After-run thoughts captured and edited with ChatGPT Trying out to find out what we actually mean with crypto-native. For me, often this comes as a very loaded term. Crypto-natives: who are they? So, let me try to unpack this for myself. On one side, we have those OG builders; they are here because they want a distributed and decentralized web, they are here for the tech, that’s what they say. They care about permissionlessness, and they care about being in control. They buy into the idea of a...

After-run thoughts captured and edited with ChatGPT Trying out to find out what we actually mean with crypto-native. For me, often this comes as a very loaded term. Crypto-natives: who are they? So, let me try to unpack this for myself. On one side, we have those OG builders; they are here because they want a distributed and decentralized web, they are here for the tech, that’s what they say. They care about permissionlessness, and they care about being in control. They buy into the idea of a...

After-Run Thoughts collected, edited, and ordered slighlty with ChatGPTChannels can be confusing. I’am guilty. In my old days, I was known to be quite active across all the corporate channels in my old web2 home, enjoying the concept and the thematic reasons for posting under specific ones. However, there's always the risk of "channel explosion," or the danger of posting in one channel and missing the intended audience. Platforms like Discord, Slack, Reddit, and now Farcater are heavily ...

After-Run Thoughts collected, edited, and ordered slighlty with ChatGPTChannels can be confusing. I’am guilty. In my old days, I was known to be quite active across all the corporate channels in my old web2 home, enjoying the concept and the thematic reasons for posting under specific ones. However, there's always the risk of "channel explosion," or the danger of posting in one channel and missing the intended audience. Platforms like Discord, Slack, Reddit, and now Farcater are heavily ...

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...

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...

Thoughts captured, altered, formatted, and synthesized with AI So, I am struggling a bit with some of the terms we use online lately, mainly with the concept of ownership. What does it even mean? Be aware, this is a bit of a stretch, and me just capturing loose thoughts. I just read Byun-Chul Han’s book "Non-Things," and he lays out how we are moving from a world of things into a world of non-things. In the digital world, we mainly deal with non-things. Information, data, etc., are non-things...

Thoughts captured, altered, formatted, and synthesized with AI So, I am struggling a bit with some of the terms we use online lately, mainly with the concept of ownership. What does it even mean? Be aware, this is a bit of a stretch, and me just capturing loose thoughts. I just read Byun-Chul Han’s book "Non-Things," and he lays out how we are moving from a world of things into a world of non-things. In the digital world, we mainly deal with non-things. Information, data, etc., are non-things...

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...

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...

Musings edited, altered with ChatGPT. just had a good chat with a friend, and we were musing about how AI has taken over many of the tasks we enjoyed most. For instance, I love designing buttons and cleaning up files; it's my Zen moment. However, AI can do it so much better, so I kind of delegated it and fuck me, I miss it. But today's focus is not on that. One topic we got stuck on is a thought I've been playing around with for a while. I am calling this not fully written piec...

Musings edited, altered with ChatGPT. just had a good chat with a friend, and we were musing about how AI has taken over many of the tasks we enjoyed most. For instance, I love designing buttons and cleaning up files; it's my Zen moment. However, AI can do it so much better, so I kind of delegated it and fuck me, I miss it. But today's focus is not on that. One topic we got stuck on is a thought I've been playing around with for a while. I am calling this not fully written piec...

Edited, co-written, captured on the go with AI. So, I conducted this non-representative survey on Hey.xyz, wondering what the killer Web3 feature for games is. Not surprisingly, “owning your assets” won. I've been fortunate to work with some respected players in the game design community in the past, helping to define their future strategies and where the future of gaming ecosystems goes. Honestly, this was a major reason why I went full-time into Web3. Now, Web3 is a very different spac...

Edited, co-written, captured on the go with AI. So, I conducted this non-representative survey on Hey.xyz, wondering what the killer Web3 feature for games is. Not surprisingly, “owning your assets” won. I've been fortunate to work with some respected players in the game design community in the past, helping to define their future strategies and where the future of gaming ecosystems goes. Honestly, this was a major reason why I went full-time into Web3. Now, Web3 is a very different spac...

