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today “sunday thoughts” a based on the talk with @laursa.eth 

we all need to make choices and decisions from time to time. we all fight our demons sometimes.

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https://farcaster.xyz/ramina13/0xe185b4bc

A bit late, but got the writing in

https://paragraph.com/@0xc578958dd1880cf00bffbb7feb9c28cbbbcad3bf/risk-is-a-muscle

** Welcoming Solona ** (my /firstdraft )

I appreciated @ted 's reports & onboarding from Accelerate, especially the takeaway that there is a significant difference between Solona's portrayal on Twitter & real life. 

My first NFT was on Solona, but I don't know much about it other than the stereotypes I hear in the space. Similarly, we know there is a stereotype of FC on Twitter that is significantly different from reality. 

So, as we welcome Solona people & projects, we have a lot in common. Solona wallet support this week & new people being onboarded are signs of more to come.

I'm looking forward to hearing about Solona projects that are doing meaningful things that break that stereotype. I came across @mikehale, who does a Solona builders newsletter & plans to be more active here. @gramajo.eth , a long-time FCer, shared some projects to check out. I've started following the new onboards & look forward to AMA's with Solona folks @linda mentioned, including co-founder @toly on Tuesday. 

Welcome!

A lot has happened this week and there are a few things you cannot afford to miss:

1. Farcaster Pro Subscriptions are coming Tuesday. $120 for 1 year. Payable with USDC on Base. 

An NFT will come with them…eventually. It’s the same art for the first 10,000 subscribers. I do not think we will hit 10,000. We would have fought for 1,000 but the team heard that feedback and expanded it. On day 1, the only thing you get is a badge. It will be purple. Eventually you will get expanded casts length and 4 photos instead of 2, but there is no ETA. The proceeds will go to fund the weekly rewards leaderboard and the developer rewards for mini apps. 
It’s 100% optional. It will not help your engagement. It will not help your reach. It won’t help your spam label. It won’t help you get verified. It’s to show support for Farcaster and that’s it. Monthly will come later. You can speculate on the value of 10,000 copies of the same NFT art.  Think about it and be sure you understand it.

Really enjoyed writing this one - thanks @deshsax.eth for the inspiration ;-p

Are You a Worker or A Wanker?

https://farcaster.xyz/music2work2/0x445fa783

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One month into the new job

At first, I didn’t know what I didn’t know. But quickly things started to come into sight, if not into focus.

Each day is a venture into the jungle. Sometimes it’s a safari, learning from a safe but exciting distance with a guide. Other days require a machete to hack my way through new territory.

It’s exhausting even when I’m not doing much. Immersion keeps the brain alert all day. I’m mainly just trying to stay afloat right now, but energy management strategies will be key. So much of this is new: my title and responsibilities, the size and stage of the company, the lifestyle change from freelancing to full-time work.

I wanted novelty and a challenge. And I’m getting what I asked for.

just understood that today is monday, not sunday (confused about the days after vacation mixed with work and building)

was so happy that prepared a good article and now truly upset :(
hate to miss up the dl's 

still want to share the fact of writing :)
https://warpcast.com/ramina13/0xccca2b8c

Are we casting better- or are we just better at the engagement games?

2025 brought the Warpcast Rewards Leaderboard to the ecosystem and it’s definitely changed the way people engage. DAU haven’t really changed. The numbers in January 2025 and May 2025 are pretty much the same, but there’s a drastic difference and how many orphaned casts are on the network. 

Orphaned casts are casts that get zero engagement: no likes, no replies, no recast. In January about 80% of cast on the network fit into this bucket, but today that number has changed dramatically and  only 60% of the cast on the network are now orphaned.  

Has the leaderboard caused this behavioral shift? Have people learned to cast better and caught onto the Farcaster culture more quickly?

Having kids really amplifies this feeling that you won’t see people in your life as much as you’d like. Really makes you hyper aware of time.. and how little of it you have

I moved to NY nearly 8 years ago for a job and.. just never left. After having Zoe, it really woke me up to how much of my time slipped away. What was I doing for the first 30 years of it?

Intentionality with my time has reduced the anxiety some. Spend more time your parents.. they’re not getting younger. Spend more time improving your diet and body.. you only get one. Spend less time dilly dallying.. every second is precious so treat it as such

Still need to dedicate a bit more time in the week to my own ideas, but happy to having an outlet for my own thoughts again

Writing for me is definitely something I missed

https://paragraph.com/@0xc578958dd1880cf00bffbb7feb9c28cbbbcad3bf/fuck-around-and-find-out-the-leap

my /firstdraft 

https://x.com/0xWilliamA/status/1922627671172743451?t=uGEOepMKlDNcQmnMGvlQ4g&s=19

https://warpcast.com/0xtheweb3nerd/0x944712fd

I came across this cast from @db about chat's take on mini apps & responded that though we may not like it, it's probably fairly accurate. Yes, there are exceptions & we are early.

A couple hours later, I came across @jake cast that you could earn $QR for checking the winner of the @qrcoindotfun auction. I've done it every day since. I read the cast & like it. I also read Jake's write-up on the winner.

What @jake is doing (well) gave me a taste of a counter to chat's 'no retention layer (yet)' assessment--the 'yet' that @db pointed out to me as chat's optimism. 

I know some games are retaining people (for now) with the dopamine hit, but I don't think that's why we're here. There are mini apps that have a use case for retention like /bracket but those are fewer atm. 

I also like that jake is finding a real use for $QR in the 'retention layer.' Who knows where all these tokens go, but this use shows some promise. 

This little engagement this week is an example of why I like being here & is my /firstdraft

Congrats to all who wrote a /firstdraft this past week!

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Check out the thread for each member's /firstdraft👇

MCPs have won

For all intents and purposes it’s the standard that we decided to adopt for our applications interacting with LLMs and agents… and who cares?

I work in this industry and don’t mind sharing that I haven’t used them once yet. At least I don’t think I have. That’s the point. It shouldn’t matter what it is under the hood unless it helps us make useful things with it.

Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV

very simple but so important for me “sunday thoughts”

Is it time to retire our community badges (aka the emojis in our display names)?

Your success on Farcaster greatly depends on how connected you are to the core of the network.  

Warpcast’s invisible points (that drive the leaderboard), Open Rank, Neynar Score, and OG FarScore all rely on this core group of users. 

If you want to be connected to the core, you can’t look spammy. Unfortunately spammers and low value accounts have copied our community badges and it no longer signals community the way it did a year ago. 

Since our display names no longer show them, they are truly only seen on our profiles. You can no longer scroll the feed and quickly see who hangs out in the same cozy corners as you. 

When people take the time to look at your profile, you only get a few seconds to convince them you are worth following. They will judge your name, pfp, bio, and your last 10 casts in mere seconds. And if something seems off, they scroll by.

in april, CloneX NFTS displayed the image below instead of the original art due to an issue with the cloud hosting platform.

although it was eventually resolved, it was a wake-up call to many that the same thing could happen to any of the NFT collections that they held.

afterwards, there were discussions on the best method to prevent something like that from happening again and some argued that IPFS solves this issue well.

i did further digging into the claim and found that it really doesn't --> https://x.com/0xwilliama/status/1921169799456923899?t=7krf7tscohgjpzem78n_fw&s=19

my /firstdraft.

https://warpcast.com/0xtheweb3nerd/0x6b99f8ec

Sunday's are for /firstdraft's 

Still working on my luddite thoughts piece, maybe next week

https://paragraph.com/@0xc578958dd1880cf00bffbb7feb9c28cbbbcad3bf/when-confidence-catches-up