Creators are sharecroppers to the feed: post more, earn less. This article outlines the traditional social media platform extraction playbook and ofers some insights into how to fix the problem – own the rail, port your audience, program your rights, and monetize directly. Discovery on platforms, depth on Farcaster/email. If you’re done farming for algorithms, come build with your 1,000 True Fans. Let your digital sovereignty cup floweth over…

Stop letting platforms live in your head rent-free. In the creator economy, you don’t own the reach—algorithms do. It's time to flip the script. This first deep dive explores the rent-free revolution.

Fans > algorithms. Fee-free payments. Programmable rights. Tectonic shifts for creators: rent-free, ownable, and onchain in 2025. 👀🔥 #1000TrueFans

I'm not sure about you, but after several years in the trenches, my personal laptop's desktop starts looking scary (see cover photo). To the point where my designer friends cringe anytime they see it. I think this is a pretty good visual metaphor for the state of online advertising today. This post explores yesterday's infrastructure and tomorrow's possibilities based on technical innovations and unlocks today.

In The Singularity is Near written 20 years ago, there’s an amazing quote: "We won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century—it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate)." This concept is what Ray Kurzweil calls the Law of Accelerating Returns. What we’re seeing today. Join me and let's dive into what I'm calling the Knowledge Sharing Economy and my Today I Learned newsletter.

In many ways, we're all just fucking around and finding out about our place in this vast knowledge-sharing economy. Our relationship with technology is ever evolving, as is our collective knowledge around the state of the art. In some ways, as we evolve to integrate new technology, there's a crawl, walk, run paradigm, but today you need to crawl with turbo boosters on.