Nothing written is financial or even general life advice. These essays are for entertainment purposes only --- Godspeed.Based ManagementAn excerpt from our introduction essay:Based Management is an experiment currently being led by Leighton Cusack and myself. Taking insights from Nouns and Purple, it’s a new type of onchain organization that leverages free NFT drops, memetic remixing, and the latest Nouns Builder tooling available on L2s.Since launch we have:amassed a treasury of $23,000estab...

Nothing written is financial or even general life advice. These essays are for entertainment purposes only --- Godspeed.Based ManagementAn excerpt from our introduction essay:Based Management is an experiment currently being led by Leighton Cusack and myself. Taking insights from Nouns and Purple, it’s a new type of onchain organization that leverages free NFT drops, memetic remixing, and the latest Nouns Builder tooling available on L2s.Since launch we have:amassed a treasury of $23,000estab...

In August I minted Based. “A token for the early adopters.” Open for the whole month, it closed just shy of 46.5K tokens minted and over 33k unique wallets. The most resonant piece in my young onchain discography by many multiples. Immediately I felt understanding emerge in regard to Jack Butcher’s words about his Checks and Opepen projects. Retrofitted for this post, he spoke of the impetus to experiment with each collection (initially just single-piece open editions) coming after seeing the...

In August I minted Based. “A token for the early adopters.” Open for the whole month, it closed just shy of 46.5K tokens minted and over 33k unique wallets. The most resonant piece in my young onchain discography by many multiples. Immediately I felt understanding emerge in regard to Jack Butcher’s words about his Checks and Opepen projects. Retrofitted for this post, he spoke of the impetus to experiment with each collection (initially just single-piece open editions) coming after seeing the...

Based Management is an experiment currently being led by Leighton Cusack and myself. Taking insights from Nouns and Purple, it’s a new type of onchain organization that leverages free NFT drops, memetic remixing, and the latest Nouns Builder tooling available on L2s. Currently being incubated by a small founding team, Based Management is building toward full decentralization whereby artists, builders, and daily active users of Ethereum have a robust treasury, value structure, and memetic lang...

Based Management is an experiment currently being led by Leighton Cusack and myself. Taking insights from Nouns and Purple, it’s a new type of onchain organization that leverages free NFT drops, memetic remixing, and the latest Nouns Builder tooling available on L2s. Currently being incubated by a small founding team, Based Management is building toward full decentralization whereby artists, builders, and daily active users of Ethereum have a robust treasury, value structure, and memetic lang...

After a lengthy (by internet standards) inquisition into the idea represented by the term meme, I attempted a canonization of the soft science most likely deemed memetics. Within the context of emergent crypto culture we studied the Opepen art project by Jack Butcher & Jalil, Nouns DAO by the Nounders, and the Ethereum+ network company Zora. In hindsight we see that our understandings were resonant, and yet elementary in the amplified scope. Enter Based Management. A small scale onchain org c...

After a lengthy (by internet standards) inquisition into the idea represented by the term meme, I attempted a canonization of the soft science most likely deemed memetics. Within the context of emergent crypto culture we studied the Opepen art project by Jack Butcher & Jalil, Nouns DAO by the Nounders, and the Ethereum+ network company Zora. In hindsight we see that our understandings were resonant, and yet elementary in the amplified scope. Enter Based Management. A small scale onchain org c...

Based Management is young in its development. Though we’ve been fortunate, thanks to pioneers like Zora, Nouns, and Base, to help push the space in our own way. Using Zora rewards for DAO entry. Curating partnership drops as an invite-only founding mechanism. And now, tooling that allows interested parties to create media, art, content, etc in the same location - permissionless, with rewards splits, and on route to properly leverage the previous two installments.Built by UplinkA startup funde...

Based Management is young in its development. Though we’ve been fortunate, thanks to pioneers like Zora, Nouns, and Base, to help push the space in our own way. Using Zora rewards for DAO entry. Curating partnership drops as an invite-only founding mechanism. And now, tooling that allows interested parties to create media, art, content, etc in the same location - permissionless, with rewards splits, and on route to properly leverage the previous two installments.Built by UplinkA startup funde...

Nothing written is financial or even general life advice. These essays are for entertainment purposes only --- Godspeed.Memetics“A picture is worth a thousand words. A meme is worth a thousand pictures.” If crypto is the internet’s native payment and verification system, memes are the internet’s native language model. The cold, detached-embrace of words on a screen, pales in comparison to a gif, mp4, or properly captioned jpeg at the right moment. Memetics are an incredibly immature soft-scie...

Nothing written is financial or even general life advice. These essays are for entertainment purposes only --- Godspeed.Memetics“A picture is worth a thousand words. A meme is worth a thousand pictures.” If crypto is the internet’s native payment and verification system, memes are the internet’s native language model. The cold, detached-embrace of words on a screen, pales in comparison to a gif, mp4, or properly captioned jpeg at the right moment. Memetics are an incredibly immature soft-scie...

