thematrix
design and writing by @chukwukaosakwe
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In hindsight, the hubris is absolutely astounding. Anybody who knows almost anything about the world of financial markets knows that they are anything but a utopia of perfect prices and rational investors. Irrationality reigns supreme there. But notice something, Merton knew this, at least on some level. Lowenstein writes that he “blithely ignored the times when their (the market actors’) emotions ran riot.”
Reality gave Merton several chances to learn, and he refused to. When Merton’s equations collided with reality, they did not hold up; they did not work as they were supposed to, because markets are not ideal and traders are not automatons. https://thechukwukaosakwe.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/colliding-with-reality/
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https://thechukwukaosakwe.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/fromm-on-the-accumulation-of-capital-as-the-goal-of-modern-economic-activity/
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more @bribe (6/6)
i won't lie, leaderboards have me a bit stumped atm. but i couldn't pass up the opportunity to do something with a concept as cool as a "corruption index." lots of room for improvement here lol.
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more @bribe (5/6)
the other half of the bribes page is bribes you've sent with tags indicating whether the recipient has listened and claimed the bribe. heard/unheard is probably not the best terminology here but it's what i've got atm.
also, there's a lifetime earnings tab and an "unclaimed bribes" to show the total value of all the bribes you've not claimed.
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more @bribe (4/6)
the bribes page is pretty straightforward. one half of it is just bribes you've received with tags to show which you've claimed and which you haven't claimed. something i haven't thought about as much is how to handle expired claims (don't show them at all? have an expired tag?)
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more @bribe (3/6)
one of my biggest gripes with crypto is trying to denominate payment in coins instead of just $. only serious modification to this page is making it easier for the user to conceptualise how much $BRIBE they're attaching to their voice note.
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more @bribe (2/6)
the whole point of bribe is to send (and receive) voice notes with bribes attached to them to incentivise people to listen to the voice notes. the homepage is centered around the one thing: send a bribe.
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into the matrix with @bribe. (1/6)
bribe is one of my favourite mini-apps at the moment, not just because of the voice note feature but because everything about it sounds so mysterious and underhanded. you're sending "bribes," there's a "corruption index." oh and the theme is green. it had to be the matrix.
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"I think part of the reason for this is that the development of technology is iterative and combinatorial. That is, technology advances when things we discover get combined with already existing things to make things that didn’t exist before, rinse and repeat. The people who built computers before we had real-time GPS could simply not have imagined the changes that would occur once we discovered real-time GPS and combined it with the already existing computer technology."
https://thechukwukaosakwe.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/technology-and-unknown-unknowns/
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"TL;DR Farcaster mini-apps have a lot of design constraints to deal with, and I think that modals (and tooltips) are a really useful design element for mini-apps in light of those constraints."
https://paragraph.com/@thearcadia/modals-in-mini-apps
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