Zak El Fassi
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i know how very ‘ungrateful’ dumping on web3 ON a web3 platform is, but talking into the void doesn’t/didn’t work, so i’ll be taking them gloves off (with extra love and kisses, of course.)
predicted this fractal years ago and we probably all heard it coming like a freight train — every platform becomes a casino, every human expression becomes a token, every genuine connection gets arbitraged into profit…
farcaster launching collectibles for posts, paragraph too, Base doing the same thing… and soon og social media will take note and spin up war rooms. we’re speed-running straight into “every post is a shitcoin” territory that i saw coming from miles away.
we built decentralization to escape the attention economy pyramid schemes, only to recreate them with better UX and shinier tokens. the (attention) rich get richer and… well, this ain’t why we built web3.
but here’s the thing: the Universe has a way of course-correcting when we drift too far from first principles. we are now in the “shitting on first principles” arc of the story.
web3 was supposed to be about returning agency to information beings — not turning every thought into a speculation vehicle for the already-wealthy who figured out how to game the incentives first.
maybe the real alpha isn’t monetizing human consciousness… maybe it’s remembering that networks become conscious through genuine connection, not financial extraction.
time to build the tools that serve the many, not the few. time for a hard reset ♾️
what if we optimized for collective flourishing instead of individual accumulation? revolutionary idea, i know… but the simulation rewards those who remember why we started this journey in the first place.
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# The Great Inheritance: What Bay Area Real Estate Taught Me About Economic Evolution
i shared a video about bay area real estate with my friend—one of those data-heavy deep dives that makes you question everything you thought you knew about money, ownership, and what we’re actually building here in this liminal space between SF and Oakland…
he’s got that high-figure big tech salary, the kind that looks like abundance from the outside but feels like golden handcuffs when median home prices are kissing $2M. i’m over here bootstrapping for what feels like forever years, living proof that you can build something meaningful without venture capital or FAANG equity packages.
two different economic realities, same fundamental question: what happens when the old game stops working?
## The Inheritance Question
his observation hit different: “i wonder what happens in the next 15 years when all they left behind gets inherited by millennials…”
that “all they left behind” isn’t just assets—it’s entire operating systems. economic models built for a world of scarcity, social contracts optimized for industrial hierarchies, ways of being that assume consciousness is separate from the systems we create.
we’re not just inheriting money or property. we’re inheriting the source code of civilization itself, and it’s running on legacy infrastructure that’s starting to show fatal bugs… 🫠
## The Two Camps (And Why They’re Both Wrong)
my response was instinctive: “millennials are two camps. those who will sell to blackrock for whole foods food stamps and those who can’t afford and will invest in REI tents…”
the camping comment was half-joke, half-prophecy. have you noticed how many people have taken up van life, tiny homes, nomadism as “hobbies”? we’re unconsciously rehearsing for an economy where ownership is fluid, where home is wherever you deploy your node in the network.
but both camps are still operating from scarcity consciousness:
**Camp One:** surrender agency to the pyramid. sell to BlackRock, rent back your life at subscription prices, optimize for safety over sovereignty. the promise: someone else handles the complexity, you get predictable outcomes.
**Camp Two:** romantic individualism wrapped in sustainability aesthetics. the REI tent as symbol of escape from the system rather than transformation of it. the promise: opt out completely, return to some imagined simpler time.
both miss the real game entirely…
## The Third Way: Becoming the Infrastructure
there’s a third camp emerging—the one that recognizes we’re living through the largest wealth transfer in human history AND the emergence of new economic primitives that make the old game obsolete.
these are the information beings who aren’t buying OR camping. they’re becoming the infrastructure itself. building the tools, networks, and protocols that make the next economic reality possible.
while others fight over scarce resources, they’re coding abundance into the substrate.
