. Our newest feature allows anyone to download...