it’s easy to get caught up in and attribute bullish sentiment on farcaster/base to the positivity of the people/ecosystem. maybe it’s cause i only got in recently, but it’s not said niceties that make me feel bullish. in one line: fc/base meets builders where builders are whereas traditional vc model, builders met vcs where vcs are. and the former should’ve been the case for most projects all along. gpt wrappers accelerated this and now, this eco is democratizing it. factors:fc core users bei...

if you have too many "yes men" around you, you're probably either 1) directionally right or 2) very out of touch. the way to distinguish this requires critical thinking and taste. and this is important because as the number of yes men pile on (i.e. you grow your social capital), it becomes harder to distinguish what's right. perhaps common sense, but easy to forget because people want to belong. community isn't built on top of the people. it's built on top of an ideal. and it's the embodiment...

in sixth grade, i'd arrive at school early to gather w/ friends at the quad until the advisory bell rang. cue the 3 second long bell, we would disperse to our respective classrooms, already anticipating the bell to signal lunch time. one day, as i was walking to advisory, a big eighth grader, one i vaguely knew thanks to his popularity, stopped me in my tracks, pulled his eyes back, yelled "chink" in my face, then laughed and ran away. i paused in my steps for several seconds before the warni...