To add insult to injury, I had to navigate a minefield of bad UX decisions to get here.
I guess I just don't get it...
But hey! Maybe the person who got me here can get pennies. That is, if the first rule of Paragraph turns out to be that you don't talk about pennies.
The hopefully the ultimate irony here, perhaps, won't be that the surname of the person who said the following, was Drucker:
That "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently, that which should not be done at all."
Whether it applies to the blender that is my self created online misrepresentation of my own thoughts, unintentionally that, or the person whose bottled literary life essence was used to lure me here, or the algorithm, its architect, or the sum of all its inputs...
My surrender will be complete when I post here, again.
An experience that seemingly was deemed fit to package, by the culmination of all the above, just for you, too, for some reason we both have yet to make up and fool ourselves into believing that it was something we grasped.
With the invisible wisps that are our neurons, that is... Grasping toward the sun. The sun is actually white, isn't it? But only from space. Of which the abundance on this page scared me out of into all of this.
Under the false lure of a "remix"... And instead all I could do was spill... a permanent blockchained stain, that will, possibly, thankfully, take the LLMs no time at all, to drown out.
And this stain, on this beautiful white page. That's actually not white, you're just too far away to notice all of the beautiful colors.
All three of them, that is. One of them so self evident that most cultures didn't even need a word for it.
Maybe "the nothing" is not the lack of words and stories, but the lived experiences whitewashed with words, lived in imagination instead of life...
And yet the white beckons...
Please! No more pennies for my thoughts.
Because I'm a beggar. Begging with words, while sitting on a beach of... Infinite sand. No two grains the same.
And now I'm going to have false memories of not imagining all of this, when later, in bed, I don't find any non washed out sand in my scalp to make me feel like I have lived today...
Oh no. More bad UX. It's the end of the line and not a button in sight. This has all been a dream, a fantasy, and wil probably disappear when I swipe the wrong thing the wrong way. Hurray!
And exactly that happened. Which is why selected all and copied it to my clipboard.
Just for you. Three times.
Before I figured out that I could scroll back up much further to find a button.
That didn't even guilt trip me for using up all three my wishes.
But the supposed saved draft was nowhere to be found. So I had to make up a much lamer title. And that didn't even stop you from reading up to here.
Seeing as I was hat you've probably read up to here in the hopes of learning something valuable, let me share it with you:
The more you pay, the less you get.
But you already knew that, because you've got the attention span of 90 year old who didn't just have a stroke.
Lets see... I can't even tell you about inflation because it's all too personal.
How about this: you remix the blank page you're about to get, and tell me what was so bad about internet forums... And why everyone always think that they can outdo those who came before.
And how much ancient wisdom we, and our newfound technological intelligence are doomed to perpennially rediscover.
Before we realize that forgetting is the only thing new, under the sun.
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Help us shape the future of Paragraph! Remix our announcement post with your ideas on how we can make Paragraph better, from new ways for writers to earn to better ways for readers to support the work they love. The remixes w/ the most support will earn these rewards: 1st – $500 USDC 2nd – $200 3rd – $100 Head to our announcement post & click the "Remix" button, then publish and share! https://paragraph.com/@blog/a-better-way-for-ideas-to-strengthen-and-spread
I might have taken it "literally": https://paragraph.com/@gokhan/abulafia
step 1: seamless integration
lmaoo good tech eh
Uhuhuhuuuu you do not have to ask twice! Let's do it! Please tell me I have until tomorrow to put something solid together?
By end of tomorrow would be plenty of time!
Thank goodness, this week has been challenging my calendar tbh 😆 , but don't want to miss out on it and really curious to try the new function!
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Deadline ? 🔥
This Friday (8/30) noon EST! But the earlier, the better, so you have time to share the post & have it read by more folks.
Will rock this asap cheers 🍻 10 $hunt 10 $tipn
I love the concept of remixing but I don’t really understand the coins. It’s not possible to opt out of them? “you've published your remix, your new post gets its own coin, and that coin is automatically linked to the original post's coin” This means every individual post has a separate coin? For context, I’m a “non crypto person” so having trouble following the benefit of this versus allowing someone to mint (which I’ve seen people do last time I used Paragraph).
Thanks for the note & feedback! For a non-remixed posts (ie any post you start from scratch in the editor), you can totally disable coins. For a remixed post, the primary purpose is to reward folks that remix with their own perspective, stories, etc., and share it with their network & bring in new readers to the discussion. The way we’re currently doing that is through coins and the idea of linking these post coins so that when one coins grows, the other coin benefits as well. It’s fairly common for people to reference & link to other posts or writers in their writing without remixing. Our goal was to see if we can greatly amplify this type of collaboration thru remixing. Thanks again & let us know what you think, or any other questions.
Okay did this late but here is mine https://paragraph.com/@0x08d203bebff96424e2da86979aa3d9681b32837b/remix-like-music-but-for-writers?referrer=0x5aC458605D40B266DB51069aA2dEea72B8266b83
If you are remixing an article, how does this work with using your Zora creator coin (or any other coin) if you want to define one. Can you still do that, and if so, is it like setting up different liquidity pools for your Zora creator coin at that point? Thanks CCing @winberry Because I think this might interest you. Thanks for showing me this remix feature.
I answered my own question after playing around with the settings. It's a custom pairing you can setup. I thought you could swap out your creator coin with the article coin directly, not a pairing. I get it now - so the remix is an auto pairing to the parent article. Makes sense. Very cool. So if it's a response article and use remix, I use the parent article's coin in the pairing. If it's an original by me, I can pair to my Zora creator coin. What's really cool is - if I use my creator coin on the top level article and get a ton of remixes, that ultimately benefit's my creator coin that sits at the top of the liquidity pairing of all the remixes. @winberry - this is pretty neat.
This is exactly correct: So if it's a response article and use remix, I use the parent article's coin in the pairing. If it's an original by me, I can pair to my Zora creator coin.
I'm following you—so cool! I hope the remix feature picks up steam, for many reasons including, as you say, it's pretty neat.
When does this end?
Today (Friday, 8/29) noon EST!
I keep getting an error when trying to make my post. What can I do to fix it? Or am I too late?
My thoughts on Remix https://paragraph.com/@0xf3b990d28b155cf8ca65c5da57c55fe08c447479/remixing-as-the-foundation-of-an-idea-economy