rileybeans

Jun 27

Enthusiasm Is All You Need

The angelic sacred text of fandom is mystical, filled with subtext, full of whimsy and make-believe. Here, a fandom’s stories are enthusiastically injected with passion shared by millions… this is the power of media we love tapping into. I’ve been wandering through past loves lately, spending time rewatching TV shows I was obsessed with from 2010 to 2017, sitting with the imagination of those stories we once shared. In my opinion, this was truly a golden age of social media, TV, the internet,...

rileybeans

Feb 10

The Chaotic Moral Compass Accelerates

Listen to the Google NotebookML Deep Dive podcast of this piece. Or create your own. Polynya was right; there is a lot of good in crypto. However, it appears crypto’s moral compass may be beyond repair, yet even bigger macro problems remain. Since being back from Devcon, I've had time to think again about the role I can play as social structures and narratives continue to shift toward destruction through chaos. I've also become hyper-aware of the reality that is working in the crypt...

rileybeans

Mar 24

Introducing: The State of People

Looking at the state of people from the periphery, it’s not hard to see how dire things have gotten. I still wonder if we’ve done enough. I don’t think we have. Therefore, the experiments must continue. I’m constantly considering all the ways in which we grab onto the webs and branches toward one another as we swing through the treacherous lands of the metaverse. I've tried many things in the past couple of years and failed at a few of them to varying degrees. But one throughline keeping...