most of the people who have left a note on the wall have mentioned photos/videos as the things they'd preserve if everything digital vanished tomorrow. idk why i didn't think it'd be that or didn't think it'd be that consistent. but each why behind them makes each one of them really special🌹 https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/hBzWCGGIMbOz/the-things-id-save

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when i started reading the Bible more seriously and desiring to follow God's path, one of the first things i wanted to give up on because i knew it's wrong was smoking. it was my favorite "wrong thing to do" though i've always said that i could quit whenever i wanted but when i actually wanted to i couldn't. so i prayed to be able to quit it, and it didn't even take 4 days and i stopped doing it. more than this i was and am still feeling like i've never smoked in my life. my friends told me that i didn't gain any weight, that i am crazy that i was able to do it like it was nothing. i don't deserve any credit. God does. i would've been still smoking if it wasn't for Him.🌹

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i've never been interested in knowing what happens in the world because i never really cared about it, but now i am since the middle east war started because it felt different and if you look at the things behind what the news are sharing, well, they are bad. i don't think anything good is coming. i am at peace though with whatever may come. i wasn't a few months ago, but now i am, and the only reason i do so is because i'm closer to God than i've ever been.🌹

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a friend told me that the biggest problem with our society is the endless and constant chase of money. and i completely agreed, because that's the root of everything i don't like about how humanity is now. even the richest people alive still want more of anything they can get even though they already have more than a person could spend across a hundred lifetimes. and this type of behavior bled down into all of us and made us greedy and cold.🌹

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this is the most personal physical thing i’ve ever made, and seeing it in the hands of others + knowing they like it, makes me truly happy! truly grateful for tiny and all the other beautiful souls who have joined my protest against not feeling anything!! it means the world to me!!! if you want to join the protest too, you can do so here: https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/7jBbdTnrQJpO/the-hidden-i thank you!!🌹

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we spend our whole lives reaching for things that pass straight through our hands. a few months ago, something made me realize that almost none of the success, money, people, absolutely none of it holds any weight in the end, and it changed how i see and resonate with everything. i wrote about the turn that got me there in this essay.🌹 https://thehiddeni.substack.com/p/where-are-you-going-when-everything

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some of the “things”people decided to keep if everything digital vanished tomorrow🌹 https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/hBzWCGGIMbOz/the-things-id-save

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you don’t have to keep up. you don’t have to make things you don’t want to make to please something you don’t even care about. you don’t have to consume everything that is put in front of you just because it is put in front of you. you are allowed to choose the finite. you are allowed to pick up the pen or put down the phone or leave the app or make the slower thing. less is more.🌹

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as everything is so accessible these days and so weightless, putting your brand behind a paywall imo will be a “natural” filter designed to bring the right people in. they might feel like a source of revenue or feel designed to keep people out, but i think this is how you bring in people that truly want to belong to the specific community. and paywalling doesn’t have to be monetary all the time. even having to know where to go, who to ask, or what to say can be a kind of paywall. not everyone would know that, and those who do are committed enough to prove their desire to belong.🌹

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the reason why i believe retro gadgets >>> new gadgets is because they used to end on their own without me having to decide to stop. and the ending was part of what made them what they were. it’s finitude by design, not by choice.🌹

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some of the “things”people decided to keep if everything digital vanished tomorrow🌹 https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/hBzWCGGIMbOz/the-things-id-save

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when was the last time you did something for no reason?🌹

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one of the real toxic obsession of our times is scalability. some things shouldn’t be scaled at all, because once they are, they lose their entire point of existing. the example i keep offering is group chats. when they were scaled beyond what they could hold, they lost their reason to exist. i know that some things are designed to be scaled, but we want to scale even those that shouldn't🌹

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going back for a moment to the taste discourse, i think the real question isn’t whether ai is influencing our taste or not, but how much we are willing to let any external forces such as ai, algorithms, trends, the desire to belong, even the people around us, shape it. ai is just the latest thing influencing our taste. it was already being shaped long before ai existed but we just didn’t care or realized to have this conversation back then🌹

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in the og days of street art and streetwear, the line between the maker, the buyer, and the friend was almost invisible, and i believe people will start to want this again. it doesn’t have much to do with vibe or nostalgia, but with the fact that, back then, the brands and movements were actually showing up for the people as well🌹

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