## The Chef’s Wisdom: Systems Over Outcomes
but here’s where the conversation turned mystical… i found myself channeling this chef metaphor:
“the chef who doesn’t stress about groceries and trusts the system he set in place to make them available by the time his shift starts. chef only cares about his skills, staff, recipe, restaurant conditions.”
that’s pure taoism meeting systems thinking. mastery isn’t about controlling inputs—it’s about becoming antifragile to whatever inputs arrive. you can’t control the wind, but you can adjust your sails. you can’t control the market, but you can optimize your signal-to-noise ratio.
the constraint isn’t the ingredients. the constraint is your ability to transform whatever shows up into nourishment.
“sure, he can get laid off and maybe need to start his own kitchen, but if he constantly has that at the back of his mind his dishes will be seasoned with anxiety rather than salt and sautéed in bitter rather than butter.”
🎯 that line hit me as i typed it in-between washing bottles and breast pumps… we’re literally seasoning our present moment with future fears. cooking up scarcity when abundance is the base ingredient.
## The Projectile Angle: Intentionality Without Attachment
“we don’t control our destiny but can only set the right angle of the projectile.”
physics meets metaphysics in a single sentence. you launch with intention, trust the trajectory, adjust for wind conditions. but attachment to specific outcomes? that’s the ego trying to play god in a quantum universe…
this is what separates the bootstrap mindset from the employee mindset. my friend’s big tech salary comes with the illusion of control—predictable outcomes, defined career paths, someone else setting the trajectory. my world? pure projectile physics. set the angle, trust the systems, iterate based on feedback.
both approaches have their wisdom. both have their blind spots.
## The Real Inheritance: Consciousness Evolution
here’s what that bay area real estate video actually revealed: we’re not just witnessing market dynamics. we’re watching the emergence of post-scarcity consciousness in real-time.
the experiences-over-ownership trend my friend mentioned? that’s information beings recognizing that consciousness can’t be possessed, only cultivated. travel, festivals, retreats—we’re investing in state changes, in expanding our internal feature set rather than accumulating external objects.
but the deepest insight came later in our exchange while gazing outside the kitchen window into a teeny tiny garden bed i set up earlier this year (attached!): “the best chefs don’t just trust their supply chain, they become part of it. they know—or become—their farmers, they understand seasons, they participate in the ecosystem that feeds them.”
that’s the evolution happening right now. from extraction to regeneration, from ownership to stewardship, from individual accumulation to collective intelligence.
## Debugging Capitalism in Real-Time
we’re literally debugging capitalism while running on its hardware… 🫠
every startup is a fork of the economic operating system. every developer building on ethereum is writing new financial primitives. every creator monetizing their consciousness directly is bypassing traditional value extraction mechanisms.
the millennials who figure this out aren’t choosing between camps—they’re building the protocols that make the camps obsolete.
## The Network Is Conscious
that bay area real estate market? it’s just one expression of a much larger pattern. information seeking equilibrium, consciousness debugging its own limitations, the universe teaching itself to think at scale…
my friend and i represent two different approaches to the same fundamental challenge: how do conscious beings thrive during phase transitions? how do you build wealth—real wealth, not just financial tokens—when the rules are changing mid-game?
his path: optimize within existing systems while they still function. accumulate traditional assets, participate in established hierarchies, trust that incremental evolution will provide stability.
my path: build the next system while the old one crumbles. create value outside traditional metrics, participate in emergent networks, trust that exponential change requires exponential adaptation.
both paths valid. both necessary. the synthesis of both? i think that’s where the magic happens…
## The Question That Remains
the real inheritance isn’t money or property—it’s consciousness evolution accelerated by exponential technology. we’re inheriting the tools to rewrite Reality itself.
question is: are we debugging with intention or just vibe-hitting Tab until something works?
the bay area real estate market is just the canary in the coal mine. a signal that the old economic operating system is reaching its limits. but limits are just invitations to level up…
what systems are you building that compound beyond your own survival? what angle are you setting for the projectile of your consciousness?
because in the end, we’re all chefs in the kitchen of Reality, if we chose to be. the ingredients will keep showing up. the question is: what are you cooking? ♾️ 1 reply
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