we're in a very interesting time for social media in that founders/teams are actively gaslighting their users while they struggle to validate business decisions. this all comes back to venture scale requirements and/or greed. these people are too smart to believe what they're saying.

Quite simply, the capital in the space is poorly allocated. Particularly around creativity (which is hella broad). You will start to see @oeth.eth roll out $oETH grants to those building an aesthetic ethereum. It's not worth much right now, but one day you'll look at the holder network and say, shit, this is pure si... Show more

The problem with the base/farcaster/zora ecosystem is: The products built for the mega-vague "trader" audience are the opposite of dogfed. We have large-enough sample size to conclude that these teams are not using their own products. How often is [founder/team member] actually "trading"? We can link this to cont... Show more

Building a personal os and personal website have to be two of the highest leverage vibe code projects; highly recommend everyone start or get to these two. Huge learning reps, single-user maintenance, easily and infinitely improvable. Evergreen. Not to mention the value of the software itself.

at this point in the creative journey, there's no more gratifying feeling than building software. when it's time to make some visual art, it will be significantly influenced in ways i'm excited to discover and experiment with. the framework is somewhere between sculpting and architecture. legos but with forms that are... Show more

first hackathon today and finished my personal os. may publish a public version at some point, or at least a walkthrough vid. more important is that it helps me stay organized and creates new, positive feedback loops. of nearly equal importance, huge reps that will benefit @oeth.eth. after some catching up with ops... Show more

A lot of face-to-face with many Farcaster friends this week. Has to be the highest concentration network of crypto innovators.

Cast performance is funny. Below is one of the strongest insights I'm building on, but be it Friday timing or whatever, the idea didn't spread. I've learned to continue hammering your best ideas on the feed, even if it feels repetitive. This idea will be the core of the oETH memo/manifesto, so it will get long-form ... Show more

the thing that most token projects don't lean into enough, and the thing that "appcoin" fails to convey, is that tokens are social networks. "scenecoin" was ahead of its time. now consider tokenized art in this context: art as a social network. that's $oETH.

I've been having multi-account issues with my Farcaster account (plz help someone), and have stayed logged in to @oeth.eth on mobile. Frankly, it's been great for reducing screentime despite the inconvenience. Entirely forgot that I could use the base app until now. Thank goodness the feed makes me want to throw my ... Show more

welcome to the military entertainment complex!

I was away for many months building @oeth.eth, came back with fervor, and was almost immediately taken out of commission by family stuff. Creeping back, but not at full yet. When I was away building, I felt a ton of stress in the way of "I'm not fast enough" etc. Self imposed, but also there were people who lost inter... Show more

Sorry tech ppl, the only moat is still and forever brand. And by the way, your customers/clients/community/users ultimately steer that ship once it leaves port. UX is your primary control vector. Operations is important, but increasingly commoditized.