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Feb 21

Taste is a Quiet Luxury

Musings captured, sorted, in collaboration with AI. One of my favorite blogs is that of Matt Webb, the great mind behind Poem/1, the watch that tells time through poems. This isn't about the poem but about one of his latest pieces. He wrote a piece on how we've seemingly moved from designing the cool stuff we saw in Star Trek to the absurd things in Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Part of me welcomes this, as it might mean we also venture a bit away from...

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Feb 20

Agents are NPCs with Main Character Energy.

This is a collection of some loosely connected thoughts sorted, altered, transcribed with AI Only a few of us "old ones" may remember Anna from IKEA, or Clippy from the Windows 98 era—those early days of chatbots. But lately, my thoughts have been occupied by chatbots again, partly because of my fascination with Intents (the Web3 ones) and partly with generative AI. I vividly recall around 2016, when I was deeply fascinated by those bots or conversational UIs and considered them the future. I...

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Aug 16

Tokens == Attention

Tokens: Traceable, Tradeable, Productized AttentionThese are just early thoughts—ramblings, really. What the Hell Are Tokens, Actually? When I first stumbled onto the blockchain, there was only Bitcoin. The BTC narrative was pretty straightforward for someone like me: a decentralized payment ledger, with BTC as the currency. Simple enough. Then Ethereum showed up, and my understanding of tokens started to evolve. Initially, I saw tokens as transaction fees—a way to play the game. But then the...

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Feb 21

Taste is a Quiet Luxury

Musings captured, sorted, in collaboration with AI. One of my favorite blogs is that of Matt Webb, the great mind behind Poem/1, the watch that tells time through poems. This isn't about the poem but about one of his latest pieces. He wrote a piece on how we've seemingly moved from designing the cool stuff we saw in Star Trek to the absurd things in Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Part of me welcomes this, as it might mean we also venture a bit away from...

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Feb 20

Agents are NPCs with Main Character Energy.

This is a collection of some loosely connected thoughts sorted, altered, transcribed with AI Only a few of us "old ones" may remember Anna from IKEA, or Clippy from the Windows 98 era—those early days of chatbots. But lately, my thoughts have been occupied by chatbots again, partly because of my fascination with Intents (the Web3 ones) and partly with generative AI. I vividly recall around 2016, when I was deeply fascinated by those bots or conversational UIs and considered them the future. I...

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Aug 16

Tokens == Attention

Tokens: Traceable, Tradeable, Productized AttentionThese are just early thoughts—ramblings, really. What the Hell Are Tokens, Actually? When I first stumbled onto the blockchain, there was only Bitcoin. The BTC narrative was pretty straightforward for someone like me: a decentralized payment ledger, with BTC as the currency. Simple enough. Then Ethereum showed up, and my understanding of tokens started to evolve. Initially, I saw tokens as transaction fees—a way to play the game. But then the...