adrienne
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/adrienne is a channel for wanderers finding wonder in daily life ✨ share whatever sparks joy or piques your curiosity
Here’s what chatgpt thinks of me, lmao raw tomatoes are so prominent
Phil gets me. Glam + gardening 💅🏻 🥦
Just need to figure out how to turn this into a devops lesson 🤣🤣
Just need to figure out how to turn this into a devops lesson 🤣🤣
Listening to Ryan Salame, former CEO of FTX on @laurashin ‘s unchained podcast while I do some meal prep for the week.
Salame started his prison sentence Friday, the podcast was recorded just days earlier
Gonna massage the f out of this kale.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unchained/id1123922160?i=1000672711188
Salame started his prison sentence Friday, the podcast was recorded just days earlier
Gonna massage the f out of this kale.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unchained/id1123922160?i=1000672711188
Some of the things I’ve been up to:
- Seeing live music
- crypto bookkeeping 😣
- Published a blog about how Mongolian nomads make cheese
- Made a new podcast intro/outro with a @chicbangs.eth song
https://open.substack.com/pub/someofthethings/p/more-live-music?r=jgz3m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
- Seeing live music
- crypto bookkeeping 😣
- Published a blog about how Mongolian nomads make cheese
- Made a new podcast intro/outro with a @chicbangs.eth song
https://open.substack.com/pub/someofthethings/p/more-live-music?r=jgz3m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Hair styled by @cortney
Butterfly Studio Salon, NYC
Next door neighbor to @variant
Long shag per usual @kmacb.eth
Butterfly Studio Salon, NYC
Next door neighbor to @variant
Long shag per usual @kmacb.eth
“progress happens too slowly to notice, but setbacks happen too quickly to ignore.”
When people talk about why farcaster is failing I think of this quote from The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Progress is incremental and you can only barely see inflection points in hindsight. Crashes happen suddenly.
Building a house can take months or years. Demolition in days.
When people talk about why farcaster is failing I think of this quote from The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Progress is incremental and you can only barely see inflection points in hindsight. Crashes happen suddenly.
Building a house can take months or years. Demolition in days.
Related:
I had a huge aversion to tomatoes as a kid. Thought they were awful and I wouldn’t go near them.
When I got older I made a conscious effort to expand my palate and taught myself to eat foods I avoided as a kid.
Tomatoes were the second-to-last food I added.
I had a huge aversion to tomatoes as a kid. Thought they were awful and I wouldn’t go near them.
When I got older I made a conscious effort to expand my palate and taught myself to eat foods I avoided as a kid.
Tomatoes were the second-to-last food I added.
Our industrial food supply chain is efficient at producing mass quantities of food on the cheap. It is not efficient at producing food that tastes good.
Imagine the best tomato you've eaten in the past year. Did it come from a supermarket? Or more likely a farmers' market, your garden, or a nice restaurant. Most people don't know what a good tomato tastes like.
TED talk about this topic: https://youtu.be/3ZDLo8yNxgY?si=qjwQFaqdcZcuO1hD&t=205
Imagine the best tomato you've eaten in the past year. Did it come from a supermarket? Or more likely a farmers' market, your garden, or a nice restaurant. Most people don't know what a good tomato tastes like.
TED talk about this topic: https://youtu.be/3ZDLo8yNxgY?si=qjwQFaqdcZcuO1hD&t=205
I’m obsessed with this. For a US public company to have this on their public about page is such a huge deal, on so many levels.
