Last year some time I published a kind of horror, kind of comedy bit of nonsense called the worms. One of the things in the worms is some kind of ongoing refinement of a user profile of the reader; as the reader reads the thing, they have to “charge up” or something periodically by interacting with some video thing. It’s rudimentary.

At the time I was preparing it for release, I was not yet aware of NFTs. It was before the boom, or maybe during the boom, not sure. I eventually discovered NFTs, and now this project, or rather some new version of it, seems a pretty good opportunity.

The project always felt kind of half there, like, you could read it, and you could interact with it, and the story comes out differently depending on your input, but without getting to relate to what other people experienced, you don’t even really sense the individuality of your experience — you may as well have experienced the same exact thing as everyone else.

Anyway, I like the idea of closing the loop by offering people their own NFTs which they can mint if they wish. The artifacts will show some computed text version of their experience, a readable encryption of some kind. The artifact will be utterly meaningless alone, but after comparing it to other people’s individualized tokens, it will gain meaning.