Friday morning musings with ChatGPT Why Do AI Applications Resonate Better with End-Users than Blockchain Applications? I’m currently in San Francisco, and yesterday, I found myself sitting in a Waymo, Google’s self-driving taxi again, stunned at how quickly I’ve gotten used to the fact that there’s no one behind the wheel. It’s wild when you think about it—what seemed like science fiction not too long ago is now just another part of life, at least here. We’re already living in a future where...

Late night musings / early thoughts / not fully thought through The Challenge of Building Lightweight and Independent Systems Two years ago, we were deep into developing an unreleased BTC DeFi product at we3.co, and one of the most interesting challenges we explored was this: how could we make it not just super lightweight but also as independent as possible from outside libraries and servers? We wanted to take "don’t trust, verify" to its absolute limit—build something so simple, there wasn’...

Tuesday Morning RamblingsI never studied computer science. My developer skills are decent for a hobbyist, and I usually manage to get thi...

Tokens: Traceable, Tradeable, Productized AttentionThese are just early thoughts—ramblings, really.What the Hell Are Tokens, Actually?Whe...

I stumbled upon my old Gameboy the other day, and after putting in some batteries, I got addicted to Tetris all over again. I mean seriously addicted. At one point, my partner decided the only way to stop me was to hide all the batteries. (Thank you.) But this little Tetris binge got me thinking about the game itself. When you break it down, Tetris is a pretty simple game. The goal is to stack a full row using a few basic shapes. When you do, that row disappears. Keep it up, and the speed inc...

This week at a kickoff, there was a post-it asking: "Actually, what are blockchains useful for?" I haven't been to ETHcc, but judging from afar, we're getting a fair amount of discussion about where the users and the promised applications are. Honestly, we’re kind of stuck discussing theoretical white papers about near-future kitchen gadgets in a restaurant without customers, without an idea of what to even eat. We’re all about breaking the system “in theory.” I love how the space i...

After-run thoughts captured and edited with ChatGPTTrying out to find out what we actually mean with crypto-native. For me, often this co...

Edited by ChatGPTOver 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 a...

Edited, co-written, captured on the go with AI.So, I conducted this non-representative survey on Hey.xyz, wondering what the killer Web3 ...

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 a...

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 with ChatGPTSo, I am starting a new project this week and am currently thinking about how to form a cult following or a...