Ironic given that crypto only works due to voluntary collectivism. Bitcoin's genesis comes from first having given compute to a p2p network in order to receive the benefits. The entire thing only works because of the collective "other" making cryptographic commitments into the future.

All the Opus chatter finally caused me to try AI coding. Yes. Never touched it (mostly because I've been writing). With Claude Code and Opus 4.5, I refactored code in 2 hours what would've easily taken me a few weeks of relearning the codebase+coding+debugging to do. Increasingly being dragged down by context switching... Show more

Last newsletter for the year. A roundup and retro. Enjoy.

The critique of the algocene through Beeple and onchain art:

This week's newsletter. Been slacking at cross-posting lately. Starmirror, Charli XCX, and What We Are Really Creating:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Early ETH miners on fire off the shoulder of Roberta's. I watched early ConsenSys HQ glitter with stickers in the dark near the Morgan Ave L. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

Feel like I've hit the limit on Duolingo for my daily Spanish lesson. Learning far too niche vocab and grammar for my actual speaking and listening ability. Curious what else is there if any of you all use language learning apps?

My magical realism pet theory is that David Bowie was the gravitational well for the weird. And when he died in Jan 2016, we lost the ability to keep it all intact.

Vibes 🙌🏃

Unconventional peak experiences #4: 2 whiskeys down, cocooned on a flight with strangers to a far-flung destination, lights dancing in the cabin from TV screens, Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works in your ears, reading an epic sci-fi book.

Musing on the faustian bargain of distribution.

Huh. Weird. Got an impersonator on here. Please be careful.

every day and always