This bodes really well for the future of onchain and coinbase. How lucky are we to have a front row seat
This bodes really well for the future of onchain and coinbase. How lucky are we to have a front row seat
gm from the train platform
some observations:
- beautiful blue sky today, typical of fall in new york
- this stained glass art faces due west and must be beautiful in the evening except unfortunately commuters won’t appreciate it as they rush home. In the morning while waiting for a train it appears rather dull. I’m using my imagination to see it in a different light and to think of the artist who made it
- so many dead spotted lanternflies on the platform. I imagine they’re starting to get more aggressive about controlling this invasive species
some observations:
- beautiful blue sky today, typical of fall in new york
- this stained glass art faces due west and must be beautiful in the evening except unfortunately commuters won’t appreciate it as they rush home. In the morning while waiting for a train it appears rather dull. I’m using my imagination to see it in a different light and to think of the artist who made it
- so many dead spotted lanternflies on the platform. I imagine they’re starting to get more aggressive about controlling this invasive species
Some things I've been up to:
- Family reunion with second cousins
- Hosting guests on /gmfarcaster s/o @boysclub and @afrochicks
- Organizing a coffee meetup for /base and /farcaster friends
- Eating tomatoes from the garden
I try to publish 2x a month and got this out with 3.5 hours to go 😅
Happy October, y'all!
https://someofthethings.substack.com/p/a-family-affair
- Family reunion with second cousins
- Hosting guests on /gmfarcaster s/o @boysclub and @afrochicks
- Organizing a coffee meetup for /base and /farcaster friends
- Eating tomatoes from the garden
I try to publish 2x a month and got this out with 3.5 hours to go 😅
Happy October, y'all!
https://someofthethings.substack.com/p/a-family-affair
Loosely held belief:
All negativity and aggression in the world (from acts of war to mean tweets) comes from insecurity (lack of confidence in one’s own abilities or lack of stable source of food/shelter).
Thoughts?
All negativity and aggression in the world (from acts of war to mean tweets) comes from insecurity (lack of confidence in one’s own abilities or lack of stable source of food/shelter).
Thoughts?
The best engineering leaders I’ve worked with balanced 3 things really well:
Capable of building high quality, well architected software
Constantly optimized for speed and productivity (devops, agile, AI)
Had a strong vision and POV on the future, and knew which emergent/disruptive tech trends to care about
Capable of building high quality, well architected software
Constantly optimized for speed and productivity (devops, agile, AI)
Had a strong vision and POV on the future, and knew which emergent/disruptive tech trends to care about
Some thoughts:
- important to get grounded on the definition of sufficient decentralization. I read Varun’s blog post before joining and was satisfied with their definition of decentralization
- other protocols might be more decentralized, and we’re all welcome to use them if we think they’re a better path or will lead to a better outcome
- Dan and Varun have been very consistent with their words and actions. You might not like their definition of decentralization or their approach for achieving it, but they’ve been very transparent and consistent
- easy to get upset at merkle but if you believe in their vision they aren’t the enemy. We should be fighting the corporate owned platforms, not each other. Too many people trying to compete with merkle to build a viable warpcast competitor as the only way to be satisfied we’ve achieved decentralization
- won’t vs. cant be evil. No need to compete with merkle if we’re building a future that doesn’t lock us in to warpcast
- important to get grounded on the definition of sufficient decentralization. I read Varun’s blog post before joining and was satisfied with their definition of decentralization
- other protocols might be more decentralized, and we’re all welcome to use them if we think they’re a better path or will lead to a better outcome
- Dan and Varun have been very consistent with their words and actions. You might not like their definition of decentralization or their approach for achieving it, but they’ve been very transparent and consistent
- easy to get upset at merkle but if you believe in their vision they aren’t the enemy. We should be fighting the corporate owned platforms, not each other. Too many people trying to compete with merkle to build a viable warpcast competitor as the only way to be satisfied we’ve achieved decentralization
- won’t vs. cant be evil. No need to compete with merkle if we’re building a future that doesn’t lock us in to warpcast
Almost 100 years ago a man named Morris and a woman named Rebecca started a family.
They had 7 children.
Those 7 children had 16 of their own children.
And those 16 cousins went on to have 35 of their own children.
Those 35 kids, second cousins mostly, spent a lot of time together when they were young. But once they grew up they moved all over the country and families got too big to keep in touch.
But this weekend 7 of them got together in the mountains of Colorado for a little reunion and that’s why I haven’t been as active on Farcaster this weekend.
They had 7 children.
