tomato (tomatoxyz)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWFrcazJXxw The most accurate representation so far of how the internet works.

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If I'm lucky I'll finish my first part of a series of posts I'm going to make about a project I worked on. It's so complex that its just hard to distill it down and make it interesting, but I guess it will hopefully be interesting and useful to someone out there (:

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Video description: "Made by The National Film Board 1949. Directed by Lee Robinson. Beautifully filmed in black and white, this classic short film looks at pearling in the late 1940s. It goes on board the boats that work off the coast of Broome, Western Australia, from March to December each year. Crewed mainly by Aboriginal, Malay and Chinese men, they work six days a week from sun up to sun down—replenished occasionally by supply boats that also take away their hauls of pearl shell. The film captures the atmosphere, the detail and the danger involved in the search for shell as the divers in huge metal helmets and layers of clothing under their suits dive two at a time, each with one person tending their airhose and another their lifeline." https://youtu.be/K2ShP_Aoh3I

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I have been learning how to play mahjong. 🀄. A very enjoyable game with a lot more depth than playing cards + games have a more formal sense of order than most card games. Great way to get absorbed in something different.

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What I'm working on: a long form piece of writing exploring why the previous project (a complex DAO video platform) I worked on failed. I'm pretty sure that kind of thing can open more doors to employment and finding the right founders/team than just sending out more CVs. I don't think web3/crypto has enough of this kind of stuff - I've seen plenty of Discord/Twitters for clearly dead projects that don't explain anything, it often makes it seem like the creator's interest in it was just temporary. They just up & disappear one day. I'm not sure why the culture doesn't prize talking about failure that much (or maybe I'm just not seeing it) so hopefully it will be interesting to someone - it's going to be complex given I spent 5 years on it and we had 13 testnets and launched a month after FTX imploded. Fun for the whole family, I'm sure.

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A part of content tokens / "everything becomes a token" that people seem to not be aware of is that it also creates an immediate incentive to launder/plagiarize content as well as create very reductive content. You just end up with masses of content than ever before, at an industrial scale, that not only will no one ever consume in the first place but crowds out actual genuine content creators. People, both consumers and viewers do not want such a crowded place that is 99% spam and the most obnoxious content possible and will go elsewhere. You will gradually end up with very little interesting content, thousands of spammy/worthless tokens, people who have lost substantial amounts of money via rugpulls and a ghost town where the only life remaining is bots.

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