Edited by ChatGPT Over the past few months, I've had time to reflect on what it means to be a designer in the web3 space and how to adopt more of an investor mindset. This has been an ongoing journey, and here, I'm sharing some of my reflections. We launched We3.co as a collective of designers with the promise and core belief that a group of fairly senior and specialized designers could significantly turbocharge early-stage startups. Our concept is simple: as an early-stage founder,...

Edited by ChatGPT Over the past few months, I've had time to reflect on what it means to be a designer in the web3 space and how to adopt more of an investor mindset. This has been an ongoing journey, and here, I'm sharing some of my reflections. We launched We3.co as a collective of designers with the promise and core belief that a group of fairly senior and specialized designers could significantly turbocharge early-stage startups. Our concept is simple: as an early-stage founder,...

Musings in Fever State with ChatGPT There is a fascinating Venn diagram I wrote in some fever delirium, between my creative energy and my privacy lies the wonderful land of corporate abuse. So today, let's explore privacy and creative energy. https://opensea.io/assets/0xcF84e40643374B784F34B4dAE5B10E1B2Bab4041/45GenAI DilemmaAmong my genAI friends, the conversation is often around the disturbing powerlessness around intellectual property, and among my Web3 friends, it's around priva...

Musings in Fever State with ChatGPT There is a fascinating Venn diagram I wrote in some fever delirium, between my creative energy and my privacy lies the wonderful land of corporate abuse. So today, let's explore privacy and creative energy. https://opensea.io/assets/0xcF84e40643374B784F34B4dAE5B10E1B2Bab4041/45GenAI DilemmaAmong my genAI friends, the conversation is often around the disturbing powerlessness around intellectual property, and among my Web3 friends, it's around priva...

Thoughts captured with ChatGPT So, I am starting a new project this week and am currently thinking about how to form a cult following or a very engaged community. One thing that dawned on me is that, in a permissionless world, something unexpected—at least for me—might be the most valuable thing: the right to participate, contribute, engage, and be there. I am an old-school sneakerhead; we're talking Niketalk times, with some really awesome holy grails in deadstock. As I walked through P...

Thoughts captured with ChatGPT So, I am starting a new project this week and am currently thinking about how to form a cult following or a very engaged community. One thing that dawned on me is that, in a permissionless world, something unexpected—at least for me—might be the most valuable thing: the right to participate, contribute, engage, and be there. I am an old-school sneakerhead; we're talking Niketalk times, with some really awesome holy grails in deadstock. As I walked through P...

After Run Notes, slightly edited and ordered with ChatGPT https://opensea.io/assets/0xcF84e40643374B784F34B4dAE5B10E1B2Bab4041/42 When I say I am interested in prediction markets, I probably use this term a bit more loosely than others. Last year, I had the joy of working behind the scenes with the team at Karma3Labs, who took me deep down into the Web of Trust, Eigentrust and Reputation Graph world. What I learned is that EOAs or wallets with "reputation," however you might define it, become...

After Run Notes, slightly edited and ordered with ChatGPT https://opensea.io/assets/0xcF84e40643374B784F34B4dAE5B10E1B2Bab4041/42 When I say I am interested in prediction markets, I probably use this term a bit more loosely than others. Last year, I had the joy of working behind the scenes with the team at Karma3Labs, who took me deep down into the Web of Trust, Eigentrust and Reputation Graph world. What I learned is that EOAs or wallets with "reputation," however you might define it, become...

Thoughts captured with Whisper while sick in bed, altered by ChatGPT. In recent weeks, we've witnessed Farcaster Frames and Lens Open Actions revolutionize our Social Feed Experiences. What was once an endless scroll of memories, posts, and hyperlinks leading to third spaces has transformed into a hub of activity. Lens Open Actions and Farcaster Frames have made our feeds a center for engagement. You can now mint, purchase, collect, contribute, vote, play, transact, and much more with ju...

Thoughts captured with Whisper while sick in bed, altered by ChatGPT. In recent weeks, we've witnessed Farcaster Frames and Lens Open Actions revolutionize our Social Feed Experiences. What was once an endless scroll of memories, posts, and hyperlinks leading to third spaces has transformed into a hub of activity. Lens Open Actions and Farcaster Frames have made our feeds a center for engagement. You can now mint, purchase, collect, contribute, vote, play, transact, and much more with ju...