If digital nativism becomes the new residential state of the Information Age, how do we build places that foster creativity, reciprocity, and freedom?
This is a story about a modern individualists' awakening to the power of the collective.
Still amazed at how some of the highest quality university syllabus, with step-by-step tutorials with industry-ready tools, are now open-source or on Github.
Binge-learning is such a thing.
Some personal news: I'm joining Pace Capital with
@jordancooper
and
@cpaik
!!! 🖤
And of course, I wrote about it.
Beyond grateful to grow with a crew who's relentlessly honing the craft of venture building and investing, at our pace, and with love.
We’re entering a new age of “Embedded Education”.
While the recently popular concept of “embedded finance” distributes financial products at the point of digital transaction, embedded education delivers learning at the point of getting the job done.
My grandparents said the worst thing that could happen to a young person is being "急功近利“, translated literally as "eager for outcomes, hungry for instant benefits".
Glad they don't know what I do for work.
beyond inspired after ETH denver
the real ones are thinking more deeply than ever about the use cases and tradeoffs of the technology to power real-world applications
until the tech becomes invisible
2024 open inquiries:
one of my goals next year is to collaborate more openly with ambitious and creative people with clearer intentionality
there's so much to work on
drop a note if minds collide
A planetary-scale fun ride with my dear friend
@packyM
TLDR: No god-tier token design can match building a great product that provides real utility and a real sense of belonging.
Introducing "Waiting Room" —
Waiting Room allows community members to voice their opinion on who they’d like to onboard to a community.
Why this matters:
Welcome to STATION. As the crypto industry gains steam you might be wondering...how do I get involved? Maybe you’re an engineer in big tech, an artist, a product manager, or a financial analyst. You’ve heard whispers from the future & want to come aboard.
We see people walking from traditional industry to tech for creativity, and you see tech people humbly walk to traditional industry for wisdom.
We walk by each other, with empathy and shared understanding that we’re on a nonlinear journey to make things better.
.
@indexcoop
has an amazing format for treasury updates.
Anybody working on productizing this that pulls real-time data and providing links to the pools so users can more easily view and participate?
In web2 we talk about “users” and “viewers” being “acquired”
In web3 we talk about “owners” and “members” who “join” and “participate.”
words matter & we’re seeing an ecosystem and language get built around purposeful action in a very cool way.
Studying cryptoassets is like being a public investor and a venture investor at the same time.
In venture, metrics are lagging indicators and chaos get abstracted away with decks and numbers, but it's a different game when everything is open.
First NFT.
Pocky Fiction is a tribute to the souls and objects that brought comfort to isolation.
It’s when we’re all alone in our bedrooms that we become children of our imagination and warriors for our dreams.
a group of chinese writers signed up to be on the waitlist of
@0xstation
to onboard new writers
it's the largest refuge for Chinese writers who don't want their content to be censored
waking up being reminded *exactly* why we do what we do
Contributed to this piece on what it means to contribute to a DAO.
The more time we spend in multiplayer mode, the wider the universe grows, awaiting to be built.
DAOs are absorbing the internet. This is true across dimensions:
• Talent. Home for the internet's most gifted
• Capital. Controlling billions in digital assets
• Social capital. Where bright minds meet & collab
• Culture. Defining cyber culture
Gm, and let's begin 🧵
We all know the saying: "there’s no free lunch in the world.”
The convenience of tech platforms has blunted our senses to our economic reality.
The disillusionment of “free-to-play” is at its core the disillusionment of costlessness.
I once did an interview in college, asking people crossing the plaza who is one person that's made the biggest influence on their lives.
Besides their parents, one of the top answers was “my high school English teacher”.
gm to all urban dwellers living and creating magic building internet cities.✨
investing is only one of the many ways we continue our journey as contributors of decentralized web
@pacecap
.
What if instead of founders pitching investors, investors pitched to communities?
Proud to welcome
@a16z
@PaceCap
@KindredVentures
@sparkcapital
and
@ljin18
to the FWB family through a $10M governance proposal.
Here’s how we did it, why did it, and how your community can too.
The world feels a little less safe right now. For women, for people of color, for those we love.
We’ve purchased 200 Flare bracelets at
@PaceCap
to share with members of our community.
We hope they'll help us feel a little safer.
Send us a DM to reserve yours. 💕
Having left NYC for a month, I miss the random eccentricity, the transient glamour, the fleeting sense of meaning, the constant reminder that I’m part of something bigger than myself.
meditating on
@albertwenger
's 3 freedoms:
— Economic freedom
— Informational freedom
— Psychological freedom
and how we could be pursuing one at the cost of the other
Resilience is not about the capacity to return to a pre-catastrophe state. Resilience means the ability to retain the things we value most despite the fact that everything is different.
Still meditating on the fact that sugar was marketed as a diet aid in the 70s.
How much of consumerism is to be told: "here is a vice, but it is okay."