Disclaimer: I’ve got horses in this race with Based Management and my Based collection. Both projects have followed, not preceded, my belief in the chain’s potential, but it doesn’t feel right to bury the lead when speculating in this manner. - Layer 2s are the new pfp collections waiting to reveal. And like many degenerates, I see no shame in rubbing elbows in the liquidity pools, fighting for ungodly returns on minimal size. But it makes one appreciate the legitimate.Current BeliefsZora Net...

Disclaimer: I’ve got horses in this race with Based Management and my Based collection. Both projects have followed, not preceded, my belief in the chain’s potential, but it doesn’t feel right to bury the lead when speculating in this manner. - Layer 2s are the new pfp collections waiting to reveal. And like many degenerates, I see no shame in rubbing elbows in the liquidity pools, fighting for ungodly returns on minimal size. But it makes one appreciate the legitimate.Current BeliefsZora Net...

Nothing written is financial or even general life advice. These essays are for entertainment purposes only --- Godspeed.Rabbit Inc’s R1Rabbit Inc has released an ai agent designed by the illustrious Teenage Engineering.companion devicesHere’s the keynote video: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcEHa2a7js76uGstKkGMZzDwjfhQAuQsTnBosLuoE42mr?filename=R1-keynote.mp4 Opinions are properly divided, proving that we have something of interest. From “it looks really nice but I don’t see why this isn’t an app” to...

Nothing written is financial or even general life advice. These essays are for entertainment purposes only --- Godspeed.Rabbit Inc’s R1Rabbit Inc has released an ai agent designed by the illustrious Teenage Engineering.companion devicesHere’s the keynote video: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcEHa2a7js76uGstKkGMZzDwjfhQAuQsTnBosLuoE42mr?filename=R1-keynote.mp4 Opinions are properly divided, proving that we have something of interest. From “it looks really nice but I don’t see why this isn’t an app” to...

This is what clicked for me.https://twitter.com/dg_goensOnchain RelevanciesJack Butcher has tons of published insight on the natural law of compounding. In the digital realm it’s harder to pin down, but the externalities are less inhibited. Now we have a substrate by which hyperlocal activities can be noted, verified, and upgraded perpetually. Blockchains allow personal, and highly anecdotal experiences, to become much more than ever before.Hyperlocal FunObsessing over ordinance principles ha...

This is what clicked for me.https://twitter.com/dg_goensOnchain RelevanciesJack Butcher has tons of published insight on the natural law of compounding. In the digital realm it’s harder to pin down, but the externalities are less inhibited. Now we have a substrate by which hyperlocal activities can be noted, verified, and upgraded perpetually. Blockchains allow personal, and highly anecdotal experiences, to become much more than ever before.Hyperlocal FunObsessing over ordinance principles ha...

Nothing written is financial or even general life advice. These essays are for entertainment purposes only --- Godspeed.Bull or BustMoney is how we best aggregate value exchanges. How else would you agree on the exchange needed for buying an iPhone vs. buying insurance for it? At scale, money is the markets life force. It synthesizes offered and acquired value for net positive value creation (ideally).many coins that we want number to go upGenerational wealth has taken on new meaning to me in...

Nothing written is financial or even general life advice. These essays are for entertainment purposes only --- Godspeed.Bull or BustMoney is how we best aggregate value exchanges. How else would you agree on the exchange needed for buying an iPhone vs. buying insurance for it? At scale, money is the markets life force. It synthesizes offered and acquired value for net positive value creation (ideally).many coins that we want number to go upGenerational wealth has taken on new meaning to me in...

We need more coordination onchain. Creators and their contemporaries. Developers and their opposites. Idea guys and manufacturer minds. Trustless, permissionless, and decentralization are all concepts that struggle to materialize in reality. Especially when quorum threshold nouns-forks are the only moderately agreed upon way to coordinate onchain (out-house).AbstractIn the way that ERC-6551 looks to embolden NFTs with their own item bag, this fictitious token (ERC-9885) looks to embolden a co...

We need more coordination onchain. Creators and their contemporaries. Developers and their opposites. Idea guys and manufacturer minds. Trustless, permissionless, and decentralization are all concepts that struggle to materialize in reality. Especially when quorum threshold nouns-forks are the only moderately agreed upon way to coordinate onchain (out-house).AbstractIn the way that ERC-6551 looks to embolden NFTs with their own item bag, this fictitious token (ERC-9885) looks to embolden a co...

At small to mid-sized it’s usually:FoundersEngineersProductDesignMarketingEven though the West treats a corporation as an individual, they’re collectives of people. And as things scale you get more departments; human resources, operations, accounting, business development, customer support, legal, etc. People are messy. They run on patterns and habits, on emotions and intellect, on traumas and hopes. It’s partly why we revere those who can communicate. We love understanding.MemeticsMemetics a...

At small to mid-sized it’s usually:FoundersEngineersProductDesignMarketingEven though the West treats a corporation as an individual, they’re collectives of people. And as things scale you get more departments; human resources, operations, accounting, business development, customer support, legal, etc. People are messy. They run on patterns and habits, on emotions and intellect, on traumas and hopes. It’s partly why we revere those who can communicate. We love understanding.MemeticsMemetics a...