DepressiveHacks (depressivehacks)

Happy to announce the migration of my Never-Ending Interview Series to the DepressiveHacks Substack! Today is the release of the first Substack interview. I had the opportunity to speak with Dustin Gouker, one of the leading reporters on how the world of prediction markets continues to evolve. I don't believe that he is on Farcaster, but I greatly appreciated his time and how thoroughly he responded to my questions. Give the interview a browse! I will put the link in the comments.

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New blog from yesterday that was at the end of kicking a short depressive episode: https://x.com/i/status/2056389893564063981

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Now for one of my favourite activities. Showering with a sunburn.

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Some news: I like it here. I've decided to invest.

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People here actually care. Makes it more rewarding to be here, imo.

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Pretty overdue gratitude post here, but it means a lot to have crossed $100 earned on this platform simply by participating since March of this year. I've learned so much about Web3 hanging out here. Things that would have never crossed my radar on X. I have appreciated the connections I've made here and look forward to seeing how Farcaster can continue to grow and help solve Web2 social problems. I also appreciate Farcaster as an extra place to showcase DepressiveHacks. I try to show up every day and do my part to help build an onchain future, even if that looks very different than the days of the folks coding and building onchain directly. I suppose that posting here is the first onchain building I've done in Web3, come to think of it.

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One of my least favorite responses that comes from the founder/builder crowd is exactly what you just said about meeting any type of critique, no matter how constructive, with that response. "Don't like it? Build you own. Let the market decide." It is not only dismissive, but severely understates how difficult it is to create a successful and sustainable product. Not everyone here lives in Silicon Valley and can call six people in their phone contacts for funding any time a random idea pops into their head. Not everyone is capable of creating an entire competing platform from scratch either. Also, the market is full of degenerates. The market makes terrible decisions on behalf of our industry all the time. For example, saying Pumpfun was good for the industry simply because it made money and telling people to go spin up more launchers as a response to not liking Pumpfun is missing the forest for the trees.

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