I am currently in the process of building an A.I.-native fashion movement for curious, playful, global citizens who love the stories and histories that clothes tell. It's called Afrogoth and its users are Afrogothers. I am happy that during my first foray into paragraph.com, I came across "The search for the reward function". It immediately resonated with me and when I saw that there was a remix button, I knew I had to try it out.

The playground metaphor is apt for what I want Afrogoth to be. Afrogoth caters to a psychographic rather than a demographic. People of all ages, from anywhere in the world, goth or non-goth, African or non-African or of mixed heritage, fashion conscious or "fashion challenged", techno-optimistic or technology-wary...anyone who identifies with being curious, playful and a global citizen (whatever that will mean!) is welcome.

I am hoping that as soon as a potential Afrogother encounters any of the products or services of Afrogoth, that they will open the car doors and run into the park. And yes, I am attempting to set up Afrogoth like a park, a theme park, hence the playful element. It's play with a purpose but it's still play.

My role as the founder is to just place the building blocks and cast the vision then get out of the way and let the Afrogothers do the rest. I think this is why I like the article, the idea of "twenty other kids scattered in twenty different directions". I even liked the idea of some of the kids "trading Pokemon".

I recently came across Brian Armstrong's pronouncement that "Tokenization is going to reinvent finance. Everything that can be tokenized, will be. It's much better for the end user." Subscription to become an Afrogother could be tokenized and the tokens could be traded. Afrogoth products and services could also be tokenized and be made available for trading.

"Each kid was solving their own optimization problem: maximize fun, minimize boredom, avoid the big kid who hogs the monkey bars."

I am attempting to set up Afrogoth so that I will not be that big kid, that founder who hogs the monkey bars, who hogs any part of Afrogoth.

Comments, questions and suggestions are welcomed!

https://afrogoth.carrd.co

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