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Brent Schulkin
@schulkin #4978
Founder of Trick or Treat: https://trickortreat.co // https://brentschulkin.com
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It’s so confusing to me how bad most “I’m boosted” posts are. It’s like if a genie granted you three wishes and your first wish was “I wish everyone knew that I now only have two wishes left”
I’m super happy with the /climate channel. You are all consistently bringing high quality content, lots of signal, little noise. With the launch of channel memberships, the initial plan is: any non-member who would like to be a member should DM me an example of some climate-related post you have created. Maybe later we’ll try something more fancy. Also I made a banner image for the channel, hope you like it.
To help scratch your itch I recommend this theatrical production which will have a 6 week run at the Strand Theater next May-July. I’m biased because I co-wrote it and co-starred in the first 3 iterations. Tickets just went on sale: https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/2024-25-season/co-founders/
Shout out to SHARKS for helping cut global aviation emissions by spending millions of years evolving skin that reduces drag, so this startup could copy that innovation and 3d print film we can wrap around all airplanes to reduce their fuel consumption. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleek-fuel-saving-airplanes-coated-with/id1621556928?i=1000668423491
Bingo. In the words of Bucky Fuller: "Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred—ergo, highly secure—lifelong position."
There’s no rule that says we’ll make it. https://youtu.be/JD_iA7imAPs
The UK built the first coal power plant and it’s about to shut down its last one 🎉 https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/fossil-fuels/chart-the-uk-is-about-to-stop-using-coal-to-produce-electricity
$25k for non-profits who want to use AI for climate! Applications due Monday, but my friend is behind this so if you’re interested LMK and I can get you 2 extra days. https://baslangicnoktasi.org/en/ai-for-climate/
Neha is one of my favorite humans and we’ve lived together for the past few years while she honed these insights and built up this organization. Let’s reimagine what land even is!
Wow! TIL about web proofs. "Overnight, the addressable population of airdrop recipients has gone from a few million existing crypto users to the majority of the global population."
Nice explainer video about the state of gravity batteries. I love that a 5 year old could come up with this idea (it's just picking up blocks, putting them into boxes, and then taking them out again). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB39BISNt0s
Hanging with a $20m gold-plated woolly mammoth skeleton. Which is more obvious: A) I’m in Miami Beach B) I’m in the Anthropocene
Until now, crypto has presented its societal benefit in terms of who GAINS: Individuals, investors, artists, developers, etc. But so many people hate crypto. I think this framing may increase the stickiness of the narrative that it is all about gains for scammers and hackers. I wonder how public perception would shift if crypto spoke more in terms of who LOSES: banks, bureaucracies, middlemen, title insurance companies, oppressive regimes, etc? Would “going negative” catalyze a useful perspective shift?
A year ago, I told my friend Steph that I was working on vids about capitalism and she said she was too and sent me a rough cut of this for feedback. I love how it dismantles the capitalism vs socialism binary to synthesize something useful. (My vids coming soon!) https://x.com/liv_boeree/status/1821612368142401749
Kamala Harris follows just 722 people on X, and I am one of them. Knowing that I could just DM her and she actually might see it is making me ponder what message might be worth sending. It's a fun puzzle. Haven't solved it yet, so I guess I won't send anything. Yet.
“I’m sorry, but I tried.” https://youtu.be/2w945eNXt0c
If you were forced to choose one song to be declared as the greatest song ever written, what would you choose? I’d probably go with “Reckoner” by Radiohead.
If you were going to build a cryptocurrency aligned with the 10 principles of Burning Man, what would you build? It would be easy to build something based on gifting, participation, radical inclusion, etc. But the hardest part would be decommodification. Is it possible to make a cryptocurrency non-transactional?
Biden presided over the US opening up a big lead as the world's #1 producer of shame.
A few years ago I joined this little startup as Head of Product. At the time there were three full-time employees, zero customers, and almost no technology. Today Bloomberg published a feature about us revealing that the total value of the property we insure in California has now reached $28 billion. So it's going pretty well! http://bit.ly/4dlritX
Host was like, "let's talk about whether AI is good or bad for climate" but of course Daniel first spends an hour untangling our brains and weaving them into baskets capable of containing his insights. Astonishingly good and terrifying and worth your time, as usual. https://warpcast.com/stephenreid.eth/0x9c0b4329
Climate change is making days longer and it impacts earth’s rotation more than the moon does. The significance of this, for me, isn’t the few milliseconds added to my day. It’s the cosmic power that we wield without even being aware of our own strength. https://warpcast.com/mishaderidder.eth/0x3135b2e1
In 500 years when people look back at the widely-accepted beliefs humans held about economics back in 2024, what do you think they will see as the biggest thing that we misunderstood?