https://mirror.xyz/fnow.eth/-m7Nnx55yGqWlxwLeFPJ7TyReEX9G0koK1fTP-CaTg0

This is a new project, but something I’ve been playing with for years. It is somewhat like creating a new character and having insight on the quickest way to level grind.

FUTURENOW is about two things; onchain acceleration and creative incubation. The creatives come before any acceleration of onchain though (learned that the hard way).

Thus, this essay is about defining the contextual ranges we will be sharing information and insights through as we scale FN. The concept I like to use for this kind of precedent-positing is memeware. Software, but for the mind.

Creatives are the new athletes

FN is going to be built on this meme; creatives are the new athletes.

The contrasting meme to this is the tortured-artist. FN is built for the dynamic, positive sum, highly interoperable creative of the new era. This is a project that looks to incubate acumen, creative potential, and sovereignty for creators. It is not a soap box project, or set of beliefs/ideals centered around victimhood and shirking of personal responsibilities.

If this does not resonate with a creative that is totally understandable. This is for creatives that live in the future, now. For the creatives that feel like their greatness is around the corner. This is about leveraging the network effects of a decentralized web for personal, and therefore collective, progression through creativity.

We have to train ourselves for this kind of rigor. We must hone our mind-body-spirit for optimal performance now and in the future. We have to treat our craft like an athlete.

Month 1

The first program will target the mind, as this is what makes or breaks an athlete in the most crucial moments. We are going to dive into what creativity is (as we see it) and how to turn an ocean into a funnel.

FUTURENOW

There are two goals here:

1. Accelerate onchain discovery, adoption, and usability

2. Incubate creative sovereignty, acumen, and potential

Onchain

A world where creators own their equity. A life where visual artists go on tour. One where virtual get-togethers provide dining tables for the global communities.

Onchain is young, and therefore defenseless. Don’t click a link you don’t know is the epitome of this defenselessness.

Simultaneously it is ripe with potential. It can not be nurtured without a hands-on approach.

FUTURENOW* *is currently a solo project that will hopefully grow beyond me. It will start as a place to aesthetically contextualize the distillation of my first hand experiences onchain, and the wisdom I have bled, perspired, and grieved to earn; in hopes that it accelerates the efforts of the adoption wave and budding potentials.

Incubation

Creatives are a curious bunch. I know because I am one. The difference in many cases is that I have a love for the market side of things. I see it as a creative endeavor as well.

From the 2.5yrs of daily networking with other creatives onchain, I see that I have something many are looking for. I will bring that to FUTURENOW. It is my hope that it energizes them the way my digital sensei @jackbutcher did for me in 2020.

Beyond that I hope to attract other talent interested in the good fight. It will be my pleasure to welcome them in and scale this thing into an onchain-native superpower.

Some of the things long-term that interest me here are:

• curation daos

• onchain media

• onchain creative consultation/edu-packages

and more.

Next

The first project to this new brand will be the ebook of my essay series A Non-Technical & Highly Speculative Look at Memes: Parts 1-7. It will go onchain of course.

After that I have a surprise aesthetic gift for a certain curator in the space. With their blessing I will also be releasing that onchain.

The meme here is access. Access to acceleration and incubation. Any onchain creative that wants it can come get it. There will be free components to most things and I will do my best to make them of good enough value that purchasable items are more for supporting the brand and bonus content.

Welcome to FUTURENOW