Core thesisScenius is not creative clustering, cultural density, or output volume. It is the collective capacity to expand what is thinkable. The paradigm-shifting function matters more than the work produced inside it. Artifacts are downstream. Thinkability is the engine.Historical patternScenius becomes potent when two conditions emerge together: alternative coordination infrastructure and new legitimacy structures. The Founding Fathers, Enlightenment salons, and Impressionists did not simp...

What's the most important link on the internet today? There's no obvious answer to that question. At least, there is no global consensus. But doesn't it seem like an important question? > What's the most important link on the internet today? That's effectively the most important thing in the world. On that given day. So what if we could actually know what it was? Well, maybe we can. For the last year, I've been building @qrcoindotfun. It's a daily auction for attention. Any number of people f...

Welcome to the third edition of Artist Spotlight. Today we are highlighting a photographer, and everyone’s favorite ghost Milibooo. Booo is a photographer who transforms her encounters into intimate visual stories. Using her lens to reveal the hidden emotional worlds of strangers. Through empathy and imagination, she turns everyday faces into soulful narratives. So let's get to it (SI = Sage Inks, BOOO = Milibooo) SI: What is your name? (also your artist handle?) BOOO: My name is Mili. My han...

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There’s still a lot of noise about “the TikTok generation”. Short attention spans. Constant scrolling. Instant gratification. And while there’s some truth in there, it’s also… incomplete. Over the past year, through our Seed Fund research, interviews with kids and parents, and a frankly unhealthy amount of snacks (and reading), we’ve been trying to get past the headlines. Not to label younger players, but to understand how they actually make decisions, what keeps them engaged, and why some ex...

Loyalty programs were designed to create sustainable relationships between brands and users. In practice, many have devolved into fragmented point systems, low signal engagement, and short term incentive loops. In Web3, these issues are amplified. Airdrops are routinely captured by bots and disposable wallets, activity is inflated without retention, and genuine users are buried in noise. The result is clear engagement without loyalty, and incentives that fail to translate into trust or long t...

I had dinner on Wednesday night with my friend Seth, who has been building products and companies since I met him over thirty years ago. He was expounding on his newfound ability to build products and companies all by himself with AI coding tools. His enthusiasm was off the charts, and I decided to pour some cold water on it and said, "yeah but it can't do stuff in the real world yet." And he said, "Like what?" And I said, "Like grow corn." The next morning this landed in my text messages. As...