Those 7 children had 16 of their own children.
And those 16 cousins went on to have 35 of their own children.
Those 35 kids, second cousins mostly, spent a lot of time together when they were young. But once they grew up they moved all over the country and families got too big to keep in touch.
But this weekend 7 of them got together in the mountains of Colorado for a little reunion and that’s why I haven’t been as active on Farcaster this weekend.
Writing my substack will just take a few hours and other lies I tell myself
A quick thread of positive sum affirmations. Feel free to add your own.
When presented with new information I can change my mind.
Great podcast on Vertical Market Software.
Enterprise software is broad and locks people in but no one is really happy because it doesn’t meet all their needs. But they have no choice. This creates an opportunity for vertical software to focus on one niche and do it better than the generalists. It’s not at venture scale but still a very good investment.
Re the channel opportunity:
slack, telegram, discord, WhatsApp, Teams, etc. what do they all have in common? Everyone hates them.
For channels to win, might need to take a vertical approach to communities and cater to them. But it prob doesn’t fit into the need to turn it into a protocol so provably won’t happen :)
https://x.com/age_shulman/status/1679908703518982157?s=46
Enterprise software is broad and locks people in but no one is really happy because it doesn’t meet all their needs. But they have no choice. This creates an opportunity for vertical software to focus on one niche and do it better than the generalists. It’s not at venture scale but still a very good investment.
Re the channel opportunity:
slack, telegram, discord, WhatsApp, Teams, etc. what do they all have in common? Everyone hates them.
For channels to win, might need to take a vertical approach to communities and cater to them. But it prob doesn’t fit into the need to turn it into a protocol so provably won’t happen :)
https://x.com/age_shulman/status/1679908703518982157?s=46
This was great. Few notes:
- “you can build your own client” took a whole 90 seconds to come up 😂
- on blocks: very logical reasoning for why at a certain scale blocks are a necessity. Even beyond the obvious harassment, if you can’t get rid of toxic behavior, all the good actors leave
- on X cross posting. Was there really organ failure? I liked the experiment. I think it would work better for earnest posters than shit posters bc humor is very platform specific whereas knowledge is knowledge.
- on channels- I think there are some lessons from VMS/vertical market software. You’re trying to solve a niche with broad general solutions, but each channel will have its own specific features and behaviors.
Great format for an AMA and quite impressive how Dan can monologue into a webcam so easily, though the fluency goes to show how much he must be thinking about these things, total founder mode in effect 😆
- “you can build your own client” took a whole 90 seconds to come up 😂
- on blocks: very logical reasoning for why at a certain scale blocks are a necessity. Even beyond the obvious harassment, if you can’t get rid of toxic behavior, all the good actors leave
- on X cross posting. Was there really organ failure? I liked the experiment. I think it would work better for earnest posters than shit posters bc humor is very platform specific whereas knowledge is knowledge.
- on channels- I think there are some lessons from VMS/vertical market software. You’re trying to solve a niche with broad general solutions, but each channel will have its own specific features and behaviors.
Great format for an AMA and quite impressive how Dan can monologue into a webcam so easily, though the fluency goes to show how much he must be thinking about these things, total founder mode in effect 😆
I can’t see the future but I know it looks nothing like today.
Mom, remind me about the time before blockchains?
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When companies had to file their financials with the SEC and pay $$$$$ for big accounting firms to audit the results and they only did it 4 x a year
And if a company was giving $5 perks to their users you had to ask them for a report and they had to redirect one of their high paying engineers to write the report instead of building features their users want
…
When companies had to file their financials with the SEC and pay $$$$$ for big accounting firms to audit the results and they only did it 4 x a year
And if a company was giving $5 perks to their users you had to ask them for a report and they had to redirect one of their high paying engineers to write the report instead of building features their users want
Finding my purpose
This is what happens when I miss my "write twice a month" goal.
https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038866571-Why-does-it-say-Post-too-long-in-the-post-editor
https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038866571-Why-does-it-say-Post-too-long-in-the-post-editor