SydneyJason
@sydneyjason
Genart collector. Tinkerer. Investor. Crypto maximalist. Nomadic traveler w/ my wife and 3 kids. Currently in China 🇨🇳
Sometimes it’s the little things about traveling:
Like the jasmine flavored toothpaste I found in China
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Wrapping up our 240 hour transit visa free stay in China; Shenzen and Kunming
Definitely beat our expectations!
But a land of contrasts:
-generally kind and friendly people, willing to help and be patient with translations or pointing at menus.
-yet you really have to watch the bill and look out for people trying ...
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First impressions of China (Shenzen):
-friendly people, very helpful (come out of nowhere to help if you look lost)
-clean and super modern. Soooo many electric cars and scooters and brands we've never heard of
-sidewalks are chaotic as there are a ton of mopeds zooming everywhere
-inexpensive - big meals with mea...
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Just finished Stranger Things.
Such a satisfying ending! This was a fun one to watch with the teenagers…
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Ah shucks, from my ChatGPT year in review.
Proudly,
-Your Globetrotting Spreadsheet Whisperer
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It’s shocking to me how abruptly persimmon season ends every year.
Abundance, and then suddenly, nothing
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@jake say hey, is it possible to change the wallet that Kondo connects to? I tried to switch my Farcaster preferred to another verified address, but Kondo kept using the old one…
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My take here is that FC already turned into a wallet w/ coinification 6-8 months ago. My written posts are down, and practically, I mine FC apps for value as they mine me for attention.
It's different than 3 years ago when you'd check the feed and the posts were the same as a few hours before (because there really wer...
State of Farcaster, December 2025
(I'm going to be writing a series of casts this week on this topic.)
Varun and I have been working on Farcaster for over 5 years. The goal has always been to build an at-scale decentralized social networking protocol with 1 billion people using it every day. This is a hard problem an
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Even after years of full time travel, for some reason it still delights me when I can fit everything I need for a weekend trip in a small backpack that’s less than 6kg
😊 ✈️
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I can definitely recommend Tangle after checking it out the last few days.
It researches a topic a day from both sides of the spectrum.
Many of us would benefit from the balanced discourse of US “news”…
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