Built to Suffer. Wired to Seek (e17)

He misses his factory job. Not the labor... the hours alone with audiobooks "It's what got me through" We are learning machines Built to suffer. Wired to seek

The Doors (e13)

AI is democratizing intelligence, creativity, even execution It's as if the gods have presented us with infinite doors The hardest thing is stepping through just one

Code Becomes Cult (e12)

The weirdening is here Vibe coding lets anyone (no matter how fringe, fanatical, or fetishistic) build Silicon Valley-grade apps The toolkit of the marginalized is now the toolkit of the delusional, the divine, and the damned Global tribes will form overnight The internet won’t fragment us It will ritualize our differences, deepen the chasm, and reward extremity Mainstream is a corpse where the weirdening feasts

Burrowing Into Wonder (e11)

Becoming Without End (e10)

Sounds trite, perhaps, but I think much of the uncertainty we feel in the face of AI is our consciousness expanding. We are literally re-orienting who and what we are in the universe We’re climbing to a higher (previously invisible) rung on Maslow’s hierarchy Specifically, we are dismantling the concept of ourselves as "fixed" (e.g., "I am a writer" or "I am a teacher") and transforming into "motion-based" intelligence We are moving from fixed minds to evolving minds We’ll never "feel ready" The feeling of being "unfinished" will never leave. It is the new self

Death of Screens (e9)

Paradoxically, AI just might free us from our screens Thanks to LLMs, I no longer want to visit apps or websites (ever) I hate to even gaze upon them I simply want to speak intentions into these magical, alien brains and get alerted when they're done This is the first internet-native experience Everything that came before LLMs feels like we've kludged the real world into a fake online world (Email mimics mail, ecommerce mimics stores w shopping carts, docs mimics sheets of paper) That era nears its end And an entirely new internet is being born

Woke (e8)

Fun experiment next time you're at the pub: ask a friend how they define 'woke' The variance is so insane, Claude offers three definitions When we all have our own definitions, the words become emotionally-charged containers for our anger Suddenly, you can't utter them without sparking an argument... even when you agree on the underlying facts

Wen man fails, code prevails

Human-run dollars: -20% purchasing power, confidence crumbling, geopolitical weapon Algorithmic bitcoin: +110% purchasing power, confidence growing, geopolitical refuge

AI Killed the Crypto Narrative Star

Lots of crypto projects still focus deeply on lore, but I'm wondering if the approach is breaking. A few reasons: 1) LLMs are changing our preferred communication mode. They can reduce even the most complex ideas into a few grokable lines. If that becomes the norm, then it means I've got to be able to understand your protocol in a few seconds (via 1 to 2 lines of text). If I can't, I'm either going to ignore it altogether or go summarize it in an LLM anyway. 2) As crypto goes mainstream, the audience base shifts from cutting-edge tech lovers (who tend to be inspired by sci-fi-like world-building) to normie pragmatists who don't really GAF and are using your protocol for 30 seconds while they're on the toilet. 3) Just a few short years ago, crypto was so new and experimental that it required analogical thinking to educate your audience. Now, the world's up-leveled. Audiences get the crypto basics and are less likely to be suckered in by a story, buzzwords and superfluous language. So where are we heading next? Not sure but my guess is towards a world where apps focus less on story and more on social activities and/or gamification. Less storytelling, more interaction.

zeitgeist

Content coins are not the "tokenization of everything." They merely offer the optionality to tokenize everything. Most content is terrible, in fact, and will go uncoined/uncollected by anyone but its creator... Every now and then, though... a piece of content will plug into the zeitgeist, slide like a fork into an electrical outlet. It will jolt us, change us, bend the long arc of our journeys, and we will want to own a piece of it, for it is now a part of who we are.